Category Archives: Cardiovascular

Abstract Circulating microvesicles (MVs) have been studied in heterogeneous, divergent, and rather small patient populations with cardiovascular risk . Therefore, we measured endothelial (EMVs), platelet (PMVs) and erythrocyte (RMVs) MVs in patients with divergent cardiovascular risk. We then compared them to coronary artery disease (CAD) and healthy subjects and identified independent MVs’ predictors. We enrolled […]

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The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) recently awarded The Texas Heart Institute® (THI) a two-year, $1.14 million grant to develop a novel, first-in-class drug to treat cardiovascular disease (CVD) as a significant improvement to current treatment regimens -; specifically for adverse events arising from atherosclerosis. Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death […]

(CNN) — For adults who have survived a heart attack or stroke, taking aspirin regularly may reduce the risk of another cardiovascular event. But a new study suggests that less than half of these cardiovascular disease patients around the world are using aspirin to prevent a new event. Among people with a history of cardiovascular disease who were surveyed […]

In a large retrospective analysis using measurements of thousands of plasma proteins in primary and secondary event populations, scientists from deCODE genetics a subsidiary of Amgen and collaborators from USA, Denmark and Iceland, reported today in The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) how they employed AI to develop a protein score to predict […]

“Before seed oils were invented, everybody was hot and healthy,” reads the first sentence of an Aug. 21 tweet by Carnivore Aurelius, a Twitter account with more than 300,000 followers. The tweet cites statistics claiming to link consumption of seed oils to an increase in obesity and cardiovascular disease rates, embedding a photo of a […]

Patients were placed into three groups based on their resting aortic mean transvalvular gradient, as determined by transthoracic echocardiography. A high gradient was defined as ≥40 mmHg, a low gradient was defined as 26-39 mmHg and a very low gradient was defined as ≤25 mmHg. Overall, 57% of patients presented with a high gradient, 35% presented with […]

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain In a large retrospective analysis using measurements of thousands of plasma proteins in primary and secondary event populations, scientists from deCODE genetics and collaborators from U.S., Denmark and Iceland, reported today in JAMA how they employed AI to develop a protein score to predict major atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease events (ASCVD). The […]

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