{"title":"In Search of the Perfect Marker.","authors":"Luiz Maurino Abreu","doi":"10.36660/abc.20230193","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36660/abc.20230193","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8399,"journal":{"name":"Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10263418/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10178450","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Giovanni Possamai Dutra, Bruno Ferraz de Oliveira Gomes
{"title":"The Clinical Impact of Cardiovascular Symptoms on Post-Acute COVID-19 Syndrome.","authors":"Giovanni Possamai Dutra, Bruno Ferraz de Oliveira Gomes","doi":"10.36660/abc.20230282","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36660/abc.20230282","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8399,"journal":{"name":"Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10263397/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10167893","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Blood Pressure Measurement: There's More Than Meets the Arm.","authors":"Rodrigo Bezerra, Audes D M Feitosa, Wilson Nadruz","doi":"10.36660/abc.20230274","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36660/abc.20230274","url":null,"abstract":"Rodrigo Bezerra,1,2 Audes D. M. Feitosa,2 Wilson Nadruz1,3 Laboratório de Imunopatologia Keizo Asami, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, PE – Brasil Pronto Socorro Cardiológico de Pernambuco (PROCAPE), Universidade de Pernambuco, Recife, PE – Brasil Departamento de Medicina Interna, Faculdade de Ciências Médicas, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, SP – Brasil Minieditorial referente ao artigo: Influência da Gordura do Braço sobre Medida Indireta da Pressão Sanguínea: Uma Abordagem Estatística e de Machine Learning","PeriodicalId":8399,"journal":{"name":"Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10263400/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10174603","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Fabiane Valentini Francisqueti-Ferron, Matheus Antônio Filiol Belin, Thiago Luiz Novaga Palacio, Artur Junio Togneri Ferron, Jéssica Leite Garcia, Juliana Silva Siqueira, Erika Tiemi Nakandakare-Maia, Taynara Aparecida Vieira, Hugo Tadashi Kano, Fernando Moreto, Giuseppina Pace Pereira Lima, Camila Renata Corrêa, Igor Otavio Minatel
{"title":"Fructose Consumption Alters Biogenic Amines Associated with Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors.","authors":"Fabiane Valentini Francisqueti-Ferron, Matheus Antônio Filiol Belin, Thiago Luiz Novaga Palacio, Artur Junio Togneri Ferron, Jéssica Leite Garcia, Juliana Silva Siqueira, Erika Tiemi Nakandakare-Maia, Taynara Aparecida Vieira, Hugo Tadashi Kano, Fernando Moreto, Giuseppina Pace Pereira Lima, Camila Renata Corrêa, Igor Otavio Minatel","doi":"10.36660/abc.20220770","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36660/abc.20220770","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are the major cause of mortality worldwide, whose most prominent risk factor is unhealthy eating habits, such as high fructose intake. Biogenic amines (BAs) perform important functions in the human body. However, the effect of fructose consumption on BA levels is still unclear, as is the association between these and CVD risk factors.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>This study aimed to establish the association between BA levels and CVD risk factors in animals that consumed fructose.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Male Wistar rats received standard chow (n=8) or standard chow + fructose in drinking water (30%) (n=8) over a 24-week period. At the end of this period, the nutritional and metabolic syndrome (MS) parameters and plasmatic BA levels were analyzed. A 5% level of significance was adopted.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Fructose consumption led to MS, reduced the levels of tryptophan and 5-hydroxitryptophan, and increased histamine. Tryptophan, histamine, and dopamine showed a correlation with metabolic syndrome parameters.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Fructose consumption alters BAs associated with CVD risk factors.</p>","PeriodicalId":8399,"journal":{"name":"Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10263407/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10167892","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Gláucia Maria Moraes de Oliveira, Nanette Kass Wenger
{"title":"Managing Women's Cardiovascular Diseases: It's Everyone's Job.","authors":"Gláucia Maria Moraes de Oliveira, Nanette Kass Wenger","doi":"10.36660/abc.20230250","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36660/abc.20230250","url":null,"abstract":"Correspondência: Gláucia Maria Moraes de Oliveira • Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro – Av. Pedro Calmon, 550. CEP 21941-901, Rio de Janeiro, RJ – Brasil E-mail: glauciamoraesoliveira@gmail.com Palavras-chave Mulheres; Doenças Cardiovasculares As doenças cardiovasculares (DCVs) são a principal causa de carga de doença no mundo. Dados recentes do projeto Global Burden of Disease (GBD) de 2021 apresentaram valores de 3568,0 DALYs por 100 mil habitantes (disability-adjusted life years, ou anos de vida ajustados por incapacidade; um DALY representa a perda equivalente a um ano de vida saudável) e 162,2 mortes por 100 mil habitantes, com uma prevalência de 6905,6 por 100 mil habitantes no Brasil.1 Enquanto progressos consideráveis foram feitos na redução de mortes por DCVs no Brasil de 1980 ao início da década 2020, houve um aumento preocupante na mortalidade bruta e nos DALYs nos últimos anos, principalmente entre as mulheres, devido a infarto do miocárdio, entre outras causas.2 Assim, novas estratégias são necessárias para melhorar a saúde cardiovascular.2,3","PeriodicalId":8399,"journal":{"name":"Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10263394/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10174604","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Brazilian Interventional Cardiology and Chronic Coronary Occlusions: Where Are We?","authors":"José Mariani Junior","doi":"10.36660/abc.20230172","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36660/abc.20230172","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8399,"journal":{"name":"Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10263424/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10176900","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Xiaoliang Han, Chao Li, Qinjiong Ji, Ling Zhang, Xiaofei Xie, Huijuan Shang, Hong Ye
