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Controlling hypertension during the COVID-19 pandemic
How should clinicians navigate clinical uncertainty for patients who are taking angiotensinconverting-enzyme (ACE) inhibitors or angiotensin-receptor blockers (ARBs)?
Standing desks could decrease heart disease
Sitting for more than four hours a day could increase an individual’s risk of death from any health issue –…
Quitting smoking improves heart health
Smoking is a well-known cardiovascular risk factor and smoking cessation leads to a reduced risk of cardiovascular events including mortality…
Dealing with early morning BP surges
Cardio-metabolic disorders are the most important cause of mortality and morbidity worldwide. Hypertension, obesity, diabetes, metabolic syndrome and hyperlipidaemia, cause…
Preserving renal function in diabetic patients with AF
More than 40% of atrial fibrillation (AF) patients have diabetes. Chronic kidney disease (CKD), defined as an estimated glomerular filtration…
SAHS provides clarity on new hypertension threshold
In 2017, the publication of the new American College of Cardiology (ACC)/American Heart Association (AHA) hypertension guideline created considerable controversy.…
How to TREAT-AF
Studies show that the prevalence of AF ranges from 1% to 15% in people between the ages of 35 and…
Medical Chronicle August 2019 CPDs
These are both CPDs produced for the August 2019 issue of Medical Chronicle, accredited for 3 points. This month’s CPDs…
Reducing heart failure with hypertension treatment
Worldwide the prevalence of heart failure is rising. Prognosis is poor with symptomatic heart failure with yearly mortality rate of…
Angina: warn patients to listen to their heart
More South Africans die of CVD than of all the cancers combined. A common symptom of CAD is angina, yet…
Simplifying hypertension guidelines
The International Society of Hypertension (ISH) is currently writing new global hypertension guidelines to be published during the first half…
Anticoagulation in non-valvular AF
Atrial fibrillation is the most common persistent cardiac arrhythmia that a practitioner of medicine will encounter in clinical practice and…
CVD risk factors in PD patients
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative condition after Alzheimer’s disease. The incidence of PD rises rapidly with…
Down the ABC pathway
Atrial fibrillation (AFib) is the most common arrhythmia diagnosed in clinical practise. However, some patients experience no symptoms. Left untreated,…
Fast facts about Takotsubo
Takotsubo syndrome was first described in early 1990s in Japan as a transient cardiomyopathy after a stressful event in the…
Inflammation, immunity and infection in atherothrombosis
This is a new review topic addressing the overall concept of atherosclerosis and where we are at this moment in…
Updated atrial fibrillation guidelines
There is now a focused Update of the 2014 American Heart Association/American College of Cardiology/Heart Rhythm Society (AHA/ACC/HRS) Guideline for…
Preventing cardiovascular disease: where to start
Cardiovascular disease affects 33% of adults in the world and as such is the largest epidemic ever known to mankind,…
AFib Better Care
The Mayo Clinic hosted its annual Arrhythmias and the Heart: A Cardiovascular Update in Hawaii (United States) at the end…
Future trends in cardiology
The future of cardiology looks bright, and cardiologists need to be aware of an increased focus on fractional flow reserve-computed…
