{"title":"Impact of serum cholinesterase on calcified nodules in patients with stable coronary artery disease.","authors":"Daisuke Kanda, Akihiro Tokushige, Kenta Ohmure, Hirokazu Shimono, Hiroyuki Tabata, Nobuhiro Ito, Takuro Kubozono, Mitsuru Ohishi","doi":"10.1097/MCA.0000000000001428","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/MCA.0000000000001428","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Calcified nodules (CNs) are an advanced stage of coronary calcification that can have significant clinical implications. We investigated factors associated with CNs, the etiology of which is not fully understood.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We retrospectively evaluated 619 patients with stable coronary artery disease who underwent intravascular ultrasound (IVUS)-guided percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). CNs in the culprit lesion were evaluated via IVUS, and all-cause mortality and major cardiovascular and cerebrovascular events (MACCEs) were compared between the CN and non-CN groups.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The CN group (n = 40 patients) had a significantly lower survival rate and a higher incidence of MACCE than the non-CN group (P = 0.020 and P < 0.001, respectively). Multivariate logistic regression analysis models revealed that chronic kidney disease and serum cholinesterase (ChE) level were associated with CN formation [odds ratio (OR): 3.15, 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.30-7.69, P = 0.001 and OR: 0.94, 95% CI: 0.88-0.99, P = 0.042]. The optimal cutoff of serum ChE level as per the receiver operating characteristic curve was 309 units/l (Area under the curve = 0.67, sensitivity = 93%, specificity = 40%, P = 0.001). The low-ChE group divided according to the optimal cutoff value showed significantly higher cumulative incidence of MACCEs after PCI than the high-ChE group as per Kaplan-Meier analysis.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The presence of CNs is significantly associated with a poor prognosis and MACCE after PCI among patients with stable coronary artery disease. Serum ChE levels may affect CN formation.</p>","PeriodicalId":10702,"journal":{"name":"Coronary artery disease","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142380238","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ilya Losin, Ela Giladi, Ziad Arow, Ranin Hilu, Tal Ovdat, Abid Assali, David Pereg
{"title":"Temporal trends in the treatment and outcome of nonagenarians with acute coronary syndrome.","authors":"Ilya Losin, Ela Giladi, Ziad Arow, Ranin Hilu, Tal Ovdat, Abid Assali, David Pereg","doi":"10.1097/MCA.0000000000001427","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/MCA.0000000000001427","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Nonagenarians are a fast-growing age group among acute coronary syndrome (ACS) patients. While new therapeutic options have improved outcomes of ACS patients, data regarding very elderly ACS patients are limited. We aimed to evaluate temporal trends in the treatment and outcomes of nonagenarian ACS patients.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Included were ACS patients aged below 90 years enrolled in ACS Israeli Survey. Patients were divided into two groups according to enrolment period: early (2000-2010) and recent (2012-2021). The primary endpoints were 30-day major adverse cardiovascular events and all-cause mortality. Secondary outcomes included in-hospital and 1-year all-cause mortality.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Included were 316 elderly ACS patients. Of them, 184 were enrolled in the early and 132 in recent surveys. Patients enrolled in the recent period were more commonly referred for an invasive strategy and more commonly received guideline-based medical therapy. All-cause mortality at 30 days was significantly lower in the recent group compared with the early group (12.5 and 26.1%, respectively, P = 0.005). Rates of 30-day major adverse cardiovascular events were also significantly lower in the recent group (21.9 and 35.9%, respectively, P = 0.012). Patients in the recent group received more aggressive medical therapy in discharge but at 30-day follow-up, no difference in medical treatment was observed in the two groups. There were no significant differences in 1-year mortality rates.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Treatment of nonagenarians with ACS has improved over the past decade. Treatment improvement was associated with a significant improvement in 30-day outcomes without any effect in 1 year. Nevertheless, even with contemporary treatment, nonagenarians with ACS remain a high-risk group with high mortality rates.</p>","PeriodicalId":10702,"journal":{"name":"Coronary artery disease","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142343088","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Minna Järvensivu-Koivunen, Jussi Hernesniemi, Juho Tynkkynen
