JAMA cardiologyPub Date : 2025-04-30DOI: 10.1001/jamacardio.2025.0738
Flavio Giuseppe Biccirè,Lorenz Räber
{"title":"Effect of Alirocumab in Atherosclerotic Plaques-Reply.","authors":"Flavio Giuseppe Biccirè,Lorenz Räber","doi":"10.1001/jamacardio.2025.0738","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/jamacardio.2025.0738","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14657,"journal":{"name":"JAMA cardiology","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":24.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143893212","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}
JAMA cardiologyPub Date : 2025-04-30DOI: 10.1001/jamacardio.2025.0753
Marc-André d'Entremont,Sanjit S Jolly
{"title":"OCT and Calcium-You Cannot Treat What You Cannot See.","authors":"Marc-André d'Entremont,Sanjit S Jolly","doi":"10.1001/jamacardio.2025.0753","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/jamacardio.2025.0753","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14657,"journal":{"name":"JAMA cardiology","volume":"66 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":24.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143893215","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":"OCT vs Angiography for Guidance of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention of Calcified Lesions: The CALIPSO Randomized Clinical Trial.","authors":"Nicolas Amabile,Gregoire Rangé,Quentin Landolff,Erwan Bressollette,Nicolas Meneveau,Benoit Lattuca,Sebastien Levesque,Ziad Boueri,Julien Adjedj,Frederic Casassus,Ayoub Belfekih,Aurelie Veugeois,Géraud Souteyrand,Benjamin Honton","doi":"10.1001/jamacardio.2025.0741","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/jamacardio.2025.0741","url":null,"abstract":"ImportanceThe use of intravascular imaging for calcified plaque characterization and preparation has been advocated over conventional methods to improve percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) outcomes, but this approach has never been evaluated.ObjectiveTo determine if optical coherence tomography (OCT) is superior to angiography for calcified lesions PCI guidance.Design, Setting, and ParticipantsThe CALIPSO (Calcified Lesion Intervention Planning Steered by OCT) trial was a prospective, multicenter, open-label, randomized clinical trial that included patients with stable moderate to severe calcified coronary lesions on coronary angiography scheduled for PCI. The trial was conducted at 12 sites in France between December 2021 and June 2023, and data were analyzed from December 2023 to April 2024.InterventionAfter diagnostic coronary angiography, eligible patients were randomly assigned in a 1:1 ratio to receive OCT-guided PCI or angiography-guided PCI. In the OCT group, the procedures were guided by OCT analysis and predefined standardized management algorithms. Patients from both arms had control post-PCI OCT analysis after procedure completion for primary end point measurement.Main Outcomes and MeasuresThe primary end point was the minimal stent area (MSA) measured by OCT in both groups. Secondary key safety end points included periprocedural myocardial infarction, radiation dose, contrast medium volume, and procedure duration.ResultsA total of 143 patients were randomized, and 134 were included in the final analysis (65 in the OCT group and 69 in the angiography group). Median (IQR) patient age was 73.0 (66.0-78.0) years, and 25 patients (18.7%) were female. The baseline characteristics of the groups were comparable, but the use of intravascular lithotripsy was more frequent in the OCT arm (30 patients [46%] vs 8 patients [12%]; P < .001). The final median (IQR) MSA was larger in the OCT group than in the angiography group (6.5 [5.5-8.1] mm2 vs 5.0 [4.1-6.1] mm2; P < .001). There was no difference in periprocedural complications incidence, contrast medium volume, or procedure duration between groups.Conclusions and RelevanceThe CALIPSO randomized clinical trial showed that OCT guidance associated with predefined algorithmic management achieved better stent implantation results than angiography guidance in patients with calcified lesions PCI, without any additional safety concern.Trial RegistrationClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT05301218.","PeriodicalId":14657,"journal":{"name":"JAMA cardiology","volume":"101 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":24.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143893272","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}
JAMA cardiologyPub Date : 2025-04-30DOI: 10.1001/jamacardio.2025.0829
