Acute care

Cardiac failure

ECG

Hypertension

Lipids

Peripheral vascular disease

Prevention

• Primary prevention

• Secondary prevention

Atrial fibrillation

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Hypertension

• Isolated systolic hypertension: a radical rethink Ian B Wilkinson, David J Webb Christison, and John R Cockcroft BMJ 2000;320 1685

• Evidence based treatment of hypertension: Measurement of blood pressure: an evidence based review Finlay A McAlister and Sharon E Straus BMJ 2001;322 908-911

• Blood pressure measuring devices: recommendations of the European Society of Hypertension Eoin O'Brien, Bernard Waeber, Gianfranco Parati, Jan Staessen, and Martin G Myers BMJ 2001;322 531-536

• Evidence based management of hypertension: Cardiovascular risk factors and their effects on the decision to treat hypertension: evidence based review Raj Padwal, Sharon E Straus, and Finlay A McAlister BMJ 2001;322 977-980

• Evidence based management of hypertension: What are the elements of good treatment for hypertension? Cynthia D Mulrow and Michael Pignone BMJ 2001;322 1107-1109

• Evidence based management of hypertension: Using cardiovascular risk profiles to individualise hypertensive treatment Michael Pignone and Cynthia D Mulrow BMJ 2001;322 1164-1166

• Evidence based management of hypertension: What to do when blood pressure is difficult to control Jane E O'Rorke and W Scott Richardson BMJ 2001;322 1229-1232

• Relation between insufficient response to antihypertensive treatment and poor compliance with treatment: a prospective case-control study Reto Nuesch, Kerstin Schroeder, Thomas Dieterle, Benedict Martina, and Edouard Battegay BMJ 2001;323 142-146

• ABC of hypertension

  • ABC of hypertension: The pathophysiology of hypertension Gareth Beevers, Gregory Y H Lip, and Eoin O'Brien BMJ 2001;322 912-916

  • ABC of hypertension: Blood pressure measurement Gareth Beevers, Gregory Y H Lip, and Eoin O'Brien BMJ 2001;322 981-985

  • ABC of hypertension: Blood pressure measurement Gareth Beevers, Gregory Y H Lip, and Eoin O'Brien BMJ 2001;322 1043-1047

  • ABC of hypertension: Blood pressure measurement Eoin O'Brien, Gareth Beevers, and Gregory Y H Lip BMJ 2001;322 1110-1114

  • ABC of hypertension: Blood pressure measurement Eoin O'Brien, Gareth Beevers, and Gregory Y H Lip BMJ 2001;322 1167-1170

• 10-minute consultation: Newly diagnosed hypertension Christine A'Court BMJ 2002;324 1375

• Comparison of agreement between different measures of blood pressure in primary care and daytime ambulatory blood pressure Paul Little, Jane Barnett, Lucy Barnsley, Jean Marjoram, Alex Fitzgerald-Barron, and David Mant BMJ 2002;325 254

• Comparison of acceptability of and preferences for different methods of measuring blood pressure in primary care Paul Little, Jane Barnett, Lucy Barnsley, Jean Marjoram, Alex Fitzgerald-Barron, and David Mant BMJ 2002;325 258-259

• Patients' decisions about whether or not to take antihypertensive drugs: qualitative study John Benson and Nicky Britten BMJ 2002;325 873

• Drug treatment of hypertension Bryan Williams BMJ 2003;326 61-62

Primary prevention

• A strategy to reduce cardiovascular disease by more than 80%
  N J Wald and M R Law
  BMJ 2003; 326: 1419.

