{"title":"Combined measure of inflammation, cholesterol and lipoprotein(a) predicts 30-year cardiovascular risk in women","authors":"Karina Huynh","doi":"10.1038/s41569-024-01082-2","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41569-024-01082-2","url":null,"abstract":"A single combined measurement of high-sensitivity C-reactive protein, LDL-cholesterol and lipoprotein(a) levels in plasma predicts incident cardiovascular events among women over a 30-year follow-up period, according to a new study.","PeriodicalId":18976,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Cardiology","volume":"21 11","pages":"741-741"},"PeriodicalIF":41.7,"publicationDate":"2024-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142235046","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":"Clonal haematopoiesis: an emerging causal risk factor for atherosclerotic CVD","authors":"Jennifer Harman","doi":"10.1038/s41569-024-01081-3","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41569-024-01081-3","url":null,"abstract":"New research suggests that the presence of clonal haematopoiesis is unidirectionally associated with the development of atherosclerosis and that colchicine holds potential therapeutic value.","PeriodicalId":18976,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Cardiology","volume":"21 11","pages":"741-741"},"PeriodicalIF":41.7,"publicationDate":"2024-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142235047","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}
My Phung Khuu, Nadja Paeslack, Olga Dremova, Corinne Benakis, Klytaimnistra Kiouptsi, Christoph Reinhardt
{"title":"The gut microbiota in thrombosis","authors":"My Phung Khuu, Nadja Paeslack, Olga Dremova, Corinne Benakis, Klytaimnistra Kiouptsi, Christoph Reinhardt","doi":"10.1038/s41569-024-01070-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41569-024-01070-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The gut microbiota has emerged as an environmental risk factor that affects thrombotic phenotypes in several cardiovascular diseases. Evidence includes the identification of marker species by sequencing studies of the gut microbiomes of patients with thrombotic disease, the influence of antithrombotic therapies on gut microbial diversity, and preclinical studies in mouse models of thrombosis that have demonstrated the functional effects of the gut microbiota on vascular inflammatory phenotypes and thrombus formation. In addition to impaired gut barrier function promoting low-grade inflammation, gut microbiota-derived metabolites have been shown to act on vascular cell types and promote thrombus formation. Therefore, these meta-organismal pathways that link the metabolic capacities of gut microorganisms with host immune functions have emerged as potential diagnostic markers and novel drug targets. In this Review, we discuss the link between the gut microbiota, its metabolites and thromboembolic diseases.</p>","PeriodicalId":18976,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Cardiology","volume":"36 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":49.6,"publicationDate":"2024-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142235049","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":"Interferon response at the border zone of the infarcted heart","authors":"Karina Huynh","doi":"10.1038/s41569-024-01078-y","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41569-024-01078-y","url":null,"abstract":"Cardiomyocytes can activate the type I interferon response in the infarct border zone after myocardial infarction, indicating that the type I interferon pathway, in addition to its well-established role in antiviral responses, is also involved in cardiac injury.","PeriodicalId":18976,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Cardiology","volume":"21 11","pages":"740-740"},"PeriodicalIF":41.7,"publicationDate":"2024-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142235048","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}
Junyan Xu, Junli Guo, Tianxiao Liu, Chongzhe Yang, Zhaojie Meng, Peter Libby, Jinying Zhang, Guo-Ping Shi
{"title":"Differential roles of eosinophils in cardiovascular disease","authors":"Junyan Xu, Junli Guo, Tianxiao Liu, Chongzhe Yang, Zhaojie Meng, Peter Libby, Jinying Zhang, Guo-Ping Shi","doi":"10.1038/s41569-024-01071-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41569-024-01071-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Eosinophils are essential innate immune cells in allergic responses. Accumulating evidence indicates that eosinophils also participate in the pathogenesis of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs). In clinical studies, high blood eosinophil counts and eosinophil cationic protein levels have been associated with an increased risk of CVD, including myocardial infarction (MI), cardiac hypertrophy, atrial fibrillation, abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) and atherosclerosis. However, low blood eosinophil counts have also been reported to be a risk factor for MI, heart failure, aortic dissection, AAA, deep vein thrombosis, pulmonary embolism and ischaemic stroke. Although these conflicting clinical observations remain unexplained, CVD status, timing of eosinophil data collection, and tissue eosinophil phenotypic and functional heterogeneities might account for these discrepancies. Preclinical studies suggest that eosinophils have protective actions in MI, cardiac hypertrophy, heart failure and AAA. By contrast, cationic proteins and platelet-activating factor from eosinophils have been shown to promote vascular smooth muscle cell proliferation, vascular calcification, thrombomodulin inactivation and platelet activation and aggregation, thereby exacerbating atherosclerosis, atrial fibrillation, thrombosis and associated complications. Therefore, eosinophils seem to promote calcification and thrombosis in chronic CVD but are protective in acute cardiovascular settings. In this Review, we summarize the available clinical and preclinical data on the different roles of eosinophils in CVD.</p>","PeriodicalId":18976,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Cardiology","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":49.6,"publicationDate":"2024-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142235051","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":"Atheroimmunology: keeping the immune system in atherosclerosis in check","authors":"Claudia Monaco, Lea Dib","doi":"10.1038/s41569-024-01075-1","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41569-024-01075-1","url":null,"abstract":"The immune response is not unlike a game of chess, with white and black pieces playing opposing roles and orchestrating an opening, a middle and an endgame of innate immunity, adaptive immunity and resolution, respectively. After decades of research, the study of atheroimmunology has brought the first therapeutics to the clinic. Can we resynchronize the immune system in atherosclerosis and save the king?","PeriodicalId":18976,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Cardiology","volume":"21 11","pages":"737-738"},"PeriodicalIF":41.7,"publicationDate":"2024-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142170767","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}
