{"title":"Mendelian Randomization in Atrial Fibrillation.","authors":"Protasio Lemos Da Luz","doi":"10.36660/abc.20240682","DOIUrl":"10.36660/abc.20240682","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":93887,"journal":{"name":"Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia","volume":"121 11","pages":"e20240682"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11634291/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142857233","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Claudia Aznar Alesso, João Queda, Dania Mohty, Vera Maria Cury Salemi
{"title":"Serum Glycogen Synthase 3 Beta Levels: A Promissory Marker for Patients with Heart Failure.","authors":"Claudia Aznar Alesso, João Queda, Dania Mohty, Vera Maria Cury Salemi","doi":"10.36660/abc.20240684","DOIUrl":"10.36660/abc.20240684","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":93887,"journal":{"name":"Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia","volume":"121 11","pages":"e20240684"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11634300/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142815247","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The ACCEPT Study and the Management of Ischemic Myocardial Disease in Brazil: Challenges and Opportunities in a Continental Country.","authors":"Henrique Tria Bianco","doi":"10.36660/abc.20240604","DOIUrl":"10.36660/abc.20240604","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":93887,"journal":{"name":"Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia","volume":"121 11","pages":"e20240604"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11634297/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142815251","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Halecy Davidson Sousa da Silva, Eryvelton de Souza Franco, Larissa Caroline de Almeida Sousa Lima, Maria Bernadete de Sousa Maia
{"title":"Therapeutic Efficacy and Safety of Paracetamol versus Ibuprofen in Patent Ductus Arteriosus in Newborns: A Systematic Review.","authors":"Halecy Davidson Sousa da Silva, Eryvelton de Souza Franco, Larissa Caroline de Almeida Sousa Lima, Maria Bernadete de Sousa Maia","doi":"10.36660/abc.20240058","DOIUrl":"10.36660/abc.20240058","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Closure of the ductus arteriosus (DA) using cyclooxygenase (COX) inhibitors is considered the first-line treatment for hemodynamically significant patent ductus arteriosus (PDA). Physiologically, prostaglandins have a recognized role in PDA. Admittedly, the comparative efficacy and safety between ibuprofen and acetaminophen need to be determined for rational choice of drug therapy for closure of the DA in clinical protocols. This study aims to present the aspects of the efficacy and therapeutic safety of paracetamol versus ibuprofen in the treatment of PDA in premature newborns. A systematic review of the literature was carried out, following the recommendations of the PRISMA protocol, using the Medline, Pubmed, LILACS, and SciELO databases. Studies from the last 10 years (2013-2023) that analyzed the efficacy and/or safety of acetaminophen compared to ibuprofen in newborns diagnosed with PDA were included. Eight randomized clinical trials (RCTs) were selected for analysis, resulting in a sample size of 781 newborns with PDA treated with acetaminophen or ibuprofen. The efficacy of acetaminophen for DA closure is comparable to ibuprofen. There is no statistically significant difference in the incidence of related adverse effects between the two drugs in most studies. There is equivalence in the efficacy and safety of ibuprofen and acetaminophen to promote closure of the DA in premature newborns with hsPDA.</p>","PeriodicalId":93887,"journal":{"name":"Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia","volume":"121 11","pages":"e20240058"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11640919/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142815254","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yuan Zhou, Xuan Wang, Jiongchao Guo, Lei Zhang, Huangsheng Zheng
