We know that across the world a billion people have high blood pressure and 10.7 million people die each year because of high blood pressure.…
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Peter Sleight
Peter will be remembered as one of the leading academic cardiologists of his generation. Emeritus Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, Oxford UniversityEmeritus Fellow, Exeter College, Oxford…
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Impact of COVID-19 on the Incidence and Management of Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest in Patients Presenting with Acute Myocardial Infarction
Abstract Authors: Muhammad Rashid, Chris P Gale, Nick Curzen, Peter Ludman, Mark De Belder, Adam Timmis, Mohamed O Mohamed, Thomas F Lüscher, Julian Hains, Jianhua Wu, Ahmad Shoaib, Evangelos Kontopantelis, Chris Roebuck, Tom Denwood, John Deanfield, and Mamas A Mamas…
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Cancellation of Cardiac Procedures During COVID-19
BCS Statement The COVID-19 pandemic has placed immense pressure on the national health service, with frontline hospital services re-organised to handle the surge in cases.…
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ESC Congress 2020 – The Digital Experience
Day One By Dr Noor Sharrack, Cardiology SpR With public gatherings banned in the Netherlands due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 edition of the…
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COVID-19: Disentangling Ethnicity and Cardiovascular Risk
BCS Editorial By Ashwin Ajay and Ahmed Adlan Pneumonia of unknown cause began spreading in Wuhan, China, in late 2019, which led to the discovery…
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RAPID GUIDELINE: National Institute for Healthcare and Excellence (NICE)
The purpose of the guideline is to help healthcare professionals who are not cardiology specialists identify and treat acute myocardial injury and its cardiac complications in adults with known or suspected COVID-19 but without known pre-existing cardiovascular disease.
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COVID-19: Significant drop in ACS admissions
News Article The COVID-19 pandemic has seen a decline in patients admitted with acute coronary syndromes, a report in the Lancet finds. Reduced admissions with…
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COVID-19 and Digital Health: From Bed-Side Manner To Web-Side Manner
BCS Editorial By Amir Aziz The COVID-19 pandemic has had a massive global impact like no other. The pressure for healthcare services to deliver has…
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BCS Editorial: Computed Tomography Coronary Angiography in Stable Coronary Heart Disease: The UK Perspective
By Kenneth Mangion One in ten of all chest pain presentations to primary care have been reported to be due to coronary heart disease (CHD).(1,2) In…
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