Adenoviruses are typically associated with mild respiratory infections, but are increasingly attributed to cardiac infection. Viruses have long been understood to infect the heart, with many studies ...

The Council on Basic Cardiovascular Sciences: Over the past several years, the two councils have collaborated in a number of ways: (1) holding a joint meeting every 18 months emphasizing alternately ...

It has variably been estimated that between 800 000 and 1 million patients with congenital heart disease are now adults and that by 2010 more patients older than 16 years will undergo surgery for ...

From Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis (F.L.N.); Epidemiological Cardiology Research Center, Department of Epidemiology, and ...

Introduction Sudden cardiac death in the young (SCD) is a rare but devastating event with an annual incidence among apparently healthy children and adolescents (hereafter called children) of 0.8 to ...

Introduction As part of a series of reports on cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevention, this review provides a global perspective on the needs and opportunities for effective public health action. The ...

Treatment with β-blockers is known to improve outcome for patients with left ventricular dysfunction, 1–3 and their use is now a performance measure of the American College of Cardiology and the ...

Methods and Results— PAD participants (n=465) had an ankle brachial index <0.90. Non-PAD participants (n=292) had an ankle brachial index of 0.90 to 1.30. PAD participants were categorized into leg ...

Sudden cardiac death (SCD) is the final common end point of multiple disease processes. It results from a complex interplay of structural, metabolic, and genetic determinants. Although epidemiological ...

Seventy‐two patients with hypertension were included and randomized 2:1 to either sodium reduction or a control group for 4 weeks. Blood samples, 24‐hour BP measurement, and 24‐hour urine collection ...

In the current issue of Circulation, Svensjö et al 1 report on an abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) screening program for 65-year-old men in central Sweden. Using the standard screening test (ultrasound ...

Methods and Results— We performed a cross-sectional analysis among participants of the population-based Swiss cohort Study on Air Pollution and Lung Diseases in Adults (SAPALDIA). 24-hour Holter ...