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Social isolation and loneliness as risk factors for myocardial infarction, stroke and mortality: UK Biobank cohort study of 479 054 men and women

Correspondence to Dr Christian Hakulinen, Department of Psychology and Logopedics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; christian.hakulinen{at}helsinki.fi Objective To ...
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Estimated sodium intake and premature ventricular complexes: data from the population-based Swedish CArdioPulmonary bioImage Study

Background Premature ventricular complexes (PVCs) predict coronary heart disease, heart failure, atrial fibrillation and death, all of which are also related to sodium intake. We studied estimated ...
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The bicuspid aortic valve: an integrated phenotypic classification of leaflet morphology and aortic root shape

Objective: To establish a classification of bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) that includes both leaflet morphology and aortic shape. Setting: Two academic medical centres of the University of Washington, ...
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Trimetazidine: a meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials in heart failure

1 Department of Cardiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Xi'an Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China 2 Key Laboratory of Environment and Genes Related to Diseases (Xi'an ...
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Relationship between fine particulate air pollution and ischaemic heart disease morbidity and mortality

Correspondence to Professor Jing Liu, Department of Epidemiology, Beijing Anzhen Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing Institute of Heart, Lung and Blood Vessel Diseases, No. 2 Anzhen Street, ...