Objectives: This study sought to ascertain whether left ventricular systolic dysfunction
(LVSD) is more common among clinic patients with rheumatoid disease (RD) compared with …

Heart failure is a major public health problem in the Western world. Aetiological factors
involved in its development include hypertension, diabetes, and ischaemic heart disease …

Congestive heart failure (CHF) is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. In
particular, patients with CHF have a high risk of venous thromboembolism and stroke, as …

Background Acute coronary syndromes (ACS) are characterized by abnormal heart‐rate
variability (HRV) and biomarkers of endothelial damage and thrombosis. Hypothesis We …

Rheumatoid disease (RD) is a multisystem inflammatory disorder, which is associated with
an increased cardiovascular mortality, thought to be due to ischaemic heart disease (IHD) …

In 1994, we reported a cross‐sectional survey of acute heart failure admissions to a city
centre hospital serving a multiethnic population and found ethnic differences in aetiological …

We describe the case of a 50-year-old lady admitted with a 3-week history of dyspnoea and
left-sided pleuritic pain associated with pleural effusion. This common clinical picture …

The patient presented with increasing fatigue and dyspnoea. The patient had medical
history of rheumatoid arthritis for which she had been taking methotrexate for the past 15 …

BACKGROUND: Patients with heart failure of any cause have elevated homocysteine
compared to healthy controls. A number of studies in the UK and other western countries …

BACKGROUND: Rheumatoid Disease (RD) is associated with ischaemic heart disease
(IHD). We sought to investigate whether abnormalities of endothelial function and platelet …