{"title":"Elevated serum xylitol levels and cardiovascular risk: an active component or an innocent bystander?","authors":"Mario Bonomini, Valentina Masola, Edoardo Gronda","doi":"10.1093/eurheartj/ehae731","DOIUrl":"10.1093/eurheartj/ehae731","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11976,"journal":{"name":"European Heart Journal","volume":" ","pages":"326-327"},"PeriodicalIF":37.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142675547","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Using artificial intelligence to spot heart failure from ECGs: is it prime time?","authors":"Charalambos Antoniades, Kenneth Chan","doi":"10.1093/eurheartj/ehae906","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehae906","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11976,"journal":{"name":"European Heart Journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":37.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142983191","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Angel Toval, Esmée A Bakker, Joao Bruno Granada-Maia, Sergio Núñez de Arenas-Arroyo, Patricio Solis-Urra, Thijs M H Eijsvogels, Irene Esteban-Cornejo, Vicente Martínez-Vizcaíno, Francisco B Ortega
{"title":"Exercise type and settings, quality of life, and mental health in coronary artery disease: a network meta-analysis.","authors":"Angel Toval, Esmée A Bakker, Joao Bruno Granada-Maia, Sergio Núñez de Arenas-Arroyo, Patricio Solis-Urra, Thijs M H Eijsvogels, Irene Esteban-Cornejo, Vicente Martínez-Vizcaíno, Francisco B Ortega","doi":"10.1093/eurheartj/ehae870","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehae870","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background and aims: </strong>Individuals with coronary artery disease have poorer mental health, health-related quality of life (HR-QoL), and cognition compared with (age-matched) controls. Exercise training may attenuate these effects. The aim is to systematically review and meta-analyse the effects of different exercise types and settings on brain structure/function, cognition, HR-QoL, mental health (e.g. depression, anxiety), and sleep in patients with coronary artery disease.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A systematic search was conducted and a network meta-analysis compared (i) exercise types, high-intensity interval training (HIIT), HIIT + resistance (HIIT + R), moderate-intensity training (MIT), MIT + R and stretching-toning-balance training, and (ii) exercise settings, in-person and home-based.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>A total of 42 randomized controlled trials with a parallel group design were identified, of which 36 were included in the meta-analysis. Few studies included cognition (n = 2), sleep (n = 2), and none brain structure/function (n = 0). Most studies examined HR-QoL (n = 30), depression (n = 15), and anxiety (n = 9), in which outcomes were meta-analysed. HIIT + R, HIIT, and MIT were associated with improved HR-QoL vs. no exercise (i.e. usual care) [standardized mean difference, SMD: 1.53 (95% confidence interval 0.83; 2.24), 0.44 (0.15; 0.73), and 0.44 (0.20; 0.67), respectively]. In-person exercise was associated with larger and significant improvements [HR-QoL SMD: 0.51 (0.28; 0.74), depressive SMD: -0.55 (-1.03; -0.07), and anxiety symptoms SMD: -1.16 (-2.05; -0.26)] compared with no exercise, whereas home-based programmes were not significantly associated with improvements in these outcomes. Findings were robust in secondary (i.e. intervention duration and volume) and sensitivity analyses excluding high risk of bias studies.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Exercise training, especially in-person sessions, was associated with improved HR-QoL, depression and anxiety, independently of exercise type. However, this study raises concern about the effectiveness of home-based programmes in improving these outcomes.Study protocol was registered in PROSPERO (ID: CRD42023402569).</p>","PeriodicalId":11976,"journal":{"name":"European Heart Journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":37.