Our cardiologists are at the cutting edge of their fields of interest. They are active researchers and are asked to lecture locally and internationally. See below for a selection of their research:
Derivation and validation of a cardiovascular risk score for prediction of major acute cardiovascular events in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease; the importance of an elevated mean platelet volume.
Aliment Pharmacol Ther. 2019 Apr;49(8):1077-1085. doi: 10.1111/apt.15192. Epub 2019 Mar 5.
Improving haemodynamic optimization of cardiac resynchronization therapy for heart failure.
Physiol Meas. 2019 May 1;40(4):04NT01. doi: 10.1088/1361-6579/ab152c.
Fractional flow reserve derived from microcatheters versus standard pressure wires: a stenosis-level meta-analysis.
Open Heart. 2019 Mar 25;6(1):e000971. doi: 10.1136/openhrt-2018-000971. eCollection 2019.
Association Between Physiological Stenosis Severity and Angina-Limited Exercise Time in Patients With Stable Coronary Artery Disease.
JAMA Cardiol. 2019 Jun 1;4(6):569-574. doi: 10.1001/jamacardio.2019.1139.
Dobutamine Stress Echocardiography Ischemia as a Predictor of the Placebo-Controlled Efficacy of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in Stable Coronary Artery Disease: The Stress Echocardiography-Stratified Analysis of ORBITA.
Circulation. 2019 Dec 10;140(24):1971-1980. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.119.042918. Epub 2019 Nov 11.
Association of troponin level and age with mortality in 250 000 patients: cohort study across five UK acute care centres.
BMJ. 2019 Nov 20;367:l6055. doi: 10.1136/bmj.l6055.