JAMA cardiologyPub Date : 2025-05-01DOI: 10.1001/jamacardio.2025.0124
Leizhi Ku, Xiaojing Ma
{"title":"A Man in His 30s With Ponytail Coronary Artery Anomaly.","authors":"Leizhi Ku, Xiaojing Ma","doi":"10.1001/jamacardio.2025.0124","DOIUrl":"10.1001/jamacardio.2025.0124","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14657,"journal":{"name":"JAMA cardiology","volume":" ","pages":"513"},"PeriodicalIF":14.8,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143657083","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 : 2025-05-01DOI: 10.1001/jamacardio.2025.0478
Robert O Bonow
{"title":"JAMA Cardiology-The Year in Review 2024.","authors":"Robert O Bonow","doi":"10.1001/jamacardio.2025.0478","DOIUrl":"10.1001/jamacardio.2025.0478","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14657,"journal":{"name":"JAMA cardiology","volume":" ","pages":"409-411"},"PeriodicalIF":14.8,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143657091","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 : 2025-05-01DOI: 10.1001/jamacardio.2024.4019
Natalie A Cameron, Norrina B Allen
{"title":"Preventing Declines in Cardiovascular Health From Childhood: Never Too Early for Heart Health.","authors":"Natalie A Cameron, Norrina B Allen","doi":"10.1001/jamacardio.2024.4019","DOIUrl":"10.1001/jamacardio.2024.4019","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14657,"journal":{"name":"JAMA cardiology","volume":" ","pages":"414-416"},"PeriodicalIF":14.8,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142846594","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 : 2025-05-01DOI: 10.1001/jamacardio.2025.0219
Matthew M Y Lee, Gregory D Lewis
{"title":"Peak Oxygen Uptake Vs Ventilatory Efficiency-In Reply.","authors":"Matthew M Y Lee, Gregory D Lewis","doi":"10.1001/jamacardio.2025.0219","DOIUrl":"10.1001/jamacardio.2025.0219","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14657,"journal":{"name":"JAMA cardiology","volume":" ","pages":"517"},"PeriodicalIF":14.8,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143657108","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 : 2025-05-01DOI: 10.1001/jamacardio.2025.0038
Stephen J Greene, Javed Butler, Gregg C Fonarow
{"title":"Simultaneous or Rapid Initiation of Combination Therapy for Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction.","authors":"Stephen J Greene, Javed Butler, Gregg C Fonarow","doi":"10.1001/jamacardio.2025.0038","DOIUrl":"10.1001/jamacardio.2025.0038","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14657,"journal":{"name":"JAMA cardiology","volume":" ","pages":"407-408"},"PeriodicalIF":14.8,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143556883","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 : 2025-05-01DOI: 10.1001/jamacardio.2024.5221
Aldostefano Porcari, Yousuf Razvi, Francesco Cappelli, Christian Nitsche, Matteo Serenelli, Simone Longhi, Giulio Sinigiani, Alberto Cipriani, Alberto Aimo, Daniela Tomasoni, Mattia Zampieri, Anna Cantone, Valentina Allegro, Giuseppe Vergaro, Ahmad Masri, Marcus Urey, Adam Ioannou, Aviva Petrie, Navid Noory, Finn Gustafsson, Michael Poledniczek, Michele Emdin, Marco Metra, Gianfranco Sinagra, Ana Martinez-Naharro, Ashutosh D Wechalekar, Helen Lachman, Carol Whelan, Philip N Hawkins, Scott D Solomon, Julian D Gillmore, Marianna Fontana