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142983185","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Artificial intelligence and mortality prediction in acute coronary syndromes.","authors":"Zachi I Attia, Paul A Friedman","doi":"10.1093/eurheartj/ehae475","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehae475","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11976,"journal":{"name":"European Heart Journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":37.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142970239","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Zeineb Bouzid, Ervin Sejdic, Christian Martin-Gill, Ziad Faramand, Stephanie Frisch, Mohammad Alrawashdeh, Stephanie Helman, Tanmay A Gokhale, Nathan T Riek, Karina Kraevsky-Phillips, Richard E Gregg, Susan M Sereika, Gilles Clermont, Murat Akcakaya, Jessica K Zègre-Hemsey, Samir Saba, Clifton W Callaway, Salah S Al-Zaiti
{"title":"Electrocardiogram-based machine learning for risk stratification of patients with suspected acute coronary syndrome.","authors":"Zeineb Bouzid, Ervin Sejdic, Christian Martin-Gill, Ziad Faramand, Stephanie Frisch, Mohammad Alrawashdeh, Stephanie Helman, Tanmay A Gokhale, Nathan T Riek, Karina Kraevsky-Phillips, Richard E Gregg, Susan M Sereika, Gilles Clermont, Murat Akcakaya, Jessica K Zègre-Hemsey, Samir Saba, Clifton W Callaway, Salah S Al-Zaiti","doi":"10.1093/eurheartj/ehae880","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehae880","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background and aims: </strong>The importance of risk stratification in patients with chest pain extends beyond diagnosis and immediate treatment. This study sought to evaluate the prognostic value of electrocardiogram feature-based machine learning models to risk-stratify all-cause mortality in those with chest pain.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This was a prospective observational cohort study of consecutive, non-traumatic patients with chest pain. All-cause death was ascertained from multiple sources, including the CDC National Death Index registry. Six machine learning models were trained for survival analysis using 73 morphological electrocardiogram features (80% training with 10-fold cross-validation and 20% testing), followed by a variational Bayesian Gaussian mixture model to define distinct risk groups. The resulting classification performance was compared against the HEART score.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The derivation cohort included 4015 patients (age 59 ± 16 years, 47% women). The mortality rate was 20.3% after a median follow-up period of 3.05 years (interquartile range 1.75-5.32). Extra Survival Trees outperformed other forecasting models, and the derived risk groups successfully classified patients into low-, moderate-, and high-risk groups (log-rank test statistic = 121.14, P < .001). This model outperformed the HEART score, reducing the rate of missed events by >90% with a negative predictive value and sensitivity of 93.4% and 85.9%, compared to 89.0% and 75.0%, respectively. In an independent external testing cohort (N = 3095, age 59 ± 15 years, 44% women, 30-day mortality 3.5%), patients in the moderate [odds ratio 3.62 (1.35-9.74)] and high [odds ratio 6.12 (2.38-15.75)] risk groups had significantly higher odds of mortality compared to those in the low-risk group.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The externally validated machine learning-based model, exclusively utilizing features from the 12-lead electrocardiogram, outperformed the HEART score in stratifying the mortality risk of patients with acute chest pain. This may have the potential to impact the precision of care delivery and the allocation of resources to those at highest risk of adverse events.</p>","PeriodicalId":11976,"journal":{"name":"European Heart Journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":37.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142970241","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lovedeep S Dhingra, Arya Aminorroaya, Veer Sangha, Aline F Pedroso, Folkert W Asselbergs, Luisa C C Brant, Sandhi M Barreto, Antonio Luiz P Ribeiro, Harlan M Krumholz, Evangelos K Oikonomou, Rohan Khera
