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Blood pressure lowering for prevention of cardiovascular disease and death: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Publication date: Available online 24 December 2015 Source:The Lancet Author(s): Dena Ettehad, Connor A Emdin, Amit Kiran, Simon G Anderson, Thomas Callender, Jonathan Emberson, John Chalmers, Anthony Rodgers, Kazem Rahimi Background The benefits of blood pressure lowering treatment for prevention of cardiovascular disease are well established. However, the extent to which these effects differ by baseline blood pressure, presence of comorbidities, or drug class is less clear. We therefore performed a systematic review and meta-analysis to clarify these differences. Method For this systematic review and meta-ana...
Source: The Lancet - December 25, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: research

Age-specific association between blood pressure and vascular and non-vascular chronic diseases in 0 ·5 million adults in China: a prospective cohort study
Publication date: June 2018 Source:The Lancet Global Health, Volume 6, Issue 6 Author(s): Ben Lacey, Sarah Lewington, Robert Clarke, Xiang Ling Kong, Yiping Chen, Yu Guo, Ling Yang, Derrick Bennett, Fiona Bragg, Zheng Bian, Shaojie Wang, Hua Zhang, Junshi Chen, Robin G Walters, Rory Collins, Richard Peto, Liming Li, Zhengming Chen Background The age-specific association between blood pressure and vascular disease has been studied mostly in high-income countries, and before the widespread use of brain imaging for diagnosis of the main stroke types (ischaemic stroke and intracerebral haemorrhage). We aimed to investigate th...
Source: The Lancet Global Health - May 15, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research

Estimated glomerular filtration rate and albuminuria for prediction of cardiovascular outcomes: a collaborative meta-analysis of individual participant data
Publication date: Available online 28 May 2015 Source:The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology Author(s): Kunihiro Matsushita , Josef Coresh , Yingying Sang , John Chalmers , Caroline Fox , Eliseo Guallar , Tazeen Jafar , Simerjot K Jassal , Gijs W D Landman , Paul Muntner , Paul Roderick , Toshimi Sairenchi , Ben Schöttker , Anoop Shankar , Michael Shlipak , Marcello Tonelli , Jonathan Townend , Arjan van Zuilen , Kazumasa Yamagishi , Kentaro Yamashita , Ron Gansevoort , Mark Sarnak , David G Warnock , Mark Woodward , Johan Ärnlöv Background The usefulness of estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) and albumin...
Source: The Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology - May 30, 2015 Category: Endocrinology Source Type: research

Impact of renal function on the effects of LDL cholesterol lowering with statin-based regimens: a meta-analysis of individual participant data from 28 randomised trials
Publication date: Available online 29 July 2016 Source:The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology Author(s): Cholesterol Treatment Trialists' (CTT) Collaboration Background Statin therapy is effective for the prevention of coronary heart disease and stroke in patients with mild-to-moderate chronic kidney disease, but its effects in individuals with more advanced disease, particularly those undergoing dialysis, are uncertain. Methods We did a meta-analysis of individual participant data from 28 trials (n=183 419), examining effects of statin-based therapy on major vascular events (major coronary event [non-fatal myoca...
Source: The Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology - July 28, 2016 Category: Endocrinology Source Type: research

Assessing statins use in a real-world primary care digital strategy: a cross-sectional analysis of a population-wide digital health approach
Lancet Reg Health Am. 2023 Jun 22;23:100534. doi: 10.1016/j.lana.2023.100534. eCollection 2023 Jul.ABSTRACTBACKGROUND: The digitization of the primary care system provides an opportunity to evaluate the current use of statins in secondary prevention populations (myocardial infarction or stroke).METHODS: We conducted a cross-sectional study (ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT05285085), analysing anonymised data routinely collected by community health workers (CHW) in Brazil between May 2016 and September 2021 to assess the proportion of self-reported statins use and associated factors.FINDINGS: From the 2,133,900 individuals on the da...
Source: Atherosclerosis - July 27, 2023 Category: Cardiology Authors: M Julia Machline-Carrion Alysson Nathan Girotto Josu é Nieri Pedro Marton Pereira Frederico Monfardini Francisco Forestiero Priscila Raupp Fabiana Roveda Karla Santo Ot ávio Berwanger Raul D Santos Source Type: research

Time trends for risk of severe age-related diseases in individuals with and without HIV infection in Denmark: a nationwide population-based cohort study
Publication date: Available online 27 May 2015 Source:The Lancet HIV Author(s): Line D Rasmussen , Margaret T May , Gitte Kronborg , Carsten S Larsen , Court Pedersen , Jan Gerstoft , Niels Obel Background Whether the reported high risk of age-related diseases in HIV-infected people is caused by biological ageing or HIV-associated risk factors such as chronic immune activation and low-grade inflammation is unknown. We assessed time trends in age-standardised and relative risks of nine serious age-related diseases in a nationwide cohort study of HIV-infected individuals and population controls. Methods We identified all ...
Source: The Lancet HIV - May 28, 2015 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: research

Pentraxin 3 in Cardiovascular Disease
Giuseppe Ristagno1*, Francesca Fumagalli1, Barbara Bottazzi2, Alberto Mantovani2,3,4, Davide Olivari1, Deborah Novelli1 and Roberto Latini1 1Department of Cardiovascular Research, Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research IRCCS, Milan, Italy 2Humanitas Clinical and Research Center-IRCCS, Milan, Italy 3Humanitas University, Milan, Italy 4The William Harvey Research Institute, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom The long pentraxin PTX3 is a member of the pentraxin family produced locally by stromal and myeloid cells in response to proinflammatory signals and microbial moieties. The p...
Source: Frontiers in Immunology - April 16, 2019 Category: Allergy & Immunology Source Type: research

Increasing Upstream Chromatin Long –Range Interactions May Favor Induction of Circular RNAs in LysoPC-Activated Human Aortic Endothelial Cells
We examined the sponging potential of all significantly changed circRNAs using the CircInteractome database (Montefiori et al., 2018), recording two miRNAs with four or more predicted binding sites in a single circRNA transcript, a threshold above which meaningful sponging activity is likely to occur Memczak et al. (2013). Another four significantly changed circRNAs are experimentally shown to sponge miRNAs (Dudekula et al., 2016; Chen et al., 2017; Yan et al., 2017; Wang et al., 2018), for six total circRNAs with miRNA sponging activity including miR125, miR143, miR1272, miR153, miR515-5p, and miR196a-5p (Table 4). In Fig...
Source: Frontiers in Physiology - April 17, 2019 Category: Physiology Source Type: research