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Hypertension in pregnancy contributes substantially to maternal morbidity and mortality, persistent hypertension, and rehospitalization. Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy are also associated with a ...

When direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) were developed, they were meant to entirely substitute vitamin K antagonists (VKAs) in the prevention of thromboembolism and stroke in patients with atrial ...

Department of Pharmacy and Institute of Inflammation, Zhejiang Provincial People’s Hospital, Affiliated People’s Hospital (X.H., Y.Z., Y.W., G.L.) Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Laboratory ...

Despite proven efficacy and safety of direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) over warfarin in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF), data on patients with AF and valvular heart disease remain scarce. We ...

Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) appears to be diagnosed twice as often in male than in female patients. This could be attributed to underdiagnosis in female patients or sex differences in susceptibility.

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Use of anabolic androgenic steroids (AASs) is associated with increased mortality, and case reports have suggested that some of these deaths are due to cardiovascular disease. However, the ...

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Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP) are a major cause of maternal morbidity and mortality and are associated with acute cardiac events in the peripartum period, as well as cardiovascular disease ...

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