Sex differences in the association of the CRP-TyG index with coronary artery disease and long-term mortality in MASLD.

BACKGROUND: Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) increases cardiovascular risk, but non-invasive tools for risk stratification are limited. The C-reactive protein-triglycer...

Recipient Left Internal Mammary Artery Salvage for Donor Coronary Artery Disease during Orthotopic Heart Transplantation: A Case Report and Focused Literature Review.

Donor coronary artery disease (CAD) can lead to the discard of otherwise suitable hearts, although selected focal lesions may be treated with concomitant revascularization. We report orthotopic heart ...

Factors associated with adherence to the Mediterranean diet in patients with coronary artery disease: a prospective cohort study.

OBJECTIVES: to verify the association between adherence to the Mediterranean diet (MedDiet), sociodemographic, clinical, and biochemical factors, and hospital readmission in patients with coronary art...

Dynamic Coagulation Function Changes in COVID-19 Survivors With Coronary Artery Disease.

Coronary artery disease (CAD) and Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) are both associated with a hypercoagulable state, yet the long-term interaction between these prothrombotic conditions remains poo...

Exploration of SOCS3 and HSPA1A in PANoptosis during acute myocardial infarction and chronic kidney disease.

INTRODUCTION: Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is an independent risk factor for acute myocardial infarction (AMI), but the mechanisms underlying their comorbidity remain unclear. As a newly described inf...

Correlation Between Apolipoprotein B and Severity of Coronary Artery Stenosis in Individuals Aged 45 and Above: A Cross-Sectional Study.

BACKGROUND: Apolipoprotein B (ApoB) is widely recognized as a biomarker significantly associated with cardiovascular risk. However, the correlation between ApoB and the severity of coronary artery ana...

A Concomitant Off-Pump Coronary Artery Bypass to TAV-in-TAV in a Patient with a High Risk of Coronary Artery Occlusion.

We report a case of a 90-year-old woman with prior transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) who presented with symptomatic structural valve deterioration. Imaging revealed a critically short valv...

High density-lipoprotein regulates liquid-liquid phase separation of heat shock protein β-1 by lncRNA HDRACA to affect vascular inflammation and atherosclerosis.

High-density lipoprotein (HDL) from healthy subjects (HDLhealthy) has anti-inflammatory effects, whereas HDL from patients with coronary artery disease (HDLCAD) is functionally impaired, which may aff...

Chain mediation effects of depressive symptoms and nutritional risk between social support and oral frailty in patients with coronary heart disease.

INTRODUCTION: Oral frailty among coronary heart disease (CHD) patients is prevalent and harmful. CHD patients have encountered serious physical and psychological health issues. Social support is a cru...

Aging-driven metabolic abnormalities remodel intercellular communication through the gut-liver-heart axis and may promote coronary artery disease: the key role of bile acid metabolism.

Coronary artery disease (CAD) remains the leading cause of cardiovascular mortality worldwide and shows a strong age-dependence that classical risk-factor models do not fully explain. A growing body o...

Combined diagnostic value of the systemic immune-inflammation index and LDL for coronary microvascular disease: a retrospective cohort study.

BACKGROUND: Coronary microvascular disease (CMVD) is an important contributor to ischemic heart disease. Symptomatic patients without obstructive coronary lesions may still have microvascular ischemia...

Association between neutrophil percentage-to-albumin ratio and adverse clinical outcomes after successful percutaneous coronary intervention for chronic total occlusion: a cohort study.

BACKGROUND: Chronic total occlusion (CTO) percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) has improved outcomes, yet residual cardiovascular risk persists. The neutrophil percentage-to-albumin ratio (NPAR), ...

Association between the C-reactive protein-triglyceride glucose index and coronary collateral circulation in patients with chronic total occlusion: a retrospective study.

OBJECTIVE: To examine the association between the C-reactive protein-triglyceride glucose (CTI) index and coronary collateral circulation (CCC) in patients with chronic total occlusion (CTO), and to a...

Single-point insulin sensitivity estimator and left main and/or three-vessel disease in patients aged 45 years or older with acute coronary syndrome: findings from the CCC-ACS project.

BACKGROUND: Severe coronary anatomical involvement is clinically important in patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS), yet evidence on its relationship with insulin sensitivity remains limited. Th...

HLA-DRB1 and HLA-DQB1 genetic polymorphisms and susceptibility to coronary atherosclerosis in a Northeast Chinese Population: A case-control study.

Atherosclerosis is a chronic inflammatory disease with increasing prevalence in Northeast China, where HLA class II molecules play an important immunoregulatory role. However, the contribution of spec...

Supply of interventional cardiologists and the provision of lower-value Percutaneous Coronary Interventions (PCI).

BACKGROUND: Percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI) can be lifesaving for patients with acute coronary syndromes but of lower value for patients with stable coronary artery disease (CAD). Previous s...

Pragmatic cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic burden categories and 5-year all-cause mortality in Vietnamese outpatients: A retrospective cohort study.

BACKGROUND: The American Heart Association introduced cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic (CKM) health as an integrated framework for metabolic, kidney, and cardiovascular risk. However, full AHA CKM stag...

Association between the C-reactive protein-triglyceride-glucose index and coronary heart disease in metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease patients: a cross-sectional study.

BACKGROUND: Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) is strongly associated with coronary heart disease (CHD), but convenient and effective biomarkers for identifying CHD risk ...

Comparison of FINDRISC and the Framingham Model for Predicting CHD Risk: Results from the Kharameh Cohort Study.

BACKGROUND: Coronary heart disease is a leading cause of death worldwide, making early risk identification essential. This study compares the predictive performance of FINDRISC and the Framingham mode...

Two-year real-world outcomes of coronary drug-coated balloon therapy: a retrospective comparative study of sirolimus- and paclitaxel-coated devices.

BACKGROUND: Drug-coated balloons (DCBs) represent a "leave-nothing-behind" strategy in percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), particularly for small vessel disease and in-stent restenosis. However,...