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One year after the presentation of the 2016 ESC heart failure guidelines: new studies with implications for everyday clinical practice
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One year after the presentation of the 2016 ESC heart failure guidelines: new studies with implications for everyday clinical practice
It was last year in May 2016, during the annual meeting of the ESC Heart Failure Association, when we presented the new 2016 ESC HF guidelines.1 In these guidelines, we proposed the following new aspects related to the comprehensive management of chronic and acute HF:
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Large-scale physical activity data reveal worldwide activity inequality
To be able to curb the global pandemic of physical inactivity and the associated 5.3 million deaths per year, we need to understand the basic principles that govern physical activity. However, there is a lack of large-scale measurements of physical activity patterns across free-living populations worldwide.
TIYE, QUEEN OF EGYPT, DOWAGER OF HYPERTENSION
The “great royal wife” of Amenhotep III, Tiye was as much his chancellor as first lady. A woman of power. Mother of Akhenaton and at least five other children, grandmother of Tutankhamen while not herself not of royal blood, Tiye played a prominent role in Egyptian diplomacy and religious reform. […]
A CONNECTED JACKET THAT WATCHES OVER THE HEART
Cardiac defibrillators are not on the corner of every street. Nor are paramedics. So how can the number of people surviving a heart attack that occurs outside the hospital be increased? Today, it is estimated that these people’s chance of survival is only 5%. This figure could be about to change with the use of the […]
