Progression of coronary calcium burden and carotid stiffness in patients with essential thrombocythemia associated with JAK2 V617F mutation

Patients with myeloproliferative neoplasms often succumb to cardiovascular events, but little is known on the early stages of their vascular disease. We studied how patients with JAK2 V617F positive essential thrombocythemia (ET) without overt atherosclerotic disease differed from control subjects in progression of carotid artery stiffness and preclinical atherosclerosis.

Source: Atherosclerosis - January 10, 2020 Category: Cardiology Authors: Ajda An žič Drofenik, Matjaž Vrtovec, Mojca Božič Mijovski, Matjaž Sever, Irena Preložnik Zupan, Nataša Kejžar, Aleš Blinc Source Type: research