{"title":"Prevalence and Associated Factors of Atherosclerotic Plaque and Stenosis in Renal Arteries: A Community-Based Study.","authors":"Dongxue Wang, Yuesong Pan, Xueli Cai, Jing Jing, Hongyi Yan, Suying Wang, Xia Meng, Lerong Mei, Yanli Zhang, Shan Li, Tiemin Wei, Yilun Zhou, Yongjun Wang","doi":"10.1177/00033197241238404","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00033197241238404","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The epidemiology of renal artery atherosclerosis in community populations is poorly documented. This study aimed to determine the prevalence of renal artery plaque (RAP) and atherosclerotic renal artery stenosis (ARAS), and the association of plaque and stenosis with vascular risk factors and kidney disease markers among community-dwelling adults. We conducted a cross-sectional analysis of the Polyvascular Evaluation for Cognitive Impairment and Vascular Events (PRECISE) study. RAP and ARAS were evaluated by thoracoabdominal computed tomography angiography. A total of 3045 adults aged 50-75 years were included. The prevalence of RAP and ARAS was 28.7% and 4.8%, respectively. The prevalence of RAP and ARAS was 41.3% and 7.7% in individuals aged ≥60 years, 42.9% and 8.7% in hypertensives, and 45.4% and 8.5% in individuals with chronic kidney disease. Older age, hypertension, higher total cholesterol level, and lower high-density lipoprotein cholesterol level were independently associated with RAP and ARAS. A higher urinary albumin-creatinine ratio was independently associated with RAP, whereas a reduced estimated glomerular filtration rate was independently associated with ARAS. In conclusion, there was a non-negligible prevalence of RAP and ARAS among the older, community population in China.</p>","PeriodicalId":8264,"journal":{"name":"Angiology","volume":" ","pages":"751-758"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140048658","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AngiologyPub Date : 2025-09-01Epub Date: 2024-03-07DOI: 10.1177/00033197241238403
Fotis Dimitriadis, Stelina Alkagiet, Lamprini Tsigkriki, Panagiota Kleitsioti, George Sidiropoulos, Dimitris Efstratiou, Taisa Askalidi, Adam Tsaousidis, Michail Siarkos, Pinelopi Giannakopoulou, Angeliki-Despoina Mavrogianni, John Zarifis, George Koulaouzidis
{"title":"ChatGPT and Patients With Heart Failure.","authors":"Fotis Dimitriadis, Stelina Alkagiet, Lamprini Tsigkriki, Panagiota Kleitsioti, George Sidiropoulos, Dimitris Efstratiou, Taisa Askalidi, Adam Tsaousidis, Michail Siarkos, Pinelopi Giannakopoulou, Angeliki-Despoina Mavrogianni, John Zarifis, George Koulaouzidis","doi":"10.1177/00033197241238403","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00033197241238403","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>ChatGPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) is a large-scale language processing model, with possibilities for professional patient support in a patient-friendly way. The aim of the study was to examine the accuracy and reproducibility of ChatGPT in answering questions about knowledge and management of heart failure (HF). First, we recorded 47 most frequently asked questions by patients about HF. The answers of ChatGPT to these questions were independently assessed by two researchers. ChatGPT was able to render the definition of the disease in a very simple and explanatory way. It listed a number of the most important causes of HF and the most important risk factors for its occurrence. It provided correct answers about the most important diagnostic tests and why they are recommended. In addition, it answered health and dietary questions, such as the daily fluid and the alcohol intake. ChatGPT listed the most important classes of drugs in HF and their mechanism of action. It also answered with arguments to questions about patient's sex life, whether they could work, drive, or travel by plane. The performance of ChatGPT was described as very good as it was able to adequately answer all questions posed to it.</p>","PeriodicalId":8264,"journal":{"name":"Angiology","volume":" ","pages":"796-801"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140048657","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AngiologyPub Date : 2025-09-01Epub Date: 2024-02-22DOI: 10.1177/00033197241235957
Faysal Şaylık, Ömer Kümet, Remzi Sarıkaya, Tayyar Akbulut
{"title":"Bendopnea Predicts High SYNTAX Score in Patients With Coronary Artery Disease: A Bayesian Approach.","authors":"Faysal Şaylık, Ömer Kümet, Remzi Sarıkaya, Tayyar Akbulut","doi":"10.1177/00033197241235957","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00033197241235957","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Coronary artery disease (CAD) is one of the major health problems worldwide. CAD severity, as calculated by SYNTAX score (SS), is associated with higher morbidity and mortality. A new symptom of shortness of breath within 30 s while bending forward is described as bendopnea and is related to elevated cardiac filling pressure. It is also known that a high SS is associated with left ventricular (LV) dysfunction which leads to higher LV filling pressure. We aimed to investigate whether there was an association between bendopnea and high SS in CAD patients. A high SS was defined ≥22. Of 374 stable angina pectoris patients, 238 (64%) patients had bendopnea and 136 (36%) patients had no bendopnea in this study. The bendopnea (+) group had higher SS and Gensini scores than the bendopnea (-) group (posterior probabilities >0.999 and 0.995, respectively). The presence of bendopnea was independently associated with a higher SS (odds ratio [OR] = 3.82, 95% credible intervals [CrI] = 1.93-8.17). When different priors were used in the context of meta-analysis, there was only 18% heterogeneity among the results, indicating that the results of our study were robust. This is the first study to report that bendopnea was independently associated with CAD severity.</p>","PeriodicalId":8264,"journal":{"name":"Angiology","volume":" ","pages":"743-750"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139929717","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AngiologyPub Date : 2025-09-01Epub Date: 2024-06-13DOI: 10.1177/00033197241262496
Muhammed Said Beşler
{"title":"Letter: Large Language Models' Performance on the European Board of Cardiovascular Radiology Diploma Sample Test.","authors":"Muhammed Said Beşler","doi":"10.1177/00033197241262496","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00033197241262496","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8264,"journal":{"name":"Angiology","volume":" ","pages":"808"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141309893","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AngiologyPub Date : 2025-09-01Epub Date: 2024-02-14DOI: 10.1177/00033197241232441
