The arteries that supply the penis are very small and may be more prone to atherosclerosis than larger vessels. This means that the penis may be the first area in a man’s body to suffer from a reduction in blood flow and so signal cardiovascular disease.
The HYVET study: answering the question of whether or not to treat hypertension in the very elderly
Statin therapy for secondary prevention of coronary heart disease: an update (part 2)
The metabolic syndrome: myth or clinically useful marker?
The European perspective
Leave nothing to chance
A case of severe aortic stenosis
Cardiovascular risk management series: 2 – Using guidelines as a framework for cardiovascular risk management
Reducing the impact of vascular disease: the proposed Vascular Risk Programme for risk assessment and management
Measurement of baseline total cholesterol: new data from The Health Improvement Network (THIN) database
Ambulatory ECG monitoring in primary care
Cardiac arrhythmia affects more than 700,000 people in England and is consistently in the top ten reasons for hospital admission, consuming significant accident and emergency time and bed days.1 In the general population, arrhythmias are normally quite minor, silent, and typically benign. Symptoms may affect the patient enough to be both disruptive and distressful. In […]
Familial hypercholesterolaemia: caring for the one in 500 patients affected
Familial hypercholesterolaemia (FH) is the commonest genetic disorder in people of European and Japanese descent, affecting about 1 in 500 people. It is characterised by high levels of total and LDL cholesterol and is the most important clinical syndrome leading to premature coronary heart disease (CHD). Despite huge advances in unravelling its complex pathophysiology and the effectiveness of modern treatments, awareness of the syndrome and its consequences remains low and affected individuals are still overlooked and denied the potential benefits of treatment.