{"title":"SLC26A4-AS1 Aggravates AngII-induced Cardiac Hypertrophy by Enhancing SLC26A4 Expression.","authors":"Xiaoliang Han, Chao Li, Qinjiong Ji, Ling Zhang, Xiaofei Xie, Huijuan Shang, Hong Ye","doi":"10.36660/abc.20210933","DOIUrl":"10.36660/abc.20210933","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>It has been reported that solute carrier family 26 members 4 antisense RNA 1 (SLC26A4-AS1) is highly related to cardiac hypertrophy.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>This research aims to investigate the role and specific mechanism of SLC26A4-AS1 in cardiac hypertrophy, providing a novel marker for cardiac hypertrophy treatment.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Angiotensin II (AngII) was infused into neonatal mouse ventricular cardiomyocytes (NMVCs) to induce cardiac hypertrophy. Gene expression was detected by quantitative real-time PCR (RT-qPCR). Protein levels were evaluated via western blot. Functional assays analyzed the role of SLC26A4-AS1. The mechanism of SLC26A4-AS1 was assessed by RNA-binding protein immunoprecipitation (RIP), RNA pull-down, and luciferase reporter assays. The P value <0.05 was identified as statistical significance. Student's t-test evaluated the two-group comparison. The difference between different groups was analyzed by one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>SLC26A4-AS1 is upregulated in AngII-treated NMVCs and promotes AngII-induced cardiac hypertrophy. SLC26A4-AS1 regulates its nearby gene solute carrier family 26 members 4 (SLC26A4) via functioning as a competing endogenous RNA (ceRNA) to modulate the microRNA (miR)-301a-3p and miR-301b-3p in NMVCs. SLC26A4-AS1 promotes AngII-induced cardiac hypertrophy via upregulating SLC26A4 or sponging miR-301a-3p/miR-301b-3p.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>SLC26A4-AS1 aggravates AngII-induced cardiac hypertrophy via sponging miR-301a-3p or miR-301b-3p to enhance SLC26A4 expression.</p>","PeriodicalId":8399,"journal":{"name":"Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10263427/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10175552","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hélder Jorge Andrade Gomes, Alcides Rocha de Figueredo Junior
{"title":"The Challenge of Making Cardiac Resonance a Global Reality.","authors":"Hélder Jorge Andrade Gomes, Alcides Rocha de Figueredo Junior","doi":"10.36660/abc.20230187","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36660/abc.20230187","url":null,"abstract":"Hélder Jorge Andrade Gomes1,2,3,4,5 e Alcides Rocha de Figueredo Junior1 Departamento de Clínica Médica – Faculdade de Medicina de Jundiaí,1 Jundiaí, SP – Brasil Tomografia e Ressonância Cardiovascular – ICON Diagnósticos por Imagem,2 Jundiaí, SP – Brasil Hospital Vera Cruz,3 Campinas, SP – Brasil Prevent Senior,4 São Paulo, SP – Brasil Hospital Samaritano de São Paulo,5 São Paulo, SP – Brasil Minieditorial referente ao artigo: Ressonância Magnética Cardíaca como Ferramenta Diagnóstica Etiológica em Pacientes Recuperados de Morte Súbita Cardíaca ou Arritmias Ventriculares Instáveis","PeriodicalId":8399,"journal":{"name":"Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10124572/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9616451","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Left Ventricular Mechanics: Untwisting the Pathways of the Cardiovascular Response to Exercise.","authors":"Eduardo M Vilela, Ricardo Fontes-Carvalho","doi":"10.36660/abc.20230181","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36660/abc.20230181","url":null,"abstract":"Correspondência: Eduardo M. Vilela • Serviço de Cardiologia, Centro Hospitalar de Vila Nova de Gaia/Espinho – Rua Conceição Fernandes, 4434-502, Vila Nova de Gaia – Portugal E-mail: eduardomvilela@gmail.com Palavras-chave Doenças Cardiovasculares/prevenção e controle; Doença Arterial Coronariana; Diagnóstico por Imagem/métodos; Ecocardiografia/métodos A doença cardiovascular (DCV) é uma das principais causas de morbimortalidade, sendo a doença arterial coronariana (DAC) uma de suas apresentações mais desafiadoras.1 Ao longo dos anos, diversas estratégias permitiram melhorias marcantes em sua gestão. O exercício físico (um componente central dos programas de reabilitação cardíaca) é atualmente uma pedra angular das estratégias contemporâneas abrangentes de prevenção secundária.2 Embora os benefícios do exercício físico tenham sido extensivamente descritos na presença de DAC, as inúmeras vias mecanísticas pelas quais essa intervenção exerce seus diversos efeitos não foram totalmente elucidadas.3,4 De fato, embora seu impacto positivo na capacidade funcional tenha sido destacado, o papel relativo do treinamento físico na função sistólica mostrou alguma variabilidade em diferentes estudos.4,5 Sem deixar de ter em consideração o fato de as diferenças nos desenhos dos programas e das populações em estudo poderem, pelo menos em parte, ajudar a explicar algumas dessas divergências, o estudo dos mecanismos pelos quais o exercício pode ter impacto na função cardíaca (nomeadamente no contexto da DAC) continua a ser um tema de grande interesse.","PeriodicalId":8399,"journal":{"name":"Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10263430/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10547189","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Infective Endocarditis: New Spectra, Same Severity.","authors":"Tiago Bignoto","doi":"10.36660/abc.20230117","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36660/abc.20230117","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8399,"journal":{"name":"Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10263453/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10546737","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}