Kais Hyasat, Edmund Hasche, Hamid Almafragy, Joseph Chiha, Kaleab Asrress, Kevin Liou
{"title":"Fractional Flow Reserve and Angiography Guided Complete Revascularization in Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: A Systematic Review and Network Meta-Analysis.","authors":"Kais Hyasat, Edmund Hasche, Hamid Almafragy, Joseph Chiha, Kaleab Asrress, Kevin Liou","doi":"10.1177/00033197241232441","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00033197241232441","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Using a network meta-analysis, this study compared fractional flow reserve (FFR) guided with angiography-guided revascularization of non-culprit lesions in ST elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). We also assessed if early complete revascularization is superior to delayed revascularization. We conducted a network meta-analysis using Net Meta XL of trials of STEMI patients with multivessel disease and compared revascularization strategies. The primary outcomes of interest were rate of revascularization, myocardial infarction, and all-cause mortality. Ten studies were included in our analysis comprising 7981 patients with 4484 patients undergoing complete revascularization and 3497 patients with culprit-only revascularization. There was no significant reduction in all-cause death, myocardial infarction, or revascularization using FFR guidance. There was significant reduction in repeat revascularization with complete revascularization irrespective of timing of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) compared with the culprit-only group. There was an overall trend favoring earlier revascularization. For patients with multivessel disease presenting with ST-elevation MI, complete revascularization significantly reduces repeat revascularization compared with culprit-only treatment. FFR guidance is non-superior to angiography-guided revascularization. Furthermore, there was significant reduction in repeat revascularization irrespective of timing of PCI to non-culprit vessels.</p>","PeriodicalId":8264,"journal":{"name":"Angiology","volume":" ","pages":"720-733"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139728791","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AngiologyPub Date : 2025-09-01Epub Date: 2024-02-15DOI: 10.1177/00033197241234076
Emir Muzurović, Marija Maćešić, Sreten Kavarić
{"title":"Liver Fibrosis and Atherosclerosis, a Consequence of Metabolic Dysfunction-Do They Share a Similar Pathophysiological Background?","authors":"Emir Muzurović, Marija Maćešić, Sreten Kavarić","doi":"10.1177/00033197241234076","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00033197241234076","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8264,"journal":{"name":"Angiology","volume":" ","pages":"717-719"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139734317","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AngiologyPub Date : 2025-09-01Epub Date: 2024-08-23DOI: 10.1177/00033197241278131
Alberto Farinetti, Antonio Manenti, Anna Vittoria Mattioli
{"title":"Letter: Long COVID in Patients With Peripheral Arterial Disease; the Need for Further Research.","authors":"Alberto Farinetti, Antonio Manenti, Anna Vittoria Mattioli","doi":"10.1177/00033197241278131","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00033197241278131","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8264,"journal":{"name":"Angiology","volume":" ","pages":"811-812"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142043847","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AngiologyPub Date : 2025-08-25DOI: 10.1177/00033197251365016
Rochell Issa, Tess Calcagno, Tyler Canova, Ryan Issa, David Kaelber, Venu Menon, W H Wilson Tang, Brian Griffin, Deborah Kwon, Tom Kai Ming Wang
{"title":"Outcomes Associated With SGLT2 Inhibitor Use Following Acute Myocardial Infarction Without Heart Failure: A Propensity-Matched Study.","authors":"Rochell Issa, Tess Calcagno, Tyler Canova, Ryan Issa, David Kaelber, Venu Menon, W H Wilson Tang, Brian Griffin, Deborah Kwon, Tom Kai Ming Wang","doi":"10.1177/00033197251365016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00033197251365016","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This retrospective propensity-matched cohort study assessed the association between sodium-glucose co-transporter-2 inhibitor (SGLT2i) use and cardiovascular outcomes in patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) without a history of heart failure. Using the TriNetX U.S. Collaborative Network, we identified 1440 matched patients (720 SGLT2i+ vs 720 SGLT2i-) with preserved ejection fraction and no prior heart failure. Nearly 90% of patients had diabetes. The primary outcome was major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE), defined as a composite of MI, stroke, heart failure, and all-cause mortality. At 1 year, MACE occurred in 17.4% of SGLT2i+ versus 22.0% of SGLT2i- patients (odds ratio [OR] 0.746, 95% CI 0.574-0.969; <i>P</i> = .028), and all-cause mortality occurred in 3.1% versus 7.6%, respectively (OR 0.389, 95% CI 0.234-0.645; <i>P</i> < .001). SGLT2i use was also associated with lower risks of major bleeding. Findings were consistent over long-term follow-up. While the observed associations suggest potential cardioprotective effects of SGLT2i post-MI in patients without heart failure, residual confounding cannot be excluded. The observed reduction in bleeding events is novel and warrants further investigation in prospective studies.</p>","PeriodicalId":8264,"journal":{"name":"Angiology","volume":" ","pages":"33197251365016"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144940239","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AngiologyPub Date : 2025-08-23DOI: 10.1177/00033197251365427
Jianchao Xu, Mengtong Zhu
{"title":"Further Insights into Ambulatory Blood Pressure Modulation by Age and Body Weight.","authors":"Jianchao Xu, Mengtong Zhu","doi":"10.1177/00033197251365427","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00033197251365427","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8264,"journal":{"name":"Angiology","volume":" ","pages":"33197251365427"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144940278","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}