We investigated the relation between overall atheroma burden and clinical events in the Providing Regional Observations to Study Predictors of Events in the Coronary Tree (PROSPECT) study. In PROSPECT, 660…
Chronotropic incompetence, measured by the percentage (%) of heart rate (HR) reserve achieved (%HR reserve), abnormal HR recovery, reduced exercise capacity (EC), and myocardial perfusion single-photon emission computerized tomography (SPECT…
Evidence is accumulating that toll-like receptors (TLR) are involved in the initiation and progression of cardiovascular disease. Enhanced expression of these receptors on monocytes has been shown in patients with…
The association between anatomic features of the left anterior descending artery (LAD) and outcomes in patients with anterior ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) has not been fully investigated. We sought…
Pathologic conditions associated with inflammation show an inverse correlation between high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) and inflammatory biomarker levels. Our aim was to investigate, in patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS),…
The straight forward DANAMI-3–PRIMULTI trial showed that patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction and multivessel disease, who had timely primary percutaneous coronary intervention, benefitted from fractional flow reserve–guided revascularizations of lesions…
I read the contribution by Gopalakrishnan et al, published on line ahead of print on September 3, 2015 in the American Journal of Cardiology , about the predictors of short-term and…
I read the interesting report by Y-Hassan et al, published online ahead of print, on September 3, 2015, in the American Journal of Cardiology , about a 64-year-old woman who suffered…
Previous authors have suggested a higher likelihood for industry-sponsored (IS) studies to have positive outcomes than non-IS studies, though the influence of publication bias was believed to be a likely…
A 53-year-old man, a former smoker with a history of hyperlipidemia, came to the hospital because of 4 weeks of chest pain occurring with walking. He underwent a treadmill exercise test…