{"title":"The Causal Relationship between Gut Microbiota and Atrial Fibrillation: A Two-Sample Mendelian Randomization Study.","authors":"Yuan Zhou, Xuan Wang, Jiongchao Guo, Lei Zhang, Huangsheng Zheng","doi":"10.36660/abc.20240357","DOIUrl":"10.36660/abc.20240357","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Previous studies have adequately characterized the gut microbiota (GM) in atrial fibrillation (AF). Nevertheless, the precise causality between GM and AF remains elusive.</p><p><strong>Objectives: </strong>This study utilized public data from genome-wide association studies to explore the causality between GM and AF.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>In the first of two rounds of Mendelian randomization (MR) analysis, the instrumental variables (IVs) comprised single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) that fell below the genome-wide statistical significance threshold (5 × 10-8). To attain a more comprehensive and inclusive conclusion, we further selected SNPs falling below the locus-wide significance level (1 × 10-5) as IVs for the second group. The MR analysis considered the statistically significant causal effect between the specific GM and AF when p < 0.05. Furthermore, in sensitivity analysis, p > 0.05 indicated no heterogeneity and pleiotropy.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>At the locus-wide significance threshold, the findings demonstrated a causal impact of GM on AF risk. The inverse variance weighting method indicated that Actinobacteria, Firmicutes, Alloprevotella, Bifidobacterium, Blautia, Eggerthella, Howardella, Ruminococcaceae UCG004, and Ruminococcus1 were negatively correlated with AF, while Pasteurellales, Pasteurellaceae, Oxalobacter, Ruminiclostridium5, and Turicibacter were positively correlated. Furthermore, at the genome-wide significance threshold, Actinobacteria, Bifidobacteriaceae, and Bifidobacterium were protective factors for the risk of developing AF, whereas Oxalobacteraceae and Erysipelatoclostridium were risk factors for AF. However, sensitivity analyses showed heterogeneity or horizontal pleiotropy within the outcomes for Actinobacteria, Howardella, Oxalobacter, and Firmicutes.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>This study provides evidence for the existence of both favorable and unfavorable causality of GM on AF risk.</p>","PeriodicalId":93887,"journal":{"name":"Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia","volume":"121 11","pages":"e20240357"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11634295/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142815252","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Luiz Eduardo Fonteles Ritt, Pedro Gabriel Melo de Barros E Silva, Eduardo Sahade Darzé, Renato Hideo Nakagawa Santos, Queila Borges de Oliveira, Otavio Berwanger, Luiz Alberto Piva E Mattos, Elizabete Silva Dos Santos, Antonio Carlos Sobral Souza, Margaret Assad Cavalcante, Pedro Beraldo de Andrade, Fernando Carvalho Neuenschwander, Hugo Vargas Filho, Jorge Ilha Guimarães, Jadelson Pinheiro de Andrade, Angelo Amato Vincenzo de Paola, Marcus Vinícius Bolívar Malachias, Dalton Bertolim Précoma, Fernando Bacal, Oscar Pereira Dutra
{"title":"Myocardial Infarction with ST Elevation and Reperfusion Therapy in Brazil: Data from the ACCEPT Registry.","authors":"Luiz Eduardo Fonteles Ritt, Pedro Gabriel Melo de Barros E Silva, Eduardo Sahade Darzé, Renato Hideo Nakagawa Santos, Queila Borges de Oliveira, Otavio Berwanger, Luiz Alberto Piva E Mattos, Elizabete Silva Dos Santos, Antonio Carlos Sobral Souza, Margaret Assad Cavalcante, Pedro Beraldo de Andrade, Fernando Carvalho Neuenschwander, Hugo Vargas Filho, Jorge Ilha Guimarães, Jadelson Pinheiro de Andrade, Angelo Amato Vincenzo de Paola, Marcus Vinícius Bolívar Malachias, Dalton Bertolim Précoma, Fernando Bacal, Oscar Pereira Dutra","doi":"10.36660/abc.20230863","DOIUrl":"10.36660/abc.20230863","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>There is a lack of information from Brazil regarding therapies used and outcomes in patients with acute coronary syndrome with ST elevation (STEMI).</p><p><strong>Objectives: </strong>To evaluate evidence-based therapies, occurrence of outcomes, reperfusion use, and predictors of not receiving reperfusion in patients with STEMI in a national multicenter registry.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Patients with STEMI from the ACCEPT registry, with up to 12 hours of symptoms, were followed for 1 year for the occurrence of major adverse cardiovascular events. A significance level of p < 0.05 was applied for all analyses.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>In the analysis of 1553 patients, the reperfusion rate was 76.8%, ranging from 47.5% in the North Region to 80.5% in the Southeast Region. The rate of major adverse cardiovascular events was 12.5% at 1 year. The prescription of evidence-based therapies at hospital admission was 65.6%. The presence of hypertension (odds ratio [OR] 1.47; 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.11 to 1.96; p < 0.01); prior acute myocardial infarction (OR 1.81; 95% CI 1.32 to 2.48; p < 0.001); and the North (OR 4.65; 95% CI 2.87 to 7.52; p < 0.001), Central-West (OR 4.02; 95% CI 1.26 to 12.7; p < 0.05), and Northeast Regions (OR 1.70; 95% CI 1.17 to 2.46; p < 0.01) were independent predictors of not receiving reperfusion therapy.