Background Lowering the blood cholesterol level may reduce the risk of coronary heart
disease. This double-blind study was designed to determine whether the administration of …

Background Although statins reduce coronary and cerebrovascular morbidity and mortality
in middle-aged individuals, their efficacy and safety in elderly people is not fully established. …

Background Trials of statin therapy have had conflicting findings on the risk of development
of diabetes mellitus in patients given statins. We aimed to establish by a meta-analysis of …

Background— The National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP) recently proposed a
simple definition for metabolic syndrome. Information on the prospective association of this …

Background—We examined the development of new diabetes mellitus in men aged 45 to
64 years during the West of Scotland Coronary Prevention Study. Methods and Results—Our …

The goals of electrocardiographic (ECG) monitoring in hospital settings have expanded from
simple heart rate and basic rhythm determination to the diagnosis of complex arrhythmias, …

Background Clinical use of criteria for metabolic syndrome to simultaneously predict risk of
cardiovascular disease and diabetes remains uncertain. We investigated to what extent …

Atrial fibrillation (AF) affects more than 33 million individuals worldwide 1 and has a complex
heritability 2 . We conducted the largest meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies (…

The role of automatic electrocardiogram (ECG) analysis in clinical practice is limited by the
accuracy of existing models. Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are models composed of stacked …

Background. Computer programs for the interpretation of electrocardiograms (ECGs) are
now widely used. However, a systematic assessment of various computer programs for the …