{"title":"Clinical Phenotype and Prognosis of Asymptomatic Patients With Transthyretin Cardiac Amyloid Infiltration.","authors":"Aldostefano Porcari, Yousuf Razvi, Francesco Cappelli, Christian Nitsche, Matteo Serenelli, Simone Longhi, Giulio Sinigiani, Alberto Cipriani, Alberto Aimo, Daniela Tomasoni, Mattia Zampieri, Anna Cantone, Valentina Allegro, Giuseppe Vergaro, Ahmad Masri, Marcus Urey, Adam Ioannou, Aviva Petrie, Navid Noory, Finn Gustafsson, Michael Poledniczek, Michele Emdin, Marco Metra, Gianfranco Sinagra, Ana Martinez-Naharro, Ashutosh D Wechalekar, Helen Lachman, Carol Whelan, Philip N Hawkins, Scott D Solomon, Julian D Gillmore, Marianna Fontana","doi":"10.1001/jamacardio.2024.5221","DOIUrl":"10.1001/jamacardio.2024.5221","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Importance: </strong>Patients with transthyretin (ATTR) cardiac amyloid infiltration are increasingly diagnosed at earlier disease stages with no heart failure (HF) symptoms and a wide range of cardiac amyloid infiltration.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>To characterize the clinical phenotype and natural history of asymptomatic patients with ATTR cardiac amyloid infiltration.</p><p><strong>Design, setting, and participants: </strong>This cohort study analyzed data of all patients at 12 international centers for amyloidosis from January 1, 2008, through December 31, 2023. Inclusion criteria were asymptomatic ATTR cardiac amyloid infiltration, defined as an absence of HF history, HF signs and symptoms, diuretic therapy, and plasma cell dyscrasia with evidence of myocardial uptake on bone scintigraphy. If plasma cell dyscrasia was present, histologic confirmation of ATTR amyloid was required.</p><p><strong>Exposure: </strong>Asymptomatic ATTR cardiac amyloid infiltration.</p><p><strong>Main outcomes and measures: </strong>The primary outcomes were all-cause and cardiovascular (CV) mortality. The secondary outcomes were unplanned HF hospitalization, unplanned CV-related hospitalization, and a composite outcome of CV mortality and HF hospitalization.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The study comprised 485 patients with asymptomatic ATTR cardiac amyloid infiltration (mean [SD] age, 74.9 [9.9] years, 85.8% male, 112 [23.1%] with hereditary ATTR amyloidosis), with 369 (76.1%) having grade 2 or 3 and 116 (23.9%) having grade 1 cardiac uptake at baseline. Patients with grade 2 or 3 uptake exhibited significantly more cardiac functional and structural abnormalities vs patients with grade 1 uptake. At 3 years, compared with grade 1 uptake, patients with grade 2 or 3 uptake had greater development of HF (54.3% [95% CI, 47.7%-61.3%] vs 23.1% [95% CI, 14.8%-35.1%]), greater outpatient diuretic initiation and N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide progression (35.0% [95% CI, 28.0%-43.2%] vs 12.4% [95% CI, 6.3%-23.7%]), and greater HF hospitalization (8.7% [95% CI, 5.9%-12.9%] vs 0%) and unplanned CV hospitalization (20.0% [95% CI, 15.7%-25.3%] vs 4.3% [95% CI, 1.6%-11.3%]). Over a median follow-up of 37 months (IQR, 20-64 months), the all-cause death rate was similar between patients with grade 1 vs 2 and 3 uptake; however, those with grade 2 or 3 compared with grade 1 uptake had a significantly higher risk of CV mortality (unadjusted hazard ratio, 5.30; 95% CI, 1.92-14.65).</p><p><strong>Conclusions and relevance: </strong>This study shows that asymptomatic ATTR cardiac amyloid infiltration encompasses a wide spectrum of disease severity, with patients with grade 2 or 3 cardiac uptake experiencing an increased rate of CV events and CV mortality and patients with grade 1 uptake experiencing a lower CV event rate and predominantly non-CV mortality. These findings support the use of disease-modifying treatments in asymptomatic patients with grade ","PeriodicalId":14657,"journal":{"name":"JAMA cardiology","volume":" ","pages":"437-445"},"PeriodicalIF":14.8,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12079285/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143005551","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
JAMA cardiologyPub Date : 2025-05-01DOI: 10.1001/jamacardio.2024.5433
