Correlation of computed tomography with carotid plaque transcriptomes associates calcification with lesion-stabilization

Unstable carotid atherosclerosis causes stroke, but methods to identify patients and lesions at risk are lacking. We recently found enrichment of genes associated with calcification in carotid plaques from asymptomatic patients. Here, we hypothesized that calcification represents a stabilising feature of plaques and investigated how macro-calcification, as estimated by computed tomography (CT), correlates with gene expression profiles in lesions.

Source: Atherosclerosis - May 9, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Eva Karl öf, Till Seime, Nuno Dias, Mariette Lengquist, Anna Witasp, Håkan Almqvist, Malin Kronqvist, Jesper R. Gådin, Jacob Odeberg, Lars Maegdefessel, Peter Stenvinkel, Ljubica Perisic Matic, Ulf Hedin Source Type: research