Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

JULY 24, 2024

Positive correlations were identified with age, systolic blood pressure, a history of hypertension, male gender, and total cholesterol.

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DAIC

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

February 1, 2024 — As cardiologists, heart disease patients and the organizations that serve them across the country embark on American Heart Month, DAIC has compiled a snapshot of significant cardiovascular disease (CVD) and stroke statistics, along with a review of the atherosclerosis drug market. per 1,000* - 122.4

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Cardiometabolic Health Congress

JULY 25, 2024

Here’s what you can expect at the biggest conference in cardiorenal metabolic health, the 19th Annual Cardiometabolic Congress (CMHC), DECODING THE CONSTELLATION of Cardiometabolic Health and Risk Factors. Michos, MD, MHS, FACC, FAHA, FASE, FASPC ; famed hypertension expert Keith C.

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MIBHS

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Heart disease remains one of the leading causes of death worldwide, often attributed to a mix of lifestyle choices, environmental factors, and genetic predispositions. This blog explores how genetics influence heart health and whether mitigating these inherited risks is possible. Can You Prevent Heart Disease if Its in Your Genes?

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

MAY 20, 2024

A 63 year old man with a history of hypertension, hyperlipidemia, prediabetes, and a family history of CAD developed chest pain, shortness of breath, and diaphoresis after consuming a large meal at noon. He called EMS, who arrived on scene about two hours after the onset of pain to find him hypertensive at 220 systolic.

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NEJM Journal Watch - Cardiology

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Any atherosclerotic plaque is bad, and its presence portends a worse prognosis if modifiable risk factors like hypertension and smoking are not addressed.

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Circulation

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Introduction:Excessive dietary salt intake is a recognized ASCVD risk factor, and causes approximately 1.89 There is also an ongoing discussion whether dietary salt might be associated with the direct ASCVD risk. Circulation, Volume 150, Issue Suppl_1 , Page A4145926-A4145926, November 12, 2024. million deaths annually.

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Circulation: Heart Failure

MARCH 8, 2024

The prevalence of HF risk factors was high: hypertension, 61.9%; former or current smoking, 53.7%; obesity 34.8%; diabetes; 24.7%; and chronic kidney disease; 22%. Results:Median age was 73 (25th–75th percentile 67–81) years, 53.2% were female, 25.6% were Black, 12.8% were Chinese, and 40.0% were White. were female, 25.6%

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Heart 2023 Conference

APRIL 20, 2022

The American Heart Association draws attention to nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, which affects about one in four adults and is a risk factor for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. JACC: Asia) Lexaria Bioscience has announced that a CBD product beats a placebo in simulating acute pulmonary hypertension.

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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

At the patient level, those with reduced CFR showed a significantly higher prevalence of diffused atherosclerosis (41% vs. 23%; P  < 0.001) and higher FAI (−75.5 HU In the patient-level analysis, obstructive CAD, diffused atherosclerosis, and FAI were independently linked with CFR. Results We detected a decrease in CFR (<2.5)

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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

MAY 21, 2024

Urine output gradually returned after 3 weeks, and serum creatinine level was normalized after 2 months.ConclusionsTransplant recipients commonly have atherosclerosis and hypertension, which are risk factors for arterial dissection.

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All About Cardiovascular System and Disorders

MAY 22, 2024

Those having these mutations have increased vascular inflammation before it progresses to malignancies and double the risk of ischemic stroke. It has been mentioned that risk due to clonal hematopoiesis is equal in magnitude to conventional risk factors like smoking, hypertension, dyslipidemia and diabetes.

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Stroke Journal

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Background:Migraine with aura is a risk factor for ischemic stroke. We refined the migraine with aura risk score (MARS) to create the migraine associated risk of stroke score (MARS Plus) making it applicable to migraine with and without aura. Stroke, Volume 55, Issue Suppl_1 , Page AWP241-AWP241, February 1, 2024.

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Stroke: Vascular and Interventional Neurology

JUNE 20, 2024

While traditional vascular risk factors (eg, hypertension, dyslipidemia, tobacco use) account for 20% of the explained variance in carotid atherosclerosis, they remain a prominent focus for primary and secondary ischemic stroke prevention strategies. Stroke: Vascular and Interventional Neurology, Ahead of Print.

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MIBHS

JULY 31, 2024

While this response is adaptive in the short term, chronic stress keeps your blood pressure elevated for extended periods, increasing your risk of hypertension (high blood pressure) and its associated complications, such as heart disease and stroke.

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Stroke Journal

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Small vessel disease (SVD), as measured by cerebral microbleeds (CMBs) and white matter hyperintensities (WMH), has been associated with risk factors and might be a predictor of incident ICH. CMBs result from irregularities in brain vessel structure due to chronic hypertension and cerebral amyloid angiopathy.

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Stroke Journal

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Differential expression (DE) analyses (fold change &gt;

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Stroke Journal

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

White matter hyperintensities (WMH) and cerebral microbleeds (CMB) are manifestations of CSVD.Methods:Using the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) database, we extracted data from 1112 participants assessed for dental caries and vascular risk factors. Of those, 203 (18.3%) had caries and 909 (81.7%) did not.

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GEMMS

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Risk factors for cardiovascular disease Understanding the risk factors for cardiovascular disease is crucial for maintaining optimal cardiovascular health. While some risk factors, such as age and family history, cannot be changed, others are within our control.

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Cardiometabolic Health Congress

AUGUST 8, 2024

Education and Empowerment Educating patients about their condition and the importance of managing cardiometabolic risk factors can empower them to take control of their health, improve healthcare outcomes, and reduce clinician burnout. This ensures clear communication and identifies areas that need further explanation.

