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Evaluation of Large-Scale Proteomics for Prediction of Cardiovascular Events
CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE: A protein risk score was significantly associated with ASCVD events in primary and secondary event populations. When added to clinical risk factors, the protein risk score and polygenic risk score both provided statistically significant but modest improvement in discrimination.PMID:37606673 | DOI:10.1001/jama.2023.13258
Source: Atherosclerosis - August 22, 2023 Category: Cardiology Authors: Hannes Helgason Thjodbjorg Eiriksdottir Magnus O Ulfarsson Abhishek Choudhary Sigrun H Lund Erna V Ivarsdottir Grimur Hjorleifsson Eldjarn Gudmundur Einarsson Egil Ferkingstad Kristjan H S Moore Narimon Honarpour Thomas Liu Huei Wang Thomas Hucko Marc S S Source Type: research
Blood phytosterols in relation to cardiovascular diseases and mediating effects of blood lipids and hematological traits: a Mendelian randomization analysis
CONCLUSION: The study suggests that genetic predisposition to higher blood total sitosterol is linked to a greater risk of major CVDs. Moreover, blood nonHDL-C and apolipoprotein B might mediate a significant proportion of the associations between sitosterol and coronary diseases.PMID:37270173 | DOI:10.1016/j.metabol.2023.155611
Source: Atherosclerosis - June 3, 2023 Category: Cardiology Authors: Yimin Zhao Zhenhuang Zhuang Yueying Li Wendi Xiao Zimin Song Ninghao Huang Wenxiu Wang Xue Dong Jinzhu Jia Tao Huang Source Type: research
Hypertension Management in Primary Care in the Capital Area of Iceland
CONCLUSION: As has recently been shown in epidemiologic studies hypertension in Iceland is both underdiagnosed and undertreated although the country ranks high on both counts in international comparison. Furthermore, the fact that under half of hypertensive patients in general practice in the capital area reach the targeted treatment goals, cannot be considered an acceptable. Thus, it is of immense importance to improve both the diagnosis and the treatment of HT.PMID:35103619 | DOI:10.17992/lbl.2022.02.675
Source: Atherosclerosis - February 1, 2022 Category: Cardiology Authors: Stefan Julius Adalsteinsson Jon Steinar Jonsson Hannes Hrafnkelsson Gudmundur Thorgeirsson Emil Larus Sigurdsson Source Type: research
Editorial: Telomeres and Epigenetics in Endocrinology
This study was hypothesis-driven; the genetic variants were selected for being previously and substantially genotyped. The big sample size and the rich panel of other biomarkers allowed the authors to conduct much more detailed analyses on this topic.
The third article by Provenzi et al. proposed their perspectives on the role of telomeres in premature birth and discussed the potential implications for early adversity and care in the neonatal intensive care unit (Pavanello et al.). Indeed, the speculation of telomeres in aging begins in the premature aging syndrome. It is thus interesting to examine if telomeres also play...
Source: Frontiers in Endocrinology - April 23, 2019 Category: Endocrinology Source Type: research
Replacing PT-INR Monitoring of Warfarin with Fiix-NR in Clinical Practice Reduces Thromboembolism without Increasing Bleeding Despite Reduced Number of Dose Adjustments
Conclusions: These results are in agreement with the results of the Fiix-trial and show that ignoring factor VII during VKA monitoring is safe and leads to reduction in thromboembolism without increasing bleeding. Although TTR was identical in both groups, the dose adjustment need was reduced possibly indicating that less anticoagulation variability in the Fiix-NR group explains reduced thromboembolism.FigureDisclosuresGudmundsdottir: Hart Biologicals Ltd: Consultancy, Patents & Royalties: Hart Biologicals Ltd is commercializing the Fiix-PT which will be ready for marketing in Europe in the beginning of year 2019 and p...
Source: Blood - November 21, 2018 Category: Hematology Authors: Oskarsdottir, A. R., Gudmundsdottir, B. R., Onundarson, P. T. Tags: 332. Antithrombotic Therapy: Poster I Source Type: research
Atrial fibrillation in immigrant groups: a cohort study of all adults 45 years of age and older in Sweden
In conclusion, we observed substantial differences in incidence of AF between immigrant groups and the Swedish-born population. A greater awareness of the increased risk of AF development in some immigrant groups may enable for a timely diagnos is, treatment and prevention of its debilitating complications, such as stroke.