• Determination of who may derive most benefit from aspirin in primary prevention: subgroup results from a randomised controlled trial T W Meade and P J Brennan BMJ 2000;321 13-17

• Coronary and cardiovascular risk estimation for primary prevention: validation of a new Sheffield table in the 1995 Scottish health survey population. Wallace EJ, Ramsay LE, Haq I, Ghahramani P, Jackson PR, Rowland-Yeo K, et al.  BMJ 2000; 320: 671-676

• A score for predicting risk of death from cardiovascular disease in adults with raised blood pressure, based on individual patient data from randomised controlled trials Stuart J Pocock, Valerie McCormack, Francois Gueyffier, Florent Boutitie, Robert H Fagard, and Jean-Pierre Boissel BMJ 2001;323 75-81

• Comparison of cardiovascular risk between patients with type 2 diabetes and those who had had a myocardial infarction: cross sectional and cohort studies Josie M M Evans, Jixian Wang, and Andrew D Morris BMJ 2002;324 939

• Primary prevention of coronary heart disease Peter Brindle and Tom Fahey BMJ 2002;325 56-57

• Screening for cardiovascular risk: public health imperative or matter for individual informed choice? Theresa M Marteau and Ann Louise Kinmonth BMJ 2002;325 78-80

• Resource implications and health benefits of primary prevention strategies for cardiovascular disease in people aged 30 to 74: mathematical modelling study Tom Marshall and Andrew RouseBMJ 2002;325 197

• Screening men for aortic aneurysm Roger M Greenhalgh and Janet T Powell BMJ 2002;325 1123-1124

Secondary prevention

• Ten year audit of secondary prevention in coronary bypass patients R John Irving, S Helen Oram, John Boyd, Philip Rutledge, Fergus McRae, and Peter Bloomfield BMJ 2000;321 22-23

• Comparison of methods to identify individuals at increased risk of coronary disease from the general population S Wilson, A Johnston, J Robson, N Poulter, D Collier, G Feder, and M J Caulfield BMJ 2003; 326: 1436.

• Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty versus medical treatment for non-acute coronary heart disease: meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials Heiner C Bucher, Peter Hengstler, Christian Schindler, and Gordon H Guyatt BMJ 2000;321 73-77

• Systematic review of long term anticoagulation or antiplatelet treatment in patients with non-rheumatic atrial fibrillation F C Taylor, H Cohen, and S Ebrahim BMJ 2001;322 321-326

• Cluster randomised controlled trial to compare three methods of promoting secondary prevention of coronary heart disease in primary Michael Moher, Patricia Yudkin, Lucy Wright, Rebecca Turner, Alice Fuller, Theo Schofield, and David Mant BMJ 2001;322 1338

• Secondary prevention in 24 431 patients with coronary heart disease: survey in primary care
  A J B Brady, M A Oliver, and J B Pittard BMJ 2001;322 1463

• Randomised trials of secondary prevention programmes in coronary heart disease: systematic review Finlay A McAlister, Fiona M E Lawson, Koon K Teo, and Paul W Armstrong BMJ 2001;323 957-962

• Collaborative meta-analysis of randomised trials of antiplatelet therapy for prevention of death, myocardial infarction, and stroke in high risk patients Antithrombotic Trialists' Collaboration BMJ 2002;324 71-86

• Secondary prevention clinics for coronary heart disease: four year follow
  up of a randomised controlled trial in primary care Peter Murchie, Neil C Campbell, Lewis D Ritchie, Julie A Simpson, and  Joan Thain BMJ 2003;326 84

Lipids

• Treating dyslipidaemia in primary care D Monkman BMJ 2000;321 1299-1300

• Lipid concentrations and the use of lipid lowering drugs: evidence from a national cross sectional survey Paola Primatesta and Neil R Poulter BMJ 2000;321 1322-1325

• Screening for familial hypercholesterolaemia J J P Kastelein BMJ 2000;321 1483-1484

• Outcome of case finding among relatives of patients with known heterozygous familial hypercholesterolaemia D Bhatnagar, J Morgan, S Siddiq, M I Mackness, J P Miller, and P N Durrington BMJ 2000;321 1497

• Appropriateness of lipid tests and audit cholesterol lowering in primary care W Stuart A Smellie, Ruth Lowrie, and Emma Wilkinson BMJ 2001;323 1224-1227

• Systematic review of lipid lowering for primary prevention of coronary
  heart disease in diabetes Apoor S Gami, Victor M Montori, Patricia J Erwin, Mehmood A Khan, and  Steven A Smith BMJ 2003;326 528-529

