The hottest love has the coldest end.” Facing a romantic relationship breakup can be devastating, overwhelming and heart-wrenching. There has been an increasing trend of divorce over the last 3 decades in Hong Kong, with the crude divorce rate...

­­ Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease: An Evil Pairing Currently, the prevalence of diabetes mellitus (DM) is approximately 463 million, which is equivalent to 9.3% of the world’s population. The global pandemic of DM is expected to r...

An Every-Increasing Problem with HFpEF Heart failure (HF) is a complex clinical syndrome that results from a functional or structural heart disorder impairing the ventricular filling or ejection of blood to the systemic circulation 1 . It affects mo...

A Missing Culprit in Atherosclerosis Atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) is one of the main causes of death globally, accounting for 31% of global deaths attributed by ASCVD. Furthermore, cardiovascular disease (CVD) accounts for 1 in eve...

Controlling Cardiovascular Risk Factors with Traditional Chinese Exercises Chronic diseases account for about 71% of all deaths globally in each year, whereas cardiovascular disease (CVD) is one of the main chronic diseases in middle-aged and elderl...

The Role of Senescence in Age-related Cardiovascular Diseases and Its Potential Solution According to World Health Organization, cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are one of the major causes of death globally, responsible for 17.9 million deaths every ...

Underutilisation of Oral Anticoagulant in the Management of Non-valvular Atrial Fibrillation Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common type of arrhythmia and substantially increases the risks of stroke, systemic embolism (SE) and death. The condit...

Elevated Risks of Cardiovascular Diseases Associated with Chronic Psychological Stress Chronic psychological stress can be referred to the non-specific systemic reaction induced by the prolonged stimulation of internal or external negative factors. ...

Complication of Atrial Fibrillation with Obesity and Its Management with Novel Oral Anticoagulants Obesity is the most common chronic metabolic disease worldwide with an increasing prevalence. It has been reported that more than 1.9 billion adults w...

Win Your Heart with the Mediterranean Diet Rich in minimally processed plant-based food and monounsaturated fat from olive oil, but low to moderate in animal products, the Mediterranean diet (MedDiet), one of the most well studied dietary patterns i...

The Debate on Anticoagulation in Cirrhotic Patients Cirrhosis is a form of end-stage liver disease characterised by cell degeneration, inflammation, and fibrosis, most often caused by alcoholic and viral hepatitis. In particular, the condition is as...

Challenge of Myocardial Injury in COVID-19 The Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), is now a global pandemic inflicting significant morbidity and mortality as well as substantia...