BACKGROUND: The American Heart Association (AHA), in conjunction with the National
Institutes of Health, annually reports the most up-to-date statistics related to heart disease …

Abstract The discipline of Cardio-Oncology has seen tremendous growth over the past
decade. It is devoted to the cardiovascular (CV) care of the cancer patient, especially to the …

Document Reviewers: Luis Alcocer (Mexico), Christina Antza (Greece), Mustafa Arici
(Turkey), Eduardo Barbosa (Brazil), Adel Berbari (Lebanon), Luıs Bronze (Portugal), John …

Decades of research have established atherosclerosis as an inflammatory disease. Only
recently though, clinical trials provided proof-of-concept evidence for the efficacy of anti …

Prevention of cardiovascular disease (CVD) remains one of the largest public health
challenges of our time. Identifying individuals at increased cardiovascular risk at an …

Cardiovascular disease (CVD), including heart attack, stroke, heart failure, arrhythmia, and
other congenital heart diseases remain the leading cause of morbidity and mortality …

Background Carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity (cfPWV), the referent measure of aortic
stiffness, is an established measure of vascular aging. In studies where cfPWV cannot be …

Carotid atherosclerosis is a major and potentially preventable cause of ischemic stroke. It
begins early in life and progresses silently over the years. Identification of individuals with …

We examined the longitudinal associations of fat mass, lean mass, and blood pressure (BP)
from childhood through young adulthood with changes in carotid-femoral pulse wave …

Recently published recommendations from the American Society of Echocardiography on
'Carotid Arterial Plaque Assessment by Ultrasound for the Characterization of …