Long-term rates of cardiovascular events in patients with the metabolic syndrome according to severity of coronary-angiographic alterations.

Objectives: To assess the long-term risk of mortality and cardiovascular events, related to metabolic syndrome (MetS), in patients with less, or more severe coronary artery disease (CAD).

Methods: One thousand and eighty patients were divided in four groups, according to severity of CAD (1=less than 50% or nonsignificant stenoses; 2=greater or significant stenoses), and according to MetS (A=no; B=yes). Risk was evaluated with the Cox regression analysis.

Classification and risk stratification of patients with acute chest pain using a low discriminatory level of cardiac troponin T.

Background: Cardiac troponins are the biochemical markers of choice for the evaluation of acute coronary syndromes (ACS). Using the first-generation test, most studies related adverse outcome to > 0.20 or 0.

Evaluation and risk stratification of acute coronary syndromes using a low cut-off level of cardiac troponin T, combined with CK-MB mass determination.

Objectives: To study the usefulness of combined cardiac Troponin T (cTnT) and CK-MB mass determinations in risk stratification of acute coronary syndromes.

Design And Methods: Blood samples for cTnT and CK-MB mass were collected at arrival and 4, 8, and 12-24 later in 301 consecutive patients with recent acute chest pain (ACP). Data were also collected for cardiac events.

Effect of increasing metabolic syndrome score on atherosclerotic risk profile and coronary artery disease angiographic severity.

The metabolic syndrome (MS) is a frequent cause of coronary artery disease (CAD), and recently the National Cholesterol Education Program Adult Treatment Panel III suggested its diagnosis in the presence of 3 to 5 quantitatively defined markers. Because the consequences of the MS are likely related to the number and diversity of markers, we studied the relation between the number of markers-the MS score-and the degree of abdominal obesity, risk factor profile, and severity of CAD. One thousand one hundred eight subjects of a mostly white population with symptoms of CAD (793 men and 315 women; 58.

Incidence, coronary risk profile and angiographic characteristics of prediabetic and diabetic patients in a population with ischemic heart disease.

Background: Recently, the threshold of fasting blood glucose indicating diabetes mellitus was lowered to 7.00 mmol/L (126 mg/dL) and the term 'impaired fasting glucose' (IFG; fasting blood glucose ranging from 6.11 mmol/L to 6.