Publications by authors named "Sabri Abus"
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- * A study compared 32 subjects without psychosis and 72 with psychosis, measuring their sociodemographic data, psychotic symptom severity, and ten-year cardiovascular (CVD) risks using the QRISK3 model.
- * Results indicated significant differences between groups in self-harming behaviors, CVD risk scores, and heart age, with psychosis sufferers showing higher ten-year CVD risk and a stronger correlation between CVD risk and psychotic symptoms.
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- * Among 80 CHF patients, 40 were diagnosed with PHT, and findings revealed no significant differences in age or gender between the groups, but a higher C-reactive protein to albumin ratio (CAR) was observed in PHT patients, indicating inflammation.
- * A notable correlation was identified between pulmonary artery pressure (PAP) and CAR, suggesting that inflammation is present in PHT patients, and future research could explore the link between inflammation and mortality rates in this population.
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- Patients with schizophrenia (SCZ) are at a significantly higher risk of cardiovascular diseases due to factors such as increased carotid intima-media thickness (CIMT) and altered lipid profiles.
- The study analyzed 51 SCZ patients and 55 healthy controls, revealing that SCZ patients had higher QT intervals, CIMT measurements, fasting triglycerides, and a lower level of high-density lipoprotein (HDL).
- Results indicate a strong correlation between age, QT interval, and CIMT values in SCZ patients, emphasizing the importance of early detection of atherosclerosis to improve cardiovascular health outcomes.
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- * FEP patients showed a significantly wider fQRS-T angle (55.5) compared to healthy controls (22), with higher inflammatory markers like NLR, PLR, and MHR.
- * There is a positive correlation between the fQRS-T angle and inflammatory markers NLR and MHR in FEP patients, suggesting these markers might predict changes in the fQRS-T angle.
Introduction: Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are the one of the most important causes of mortality in patients with schizophrenia. This study aimed to investigate ten-year CVD risk and its relationship with clinical features in patients with schizophrenia.
Methods: The sample of the study consisted of 208 patients with a diagnosis of schizophrenia.
Background: This study compares frontal QRS-T angle (fQRS-T) in electrocardiogram (ECG) examinations of people with nasal septal deviation (NSD) with healthy controls (HC).
Methods: Eighty-two patients whom a radiologist with paranasal computed tomography definitively diagnosed with NSD were included in the study. 101 individuals without NSD were selected as HC.
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- The study explores the link between restless legs syndrome (RLS) and increased cardiovascular disease risk through the analysis of electrocardiogram parameters.
- Patients with RLS exhibited abnormal electrocardiogram readings, including a higher frontal QRS-T angle and altered blood cell counts compared to healthy controls.
- The findings suggest that inflammatory markers like the neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio and C-reactive protein-to-albumin ratio are significantly elevated in RLS patients, indicating a potential increased risk for cardiovascular issues.
Background: Chronic Rhinosinusitis (CRS) refers to inflammation of the paranasal sinuses and nasal mucosa. Electrocardiographic indicators of ventricular repolarization have been shown to correlate with systemic inflammation parameters. Recently, the frontal QRS-T (fQRS-T) angle has been accepted as a new indicator of ventricular depolarization and repolarization heterogeneity.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFComparison of Frontal QRS-T Angle in Patients with Panic Disorder and Healthy Control Group: A Preliminary Study.
Psychiatry Clin Psychopharmacol
March 2023
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- The study investigates the link between autonomic instability in panic disorder patients and potential cardiovascular disease risk, focusing on the frontal QRS-T angle.
- A total of 61 panic disorder patients and 73 healthy controls were analyzed, revealing that panic patients had a larger frontal QRS-T angle and different blood chemistry profiles compared to controls.
- The findings suggest that the frontal QRS-T angle could be a useful indicator of cardiovascular risk in individuals with panic disorder, particularly as it correlates with the severity of the disorder and various inflammatory markers.
Fragmented QRS in the relatives of patients with coronary artery disease.
