At an electrophysiology meeting one would expect a lot of interest in the high-tech and cutting edge. Yet one constant I find at European meetings is the popularity of sports cardiology, a decidedly ...

Young, trained athletes may have abnormal 12-lead electrocardiograms (ECGs) without evidence of structural cardiac disease. Whether such ECG patterns represent the initial expression of underlying ...

Postmenopausal women without symptoms of cardiovascular problems who have minor or major abnormalities on an electrocardiogram are at increased risk for future cardiovascular events and death, ...

Correspondence to Dr B Bessem, Center for Sports Medicine, University Medical Center Groningen, Hanzeplein 1 (Triade gebouw 23), Groningen 9700 RD, The Netherlands; b.bessem{at}umcg.nl Introduction ...

A small study suggests breast implants may interfere with the quality of ECG readings, leading to false-positive abnormalities. Researchers led by Sok-Sithikun Bun, MD (Princess Grace Hospital, Monaco ...

1 Department of Cardiology, St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia 2 Department of Medicine St Vincent's, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia Background In 2010, the European Society of ...

Cannabis use showed no significant association with ECG abnormalities in people with HIV infection, although women had higher odds of abnormal ECG findings than men. Men with HIV infection had higher ...

A team of scientists from New York University Langone Medical Center, USA, has revealed that the clinical severity of hospitalized patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) can be predicted by ...

Sudden death can occur as a consequence of cardiac-conduction abnormalities in the neuromuscular disease myotonic dystrophy type 1. The determinants of the risk of sudden death remain imprecise. We ...

Vienna, Austria - 21 June 2017: Breast implants may impede an electrocardiogram (ECG) and could result in a false heart attack diagnosis, according to research presented today at EHRA EUROPACE - ...