The field of coronary artery disease (CAD) has long been thirsty for biomarkers that do not just echo the standard modifiable risk factors—such as cholesterol and blood pressure—but offer fresh clues ...

Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) continue to dominate global mortality statistics, with immune dysregulation emerging as a ...

Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) continue to dominate global mortality statistics, with immune dysregulation emerging as a central feature in their ...

Dr Ray O’Connor takes a look at the latest clinical articles on rheumatoid arthritis – and how its management has been so ...

Cholesterol crystal embolism can be a life-threatening complication of advanced atherosclerosis. Pathophysiology and molecular targets for treatment are largely unknown. We aimed to develop a new ...

Oral hygiene is often neglected when it comes to stroke, but it’s low-hanging fruit than can aid in primary prevention.

Despite the progress made during the last decades in the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular diseases, heart failure is still associated with a high ...

ki.se Objective To assess the contemporary prevalence of, and factors associated with angina pectoris symptoms, and to examine the relationship to coronary atherosclerosis in a middle-aged, general ...

These patients had increased number of coronary arteries involved (p=0.04), and ≥50% coronary atherosclerosis/occlusion was numerically more common compared with MI-non-SLE controls (88% vs 66%; ...

Atherosclerosis models are usually limited to vertebrates ... Detailed understanding of the underlying pathophysiology is needed to extrapolate results to human medicine but some recent advances in ...

Guidelines for the management of dyslipidaemia from the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) and the European Atherosclerosis Society (EAS) were updated in late 2019 in light of recent intervention ...

Atherosclerosis arises from the deposition and retention of serum lipoproteins in the artery wall. Macrophage scavenger receptors bind modified lipoproteins and promote cellular cholesterol ...