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Atherosclerosis is a major cause of morbidity and mortality due to cardiovascular diseases, such as coronary artery disease, stroke, and peripheral vascular disease, that are associated with thrombosis-induced organ infarction....
Choosing antithrombotic regimens for patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) who underwent percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) with stent placement is challenging. Until recently, the guidelines recommended warfarin-based triple therapy, which causes...
Vascular dementia is the most common neuropsychiatric syndrome and is characterized by synaptic dysfunction, neuroinflammation, and cognitive dysfunction. Vascular dementia is associated with various environmental, genetic, and lifestyle risk factors....
OBJECTIVE: To examine the effect of niacin on the progression of carotid intima-media thickness (IMT) in patients with high level of lipoprotein (Lp) (a).
METHODS: Patients at low-density lipoprotein-cholesterol goal but...
Diabetes mellitus increases the risk for the development of heart failure even in the absence of coronary artery disease and hypertension, a cardiac entity termed diabetic cardiomyopathy (DC). Clinically, DC...