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Justin Beilby
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Joe Gallagher
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Frans H Rutten
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Adriaan Moelker
Job title: Interventional and Cardiovascular Radiologist
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HFpEF in Primary Care
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Simon Stewart
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Amy R Stewart
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Laura Waite
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2 years ago
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Heart Failure in Primary Care
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Loreena Hill
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Anne McNulty
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James McMahon
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1 month ago
Article
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Joe Gallagher
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Chris Watson
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Patricia Campbell
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3 years ago
Increasingly biomarkers are of interest in cardiovascular disease (CVD) for risk stratification. In particular, natriuretic peptides (NPs), which were originally used for the diagnosis of heart failure, are now finding a role in identifying those most at risk of heart failure and other cardiovascular (CV) disorders. Their ability to be measured rapidly through blood tests makes their widespread…
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Martin R Cowie
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Michel Komajda
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3 years ago
Advances in diagnosis and treatment have improved the outlook for the estimated 26 million patients with heart failure (HF) worldwide,1 but there remains a continuing need for further reduction in mortality and hospitalisation and the associated social and financial consequences of the disease. In a European study of outcomes after HF hospitalisation, 17 % of patients died within 12 months and 44…
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Frans H Rutten
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Joe Gallagher
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3 years ago
“I cannot keep pace with my husband. Is it simply ageing, overweight and my sedentary lifestyle?” This is a common encounter in primary care, bearing in mind that around 16 % of older community-dwelling people experience at least grade 3 shortness of breath according to the Medical Research Council questionnaire (“walk slower than people of the same age because of breathlessness or have to stop…
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Mitja Lainscak
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3 years ago
The renin–angiotensin–aldosterone system (RAAS) is an essential regulatory component of cardiovascular homeostasis that exerts its actions through hormones, angiotensin II and aldosterone, which regulate vascular tone and blood pressure by causing vasoconstriction and renal sodium and water retention.1 Abnormalities in cardiac function in heart failure (HF) activate the RAAS and sympathetic…
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