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Open AccessIsometric Exercise Training and Arterial Hypertension: An Updated Review
Hypertension is recognised as a leading attributable risk factor for cardiovascular disease and premature mortality. Global initiatives towards the prevention and treatment of arterial hypertension are centred...
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Open AccessContrast echocardiography: a practical guideline from the British Society of Echocardiography
Ultrasound contrast agents (UCAs) have a well-established role in clinical cardiology. Contrast echocardiography has evolved into a routine technique through the establishment of contrast protocols, an excelle...
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Open AccessReal world hospital costs following stress echocardiography in the UK: a costing study from the EVAREST/BSE-NSTEP multi-centre study
Stress echocardiography is widely used to detect coronary artery disease, but little evidence on downstream hospital costs in real-world practice is available. We examined how stress echocardiography accuracy ...
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Open AccessValidation of a deep-learning-based retinal biomarker (Reti-CVD) in the prediction of cardiovascular disease: data from UK Biobank
Currently in the United Kingdom, cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk assessment is based on the QRISK3 score, in which 10% 10-year CVD risk indicates clinical intervention. However, this benchmark has limited ef...
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Feature-Conditioned Cascaded Video Diffusion Models for Precise Echocardiogram Synthesis
Image synthesis is expected to provide value for the translation of machine learning methods into clinical practice. Fundamental problems like model robustness, domain transfer, causal modelling, and operator ...
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Myocardial work and left ventricular mechanical adaptations following isometric exercise training in hypertensive patients
Hypertension is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Isometric exercise training (IET) reduces resting and ambulatory blood pressure; however, few studies have investigated the myocardial adaptation...
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D’ARTAGNAN: Counterfactual Video Generation
Causally-enabled machine learning frameworks could help clinicians to identify the best course of treatments by answering counterfactual questions. We explore this path for the case of echocardiograms by looki...
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Hybrid Cardiac Imaging for the Cardiologist with Expertise in Echocardiography
Echocardiography is the first-line imaging test in virtually all cardiovascular conditions, due to the advantages of low cost, widespread diffusion, portability, versatility, low environmental footprint, and r...
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Open AccessImpact of COVID-19 on UK stress echocardiography practice: insights from the EVAREST sites
Introduction Healthcare delivery is being transformed by COVID-19 to reduce transmission risk but continued delivery of routine clinical tests is essential. Stress echocardiography is one of the most widely used ...
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Ultrasound Video Transformers for Cardiac Ejection Fraction Estimation
Cardiac ultrasound imaging is used to diagnose various heart diseases. Common analysis pipelines involve manual processing of the video frames by expert clinicians. This suffers from intra- and inter-observer ...
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Open AccessThe UK Biobank imaging enhancement of 100,000 participants: rationale, data collection, management and future directions
UK Biobank is a population-based cohort of half a million participants aged 40–69 years recruited between 2006 and 2010. In 2014, UK Biobank started the world’s largest multi-modal imaging study, with the aim ...
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Open AccessTrial of Exercise to Prevent HypeRtension in young Adults (TEPHRA) a randomized controlled trial: study protocol
Hypertension prevalence in young adults has increased and is associated with increased incidence of cerebrovascular and cardiovascular events in middle age. However, there is significant debate regards how to ...
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Open AccessNeonatal autonomic function after pregnancy complications and early cardiovascular development
Heart rate variability (HRV) has emerged as a predictor of later cardiac risk. This study tested whether pregnancy complications that may have long-term offspring cardiac sequelae are associated with differenc...
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Open AccessP100: Trial of Exercise to Prevent Hypertension in Young Adults (TEPHRA): Rationale and Protocol
Hypertension or pre-hypertension in young adults is unusual and more often linked with an adverse family or pregnancy history, such as preterm birth, than hypertension which develops later in life1–4. Surprisingl...
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Open AccessDisproportionate cardiac hypertrophy during early postnatal development in infants born preterm
Adults born very preterm have increased cardiac mass and reduced function. We investigated whether a hypertrophic phenomenon occurs in later preterm infants and when this occurs during early development.
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Hypertension in pregnancy: a risk factor for the whole family?
Hypertension in pregnancy is a known risk factor for increased cardiovascular risk for both the mother and her offspring. New findings suggest the offspring of normotensive pregnancies should also be considere...
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Open AccessReference ranges for cardiac structure and function using cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) in Caucasians from the UK Biobank population cohort
Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) is the gold standard method for the assessment of cardiac structure and function. Reference ranges permit differentiation between normal and pathological states. To date...
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Open Access12th WINFOCUS world congress on ultrasound in emergency and critical care
A1 Point-of-care ultrasound examination of cervical spine in emergency department
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Open AccessCorrection: Corrigendum: Comprehensive multi-modality assessment of regional and global arterial structure and function in adults born preterm
Correction to: Hypertension Research (2016) 39, 39–45; doi:10.1038/hr.2015.102 This article was originally published under a CC BY-NC-ND v4.0 license, but has now been made available under a CC BY 4.0 license....
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Preterm Birth and Hypertension: Is There a Link?
Factors in perinatal life have recently been recognized as determinants of later life health and diseases, especially hypertension. The detection of higher values of blood pressure in preterm-born individuals ...
