Open Heart

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

This study aimed to evaluate the risk factors associated with LV mass and subclinical coronary atherosclerosis, in an Asian population free of baseline cardiovascular disease. Background Left ventricular (LV) mass is closely associated with atherosclerotic heart disease, but the mechanisms are not well defined.

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Nature Reviews - Cardiology

JANUARY 12, 2025

Nature Reviews Cardiology, Published online: 13 January 2025; doi:10.1038/s41569-024-01115-w In this Review, Khan and Jandeleit-Dahm discuss pathological mechanisms involved in atherosclerosis development and progression in patients with diabetes mellitus and highlight novel therapeutic targets to treat atherosclerosis in these patients.

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Medical Xpress - Cardiology

DECEMBER 12, 2023

University of Virginia School of Medicine researchers have created an "atlas of atherosclerosis" that reveals, at the level of individual cells, critical processes responsible for forming the harmful plaque buildup that causes heart attacks, strokes, and coronary artery disease.

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Science Daily - Stroke

JANUARY 13, 2024

A groundbreaking 3D, three-layer nanomatrix vascular sheet that possesses multiple features of atherosclerosis has been applied for developing a high-throughput functional assay of drug candidates to treat this disease, researchers report.

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Atherosclerosis Research 108

Nature Reviews - Cardiology

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Can we resynchronize the immune system in atherosclerosis and save the king? After decades of research, the study of atheroimmunology has brought the first therapeutics to the clinic.

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Science Daily - Heart Disease

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Our risk of developing atherosclerosis -- 'furring' of the arteries -- can begin much earlier in life than was previously thought, highlighting the need to keep cholesterol levels low even when we are young, new research has discovered.

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Medical Xpress - Cardiology

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Researchers at Case Western Reserve University have identified a new target to treat atherosclerosis, a condition where plaque clogs arteries and causes major cardiac issues, including stroke and heart attack.

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Journal of Clinical Investigation - Cardiology

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Here, we examined the therapeutic potential of itaconate in atherosclerosis. Deletion of Acod1 in myeloid cells exacerbated inflammation and atherosclerosis in vivo and resulted in an elevated frequency of a specific subset of M1-polarized proinflammatory macrophages in the atherosclerotic aorta.

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Med Page Today

DECEMBER 4, 2023

(MedPage Today) -- The link between childhood blood pressure (BP) and adult atherosclerosis appeared stable going all the way back to infancy, suggesting that efforts to prevent arterial thickening may be beneficial starting at the earliest life.

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Medical Xpress - Cardiology

JANUARY 24, 2024

Atherosclerosis, a chronic inflammatory disease of the inner walls of blood vessels, is responsible for many cardiovascular conditions. Dendritic cells, which act to recognize foreign substances in the body and mount an immune response, play an important role in the disease.

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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

IntroductionCardiovascular disease (CVD) caused by atherosclerosis (AS) remains the leading cause of mortality in developed countries. Targeting this cell-cell interaction may offer new therapeutic avenues for managing atherosclerosis.

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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

BackgroundInflammation, as the basic pathogenic mechanism of atherosclerosis, promotes the development of atherosclerosis (AS) and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD).

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American College of Cardiology

JUNE 25, 2024

Do autoimmune diseases independently correlate with coronary atherosclerosis and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) risk, and do traditional cardiovascular risk factors modulate the risk?

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Atherosclerosis Risk Factors Cardiovascular Disease Article 73

American College of Cardiology

APRIL 7, 2025

Chronic inflammation plays a role in the pathogenesis of cardiovascular diseases, including atherosclerosis, pericarditis, stroke, and myocardial infarction (MI).

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Atherosclerosis Myocardial Infarction Pericarditis Cardiovascular Disease 74

Nature Reviews - Cardiology

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Nature Reviews Cardiology, Published online: 20 September 2024; doi:10.1038/s41569-024-01072-4 In this Review, the authors describe the bidirectional crosstalk between lysosome biology and immune cell function and polarization, focusing on immunometabolic reprogramming in the context of atherosclerosis and highlighting knowledge gaps and potential (..)

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Cardiovascular Diabetology

APRIL 8, 2025

Preeclampsia (PE) and type 1 diabetes (T1D) are significant risk factors for cardiovascular disease (CVD), but their combined effect on atherosclerosis progression has not been fully explored. This study aimed.

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Atherosclerosis Diabetes Risk Factors Cardiovascular Disease 81

Medical Xpress - Cardiology

MARCH 22, 2024

Atherosclerosis is the major contributor to cardiovascular mortality worldwide. Diet-induced metabolic abnormalities including obesity, hyperglycemia, dyslipidemia, insulin resistance (IR), and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease are considered atherogenic risk factors.

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American College of Cardiology

APRIL 15, 2024

The following are key points to remember from a state-of-the-art review on the long-term safety of low-dose colchicine for atherosclerosis.

