Cardiovascular disorders are responsible for as many as 77% of patients presenting to Accident and Emergency Departments with unexplained or recurrent falls and falls associated with unexplained loss of consciousness [1]. The importance of these disorders as a group is emphasized by the fact that fallers with an intrinsic cardiac cause have a greater mortality than those with non-cardiovascular...

conclusions music therapy is effective in decreasing anxiety among patients undergoing cabg. however, the intervention was not effective on cardiovascular indices. music can effectively be used as a non-pharmacological method to manage anxiety after cabg. results compared to the immediately before intervention, the mean anxiety scores immediately after and 30 minutes after the intervention were...

helicobacter pylori (h. pylori) is a spiral-shaped gram negative bacterium that naturally colonizes the human gastric epithelium. in recent years, large evidence has come to the literature strongly proposing causal link between h. pylori and extra gastric disorders. cardiovascular system is one of the extra gastric organs that can be affected by h. pylori infection. the first evidence suggestiv...

The article presents up-to-date information on the structure of C-reactive protein, its functions and role in risk stratification cardiovascular diseases, cancer mental disorders.

This special issue of Cardiovascular Psychiatry and Neurology marks its first year since we launched the open access journal dedicated to publishing original preclinical/basic and research on biological mechanisms of and treatments for co-occurring cardiovascular disorders and disorders of the central nervous system (CNS). As suggested earlier (by the paper entitled " The heart-brain connection...