BACKGROUND Endothelial dysfunction plays an important role in the development of atherosclerotic vascular disease, which is the leading cause of mortality in patients with chronic renal failure.

Correspondence to Dr Shamir R Mehta, Division of Cardiology, Hamilton General Hospital, Hamilton, Ontario ON L8L 2X2, Canada; smehta{at}mcmaster.ca Objective Approximately 10% of patients with ...

2 School of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia 3 Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Population Health, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia 4 ...

6 Department of Medicine/Geriatrics and Gerontology Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA 7 Department of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA 8 ...

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OBJECTIVE--To assess the nutritional status of children with congenital heart disease. DESIGN--Six anthropometric, 24 biochemical, and five haematological markers of nutritional wellbeing were ...

OBJECTIVES Though atrial fibrillation (AF) is an important cause of cardiovascular morbidity, there are few large epidemiological studies of its prevalence, incidence, and risk factors. The ...

3 Department of Medicine, Sunnybrook and Women’s College Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Correspondence to: Dr Joel G Ray Department of Medicine, Inner City Health, St Michael’s ...

Correspondence to: Dr Adrian Stanley Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester, Robert Kilpatrick Building, Leicester Royal Infirmary, Leicester LE2 7LX, UK; as90{at}le.ac.uk If ...

1 School of Public Health and Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia 2 Department of Epidemiology,School of Population Health, ...

Department of Cardiology, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands Professor H J G M Crijns, Maastricht University Medical Center, Department of Cardiology, Postbus 5800, 6202 ...

BACKGROUND The QT interval is strongly and inversely related to heart rate. To compare QT intervals between different subjects with different heart rates requires the application of a QT interval rate ...