BACKGROUND: Premature atrial contractions (PACs) are independently associated with atrial fibrillation, stroke, and heart failure, yet no pharmacological therapy is approved for PAC suppression.

The effect of increasing the activity of the ventricle on its contractility was investigated. Several beats after the ventricle increases the amount of tension it develops per unit of time, it ...

Background: Patients with a transient ischemic attack (TIA) or minor stroke have an increased risk of subsequent stroke that persists for at least 10 years. We aimed to identify prognostic factors ...

BACKGROUND: For reasons not fully understood, Black adults experience more socioeconomic disadvantages (SED) than their White counterparts, as well as earlier onset and greater mortality from heart ...

The policy of American Heart Association journals is to publish papers where authors indicate whether the data, methods used in the analysis (eg, program code or scripts for statistical packages), and ...

Death certificate data indicate that hypertension may have increased as a contributing cause of death among US adults. Hypertension is not commonly recorded on death certificates although it ...

Coronary artery disease causes acute myocardial infarction, making it one of the leading causes of mortality and morbidity worldwide. An acute coronary artery occlusion can result in the death of a ...

In the article by Rao et al, “2025 ACC/AHA/ACEP/NAEMSP/SCAI Guideline for the Management of Patients With Acute Coronary Syndromes: A Report of the American College ...

Circulation: Population Health and Outcomes, a journal of the American Heart Association, invites applications for an Associate Editor to join the journal’s new editorial team led by incoming ...

In the article by Cheng et al, “Diagnosis and Management of Cardiac Sarcoidosis: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association,” which published ahead of print on April 18, 2024, and ...

The arterial vasculature is the second most frequently calcified structure in the human body after the skeleton. Calcification of the aorta and aortic valves occurs in most individuals in westernized ...

BACKGROUND: Sarcomere gene variants are a key cause of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), and have been associated with worse prognosis. However, it is unclear how comorbidities influence clinical ...