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Stroke Journal

JANUARY 30, 2025

The HR was nonsignificant after adjustment for age, gender, race, hypertension, diabetes, hypercholesterolemia and smoking status, adjusted HR 1.33 Conclusion:We report a possible association between migraine sufferers on SSRIs and risk for incident stroke. with a 95% CI of 0.89-1.99.Conclusion:We

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Stroke Journal

JANUARY 30, 2025

CMBs in lobar regions suggest cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA), which is sometimes accompanied by superficial siderosis (SS), while subcortical CMBs indicate hypertensive origins. Model covariates included demographics, vascular risk factors, and imaging markers of small vessel disease.Results:Among 1609 participants, 364 had CMBs (Table 1).

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Stroke: Vascular and Interventional Neurology

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Our case describes a patient with right extracranial internal carotid artery (ICA) thrombus secondary to later‐diagnosed CaW on close follow‐up imaging.MethodsWe report a 55‐year‐old African American man with history of hypertension, type 2 diabetes mellitus and hyperlipidemia presented with acute onset slurred speech and left facial droop (FP).

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Stroke: Vascular and Interventional Neurology

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Repeat CTA head and neck demonstrated multifocal intracranial atherosclerosis with marked stenosis of the left V4 segment. However, marked stenosis at V2 appeared to be owed to external compression from facet arthrosis rather than atherosclerosis. Timely diagnosis is imperative, as decompressive surgery can be curative.

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Stroke Journal

APRIL 3, 2024

Patients with angiographically confirmed MMD diagnosis with at least 6 months follow-up and completion of revascularization surgery were included; patients with intracranial atherosclerosis, intracranial dissection, vasculitis, and undefined inflammatory processes were excluded. at 1 year, 82.4% at 3 years, 68.8% at 5 years, and 28.3%

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2018

He had no further risk factors for atherosclerosis besides hypertension. I was on scene at his working place (in Germany physicians are on the Emergency vehicles). Surprisingly enough he had undertaken a tour on the bike just two days ago without any complaints." "He

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

OCTOBER 10, 2023

APOB The fundamental basis of coronary artery disease is when a cholesterol particle is retained in the artery wall, and an inflammatory cascade occurs, resulting in the formation of atherosclerosis. The greater the number of particles, the higher the risk. The number of APOB particles is the best measure of that risk.

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Stroke Journal

JANUARY 30, 2025

Background:Vascular risk factors, particularly in midlife, are associated with an increased risk of dementia, and smoking has been inversely associated with Parkinson's disease (PD) risk, but the role of these factors in PD-dementia (PDD) is less clear. yo, 94 devleoped PDD at a mean age of 79.2

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Stroke Journal

JANUARY 30, 2025

Objective:Late-life vascular health and cerebrovascular disease have been identified as potential risk factors for late-life depression (LLD). To assess cumulative vascular risk burden, the number of VRFs were counted and categorized as 0, 1, 2, or 3. 1.98), hypertension (OR: 1.29, 95% CI: 1.02-1.61), At midlife, 20.2%

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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

JULY 10, 2024

The aim of this study was to identify different patterns of CAC change and evaluate the associations with different cardiovascular outcomes.MethodsData from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis study were analyzed. Participants with at least three CT measurements were included. The main study outcome is hard cardiovascular disease (CVD).

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Stroke Journal

JANUARY 30, 2025

Background:Trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO), a gut microbiome-derived metabolite trimethylamine-containing nutrients, is mechanistically linked to atherosclerosis progression and platelet aggregation, leading to cardiovascular disease. Stroke, Volume 56, Issue Suppl_1 , Page AWP336-AWP336, February 1, 2025. p&lt; 0.05).

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Stroke Journal

JANUARY 30, 2025

Cox regression was used to estimate the hazard ratio (HR) for incident stroke per doubling of EIC levels, and p-values were FDR corrected. Results:Among the 9,444 participants included, the mean age was 57 (5.7 SD), and 43.2%

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Stroke Journal

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Introduction:It is known that past the age of 35, the prevalence of large artery atherosclerosis (LAA) related strokes increases with a cardiovascular risk factor (CVRF) profile beginning to resemble that of elderly patients. A significantly larger proportion of patients with LAA had baseline CVRFs including hypertension (80.0%

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Stroke Journal

JANUARY 30, 2025

We aimed to evaluate the association between carotid artery tortuosity and the incidence of ischemic stroke.Methods:We analyzed 3D contrast-enhanced MRA datasets from 2,066 participants enrolled in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Carotid MRI study. fold increased risk of ischemic stroke (95% CI, 1.08-5.61)

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The Beat Blog

MARCH 30, 2022

Four years on, it is still among the most extensive studies measuring the progression of cardiovascular diseases among initially healthy individuals and associating the costs of treating CVD with different risk factors. Like age, diabetes, dyslipidemia, and hypertension are also widely accepted as cardiovascular disease factors.

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Stroke Journal

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Introduction:Apolipoprotein E4 (ApoE4) allele is linked to increased LDL-Cholesterol, one of the main risk factors for intracranial large artery stenosis (ICAS). While the link between ApoE4 and extracranial atherosclerosis and vascular risk factors is established, the association of these vascular factors with ICAS is unknown.

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Stroke Journal

JANUARY 30, 2025

Objective:High calcium (Ca), low phosphate(P), and Ca-P product (CPP) levels are associated with cardiovascular disease and coronary artery atherosclerosis in patients with chronic kidney disease. However, whether this relationship persists in individuals with carotid artery atherosclerosis of acute ischemic stroke is unknown.

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