{"title":"Heart failure risk stratification using artificial intelligence applied to electrocardiogram images: a multinational study.","authors":"Lovedeep S Dhingra, Arya Aminorroaya, Veer Sangha, Aline F Pedroso, Folkert W Asselbergs, Luisa C C Brant, Sandhi M Barreto, Antonio Luiz P Ribeiro, Harlan M Krumholz, Evangelos K Oikonomou, Rohan Khera","doi":"10.1093/eurheartj/ehae914","DOIUrl":"10.1093/eurheartj/ehae914","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background and aims: </strong>Current heart failure (HF) risk stratification strategies require comprehensive clinical evaluation. In this study, artificial intelligence (AI) applied to electrocardiogram (ECG) images was examined as a strategy to predict HF risk.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Across multinational cohorts in the Yale New Haven Health System (YNHHS), UK Biobank (UKB), and Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health (ELSA-Brasil), individuals without baseline HF were followed for the first HF hospitalization. An AI-ECG model that defines cross-sectional left ventricular systolic dysfunction from 12-lead ECG images was used, and its association with incident HF was evaluated. Discrimination was assessed using Harrell's C-statistic. Pooled cohort equations to prevent HF (PCP-HF) were used as a comparator.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Among 231 285 YNHHS patients, 4472 had primary HF hospitalizations over 4.5 years (inter-quartile range 2.5-6.6). In UKB and ELSA-Brasil, among 42 141 and 13 454 people, 46 and 31 developed HF over 3.1 (2.1-4.5) and 4.2 (3.7-4.5) years. A positive AI-ECG screen portended a 4- to 24-fold higher risk of new-onset HF [age-, sex-adjusted hazard ratio: YNHHS, 3.88 (95% confidence interval 3.63-4.14); UKB, 12.85 (6.87-24.02); ELSA-Brasil, 23.50 (11.09-49.81)]. The association was consistent after accounting for comorbidities and the competing risk of death. Higher probabilities were associated with progressively higher HF risk. Model discrimination was 0.718 in YNHHS, 0.769 in UKB, and 0.810 in ELSA-Brasil. In YNHHS and ELSA-Brasil, incorporating AI-ECG with PCP-HF yielded a significant improvement in discrimination over PCP-HF alone.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>An AI model applied to a single ECG image defined the risk of future HF, representing a digital biomarker for stratifying HF risk.</p>","PeriodicalId":11976,"journal":{"name":"European Heart Journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":37.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142970245","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Amany Elshorbagy, Antonio J Vallejo-Vaz, Fotios Barkas, Alexander R M Lyons, Christophe A T Stevens, Kanika I Dharmayat, Alberico L Catapano, Tomas Freiberger, G Kees Hovingh, Pedro Mata, Frederick J Raal, Raul D Santos, Handrean Soran, Gerald F Watts, Marianne Abifadel, Carlos A Aguilar-Salinas, Khalid F Alhabib, Mutaz Alkhnifsawi, Wael Almahmeed, Fahad Alnouri, Rodrigo Alonso, Khalid Al-Rasadi, Ahmad Al-Sarraf, Marcello Arca, Tester F Ashavaid, Maurizio Averna, Maciej Banach, Marianne Becker, Christoph J Binder, Mafalda Bourbon, Liam R Brunham, Krzysztof Chlebus, Pablo Corral, Diogo Cruz, Kairat Davletov, Olivier S Descamps, Bambang Dwiputra, Marat Ezhov, Urh Groselj, Mariko Harada-Shiba, Kirsten B Holven, Steve E Humphries, Meral Kayikcioglu, Weerapan Khovidhunkit, Katarina Lalic, Gustavs Latkovskis, Ulrich Laufs, Evangelos Liberopoulos, Marcos M Lima-Martinez, Vincent Maher, A David Marais, Winfried März, Erkin Mirrakhimov, André R Miserez, Olena Mitchenko, Hapizah Nawawi, Børge G Nordestgaard, Andrie G Panayiotou, György Paragh, Zaneta Petrulioniene, Belma Pojskic, Arman Postadzhiyan, Ashraf Reda, Željko Reiner, Ximena Reyes, Fouzia Sadiq, Wilson Ehidiamen Sadoh, Heribert Schunkert, Aleksandr B Shek, Erik Stroes, Ta-Chen Su, Tavintharan Subramaniam, Andrey V Susekov, Myra Tilney, Brian Tomlinson, Thanh Huong Truong, Alexandros D Tselepis, Anne Tybjærg-Hansen, Alejandra Vázquez-Cárdenas, Margus Viigimaa, Branislav Vohnout, Shizuya Yamashita, Kausik K Ray
