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Objective: To determine whether raised levels of antibodies to CK18 in patients with RA are associated with ischaemic heart disease (IHD). Methods: IgA, IgG, and IgM antibodies to CK18 were [...]

Heart 2003;89:1383-1388 Despite major improvements in air quality resulting from increasingly stringent legislation, there remains a strong association between daily mortality and current levels of air pollution. Growing epidemiological evidence [...]

Heart 2003;89:1288-1290 Although C reactive protein is intimately involved with the pathogenic mechanisms that drive acute coronary syndromes, there is no evidence that it is helpful for identifying patient groups [...]

[Editor's Note: The article 'X Rays, Cancer, and Heart Disease' by Albert Huebner appeared in the April 2000 issue. It discussed a report by Dr. John Gofman that suggested there [...]

Q: What issue most concerns you in the area of primary prevention of heart disease? A: The fact that we're not doing more to reduce lipids is quite discouraging. Although [...]

Add possible increased risk of heart disease to the side effects of smoking marijuana. A study led by Jean Lud Cadet of the National Institute on Drug Abuse in Bethesda, [...]

Research data suggest that the stomach microbe Helicobacter pylori may also sometimes attack heart cells, ultimately triggering an erratic heartbeat. Italian cardiologists gave H. pylori tests to 59 patients with [...]

There were 23 male cardiac deaths in France on July 12, 1998, the day that the French won the World Soccer Cup championship, vs. a mean of 32.6 for the [...]

A US study of more than 17,000 people found that childhood experiences of abuse and neglect dramatically increase people's risk of developing heart disease in later life. The research, published [...]

A cluster of cardiovascular disease risk factors, known as the metabolic syndrome, may make arteries look old, according to an April 21, 2004, news release from the American College of [...]

WASHINGTON -- The leading killers of people with diabetes are heart disease and stroke; however, two out of three diabetes patients don't consider cardiovascular disease to be a serious threat. [...]

An attempt to unravel how certain viral infections harm the heart may have produced an explanation for the tantalizing link between some bacteria and the development of heart disease. What [...]

Alcohol occupies a unique place in many societies,' observes an editorial writer in The New England Journal of Medicine. '[I]t is a widely used drug, tolerated physiologically and socially, with [...]

The patient takes one look at the cardiologist and his blood pressure shoots through the roof. As soon as the doctor leaves the room, the pressure eases. The patient calls [...]

A new study suggests that a protein in the blood may predict a woman's future risk of suffering a heart attack. In 1997, Paul M. Ridker of the Harvard Medical [...]