Ahmed U. Fayyaz, Muhammad Eltony, Larry J. Prokop, Katlyn E. Koepp, Barry A. Borlaug, Surendra Dasari, Melanie C. Bois, Kenneth B. Margulies, Joesph J. Maleszewski, Ying Wang, Margaret M. Redfield
{"title":"Pathophysiological insights into HFpEF from studies of human cardiac tissue","authors":"Ahmed U. Fayyaz, Muhammad Eltony, Larry J. Prokop, Katlyn E. Koepp, Barry A. Borlaug, Surendra Dasari, Melanie C. Bois, Kenneth B. Margulies, Joesph J. Maleszewski, Ying Wang, Margaret M. Redfield","doi":"10.1038/s41569-024-01067-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41569-024-01067-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) is a major, worldwide health-care problem. Few therapies for HFpEF exist because the pathophysiology of this condition is poorly defined and, increasingly, postulated to be diverse. Although perturbations in other organs contribute to the clinical profile in HFpEF, altered cardiac structure, function or both are the primary causes of this heart failure syndrome. Therefore, studying myocardial tissue is fundamental to improve pathophysiological insights and therapeutic discovery in HFpEF. Most studies of myocardial changes in HFpEF have relied on cardiac tissue from animal models without (or with limited) confirmatory studies in human cardiac tissue. Animal models of HFpEF have evolved based on theoretical HFpEF aetiologies, but these models might not reflect the complex pathophysiology of human HFpEF. The focus of this Review is the pathophysiological insights gained from studies of human HFpEF myocardium. We outline the rationale for these studies, the challenges and opportunities in obtaining myocardial tissue from patients with HFpEF and relevant comparator groups, the analytical approaches, the pathophysiological insights gained to date and the remaining knowledge gaps. Our objective is to provide a roadmap for future studies of cardiac tissue from diverse cohorts of patients with HFpEF, coupling discovery biology with measures to account for pathophysiological diversity.</p>","PeriodicalId":18976,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Cardiology","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":49.6,"publicationDate":"2024-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142085620","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}
Hossein-Ardeschir Ghofrani, Mardi Gomberg-Maitland, Lan Zhao, Friedrich Grimminger
{"title":"Mechanisms and treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension","authors":"Hossein-Ardeschir Ghofrani, Mardi Gomberg-Maitland, Lan Zhao, Friedrich Grimminger","doi":"10.1038/s41569-024-01064-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41569-024-01064-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Substantial progress has been made in the management of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) in the past 25 years, but the disease remains life-limiting. Established therapies for PAH are mostly limited to symptomatic relief by correcting the imbalance of vasoactive factors. The tyrosine kinase inhibitor imatinib, the first predominantly non-vasodilatory drug to be tested in patients with PAH, improved exercise capacity and pulmonary haemodynamics compared with placebo but at the expense of adverse events such as subdural haematoma. Given that administration by inhalation might reduce the risk of systemic adverse effects, inhaled formulations of tyrosine kinase inhibitors are currently in clinical development. Other novel therapeutic approaches for PAH include suppression of activin receptor type IIA signalling with sotatercept, which has shown substantial efficacy in clinical trials and was approved for use in the USA in 2024, but the long-term safety of the drug remains unclear. Future advances in the management of PAH will focus on right ventricular function and involve deep phenotyping and the development of a personalized medicine approach. In this Review, we summarize the mechanisms underlying PAH, provide an overview of available PAH therapies and their limitations, describe the development of newer, predominantly non-vasodilatory drugs that are currently being tested in phase II or III clinical trials, and discuss future directions for PAH research.</p>","PeriodicalId":18976,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Cardiology","volume":"367 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":49.6,"publicationDate":"2024-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141899446","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":"Stroke triggers an innate immune memory that drives cardiac dysfunction","authors":"Irene Fernández-Ruiz","doi":"10.1038/s41569-024-01069-z","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41569-024-01069-z","url":null,"abstract":"Acute ischaemic stroke induces persistent innate immune memory through epigenetic changes in myeloid progenitors in the bone marrow, and this innate immune training contributes to cardiac remodelling and dysfunction in the long term, according to a new study.","PeriodicalId":18976,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Cardiology","volume":"21 10","pages":"663-663"},"PeriodicalIF":41.7,"publicationDate":"2024-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141899445","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":"Potential new therapeutic target for HFpEF","authors":"Irene Fernández-Ruiz","doi":"10.1038/s41569-024-01066-2","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41569-024-01066-2","url":null,"abstract":"A new small-molecule inhibitor of vasohibins reduces myocardial stiffness and improves diastolic relaxation in a rat model of HFpEF.","PeriodicalId":18976,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Cardiology","volume":"21 10","pages":"664-664"},"PeriodicalIF":41.7,"publicationDate":"2024-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141792887","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}