David Roberts looks at whether putting patients in control can improve the quality of their anticoagulation therapy.
Cardiovascular & vascular
Prioritizing research into cavernoma: what matters most?
Here are the top ten priorities in cavernoma research, established by a James Lind Alliance Priority Setting Partnership
Treating deep vein thrombosis: novel ways to anticoagulate
New drugs for an old problem. GP Lynda Ware looks at new evidence on treating DVT
Putting the Heart into Palliative Care
GP RIchard Lehman reflects on palliative care beyond cancer and how people with heart failure need it too
Performance anxiety and “water tablets” for high blood pressure
GP Richard Lehman finds answers to some questions about medicines for high blood pressure but is left wondering if they're spoiling sex lives
Do selenium supplements reduce heart attacks?
Probably not, but it could increase your chance of baldness! Selenium is a trace element which is involved with...
Intervention reduces atrial fibrillation after heart surgery
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common rhythm disturbance of the heart. It involves the top two chambers of...
Statins save lives in patients undiagnosed with heart disease
Given that February is National Heart Month (cue Valentine’s Day), I thought I would blog about a recent Cochrane...
Loading with warfarin, what’s the quickest and safest dose?
Key message: There is not enough evidence to show whether 10mg or 5mg loading dose of warfarin is safer...
Top dose Atorvastatin cuts bad cholesterol by 50%, but what about smaller doses?
Key message: The effect of atorvastatin on lowering total cholesterol, LDL-cholesterol and triglyceride was proportional to the dose given....
New evidence on how to help people with chronic heart failure stay out of hospital
There’s such a lot of interesting and important evidence from the latest batch of reviews. Two updated reviews are...