Amanda Chang,Jordan B Strom,Kan Liu
{"title":"AI-Assisted Point-of-Care Ultrasound Networks-Considerations for Rural Health Care Delivery.","authors":"Amanda Chang,Jordan B Strom,Kan Liu","doi":"10.1001/jamacardio.2025.0829","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/jamacardio.2025.0829","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14657,"journal":{"name":"JAMA cardiology","volume":"43 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":24.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143893216","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}
JAMA cardiologyPub Date : 2025-04-30DOI: 10.1001/jamacardio.2025.0460
Leonoor F J M Wijdeveld,Ezimamaka Ajufo,Saketh P Challa,Joel T Rämö,Xin Wang,Shinwan Kany,Jennifer L Halford,Lu-Chen Weng,Seung Hoan Choi,Krishna G Aragam,J Peter van Tintelen,Bianca J J M Brundel,Sean J Jurgens,Patrick T Ellinor
{"title":"Cardiomyopathy-Associated Gene Variants in Atrial Fibrillation.","authors":"Leonoor F J M Wijdeveld,Ezimamaka Ajufo,Saketh P Challa,Joel T Rämö,Xin Wang,Shinwan Kany,Jennifer L Halford,Lu-Chen Weng,Seung Hoan Choi,Krishna G Aragam,J Peter van Tintelen,Bianca J J M Brundel,Sean J Jurgens,Patrick T Ellinor","doi":"10.1001/jamacardio.2025.0460","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/jamacardio.2025.0460","url":null,"abstract":"ImportancePatients with atrial fibrillation (AF), a common morbid arrhythmia, are more likely to carry rare genetic variants associated with inherited cardiomyopathies. Prior studies on rare pathogenic variants in AF relied on small, hospital referral populations, and knowledge on clinical outcomes remains limited.ObjectiveTo evaluate the prevalence and prognostic implications of cardiomyopathy-associated pathogenic or likely pathogenic (CMP-PLP) genetic variants in patients with AF.Design, Setting, and ParticipantsIn 2 prospective cohort studies, the prevalence of CMP-PLP variants was assessed in the population of patients with AF and early-onset AF. The association between carrying a CMP-PLP variant and the risk of incident cardiomyopathy or heart failure (CMP/HF) after AF diagnosis was evaluated. Finally, the joint contributions of CMP-PLP variants, clinical risk, and polygenic risk were assessed. Included in this study were 2 large longitudinal cohort studies, the UK Biobank (UKB) (data 2006-2023) and the All of Us Research Program (AllofUs) (2018-2022). The UKB and AllofUs cohorts, respectively, contained 393 768 and 193 232 unrelated genotyped participants.ExposuresCMP-PLP variants.Main Outcomes and MeasuresPrevalence of CMP-PLP variants and risk of incident CMP/HF after AF diagnosis.ResultsIn the UKB cohort, 32 281 participants (8%) had AF (mean [SD] age, 62 [6] years; 20 459 male [63.4%]). In the AllofUs cohort, 11 901 participants (6%) had AF (mean [SD] age, 67 [12] years; 6576 male [55.3%]). Compared with the biobank populations, CMP-PLP variants were twice as prevalent in patients with AF (UKB, 2.04%; 95% CI, 1.89%-2.20%; AllofUs, 2.52%; 95% CI, 2.25%-2.82%) and 5 times as prevalent in AF with onset before age 45 years (UKB, 4.99%; 95% CI, 3.07%-7.91%; AllofUs, 4.66%; 3.40%-6.32%). Cumulative incidence of CMP/HF was high in patients with AF (18%) compared with patients without AF (3%). Still, among patients with AF without prior CMP/HF (UKB, 20 226; AllofUs, 8330), carrying a CMP-PLP variant was associated with 1.6-fold risk of incident CMP/HF (meta-analysis, 95% CI, 1.32-1.90). Finally, CMP-PLP variants, a polygenic score, and clinical risk factors were independent estimators of CMP/HF.Conclusions and RelevanceResults of this cohort study suggest that the prevalence of CMP-PLP variants was substantial in patients with early-onset AF. Patients with AF carrying a CMP-PLP variant had an associated increased risk of future CMP/HF, independent of clinical and polygenic risk. These results indicate that genetic testing in patients with AF may identify individuals at higher risk for developing CMP/HF.","PeriodicalId":14657,"journal":{"name":"JAMA cardiology","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":24.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143893214","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}
JAMA cardiologyPub Date : 2025-04-23DOI: 10.1001/jamacardio.2025.0662
Eugene Yang, Aletta E. Schutte, George Stergiou, Fernando Stuardo Wyss, Yvonne Commodore-Mensah, Augustine Odili, Ian Kronish, Hae-Young Lee, Daichi Shimbo