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>In the 1-year follow-up of the ACCEPT Registry, we were able to verify a wide variation within Brazilian geographical regions regarding adherence to best care practices. The following were independent predictors of not receiving reperfusion therapy: being treated in the North, Central-West, and Northeast Regions; having systemic arterial hypertension; and prior infarction.</p>","PeriodicalId":93887,"journal":{"name":"Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia","volume":"121 11","pages":"e20230863"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11634312/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142815245","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Poliana Pereira Santana, Clarice Alves Dos Santos, Ricardo Franklin de Freitas Mussi, Hector Luiz Rodrigues Munaro, Saulo Vasconcelos Rocha
{"title":"Cluster of Physical Inactivity and Other Risk Factors and Diabesity in Quilombol Adults.","authors":"Poliana Pereira Santana, Clarice Alves Dos Santos, Ricardo Franklin de Freitas Mussi, Hector Luiz Rodrigues Munaro, Saulo Vasconcelos Rocha","doi":"10.36660/abc.20230715","DOIUrl":"10.36660/abc.20230715","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Diabesity is a condition characterized by the coexistence of type 02 diabetes and obesity. The causes are multifactorial, resulting from a complex interaction of genetic and behavioral factors. Among the behavioral factors, there are physical inactivity, inadequate eating habits and excessive consumption of alcohol and tobacco.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>To investigate the clustering of physical inactivity and other risk factors and the association between risk factor combinations and the presence of diabesity in quilombola adults.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Cross-sectional study involving a sample of 332 middle-aged and older adults (≥ 50 years) selected among participants in the \"Epidemiological Profile of Quilombolas in Bahia\" study. Data were collected by interview and anthropometric assessment. Descriptive statistics, cluster analysis, and multinomial logistic regression procedures were used for data analysis.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The highest prevalence of clustering was identified for the combinations of regular alcohol consumption in the absence of the other factors (O/E=14.2; 95%CI 0.87-1.15), followed by regular alcohol and tobacco consumption (O/E=10.3; 95%CI 0.64-0.95) and regular consumption of alcohol, tobacco and foods high in sugar and fat (O/E=6.8; 95%CI= 1.31-1.75). Unadjusted analysis revealed an association between physical inactivity in the absence of the other factors (OR=0.82; 95%CI 0.78-0.86) and diabesity.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Alcohol consumption was the most prevalent factor among the largest combinations evaluated. Furthermore, the presence of physical inactivity without the other behaviors analyzed and the absence of all behaviors were associated with diabesity only in unadjusted analysis.</p>","PeriodicalId":93887,"journal":{"name":"Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia","volume":"121 11","pages":"e20230715"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11634302/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142815244","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cardiac Implantable Electronic Devices in Chagasic and Non-Chagasic Patients: A Critical Look at the Prognosis.","authors":"Fernanda Almeida Andrade","doi":"10.36660/abc.20240629","DOIUrl":"10.36660/abc.20240629","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":93887,"journal":{"name":"Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia","volume":"121 9","pages":"e20240629"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11634229/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142781355","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Marcelo de Paula Martins Monteiro, Helena Nogueira Brasil, Carlos Roberto Martins Rodrigues Sobrinho, Eduardo Arrais Rocha
{"title":"Is it Fair to Contraindicate Cardiac Defibrillator Implantation for Patients with Socioeconomic or Psychological Vulnerability?","authors":"Marcelo de Paula Martins Monteiro, Helena Nogueira Brasil, Carlos Roberto Martins Rodrigues Sobrinho, Eduardo Arrais Rocha","doi":"10.36660/abc.20240643","DOIUrl":"10.36660/abc.20240643","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":93887,"journal":{"name":"Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia","volume":"121 10","pages":"e20240643"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11634218/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142781658","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}