• Cross sectional survey of effectiveness of lipid lowering drugs in reducing serum cholesterol concentration in patients in 17 general practices Julia Hippisley-Cox, Ruth Cater, Mike Pringle, and Carol Coupland BMJ 2003;326 689

Cardiac failure

• Can heart failure be diagnosed in primary care? Richard Hobbs BMJ 2000;321 188-189

• Do patients with suspected heart failure and preserved left ventricular systolic function suffer from "diastolic heart failure" or from misdiagnosis? A prospective descriptive study Lynn Caruana, Mark C Petrie, Andrew P Davie, and John J V McMurray BMJ 2000;321 215-218

• Recent developments: Management of chronic heart failure Martin R Cowie and Alex Zaphiriou BMJ 2002;325 422-425

• Barriers to accurate diagnosis and effective management of heart failure in primary care: qualitative study Ahmet Fuat, A Pali S Hungin, and Jeremy James Murphy

ECG

• ABC of clinical electrocardiography

  • ABC of clinical electrocardiography: Introduction. I---Leads, rate, rhythm, and cardiac axis Steve Meek and Francis Morris BMJ 2002;324 415-418

  • ABC of clinical electrocardiography: Introduction. II---Basic terminology Steve Meek and Francis Morris BMJ 2002;324 470-473

  • ABC of clinical electrocardiography: Bradycardias and atrioventricular conduction block David Da Costa, William J Brady, and June Edhouse BMJ 2002;324 535-538

  • ABC of clinical electrocardiography: Atrial arrhythmias Steve Goodacre and Richard Irons BMJ 2002;324 594-597

  • ABC of clinical electrocardiography: Junctional tachycardias Demas Esberger, Sallyann Jones, and Francis Morris BMJ 2002;324 662-665

  • ABC of clinical electrocardiography: Broad complex tachycardia---Part II June Edhouse and Francis Morris BMJ 2002;324 776-779

  • ABC of clinical electrocardiography: Acute myocardial infarction---Part I Francis Morris and William J Brady BMJ 2002;324 831-834

  • ABC of clinical electrocardiography: Acute myocardial infarction---Part II June Edhouse, William J Brady, and Francis Morris BMJ 2002;324 963-966

  • ABC of clinical electrocardiography: Myocardial ischaemia Kevin Channer and Francis Morris BMJ 2002;324 1023-1026

  • ABC of clinical electrocardiography: Exercise tolerance testing Jonathan Hill and Adam Timmis BMJ 2002;324 1084-1087

  • ABC of clinical electrocardiography: Conditions affecting the right side of the heart Richard A Harrigan and Kevin Jones BMJ 2002;324 1201-1204

  • ABC of clinical electrocardiography: Conditions affecting the left side of the heart June Edhouse, R K Thakur, and Jihad M Khalil BMJ 2002;324 1264-1267

  • ABC of clinical electrocardiography: Conditions not primarily affecting the heart Corey Slovis and Richard Jenkins BMJ 2002;324 1320-1323

  • ABC of clinical electrocardiography: Paediatric electrocardiography Steve Goodacre and Karen McLeod BMJ 2002;324 1382-1385

Acute care

• Regular review: Management of acute coronary syndromes S J Maynard, G O Scott, J W Riddell, and A A J Adgey BMJ 2000;321 220-223

• Cardiopulmonary resuscitation in adults Andrew S Lockey and Jerry P Nolan BMJ 2001;323 819-820

Peripheral vascular disease

• Exercise for intermittent claudication A H R Stewart and P M Lamont BMJ 2001;323 703-704

• Management of peripheral arterial disease in primary care Paul Burns, Stephen Gough, and Andrew W Bradbury BMJ 2003;326 584-588

Atrial fibrillation

• Persistent atrial fibrillation: rate control or rhythm control
  Christopher J Boos, Ranjit S More, and Jörg Carlsson
  BMJ 2003; 326: 1411-1412.

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