Sudden cardiac death (SCD) remains a daunting problem. It is a major public health issue
for several reasons: from its prevalence (20% of total mortality in the industrialized world) to …

Obesity is a significant risk factor for arrhythmic cardiovascular death. Interactions between
epicardial adipose tissue (EAT) and myocytes are thought to play a key role in the …

Background The T peak− T end interval (the interval from the peak to the end of the T wave),
an electrocardiographic marker reflecting transmural dispersion of repolarization, has been …

A surge of data has reproducibly identified strong associations of OSA with cardiac
arrhythmias. As an extension of epidemiologic and clinic-based findings, experimental …

Sinus node dysfunction may be either transient (reversible/physiological) due to the
involvement of the autonomic nervous system or pharmaceuticals, or chronic due to …

Patients with cardiac diseases or conditions with high risk of develo** cardiac diseases
undergo risk assessment by cardiologists, primary care physicians, and scientists based on …

Aims There is an urgent need to extend sudden cardiac death (SCD) risk stratification
beyond the left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF). We evaluated whether a cumulative …

We comprehensively reviewed published literature to determine whether it supported the
link between corrected QT (QTc) interval prolongation and torsade de pointes (TdP) for the …

Symptomatic obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) has been proven to be a risk factor for
hypertension and vascular dysfunction, and has been proposed to be causally related with …

OBJECTIVE Hypoglycemia may exert proarrhythmogenic effects on the heart via
sympathoadrenal stimulation and hypokalemia. Hypoglycemia-induced cardiac …