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http://dx.doi.org/10.1161/CIRCINTERVENTIONS.112.971457 | DOI Listing |
J Atheroscler Thromb
March 2025
Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Department of Neuropsychiatry and Behavioral Neurology and Clinical Psychology, Sleep Center.
Aim: The American Heart Association (AHA) proposed Life's Essential 8 score (LE8) in 2022 as a new metric for cardiovascular health (CVH). This study investigated the association between the LE8 score and the development of carotid artery plaque.
Methods: Data were drawn from the Asymptomatic Polyvascular Abnormalities Community (APAC) cohort study.
Echocardiography
March 2025
Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, UCLA Mattel Children's Hospital, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Objective: To determine the sensitivity, specificity, and false-positive rate among fetuses suspected prenatally to have coarctation of the aorta (CoA) using size and shape measurements of the fetal heart from the four-chamber view (4CV).
Methods: This was a retrospective study of 108 fetuses identified by pediatric cardiologists to be at risk for CoA. 4CV s from the last antenatal ultrasound performed by the cardiologists were analyzed.
Ann Intern Med
March 2025
The Division of Cardiology, University of Cape Town, and the SAMRC EMU on the Interaction of Cardiovascular and Infectious Diseases, Cape Town, South Africa.
Cancer
March 2025
Department of Oncology, Karmanos Cancer Institute at Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA.
Background: Prior studies of participants with breast and other obesity-associated cancers in the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) showed worse mortality and cardiovascular disease (CVD) outcomes for individuals with a higher number of cardiometabolic risk factors at study entry. The purpose of this analysis is to compare the relationship between cardiometabolic abnormalities and mortality among women with and without cancer in the WHI.
Methods: Women with one of five early-stage obesity-associated cancers (breast, colorectal, endometrial, ovarian, and non-Hodgkin lymphoma) and controls without any new or prior history of cancer were selected from the WHI-Life and Longevity after Cancer ancillary study.
J Magn Reson Imaging
March 2025
Department of Radiology, West China Second University Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, People's Republic of China.
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