{"title":"Smoking and sudden cardiac death in patients with previous coronary artery disease.","authors":"Minna Järvensivu-Koivunen, Jussi Hernesniemi, Juho Tynkkynen","doi":"10.1097/MCA.0000000000001421","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/MCA.0000000000001421","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Smoking is a known risk for sudden cardiac death (SCD) in the general population. However, its significance in patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS), a condition that also elevates the risk of SCD, is disputable.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A total of 9704 consecutive ACS patients with available smoking data were included in the analysis. Comprehensive patient data were obtained from the Mass Data in Detection and Prevention of Serious Adverse Events in Cardiovascular Disease research database. A composite endpoint of SCD, SCD aborted by successful resuscitation and accurate implantable cardioverter defibrillator therapy to otherwise potentially fatal ventricular fibrillation/ventricular tachycardia was used. Univariate, age- and sex-adjusted, and a multivariate fine-gray competing risk regression with adjustment to traditional risk factors was conducted.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Median follow-up time was 6.8 years (IQR, 4.1-10.2), and 454 (4.7%) SCD cases were identified. At the baseline, 23.7% (N = 2444) were active smokers, and 20.8% (N = 2146) were ex-smokers. In the multivariate model, active smokers had an elevated risk of 1.79 (95% CI, 1.41-2.27; P < 0.001) for future SCD. Ex-smokers had no elevated risk for SCD in fine-gray subdistribution hazard. Also, active smokers were notably younger (mean age 58.7 years) than non- or ex-smokers (71.1 years and 68.9 years, respectively, P < 0.001 for both comparisons).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Active smokers had a 79% higher risk of SCD when compared with nonsmokers. Smoking cessation should be heavily encouraged after ACS. Also, a person's smoking status should be considered in further studies developing SCD and implantable cardioverter defibrillator-benefit risk scores.</p>","PeriodicalId":10702,"journal":{"name":"Coronary artery disease","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142281589","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Gal Tsaban, Rafael Vidal Perez, Konstantin A Krychtiuk, Ingo Ahrens, Sigrun Halvorsen, Christian Hassager, Kurt Huber, Francois Schiele, Alessandro Sionis, Marc J Claeys
{"title":"Lipid-lowering therapy after acute coronary syndromes: a multinational European survey.","authors":"Gal Tsaban, Rafael Vidal Perez, Konstantin A Krychtiuk, Ingo Ahrens, Sigrun Halvorsen, Christian Hassager, Kurt Huber, Francois Schiele, Alessandro Sionis, Marc J Claeys","doi":"10.1097/MCA.0000000000001420","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/MCA.0000000000001420","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Recent guidelines on acute coronary syndromes (ACS) recommend initiating lipid-lowering therapy (LLT) as early as possible to obtain >50% low-density-lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-c) reduction and an LDL-c < 1.4 mmol/l.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A multinational European survey study of ACS patients between 2021-2022 and acquired data on LLT and lipid levels on admission and during 1-year posthospitalization. We compared plasma lipid changes and adherence to post-ACS lipid targets across two in-hospital LLT groups: high-intensity statin (HIS) monotherapy (mono-HIS) and a combination of HIS and ezetimibe (combo-HIS).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Of 286 patients, 268 (94%) received in-hospital HIS and were included in the final analysis. Patients (median age: 61.1 years) had a median baseline LDL-c of 3.3 mmol/l. Mono-HIS was the predominant in-hospital LLT (72.4%). In-hospital combo-HIS was administered in 27.6% of the cases. Patients from high-income countries (n = 141) were more likely to receive in-hospital combo-HIS than patients from middle-income countries [n = 127; 38.3% vs. 15.7% patients, P < 0.001). One-year post-ACS, 50 (26.5%) patients from the mono-HIS group received ezetimibe. The target of LDL-c ≤ 55 mg/dl was reached in 85 patients (31.7%), without significant difference between study groups [mono-HIS: 56 (28.9%) and combo-HIS: 29 (39.2%) patients, P = 0.10]. The target of >50% reduction was achieved more frequently among the combo-HIS group than in the mono-HIS group (50.0% vs. 29.9%, respectively, P = 0.002).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>LDL-c targets were achieved in less than half of the patients post-ACS, regardless of the LLT regimen. Combo-HIS was initiated in-hospital post-ACS in only 28% and was associated with greater LDL-c reduction compared to a staged approach of mono-HIS with up-titration at follow-up.</p>","PeriodicalId":10702,"journal":{"name":"Coronary artery disease","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142281587","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Gustavo de Oliveira Almeida, Caroline Balieiro, Edmundo Damiani Bertoli, Maria Eduarda Liporaci Moreira, Ana Laura Soares Silva, Bárbara Silvestre Minucci, Isabella Zapparoli, Marcela Silva Maluf, Henrique Champs Porfírio Carvalho, Rafael Dos Santos Borges, Eric Pasqualotto, Thiago Nienkötter, Vinícius Alves, Camila Mota Guida