{"title":"Cuffless Blood Pressure Measurement Devices—International Perspectives on Accuracy and Clinical Use","authors":"Eugene Yang, Aletta E. Schutte, George Stergiou, Fernando Stuardo Wyss, Yvonne Commodore-Mensah, Augustine Odili, Ian Kronish, Hae-Young Lee, Daichi Shimbo","doi":"10.1001/jamacardio.2025.0662","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/jamacardio.2025.0662","url":null,"abstract":"ImportanceHypertension is a primary modifiable risk factor for cardiovascular death and disability. Accurate blood pressure (BP) measurement is essential for the diagnosis and treatment of hypertension. Conventional BP measurement with cuff devices is recommended but difficult for patients to perform due to inconvenience, discomfort, and challenges with appropriate cuff sizing and measurement protocols. The emergence of cuffless BP devices provides an opportunity to address many of these problems, including inconvenience, patient comfort, positional requirements, and continuous measurement.ObservationsCuffless BP measurement devices are appealing to patients and clinicians, but validation of these technologies is essential before they can be deployed for clinical use. Key issues that remain include accuracy with risk of undertreatment or overtreatment, equitable access for low- and middle-income countries and minoritized populations, data privacy concerns, and how the devices will be deployed in clinical practice.ConclusionsClinicians and patients should only use validated BP cuff devices until cuffless BP measurement devices are appropriately tested and validated.","PeriodicalId":14657,"journal":{"name":"JAMA cardiology","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":24.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143866649","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}
JAMA cardiologyPub Date : 2025-04-23DOI: 10.1001/jamacardio.2025.0675
Heather Prendergast, Spyros Kitsiou, Renee Petzel Gimbar, Sally Freels, Anissa Sanders, Martha Daviglus, Pavitra Kotini-Shah, Barry Carter, Marina Del Rios, Sara Heinert, Shaveta Khosla
{"title":"Emergency Department–Based Education and mHealth Empowerment Intervention for Hypertension","authors":"Heather Prendergast, Spyros Kitsiou, Renee Petzel Gimbar, Sally Freels, Anissa Sanders, Martha Daviglus, Pavitra Kotini-Shah, Barry Carter, Marina Del Rios, Sara Heinert, Shaveta Khosla","doi":"10.1001/jamacardio.2025.0675","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/jamacardio.2025.0675","url":null,"abstract":"ImportanceHypertension is a leading risk factor for cardiovascular diseases and is often undiagnosed. Emergency department (ED) visits serve as critical access points within health care and present a unique opportunity for hypertension screening and intervention.ObjectiveTo evaluate the effectiveness of an Education and mHealth Empowerment (E2) intervention compared with usual care in reducing systolic blood pressure (SBP) among patients with elevated BP discharged from the ED.Design, Setting, and ParticipantsThis randomized clinical trial enrolled participants who presented to an urban academic medical center ED for any indication and had elevated blood pressure (≥140/90 mm Hg and ≤180/110 mm Hg). Eligible participants who were discharged from the ED were enrolled between February 12, 2019, and March 31, 2023, and were randomized to receive either usual care or the intervention with follow-up visits at 3 and 6 months.InterventionsUsual care involved standard hypertension discharge instructions with a referral for outpatient follow-up. The E2 intervention involved a 3-prong approach, which included a brief Post-Acute Care Hypertension consultation (PACHT-c) with a clinical pharmacist or an advanced practice nurse, a smartphone-enabled BP monitoring kit (Withings device and mobile app) for daily self-monitoring along with behavior change text messages, and primary care referral.Main Outcomes and MeasuresThe primary outcome was the mean change in SBP (mm Hg) from baseline to 6 months.ResultsOf the 574 participants enrolled, mean (SD) age was 51.1 (12.5) years, and 323 (56%) were female; 413 were Black (72%), 115 were Hispanic or Latino (20%), 27 were White (5%), and 19 were other race and ethnicity (3%), which included Asian, American Indian, and other racial or ethnic groups. Of the 413 patients with BP data at 6 months, the E2 intervention group (n = 210) showed a greater mean reduction in SBP (mean difference, 4.9 mm Hg; 95% CI, 0.8-9.0 mm Hg; <jats:italic>P</jats:italic> = .02) compared with the usual-care group (n = 203). A similar proportion of patients achieved BP less than or equal to 140/90 mm Hg at 6 months in the intervention arm (42.9% [90 of 210]) and the control arm (36.9% [75 of 203]; <jats:italic>P</jats:italic> = .22).Conclusions