Source: European Journal of Epidemiology - July 12, 2017 Category: Epidemiology Source Type: research
A frameshift deletion in the sarcomere gene MYL4 causes early-onset familial atrial fibrillation
Conclusions</div>Through a population approach we found a loss of function mutation in the myosin gene <span style="font-style:italic;">MYL4</span> that, in the homozygous state, is completely penetrant for early-onset AF. The finding may provide novel mechanistic insight into the pathophysiology of this complex arrhythmia.</span>
Source: European Heart Journal - October 13, 2016 Category: Cardiology Source Type: research
The Man Who Grew Eyes
The train line from mainland Kobe is a marvel of urban transportation. Opened in 1981, Japan’s first driverless, fully automated train pulls out of Sannomiya station, guided smoothly along elevated tracks that stand precariously over the bustling city streets below, across the bay to the Port Island. The island, and much of the city, was razed to the ground in the Great Hanshin Earthquake of 1995 – which killed more than 5,000 people and destroyed more than 100,000 of Kobe’s buildings – and built anew in subsequent years. As the train proceeds, the landscape fills with skyscrapers. The Rokkō mounta...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - October 11, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news
Ischemic stroke risk in a southeastern Chinese population: Insights from 5-lipoxygenase activating protein and phosphodiesterase 4D single-nucleotide polymorphisms
Conclusion No association was found between SNPs of ALOX5AP or PDE4D and the risk of overall ischemic stroke in a southeastern Chinese population. Interactions between these two genes were not risk factors for cerebral infarction. In atherothrombotic and small-artery disease subtypes, none of the seven SNPs was associated with any stroke risk; however, the ALOX5AP gene might be related to ischemic stroke incidence in females.
Source: Journal of the Formosan Medical Association - May 20, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: research
Ischemic stroke risk in a southeastern Chinese population: Insights from 5-lipoxygenase activating protein and phosphodiesterase 4D single-nucleotide polymorphisms.
CONCLUSION: No association was found between SNPs of ALOX5AP or PDE4D and the risk of overall ischemic stroke in a southeastern Chinese population. Interactions between these two genes were not risk factors for cerebral infarction. In atherothrombotic and small-artery disease subtypes, none of the seven SNPs was associated with any stroke risk; however, the ALOX5AP gene might be related to ischemic stroke incidence in females.
PMID: 24485247 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: J Formos Med Assoc - January 28, 2014 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Shao M, Yi X, Chi L, Lin J, Zhou Q, Huang R Tags: J Formos Med Assoc Source Type: research
Association between phosphodiesterase 4D polymorphism SNP83 and ischemic stroke
In conclusion, we found an association between SNP83 and IS in the overall population and in the Asian and Chinese populations, but not among Caucasians.
Source: Journal of the Neurological Sciences - December 23, 2013 Category: Neurology Authors: Yan Yan, Xiuping Luo, Jinlu Zhang, Li Su, Wenjie Liang, Guifeng Huang, Guangliang Wu, Guihua Huang, Lian Gu Tags: Reviews Source Type: research
No evidence Nordic diet prevents heart disease
Conclusion
This was a well-designed randomised controlled trial that took place across several Nordic locations. The study took careful clinical measures of elements of metabolic syndrome at several points during the trial, and used food diaries at regular intervals to check compliance to the assigned diet.
However, it provides no reliable proof that the ‘healthy’ Nordic diet is any better than the ‘average’ Nordic diet at improving components of metabolic syndrome and, in turn, no proof that it reduces the risk of cardiovascular disease.
Importantly, this study found no significant results for its main aim (which...
Source: NHS News Feed - May 31, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Food/diet Lifestyle/exercise Heart/lungs Source Type: news
What goes on when lightning strikes?
One lightning flash could run a whole power station – and there are 8 million strikes around the Earth every day. We still don't know what triggers the phenomenon, although a new theory proposes a role for cosmic raysA new theory from Russian researchers suggests that lightning may be a by-product of cosmic rays. Surprisingly, despite studying lightning for centuries, we are still not sure what triggers it.Divine attributionIn ancient times, the drama of thunder and lightning so clearly went beyond human scale that the phenomenon was handed wholesale to the gods. The Greeks had Zeus, the Romans Jupiter. At the head of th...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - May 25, 2013 Category: Science Authors: Brian Clegg Tags: Meteorology World news Natural disasters and extreme weather Features UK news The Observer Science Source Type: news
