HeartPub Date : 2026-10-09DOI: 10.1136/heartjnl-2026-327798
Ryosuke Sato, Constanze Schmidt, Stephan von Haehling
{"title":"Invisible threats, visible consequences: metabolomic footprints of air pollution on heart failure.","authors":"Ryosuke Sato, Constanze Schmidt, Stephan von Haehling","doi":"10.1136/heartjnl-2026-327798","DOIUrl":"10.1136/heartjnl-2026-327798","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":12835,"journal":{"name":"Heart","volume":" ","pages":"1167-1168"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2026-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147316845","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
HeartPub Date : 2026-10-09DOI: 10.1136/heartjnl-2025-327666
Pietro Ameri, Mamas A Mamas, Massimiliano Camilli
{"title":"Importance of observational studies in the evidence-based medicine framework: the case of bleeding risk in patients with acute myocardial infarction and cancer.","authors":"Pietro Ameri, Mamas A Mamas, Massimiliano Camilli","doi":"10.1136/heartjnl-2025-327666","DOIUrl":"10.1136/heartjnl-2025-327666","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":12835,"journal":{"name":"Heart","volume":" ","pages":"1169-1170"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2026-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147305031","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
HeartPub Date : 2026-10-08DOI: 10.1136/heartjnl-2025-327578
Maria Klitgaard Christensen, Andreas Kristian Pedersen, Vibe Bolvig Hyldgård, Jacob Eifer Moller
{"title":"Timing of heart failure diagnosis and uptake of newly recommended therapies following clinical guideline updates.","authors":"Maria Klitgaard Christensen, Andreas Kristian Pedersen, Vibe Bolvig Hyldgård, Jacob Eifer Moller","doi":"10.1136/heartjnl-2025-327578","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/heartjnl-2025-327578","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":12835,"journal":{"name":"Heart","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2026-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149136322","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
HeartPub Date : 2026-10-07DOI: 10.1136/heartjnl-2026-329093
Tharusan Thevathasan, Steffen Desch
{"title":"Time is more than myocardium: direct transfer after cardiac arrest with ST-segment elevation.","authors":"Tharusan Thevathasan, Steffen Desch","doi":"10.1136/heartjnl-2026-329093","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/heartjnl-2026-329093","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":12835,"journal":{"name":"Heart","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2026-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149127280","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
HeartPub Date : 2026-10-07DOI: 10.1136/heartjnl-2026-328828
Ana Paula Beck Da Silva Etges, Carisi Anne Polanczyk
{"title":"Carbon footprint of cardiovascular technologies: a new dimension of value.","authors":"Ana Paula Beck Da Silva Etges, Carisi Anne Polanczyk","doi":"10.1136/heartjnl-2026-328828","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/heartjnl-2026-328828","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":12835,"journal":{"name":"Heart","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2026-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149127268","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
HeartPub Date : 2026-10-07DOI: 10.1136/heartjnl-2026-328566
Simon Söderholm, Åshild Olsen Faresjö, David Kylhammar, Carl Johan Östgren, Claudio Cantù, Fredrik Iredahl
{"title":"Long-term cortisol exposure and echocardiographic measures of cardiac structure and function.","authors":"Simon Söderholm, Åshild Olsen Faresjö, David Kylhammar, Carl Johan Östgren, Claudio Cantù, Fredrik Iredahl","doi":"10.1136/heartjnl-2026-328566","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/heartjnl-2026-328566","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Chronic activation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis due to long-term stress, reflected by elevated hair cortisol concentration (HCC), has been associated with increased cardiovascular disease risk. However, whether prolonged cortisol exposure is linked to alterations in cardiac structure and function remains unclear.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>In a population-based cohort of 3005 individuals aged 50-64 years in Sweden, HCC was measured and analysed in relation to 19 echocardiographic parameters reflecting cardiac morphology and function. Through linear regression models the association between HCC and echocardiographic parameters was analysed, adjusting for relevant confounders and complemented by sensitivity analyses to assess influence of extreme values and to evaluate potential non-linearity.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>No significant association between HCC and three broad principal component analysis-derived cardiac phenotypes was observed. Across 19 individual echocardiographic measures, effect estimates were generally small and CIs largely included the null. Left Atrial End-Systolic Volume Index (LAESVI) was the only measure showing a false discovery rate-adjusted significant association with HCC; however the magnitude of this association was modest, with β=0.178 SD per one-unit increase in log10-HCC, corresponding to approximately 0.734 mL/m² higher LAESVI across the IQR of HCC (~2.9% of the cohort median).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Taken together, in this population-based study, these findings provide little evidence that HCC is associated with clinically meaningful differences in cardiac structure or function in generally healthy middle-aged adults.</p>","PeriodicalId":12835,"journal":{"name":"Heart","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2026-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149127289","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
HeartPub Date : 2026-10-07DOI: 10.1136/heartjnl-2026-328438
Matti Riihiniemi, Elias Törmäkangas, Jarkko Piuhola, Matti Niemelä, Lassi Mäntyniemi, Juha Vähätalo, Anette Eskuri, Ida King, Lasse Pakanen, Juha Perkiömäki, Lauri Holmström, Heikki V Huikuri, Juhani Junttila
{"title":"Sudden cardiac death due to aortic stenosis.","authors":"Matti Riihiniemi, Elias Törmäkangas, Jarkko Piuhola, Matti Niemelä, Lassi Mäntyniemi, Juha Vähätalo, Anette Eskuri, Ida King, Lasse Pakanen, Juha Perkiömäki, Lauri Holmström, Heikki V Huikuri, Juhani Junttila","doi":"10.1136/heartjnl-2026-328438","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/heartjnl-2026-328438","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Characteristics of subjects with sudden cardiac death (SCD) due to aortic stenosis (AS) are not well defined. Aim of this study was to present clinical and autopsy findings of SCD subjects in whom AS was determined to be the cause of death.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Study population was based on the Finnish Genetic Study of Arrhythmic Events (Fingesture), a large registry which included 5869 consecutive subjects of autopsy-verified SCD between 1998 and 2017. The cause of death was determined based on medicolegal investigation combining data from medical records, police reports and autopsy. Clinical history, ECGs and echocardiographic data were reviewed when available.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Valvular heart disease (VHD) was determined to be the cause of SCD in 64 subjects (1.1%), where AS was the most frequent cause of SCD due to VHD (68.8%). The average age in victims of SCD due to AS was 67.5±12.1 years and 79.5% were male. Documented angina or dyspnoea prior to SCD due to AS was rare (6.8% and 4.5%, respectively), and over half of the SCD subjects (54.5%) did not have a previously established diagnosis of AS. Almost all subjects (93.2%) with SCD due to AS had cardiac hypertrophy and myocardial fibrosis at autopsy.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>VHD is a rare cause of SCD, where AS is the dominant underlying pathology. SCD due to AS occurs often without previous diagnosis. Near-universal presence of cardiac hypertrophy and myocardial fibrosis at autopsy supports the role of advanced myocardial disease in the pathogenesis of SCD due to AS.</p>","PeriodicalId":12835,"journal":{"name":"Heart","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2026-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149127335","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
HeartPub Date : 2026-10-05DOI: 10.1136/heartjnl-2026-328949
Dimitri Arangalage, Trecy Gonçalves
{"title":"Sex and early ventricular fibrillation in fulminant myocarditis: an arrhythmic signal without an observed mortality difference.","authors":"Dimitri Arangalage, Trecy Gonçalves","doi":"10.1136/heartjnl-2026-328949","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/heartjnl-2026-328949","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":12835,"journal":{"name":"Heart","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2026-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149108900","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}