Andre La Gerche

Acute glycaemic management before, during and after exercise for cardiac rehabilitation participants with diabetes mellitus: a joint statement of the British and Canadian Associations of Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation, the International Council for Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation and the British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences.

John P Buckley, Michael Riddell, Duane Mellor, Richard M Bracken, Marie-Kristelle Ross, Andre LaGerche, Paul Poirier

Journal article  |  2020  |  British Journal of Sports Medicine

Type 1 (T1) and type 2 (T2) diabetes mellitus (DM) are significant precursors and comorbidities to cardiovascular disease and prev..

Left Ventricular Fibrosis in Middle-Age Athletes and Physically Active Adults

Laura Banks, Mustafa A Altaha, Andrew T Yan, Paul Dorian, Kaja Konieczny, Djeven P Deva, Andre La Gerche, Farhad Akhavein, Robert F Bentley, Kim A Connelly, Jack M Goodman

Journal article  |  2020  |  Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise

INTRODUCTION: Cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) and T1 mapping techniques enable the quantificati..

Persistent Troponin Elevation in Left-Dominant Arrhythmogenic Cardiomyopathy

Kunal P Verma, Timothy Roberts, Sarah Parsons, Ingrid M Winship, David Prior, Andre La Gerche, Dominica Zentner

Journal article  |  2020  |  Circulation Genomic and Precision Medicine

Differing mechanisms of atrial fibrillation in athletes and non-athletes: alterations in atrial structure and function

Siddharth J Trivedi, Guido Claessen, Luke Stefani, M Darragh Flannery, Paula Brown, Kristel Janssens, Adrian Elliott, Prashanthan Sanders, Jonathan Kalman, Hein Heidbuchel, Liza Thomas, Andre La Gerche

Journal article  |  2020  |  European Heart Journal - Cardiovascular Imaging

AIMS: Atrial fibrillation (AF) is more common in athletes and may be associated with adverse left atrial (LA) remodelling. We comp..

Mind the gap: Knowledge deficits in evaluating young sudden cardiac death

Elizabeth Paratz, Christopher Semsarian, Andre La Gerche

Journal article  |  2020  |  Heart Rhythm

Sudden cardiac arrest affects around half a million people aged under 50 years old annually, with a 90% mortality rate. Despite hi..

Is the healthy respiratory system built just right, overbuilt, or underbuilt to meet the demands imposed by exercise?

Jerome A Dempsey, Andre La Gerche, James H Hull

Journal article  |  2020  |  Journal of Applied Physiology

In the healthy, untrained young adult, a case is made for a respiratory system (airways, pulmonary vasculature, lung parenchyma, r..

Screening of Potential Cardiac Involvement in Competitive Athletes Recovering From COVID-19

Dermot Phelan, Jonathan H Kim, Michael D Elliott, Meagan M Wasfy, Paul Cremer, Amer M Johri, Michael S Emery, Partho P Sengupta, Sanjay Sharma, Matthew W Martinez, Andre La Gerche

Journal article  |  2020  |  JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging

As our understanding of the complications of coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) evolve, subclinical cardiac pathology such as myo..

Multiday cycles of heart rate modulate seizure likelihood at daily, weekly and monthly timescales: An observational cohort study

Philippa Karoly, Rachel Stirling, Dean Freestone, Ewan Nurse, Brendan Doyle, Amy Halliday, Andrew Neal, Wenjuan Xiong, Tatiana Kameneva, Nicholas Gregg, Benjamin Brinkmann, Mark Richardson, Sonya Dumanis, Andre La Gerche, David Grayden, Wendyl D’Souza, Mark Cook

Journal article  |  2020

Circadian and multiday rhythms are found across many biological systems, including cardiology, endocrinology, neurology and immuno..

Can post-mortem coronary artery calcium scores aid diagnosis in young sudden death?

Elizabeth D Paratz, Ben Costello, Luke Rowsell, Natalie Morgan, Karen Smith, Tina Thompson, Chris Semsarian, Andreas Pflaumer, Paul James, Dion Stub, Andre La Gerche, Dominica Zentner, Sarah Parsons

Journal article  |  2020  |  Forensic Science, Medicine and Pathology

This study sought to explore the feasibility and utility of post-mortem coronary artery calcium (CAC) scoring in identifying patie..

Smoke but no fire: increased myocardial infarction with normal coronary arteries in the Australian bushfires?

Amanda Sherwen, Elizabeth Paratz, Andre La Gerche, David Prior, Andrew MacIsaac

Journal article  |  2020  |  Internal Medicine Journal