Background The National Heart Failure Audit gathers data on patients coded at discharge (or death) as having heart failure as the primary reason for admission. To allow comparison of outcomes between ...

Cardiologists often struggle to assess heart attack risk. New startups using AI could help. For all the modern marvels of cardiology, we struggle to predict who will have a heart attack. Many people ...

A simple £5 blood test for the protein troponin could predict a person's risk of heart attacks and strokes with greater accuracy than ever before, research suggests. Troponin is found in heart muscle ...

A combined analysis of blood tests to measure three biomarkers linked to higher risk of cardiovascular disease-lipoprotein a (Lp(a)), remnant cholesterol and high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hsCRP ...