BACKGROUND: Mental stress-induced myocardial ischemia is often clinically silent and associated with increased cardiovascular risk, particularly in women. Conventional ECG-based detection is limited, ...

BACKGROUND: Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP) are associated with increased long-term risk of both maternal and offspring cardiovascular disease. The incidence of HDP has increased ...

BACKGROUND: It remains unclear whether social determinants contribute to major ECG abnormalities (MEA), an early marker of cardiovascular disease, which predicts adverse cardiovascular events and ...

BACKGROUND: We aimed to examine how coronary artery calcium (CAC) and its progression relate to cognitive function in midlife, an important time for cognitive aging. METHODS: We studied participants ...

Background: While the incidence of sudden death in athletes is low, a number of clinically unsuspected cardiovascular diseases have been linked to sudden death in young well-trained athletes.

BACKGROUND: BCR-ABL tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) have been increasingly linked to pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) since 2009, although supporting evidence is limited. Our objective was to ...

BACKGROUND: Obesity is an established risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD); however, the overall and sex-specific relationships across the full spectrum of body mass index (BMI), particularly ...