Ann Noninvasive Electrocardiol
July 2022
Background: Coronary artery disease (CAD) is one of the important causes of mortality. It has been emphasized that the risk of CAD may be increased in the relatives of CAD patients. Fragmented QRS (fQRS) is an electrocardiography (ECG) marker showing myocardial damage.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSerum resistin, mainly secreted by the bone marrow, monocytes, and macrophages, contributes to many processes, including endothelial dysfunction, Vascular Smooth Muscle Cell (VSMC) proliferation, and atherothrombosis demonstrating effects on the development of hypertension and Coronary Artery Disease (CAD). Previously published clinical studies have shown that plasma resistin levels are significantly associated with cardiovascular disease risk factors and adverse clinical outcomes associated with the condition. Resistin is associated with vascular smooth muscle cell dysfunction in vitro, most plausibly due to its relationship with oxidative stress in advanced atherosclerosis whereas in vivo studies have shown resistin to be associated with intimal hyperplasia.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction And Objective: We investigated the relationship between coronary sinus (CS) diameter and pulmonary artery systolic pressure (PASP) in patients with pulmonary hypertension (PH) and normal left ventricular systolic function.
Methods: A total of 155 participants referred for transthoracic echocardiography were included in the study. The study population consisted of 100 patients with chronic PH and 55 control subjects.
[Evaluation of subclinical atherosclerosis in chronic sinusitis patients].
Turk Kardiyol Dern Ars
April 2015
Objective: This study aimed to assess the impact of chronic sinusitis (CS) on carotid-intima-media thickness (CIMT), a marker of early atherosclerotic changes in the arterial bed.
Methods: The study included 50 patients with CS (25 male, 25 female, mean age 26.6 ± 5.
Objective: The coronary sinus (CS) has been largely ignored by physicians due to a lack of adequate data about the importance of CS enlargement in patients with heart failure (HF). We aimed to assess whether CS dilatation develops in patients with HF and to demonstrate its relation with global myocardial function of the right ventricle (RV).
Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 45 healthy subjects and 95 HF patients exhibiting left ventricular systolic dysfunction on echocardiographic examination (EF <45%) secondary to ischemic (n=56) or idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) (n=39) were enrolled.
Neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio predicts poor functional capacity in patients with heart failure.
Turk Kardiyol Dern Ars
October 2014
Objectives: We aimed to assess the relationship between neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio (N/L ratio) and functional capacity (FC) of patients with compensated heart failure (CHF).
Study Design: A total of 94 consecutive CHF patients and age-gender matched 70 subjects with normal echocardiographic examination were enrolled. Peripheral venous blood samples were drawn before echocardiography examination and treadmill test in all study population.
Background: Sleep deprivation (SD) is associated with an increased incidence of adverse cardiovascular events, we aimed to determine the impact of acute SD on structural and functional alterations of the left ventricle (LV) and on electrocardiogram (ECG) markers including T wave peak-to-end interval (TpTe), QT interval, and TpTe/QT ratio in healthy subjects after a night of SD.
Methods: The study population consisted of 40 healthy young adults (19 males, 21 females; mean age: 28.2 ± 3.
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- Some patients with blocked heart arteries, called chronic total occlusions (CTO), don't get enough blood flow, which can cause heart issues.
- A study looked at 114 patients who had a procedure to open these blocked arteries and checked their heart rhythms before and after.
- After the procedure, those who had successful treatments showed improvement in their heart rhythm measures, while those with unsuccessful treatments did not show any significant differences.
Preprocedural high-thrombus burden (HTB) of infarct-related artery (IRA) is a harbinger of procedural complications following primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). The HTB of IRA can lead to poor outcomes by various mechanisms, including no-reflow phenomenon, increased myocardial necrosis and with subsequent reduced survival benefit at follow-up. In this study, we investigated the relationship between all platelet indices on admission and thrombus burden and the no-reflow phenomenon after primary PCI of IRA in patients with STEMI.
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- - We examined the link between platelet indices, stable coronary artery disease (CAD), and acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) in 260 patients.
- - Findings revealed that white blood cell count and platelet distribution width (PDW) were significantly higher in STEMI patients, indicating they are independent predictors of this condition (P < .001).
- - Mean platelet volume (MPV) and PDW levels were notably greater in patients who experienced thrombolysis failure compared to those who succeeded, suggesting these indices could predict thrombolysis outcomes (P = .021 for MPV and P < .001 for PDW).