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Serum Biomarkers in Carotid Artery Disease

Diagnostics, 2021
Carotid artery disease is considered a major cause of strokes and there is a need for early disease detection and management. Although imaging techniques have been developed for the diagnosis of carotid artery disease and different imaging-based markers have been proposed for the characterization of atherosclerotic plaques, there is still need for a ...
Vassiliki I. Kigka, Vassiliki Potsika, Michalis Mantzaris, Vassilis Tsakanikas, Igor Koncar, Dimitrios I. Fotiadis   +5 more
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Associations between blood glucose and carotid intima-media thickness disappear after adjustment for shared risk factors: the KORA F4 study. [PDF]

, 2012
The association between blood glucose and carotid intima-media thickness (CIMT) is considered to be established knowledge. We aimed to assess whether associations between different measures of glycaemia and CIMT are actually independent of anthropometric
Ebert, Nina, Koenig, Wolfgang, Kowall, Bernd, Meisinger, Christa, Rathmann, Wolfgang, Seissler, Jochen, Then, Cornelia, Thiery, Joachim   +7 more
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Cytomegalovirus immunoglobulin G antibody is associated with subclinical carotid artery disease among HIV-infected women.

Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2012
BACKGROUND Cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection has been implicated in immune activation and accelerated progression of immunodeficiency from human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) coinfection.
C. Parrinello, E. Sinclair, A. Landay, N. Lurain, A. Sharrett, S. Gange, X. Xue, P. Hunt, S. Deeks, H. Hodis, R. C. Kaplan   +10 more
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Lack of Association of White Matter Lesions with Ipsilateral Carotid Artery Stenosis

Cerebrovascular Diseases, 2012
Background: White matter lesions (WML) are commonly seen on brain MRI and are generally considered a marker of tissue damage from cerebral small vessel disease.
G. Potter, F. Doubal, C. Jackson, C. Sudlow, M. Dennis, J. Wardlaw   +5 more
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A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse. Saddle thrombosis of carotid bifurcation in acute stroke [PDF]

, 2012
Background: Saddle thrombosis is less frequently detected in carotid arteries than in peripheral arterial embolism. The clot and the distal vessel patency have to be promptly recognized in these cases, because if the carotid vessel is open distally ...
DI PIERO, Vittorio, Edoardo Vicenzini, GIANNONI, Maria Fabrizia, LENZI, Gian Luigi, Maria Chiara Ricciardi, SIRIMARCO, GAIA, TOSCANO M.   +6 more
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Association between serum Mg2+ concentrations and cardiovascular organ damage in a cohort of adult subjects [PDF]

, 2020
Magnesium (Mg2+) levels are associated with insulin resistance, hypertension, atherosclerosis, and type 2 diabetes (T2DM). We evaluated the clinical utility of physiological Mg2+ in assessing subclinical cardiovascular organ damage including increased ...
Andreozzi, F., Averta, C., Fiorentino, T. V., Mancuso, E., Mannino, G. C., Miceli, S., Perticone, F., Perticone, M., Rubino, M., Sciacqua, A., Sesti, G., Spiga, R., Succurro, E.   +12 more
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Association between antibodies to carbamylated proteins and subclinical atherosclerosis in rheumatoid arthritis patients [PDF]

, 2017
BACKGROUND: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients carry a high risk of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. The excess of cardiovascular disease cannot be entirely explained by traditional risk factors and the immune system contributes to the development
Alessandri, Cristiano, Ciciarello, Francesco Luigi, Colasanti, Tania, Conti, Fabrizio, DI FRANCO, Manuela, Miranda, Francesca, Pecani, Arbi, Spinelli, FRANCESCA ROMANA, Valesini, Guido   +8 more
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T Cell Activation and Senescence Predict Subclinical Carotid Artery Disease in HIV-Infected Women

Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2011
Background. Individuals infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) have increased risk of cardiovascular events. It is unknown whether T cell activation and senescence, 2 immunologic sequelae of HIV infection, are associated with vascular disease ...
Robert C. Kaplan, E. Sinclair, A. L. Landay, N. Lurain, A. Sharrett, S. Gange, X. Xue, P. Hunt, R. Karim, David M. Kern, H. Hodis, S. Deeks   +11 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Monocyte/High Density Lipoprotein Ratio in Patients with Symptomatic Carotid Artery Stenosis and Its Relationship with Stenosis Degree

Haseki Tıp Bülteni, 2022
Aim:Monocyte/high-density lipoprotein (HDL) ratio (MHR) is an inflammatory marker associated with vascular diseases. The aim of this study is to evaluate the MHR in patients with symptomatic carotid artery stenosis and to examine its relationship with ...
Fettah Eren, Aydin Talip Yildogan, Gozde Ongun, Gokhan Ozdemir, Serefnur Ozturk   +4 more
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In the Spotlight [PDF]

, 2017
In September, 10 advanced practice nurses from the Department of Surgery gathered for a lunchtime kick-off meeting to form a Nurse Practitioners (NPs) & Physician Assistants (PAs) Professionalism and Scholarship Working Group.

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