Missed opportunities to prevent hypertension at a tertiary care centre in Pakistan.

Background: Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of mortality worldwide, affecting ~1.28 billion adults, and ~46% of these adults are not aware of their condition. One-third of patients do not receive appropriate care for their cardiovascular disease.

Effect of COVID-19 on outpatient services in patients with aortovascular disease: a UK multicentre study.

Introduction: The SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has disrupted healthcare services worldwide. Outpatient services have necessarily been restructured to accommodate COVID-19 patients and to maintain social distancing measures. The aim of our study was to investigate how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected outpatient healthcare provision for patients with aortovascular disease.

Frequency and Association of Stress Levels with Modes of Commuting Among Medical Students of a Developing Country.

Introduction: This study aimed at determining the frequency and association of stress levels with modes of transportation and was likely to reveal the contributing transportation-related factors for stress in medical students.

Methods: This was a questionnaire-based, cross-sectional study that included undergraduate medical students of a public sector medical university in Karachi, Pakistan. A total of 573 students participated voluntarily, of which 300 were provided a manual questionnaire and 273 filled it online.

Aberrant subclavian: new face of an old disease.

An aneurysm of an aberrant subclavian artery is un usual prevalence of anomalies of aortic arch, with a literature reported prevalence of 2%. Timely elective intervention is of paramount. The advancement in stenting techniques has promoted this practice to be an alternative to conventional open surgical repair which is associated with high rates of perioperative complications including mortality outcomes.