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Cardiovascular diseases

Letters

Implementing cardiovascular disease preventive care guidelines in general practice: an opportunity missed

Joachim P Sturmberg and Carmel M Martin

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (4): 189-189.e1

Letters

Implementing cardiovascular disease preventive care guidelines in general practice: an opportunity missed

Charlotte M Hespe, Mark F Harris and David P Peiris

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (4): 189-189.e1

Medical education / Lessons from practice

Paradoxical embolism through patent foramen ovale as a cause of myocardial infarction

Naim Mridha, Eloise Ward, Samual Hayman, Arun Dahiya and Sandhir Prasad

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (2): 68-69.e1

Letters

Time to address the neglected burden of group A Streptococcus

Jeffrey W Cannon, Julie Bennett, Michael G Baker and Jonathan R Carapetis

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (2): 94-94.e1

Research

Cardiac arrests in general practice clinics or witnessed by emergency medical services: a 20‐year retrospective study

Brian Haskins, Ziad Nehme, Peter A Cameron and Karen Smith

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (5): 222-227 Free

Narrative review

Persistent pathology of the patent foramen ovale: a review of the literature

Kenneth K Cho, Shaun Khanna, Phillip Lo, Daniel Cheng and David Roy

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (2): 89-93

Editorials

A good report card, but there is room for improving care for patients with myocardial infarction

John K French

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (11): 512-513

Research letters

Hospital admissions for cardiovascular complications of people with or without diabetes, Victoria, 2004–2016

Katerina V Kiburg, Andrew I MacIsaac, Andrew Wilson, Vijaya Sundararajan and Richard J MacIsaac

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (2): 85-86 Free

Research

Long term survival after acute myocardial infarction in Australia and New Zealand, 2009‒2015: a population cohort study

Bora Nadlacki, Dennis Horton, Sadia Hossain, Saranya Hariharaputhiran, Linh Ngo, Anna Ali, Bernadette Aliprandi‐Costa, Chris J Ellis, Robert JT Adams, Renuka Visvanathan and Isuru Ranasinghe

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (11): 519-525 Free

Letters

Coronary artery calcium scoring in cardiovascular risk assessment of people with family histories of early onset coronary artery disease

Prasanna Venkataraman and Thomas H Marwick

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (9): 440-440.e1

Editorials

Improving the management of cardiovascular disease risk in primary care

Mark R Nelson

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (9): 415-416

Position statement

National Heart Foundation of Australia: position statement on coronary artery calcium scoring for the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease in Australia

Garry LR Jennings, Ralph Audehm, Warrick Bishop, Clara K Chow, Siaw-Teng Liaw, Danny Liew and Sara M Linton

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (9): 434-439 Free

Letters

Coronary artery calcium scoring in cardiovascular risk assessment of people with family histories of early onset coronary artery disease

Andrew Hayen, Paul P Glasziou and Jenny A Doust

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (9): 440-440.e1

Medical education / Snapshot

Recurrent vanishing lung tumour: the phantom tumour

Jeet Ram Kashyap and Aayushi Gupta

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (8): 356-356.e1

Research

An electronic decision support‐based complex intervention to improve management of cardiovascular risk in primary health care: a cluster randomised trial (INTEGRATE)

Ruth Webster, Tim Usherwood, Rohina Joshi, Bandana Saini, Carol Armour, Sue Critchley, Gian Luca Di Tanna, Shane Galgey, Charlotte M Hespe, Stephen Jan, Ajay Karia, Baldeep Kaur, Ines Krass, Tracey‐Lea Laba, Qiang Li, Serigne Lo, David P Peiris, Christopher Reid, Anthony Rodgers, Louise Shiel, Jessica Strathdee, Nuria Zamora and Anushka Patel

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (9): 420-427 Free

Medical education / Lessons from practice

Epipericardial fat necrosis: chest pain in a young pregnant woman

Rohan V Navani, Claudia Ashkar and Harry Gibbs

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (8): 355-356.e1

Editorials

Does Australia need more catheterisation laboratories to treat heart attack?

Peter L Thompson

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (7): 307-308

Research letters

The influence of travelling to hospital by ambulance on reperfusion time and outcomes for patients with STEMI

Eleanor Redwood, Karice Hyun, John K French, Leonard Kritharides, Mark Ryan, Derek P Chew, Mario D'Souza and David B Brieger

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (8): 377-378 Free

Editorials

Assessing and modifying cardiovascular risk in people who present to a chest pain clinic with non‐cardiac causes

Johannes T Neumann and Andrew M Tonkin

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (6): 263-264

Research

Factors that influence whether patients with acute coronary syndromes undergo cardiac catheterisation

Michael Ayad, Karice Hyun, Mario D’Souza, Julie Redfern, Janice Gullick, Mark Ryan and David B Brieger

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (7): 310-317 Free

Research

Absolute risk assessment for guiding cardiovascular risk management in a chest pain clinic

J Andrew Black, Julie A Campbell, Serena Parker, James E Sharman, Mark R Nelson, Petr Otahal, Garry Hamilton and Thomas H Marwick

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (6): 266-271 Free

Medical education / Key research skills

Why proper understanding of confidence intervals and statistical significance is important

Karla Hemming and Monica Taljaard

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (3): 116-118.e1 Free

Research

Late mortality in people with cancer: a population‐based Australian study

Bogda Koczwara, Rosie Meng, Michelle D Miller, Robyn A Clark, Billingsley Kaambwa, Tania Marin, Raechel A Damarell and David M Roder

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (7): 318-323 Free

Perspectives

Tenecteplase (and common sense) in short supply during the COVID‐19 pandemic

Mark Parsons, Leonid Churilov, Aletta E Schutte and Christopher Levi

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (10): 442-443.e1 Free

Letters

ECG: essential in care of patients with COVID‐19

Kaitlyn Lam, Sarah McClelland and Michael J Dallo

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (10): 476-476.e1 Free