Backgrouds: Moxibusion is a famous traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) treatment, which can be used to treat stable angina pectoris for many years. We will conduct this study to explore the efficacy and safety of moxibustion as an additional therapy and to provide more reliable evidence for clinical practice.
Methods: We will go through 8 databases until July 2019 to identify related randomized controlled trials that compared moxibustion with the control group. The main result is the clinical effective rate. RevMan (V.5.3) and test sequential analysis (V.0.9) will be used for mata analysis and trial sequential analysis.
Results: This study will provide a high-quality synthesis of current evidence of moxibustion and we have a specific opportunity to determine the efficacy and safety of moxibustion in patients with stable angina pectoris.
Conclusions: This study will explore whether or not moxibustion can be used as one of the non-drug therapies to prevent or treat stable angina pectoris, especially in the elderly population with related risk factors.
Registration Number: CRD42018112830.
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Front Cardiovasc Med
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Cardiovascular Medicine Department, Affiliated Hospital of North Sichuan Medical College, Nanchong, China.
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Methods: In this single-center retrospective case-control study, coronary CT images and clinical data from 240 angina patients were collected and analyzed. Patients with unstable angina ( = 120) were well-matched with those having stable angina ( = 120).
ARYA Atheroscler
January 2024
Cardiovascular Research Center, Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences, Bandar Abbas, Iran.
Background: The relationship between hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) levels and coronary artery disease (CAD) severity is still a matter of debate in non-diabetic patients. This study aimed to determine the association between HbA1c and the severity of CAD in non-diabetic patients.
Methods: The present cross-sectional study was conducted in 2018-2019 on 133 non-diabetic patients with stable angina, unstable angina, or myocardial infarction (MI).
Int J Mol Sci
December 2024
Department of Hospital Therapy No 1, I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University (Sechenov University), 119048 Moscow, Russia.
The development of different phenotypes of coronary artery (CA) lesions is regulated via many various factors, such as pro-inflammatory agents, zinc-dependent endopeptidases, growth factors and circulating microRNAs (miRs). To evaluate the expression levels of miR-34a, miR-145 and miR-222, tumor necrosis factor α (TNF-α), matrix metalloproteinases (MMP-1, -9, -13 and -14) and vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) in patients with different phenotypes of coronary artery disease (CAD): ischemia/angina with non-obstructive coronary arteries (INOCA/ANOCA) and obstructive CAD (oCAD) compared with a control group. This cross-sectional observational study included 157 subjects with a verified CAD diagnosis (51 patients with INOCA, 76 patients with oCAD and 30 healthy volunteers).
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December 2024
Cardiology Division of Internal Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, South Valley University, Qena, 83523, Egypt.
Background: Previous studies on the relation of sST2 with atherosclerotic disease mostly focused on the predictive value of sST2 for heart failure. However, there is no definite conclusion about the correlation between sST2 level and a complex coronary lesion morphology detected with coronary angiography (CAG). The purpose of this work was to know sST2 level and 3D speckle-tracking echocardiography as predictor of coronary artery disease (CAD) severity in chronic coronary syndrome (CCS) individuals using Gensini score.
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December 2024
Department of Epidemiology and Health Statistics, School of Public Health, Xi'an Jiaotong University Health Science Center, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China.
Background: The impact of intensive hypertension criteria on multimorbidity prevalence and patterns remains understudied. We investigated the prevalence and patterns of multimorbidity using both the current (140/90 mmHg) and intensive (130/80 mmHg) hypertension criteria within a multi-ethnic Chinese population.
Methods: Data were obtained from the baseline survey of the Regional Ethnic Cohort Study in Northwest China, conducted from June 2018 to May 2019, which enrolled adults aged 35-74 years from five provinces.
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