Objective Epicardial adipose tissue is associated with coronary artery disease, metabolic syndrome and atrial fibrillation. Increased epicardial adipose tissue thickness (EATT) has been found recently to be significantly correlated with…
Objective Metabolic syndrome (MS) is defined by a cluster of interdependent physiological, biochemical and clinical risk factors and linked to a state of chronic low grade inflammation. YKL-40 is known…
Background Baroreceptor activation therapy (BAT) is a novel therapeutic option employed in treatment of resistant hypertension (HT) and/or heart failure (HF). Barostim neo is a minimally invasive device baroreceptor activation…
Objectives Hypertension (HT) is a modifiable risk factor for cardiovascular, cerebrovascular, and renal disease. To be aware of asymptomatic organ damage (AOD) in hypertensive patients is important for HT management.We…
Background The aim of this study was to investigate the value of hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) levels in patients with peripheral arterial disease (PAD) whom do not have a diagnosis of…
Introduction Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. CKD patients have advanced arterial wall stiffening. However, there is paucity on the association…
Introduction Percutaneous mechanical thrombectomy has recently gained clinical popularity as a potential alternative to surgical thrombectomy or pharmacological thrombolysis in the setting of an acute thromboembolic vascular occlusion. In this…
Objective Although endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR) for abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs) has been recognized as less invasive than open surgical repair (OSR), only few outcome studies have closely examined the…
Objective There is an escalating amount of evidence implying relation between male type baldness and coronary artery disease. We aimed to search the relation between androgenetic alopecia (AGA) and cardiovascular…
Objective The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of Adducin Gly460Trp, and methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) C677T and A1298C gene polymorphisms which are supposed to play a role…