{"title":"Cardiovascular benefits of statin plus ezetimibe combination therapy versus statin monotherapy in acute coronary syndrome: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.","authors":"Gustavo de Oliveira Almeida, Caroline Balieiro, Edmundo Damiani Bertoli, Maria Eduarda Liporaci Moreira, Ana Laura Soares Silva, Bárbara Silvestre Minucci, Isabella Zapparoli, Marcela Silva Maluf, Henrique Champs Porfírio Carvalho, Rafael Dos Santos Borges, Eric Pasqualotto, Thiago Nienkötter, Vinícius Alves, Camila Mota Guida","doi":"10.1097/MCA.0000000000001407","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/MCA.0000000000001407","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The efficacy of adding ezetimibe to statin therapy for event reduction in patients with acute coronary syndromes (ACS) remains a topic of ongoing debate.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We performed a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) comparing ezetimibe plus statin versus statin monotherapy in patients with ACS. We searched PubMed, Embase, and Cochrane for eligible trials. The random-effects model was used to calculate the risk ratios with 95% confidence intervals (CIs). Statistical analyses were performed using RStudio version 4.2.3 (RStudio, PBC).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Six RCTs comprising 20 574 patients with ACS were included, of whom 10 259 (49.9%) were prescribed ezetimibe plus statin. The patient population had an average age of 63.8 years, and 75.1% were male. Compared with statin monotherapy, ezetimibe plus statin significantly reduced major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) (risk ratio 0.93; 95% CI 0.90-0.97; P < 0.01) and nonfatal myocardial infarction (risk ratio 0.88; 95% CI 0.81-0.95; P < 0.01). There was no significant difference between groups for revascularization (risk ratio 0.94; 95% CI 0.90-1.00; P = 0.03), all-cause mortality (risk ratio 0.87; 95% CI 0.63-1.21; P = 0.42), or unstable angina (risk ratio 1.05; 95% CI 0.86-1.27; P = 0.64).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>In this meta-analysis of patients with ACS, the combination of ezetimibe plus statin was associated with a reduction in MACE and nonfatal myocardial infarction, compared with statin monotherapy.</p>","PeriodicalId":10702,"journal":{"name":"Coronary artery disease","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142139557","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Coronary artery diseasePub Date : 2024-09-01Epub Date: 2024-05-06DOI: 10.1097/MCA.0000000000001380
David Füller, Chang Liu, Shivang R Desai, Nishant Vatsa, Yan V Sun, Arshed A Quyyumi
{"title":"Association of apolipoprotein B and apolipoprotein A1 levels with social determinants of health and coronary artery disease mortality in the United Kingdom Biobank - is there a need for consideration?","authors":"David Füller, Chang Liu, Shivang R Desai, Nishant Vatsa, Yan V Sun, Arshed A Quyyumi","doi":"10.1097/MCA.0000000000001380","DOIUrl":"10.1097/MCA.0000000000001380","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>A higher prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors has previously been shown to be associated with adverse social determinants of health (SDoH) and to explain some of their impact on cardiovascular risk. Whether there is a relationship between lipid parameters, specifically apolipoprotein B (apoB), apolipoprotein A1 (apoA1), their ratio (apoB/apoA1), and SDoH, and whether coronary artery disease (CAD) mortality risk associated with circulating apoB and apoA1 is modified by SDoH was unclear.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We investigated associations of apoA1, apoB, and apoB/apoA1 with the level of education and household income and their joint impact on CAD mortality in participants of the UK Biobank (UKB) with and without prevalent CAD at enrollment. Hazard ratios for CAD mortality were estimated after adjusting for SDoH and clinical covariates.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>In 292 804 participants without established CAD, apoB, and the apoB/apoA1 ratio were inversely associated with level of education and household income, whereas apoA1 was positively associated with household income. Adjustment for education level and household income coupled with the number of people living in the household did not attenuate the association between the apolipoprotein levels and incident CAD mortality rates. In a cohort of 13 826 participants with prevalent CAD, apoA1 levels were inversely associated with level of education. Higher apoB levels were only associated with greater CAD mortality risk after adjustment for risk factors. Risk estimation for CAD death through circulating apoA1 levels requires accounting for significant differences by sex.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Circulating lipid parameters are associated with SDoH in individuals without CAD. CAD mortality risk estimation through apoA1 and apoB levels does not require accounting for SDoH.</p>","PeriodicalId":10702,"journal":{"name":"Coronary artery disease","volume":" ","pages":"509-515"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11555594/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140853866","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}