But the vast, inaccessible heart of the island was largely unaffected – not least because of a certain reluctance to explore by outsiders wary of headhunters.
The Marais is that vast old heart of Paris, near the Place de Vosges, still furnished with mostly dilapidated 17th or 18th century noble mansions.
Then there is the vast REVEAL heart disease trial, which recruited 19,000 Britons in record time.These studies have something in common: researchers were able to trawl NHS data to find appropriate subjects and contact them directly.
Heart failure is a burdensome clinical syndrome, and patients and their caregivers are responsible for the vast majority of heart failure care.
The problem is, the vast majority of heart attacks are now known to originate in sections of artery that have not yet narrowed.
Given that the vast majority of heart attacks occur at home, treatment that allows for intervention in the first critical minutes holds the greatest hope of increasing survival rates.
Sardine's identity is based round the cooking of southern France, but it's a flexible brief expanded to encompass a kaleidoscope of fresh, vibrant, sun-soaked flavours – a toasty-edged Swiss chard gratin served with beautifully blackened onglet; mullet with pastis; lardo; bottarga; vast, ruby bulls' heart tomatoes in an uber-Niçoise laced with artichokes.
This indicates a truly vast and generous heart that takes great joy in giving, without any need to receive in return.
In humans, rats and other mammals, the vast majority of heart muscle cells lose the ability to divide shortly after birth.
