Publications by authors named "Saule Urazalina"
Background: The cardio-ankle vascular index (CAVI) measure of arterial stiffness is associated with prevalent cardiovascular risk factors, while its predictive value for cardiovascular events remains to be established. The aim was to determine associations of CAVI with cardiovascular morbimortality (primary outcome) and all-cause mortality (secondary outcome), and to establish the determinants of CAVI progression.
Methods: TRIPLE-A-Stiffness, an international multicentre prospective longitudinal study, enrolled >2000 subjects ≥40 years old at 32 centres from 18 European countries.
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- * Results indicate that several heteroplasmic variants of mitochondrial DNA, identified as proatherogenic, are associated with cIMT in a sample of 251 participants from Russia and Kazakhstan.
- * Notably, variations in mitochondrial genome occurrence differ between Russian and Kazakh populations, and there is a negative correlation between the level of mitochondrial heteroplasmy (specifically m.13513G > A) and mean cIMT in both groups.
We report the case of a young woman with chest pain and recurrent abortion. The patient was found to have Takayasu arteritis. Drug therapy was started, and emergency bypass surgery was performed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: The aim of the Advanced Approach to Arterial Stiffness study was to compare arterial stiffness measured simultaneously with two different methods in different age groups of middle-aged and older adults with or without metabolic syndrome (MetS). The specific effects of the different MetS components on arterial stiffness were also studied.
Methods: This prospective, multicentre, international study included 2224 patients aged 40 years and older, 1664 with and 560 without MetS.
Aim: The aim of this paper is to study the degree of subclinical arterial wall damage in subjects at low and moderate risk of cardiovascular death by the SCORE scale using instrumental research methods.
Methods: We enrolled 600 patients (mean age 49.0 +/- 7.