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Medical Xpress - Cardiology

JANUARY 15, 2024

A new 3D, three-layer nanomatrix vascular sheet that possesses multiple features of atherosclerosis has been applied for developing a high-throughput functional assay of drug candidates to treat this disease, University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers report in the journal Biomaterials in a paper titled "Atherosclerotic three-layer nanomatrix (..)

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Nature Reviews - Cardiology

APRIL 9, 2024

Nature Reviews Cardiology, Published online: 10 April 2024; doi:10.1038/s41569-024-01016-y In this Review, Kemper and colleagues discuss the canonical and non-canonical roles of the complement system in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis and discuss potential new therapeutic strategies targeting the complement system for the prevention and treatment (..)

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Medical Xpress - Cardiology

JANUARY 23, 2024

Scientists at the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC) in Madrid have found that one of the most potent genetic risk factors for Alzheimer's disease, apolipoprotein E4 (APOE4), is also associated with an increased risk of developing subclinical atherosclerosis in middle age.

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Science Daily - Heart Disease

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Atherosclerosis, or the buildup of plaque in the arteries, develops when low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) enters the blood vessel walls through dysfunctional endothelial cells (EC), leading to the formation of plaques.

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Medical Xpress - Cardiology

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Atherosclerosis, a disease characterized by the accumulation of lipids and inflammatory cells in the arterial wall, is a significant cause of cardiovascular events.

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Science Daily - Stroke

JANUARY 24, 2024

A team has demonstrated new mechanisms that are involved in the development of inflammatory cardiovascular diseases.

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Stroke Journal

JANUARY 30, 2025

Introduction:Prior studies have shown the association between oral infection, white matter hyperintensity (WMH), a marker of cerebral small vessel disease (CSVD), and asymptomatic intracranial atherosclerosis (ICAS). However, the impact of preventative oral behavior such as dental flossing is unknown.

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Atherosclerosis Stenosis Education Risk Factors 75

Nature Reviews - Cardiology

APRIL 24, 2024

Nature Reviews Cardiology, Published online: 25 April 2024; doi:10.1038/s41569-024-01023-z In this Review, the authors discuss the receptors, ligands and interactors that regulate immune cell recruitment in atherosclerosis, describe mechanisms that promote the resolution of inflammation in atherosclerotic lesions, and highlight potential strategies (..)

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Journal of the American Heart Association

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

This study examines the relationship between tHcy, HF overall, and HF subtype (HF with preserved ejection fraction [HFpEF] and HF with reduced ejection fraction) in the MultiEthnic Study of Atherosclerosis cohort.MethodsMultiEthnic Study of Atherosclerosis participants with baseline tHcy and HF data were included (N=6765).

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HCPLive

AUGUST 30, 2024

Sara Diaz Savaria, MD, discusses a study from ESC Congress 2024 examining the utility of cancer history in women as a predictor of subclinical atherosclerosis.

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Medical Xpress - Cardiology

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Researchers from the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL) and the Germans Trias i Pujol Research Institute (IGTP) have studied variations in mRNA length during the progression of atherosclerosis in a mouse model.

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Atherosclerosis Biomarkers Research 59

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

APRIL 24, 2025

Atherosclerosis (AS), a chronic inflammatory disease, remains a leading contributor to cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Recent studies highlight the critical role of the cGAS-STING pathwaya key innate immune signaling cascadein driving AS progression.

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Nature Reviews - Cardiology

MARCH 25, 2025

Nature Reviews Cardiology, Published online: 26 March 2025; doi:10.1038/s41569-025-01149-8 A study published in Nature has identified two transmembrane G protein-coupled receptors that mediate extracellular-to-intracellular ceramide signalling and shows that blocking these receptors alleviates the atherosclerosis that is induced by a high-fat diet (..)

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Science Daily - Heart Disease

APRIL 30, 2024

Researchers have discovered that the smooth muscle cells that line the arteries of people with atherosclerosis can change into new cell types and develop traits similar to cancer that worsen the disease.

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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

MARCH 21, 2024

Introduction The progression of coronary atherosclerosis is an active and regulated process. The Wnt signaling pathway is thought to play an active role in the pathogenesis of several cardiovascular diseases; however, a better understanding of this system in atherosclerosis is yet to be unraveled.

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Journal of Clinical Investigation - Cardiology

MARCH 1, 2024

Patients with chronic inflammatory disorders such as psoriasis have an increased risk of cardiovascular disease and elevated levels of LL37, a cathelicidin host defense peptide that has both antimicrobial and proinflammatory properties.

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Cardiovascular Diabetology

AUGUST 23, 2024

Diabetic kidney disease (DKD) is associated with a higher risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). Pentoxifylline (PTF), a nonselective phosphodiesterase inhibitor with anti-inflammatory, antiproliferative, and a.

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American College of Cardiology

JULY 1, 2024

This expert opinion is based on Primary Prevention of Subclinical Atherosclerosis in Young Adults: JACC Review Topic of the Week.

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American College of Cardiology

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Nearly 80% of patients with lung cancer had detectable atherosclerosis on their cancer staging CT scans and other cardiovascular risk factors were common, offering an opportunity for earlier cardiac testing and risk factor modification, according to a new study.

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