Robert S Rosenson, J Antonio G López, Daniel Gaudet, Seth J Baum, Elmer Stout, Norman E Lepor, Jeong-Gun Park, Sabina A Murphy, Beat Knusel, Jingying Wang, Tomaz Wilmanski, Huei Wang, You Wu, Helina Kassahun, Marc S Sabatine, Michelle L O'Donoghue
{"title":"Olpasiran, Oxidized Phospholipids, and Systemic Inflammatory Biomarkers: Results From the OCEAN(a)-DOSE Trial.","authors":"Robert S Rosenson, J Antonio G López, Daniel Gaudet, Seth J Baum, Elmer Stout, Norman E Lepor, Jeong-Gun Park, Sabina A Murphy, Beat Knusel, Jingying Wang, Tomaz Wilmanski, Huei Wang, You Wu, Helina Kassahun, Marc S Sabatine, Michelle L O'Donoghue","doi":"10.1001/jamacardio.2024.5433","DOIUrl":"10.1001/jamacardio.2024.5433","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Importance: </strong>Lipoprotein(a) (Lp[a]) is thought to be the major carrier of oxidized phospholipids (OxPL). OxPL are believed to be a potent driver of inflammation and atherosclerosis. Olpasiran, a small interfering RNA, blocks Lp(a) production by inducing degradation of apolipoprotein(a) messenger RNA. Olpasiran's effects on OxPL and systemic markers of inflammation are not well described.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>To assess the effects of olpasiran on OxPL, high-sensitivity interleukin 6 (hs-IL-6), and hs-C-reactive protein (hs-CRP) in the OCEAN(a)-DOSE randomized clinical trial.</p><p><strong>Design, setting, and participants: </strong>OCEAN(a)-DOSE was an international, multicenter, placebo-controlled, phase 2, dose-finding randomized clinical trial conducted between July 2020 and November 2022. A total of 281 patients with atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease and Lp(a) levels greater than 150 nmol/L were included.</p><p><strong>Intervention: </strong>Participants were randomized to receive 1 of 4 active subcutaneous doses of olpasiran vs placebo: (1) 10 mg, administered every 12 weeks (Q12W); (2) 75 mg, Q12W; (3) 225 mg, Q12W; or (4) 225 mg, administered every 24 weeks (Q24W). OxPL on apolipoprotein B (OxPL-apoB), hs-CRP, and hs-IL-6 were assessed at baseline, week 36, and week 48 in 272 patients.</p><p><strong>Main outcomes and measures: </strong>The primary outcome was placebo-adjusted change in OxPL-apoB from baseline to week 36.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Among 272 participants, median (IQR) age was 62 years (56-69), and 86 participants (31.6%) were female. Baseline median (IQR) Lp(a) concentration was 260.3 nmol/L (198.1-352.4) and median (IQR) OxPL-apoB concentration was 26.5 nmol/L (19.7-33.9). The placebo-adjusted mean percentage change in OxPL-apoB from baseline to week 36 was -51.6% (95% CI, -64.9% to -38.2%) for the 10-mg Q12W dose, -89.7% (95% CI, -103.0% to -76.4%) for the 75-mg Q12W dose, -92.3% (95% CI, -105.6% to -78.9%) for the 225-mg Q12W dose, and -93.7% (95% CI, -107.1% to -80.3%) for the Q24W dose (P < .001 for all). These effects were maintained to week 48 (-50.8%, -100.2%, -104.7%, and -85.8%, respectively; P < .001 for all). There was a strong correlation between percentage reduction in Lp(a) and OxPL-apoB for patients treated with olpasiran (r = 0.79; P < .001). Olpasiran did not significantly impact hs-CRP or hs-IL-6 compared with placebo to weeks 36 or 48 (P > .05).</p><p><strong>Conclusion and relevance: </strong>In the OCEAN(a)-DOSE multicenter randomized clinical trial, olpasiran led to a significant and sustained reduction in OxPL-apoB but no significant effects on hs-CRP or hs-IL-6.</p>","PeriodicalId":14657,"journal":{"name":"JAMA cardiology","volume":" ","pages":"482-486"},"PeriodicalIF":14.8,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11822594/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143399247","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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}