Dr Trevelyan has teamed up with 2 local Consultant Cardiologist colleagues, Dr David Smith and Dr William Foster and they are pleased to announce the launch of Worcester Cardiac Group. Worcester Cardiac Group is an outpatient cardiac investigation service based…
It seems hardly a week goes by when there isn’t an article in the press about the adverse effects of statins. Certainly not a week goes by when I don’t get asked about this by patients, or am told that…
Many of us will have heard about alternatives to warfarin in recent years. There are now 4 of these drugs available (apixaban, dabigatran, edoxaban, rivaroxaban). They used to be called NOACs (novel oral anticoagulants) and now in the medical world…
Last week I spoke about the milestone that occurred in 2012, when for the first time since the British Heart Foundation have been compiling their statistics, cardiovascular mortality was not the leading cause of death in the UK. So what…
The last 5 years have been landmark years for heart disease in the UK. For the first time in my lifetime, cardiovascular disease is no longer the leading cause of death in the UK. In 2012, cardiovascular disease accounted for…