and RelevanceIn this single-center randomized clinical trial, a multicomponent intervention directed at patients in the ED who have elevated BP was associated with greater reduction in SBP at 6 months. Identifying patients who present to the ED with hypertension may be a viable strategy to improve BP management.Trial RegistrationClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: <jats:ext-link xmlns:xlink=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink\" ext-link-type=\"uri\" xlink:href=\"https://www.clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT03749499\">NCT03749499</jats:ext-link>","PeriodicalId":14657,"journal":{"name":"JAMA cardiology","volume":"32 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":24.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143866694","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}
JAMA cardiologyPub Date : 2025-04-23DOI: 10.1001/jamacardio.2025.0630
James Walker, Daniel Won, James Guo, Jamal S. Rana, Norrina B. Allen, Hongyan Ning, Donald M. Lloyd-Jones
{"title":"Cumulative Life’s Essential 8 Scores and Cardiovascular Disease Risk","authors":"James Walker, Daniel Won, James Guo, Jamal S. Rana, Norrina B. Allen, Hongyan Ning, Donald M. Lloyd-Jones","doi":"10.1001/jamacardio.2025.0630","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/jamacardio.2025.0630","url":null,"abstract":"ImportanceMost literature on the association between cardiovascular health (CVH) and incident cardiovascular disease (CVD) and mortality has relied on single midlife measurements. Understanding how cumulative CVH over time influences later-life CVD and mortality may aid early prevention.ObjectiveTo determine whether cumulative CVH, as measured by the American Heart Association Life’s Essential 8 (LE8) from age 18 to 45 years, is associated with incident CVD and mortality in midlife.Design, Setting, and ParticipantsThis cohort study, the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) study, collected CVH data for participants from 4 US centers from 1985 to 2020. Multivariate Cox proportional hazard models assessed the associations of (1) cumulative LE8 score by quartile, (2) cumulative LE8 score and score at age 45 years, and (3) cumulative LE8 score and LE8 score slope from age 18 to 45 years with incident CVD and mortality after age 45 years.Main Outcomes and MeasuresIncident CVD and all-cause mortality. Cumulative LE8 score was calculated as the area under the curve of the LE8 score (0-100, higher is better CVH) over time from age 18 to 45 years.ResultsThere were 4832 CARDIA participants (2690 [55.7%] female and 2142 [44.3%] male) with a mean (SD) cumulative LE8 score from age 18 to 45 years of 2018.8 (95.0) point × years. Compared with quartile 1 (Q1, ie, lowest CVH), Q2, Q3, and Q4 had significantly lower hazards for CVD (Q2 HR, 0.44; 95% CI, 0.32-0.61; Q3 HR, 0.26; 95% CI, 0.18-0.38; Q4 HR, 0.12; 95% CI, 0.07-0.21) and mortality (Q2 HR, 0.51; 95% CI, 0.36-0.71; Q3 HR, 0.38; 95% CI, 0.26-0.55; Q4 HR, 0.29; 95% CI, 0.18-0.45) after age 45 years. When cumulative LE8 score from age 18 to 45 years and LE8 score at age 45 years were in the model together, both were significantly associated with lower risk for CVD. Likewise, both cumulative LE8 score and positive slope of (improving) LE8 score from age 18 to 45 years were significantly associated with lower hazards for incident CVD after age 45 years.Conclusions and RelevanceGreater cumulative CVH and improvement in CVH during young adulthood, as well as better CVH in middle age, were all independently associated with lower risk for incident CVD in midlife. These results emphasize the importance of maintaining and improving CVH throughout young adulthood.","PeriodicalId":14657,"journal":{"name":"JAMA cardiology","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":24.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143866647","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}
JAMA cardiologyPub Date : 2025-04-23DOI: 10.1001/jamacardio.2025.0254
Megan McLaughlin,Michelle A Albert
{"title":"Financial Insecurity and Cardiometabolic Health-A Matter of Survival.","authors":"Megan McLaughlin,Michelle A Albert","doi":"10.1001/jamacardio.2025.0254","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/jamacardio.2025.0254","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14657,"journal":{"name":"JAMA cardiology","volume":"54 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":24.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143866777","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}