{"title":"Overweight, obesity, and cardiovascular disease in heterozygous familial hypercholesterolaemia: the EAS FH Studies Collaboration registry.","authors":"Amany Elshorbagy, Antonio J Vallejo-Vaz, Fotios Barkas, Alexander R M Lyons, Christophe A T Stevens, Kanika I Dharmayat, Alberico L Catapano, Tomas Freiberger, G Kees Hovingh, Pedro Mata, Frederick J Raal, Raul D Santos, Handrean Soran, Gerald F Watts, Marianne Abifadel, Carlos A Aguilar-Salinas, Khalid F Alhabib, Mutaz Alkhnifsawi, Wael Almahmeed, Fahad Alnouri, Rodrigo Alonso, Khalid Al-Rasadi, Ahmad Al-Sarraf, Marcello Arca, Tester F Ashavaid, Maurizio Averna, Maciej Banach, Marianne Becker, Christoph J Binder, Mafalda Bourbon, Liam R Brunham, Krzysztof Chlebus, Pablo Corral, Diogo Cruz, Kairat Davletov, Olivier S Descamps, Bambang Dwiputra, Marat Ezhov, Urh Groselj, Mariko Harada-Shiba, Kirsten B Holven, Steve E Humphries, Meral Kayikcioglu, Weerapan Khovidhunkit, Katarina Lalic, Gustavs Latkovskis, Ulrich Laufs, Evangelos Liberopoulos, Marcos M Lima-Martinez, Vincent Maher, A David Marais, Winfried März, Erkin Mirrakhimov, André R Miserez, Olena Mitchenko, Hapizah Nawawi, Børge G Nordestgaard, Andrie G Panayiotou, György Paragh, Zaneta Petrulioniene, Belma Pojskic, Arman Postadzhiyan, Ashraf Reda, Željko Reiner, Ximena Reyes, Fouzia Sadiq, Wilson Ehidiamen Sadoh, Heribert Schunkert, Aleksandr B Shek, Erik Stroes, Ta-Chen Su, Tavintharan Subramaniam, Andrey V Susekov, Myra Tilney, Brian Tomlinson, Thanh Huong Truong, Alexandros D Tselepis, Anne Tybjærg-Hansen, Alejandra Vázquez-Cárdenas, Margus Viigimaa, Branislav Vohnout, Shizuya Yamashita, Kausik K Ray","doi":"10.1093/eurheartj/ehae791","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehae791","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background and aims: </strong>Overweight and obesity are modifiable risk factors for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) in the general population, but their prevalence in individuals with heterozygous familial hypercholesterolaemia (HeFH) and whether they confer additional risk of ASCVD independent of LDL cholesterol (LDL-C) remains unclear.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Cross-sectional analysis was conducted in 35 540 patients with HeFH across 50 countries, in the EAS FH Studies Collaboration registry. Prevalence of World Health Organization-defined body mass index categories was investigated in adults (n = 29 265) and children/adolescents (n = 6275); and their association with prevalent ASCVD.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Globally, 52% of adults and 27% of children with HeFH were overweight or obese, with the highest prevalence noted in Northern Africa/Western Asia. A higher overweight/obesity prevalence was found in non-high-income vs. high-income countries. Median age at familial hypercholesterolaemia diagnosis in adults with obesity was 9 years older than in normal weight adults. Obesity was associated with a more atherogenic lipid profile independent of lipid-lowering medication. Prevalence of coronary artery disease increased progressively across body mass index categories in both children and adults. Compared with normal weight, obesity was associated with higher odds of coronary artery disease in children (odds ratio 9.28, 95% confidence interval 1.77-48.77, adjusted for age, sex, lipids, and lipid-lowering medication) and coronary artery disease and stroke in adults (odds ratio 2.35, 95% confidence interval 2.10-2.63 and odds ratio 1.65, 95% confidence interval 1.27-2.14, respectively), but less consistently with peripheral artery disease. Adjusting for diabetes, hypertension and smoking modestly attenuated the associations.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Overweight and obesity are common in patients with HeFH and contribute to ASCVD risk from childhood, independent of LDL-C and lipid-lowering medication. Sustained body weight management is needed to reduce the risk of ASCVD in HeFH.</p>","PeriodicalId":11976,"journal":{"name":"European Heart Journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":37.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142970250","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cristina Villa Del Campo, Inés Rivero-García, Miguel Torres
{"title":"ERC-funded grant: cardiac regeneration.","authors":"Cristina Villa Del Campo, Inés Rivero-García, Miguel Torres","doi":"10.1093/eurheartj/ehae873","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehae873","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11976,"journal":{"name":"European Heart Journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":37.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142964210","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}