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Homocysteine and reclassification of cardiovascular disease risk.
- V. Veeranna, S. Zalawadiya, +5 authors Luis Afonso
- Medicine
- Journal of the American College of Cardiology
- 30 August 2011
OBJECTIVES
The purpose of this study was to examine whether adding homocysteine (Hcy) to a model based on traditional cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors improves risk classification.
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Prognostic Value of Coronary Flow Reserve in Patients with Dialysis-Dependent ESRD.
- Nishant R. Shah, D. Charytan, +12 authors M. D. Di Carli
- Medicine
- Journal of the American Society of Nephrology…
- 1 June 2016
Capillary rarefaction of the coronary microcirculation is a consistent phenotype in patients with dialysis-dependent ESRD (dd-ESRD) and may help explain their excess mortality. Global coronary flow… Expand
A gender-stratified comparative analysis of various definitions of metabolic syndrome and cardiovascular risk in a multiethnic U.S. population.
- P. Hari, Kamalakar C. Nerusu, +4 authors L. Afonso
- Medicine
- Metabolic syndrome and related disorders
- 18 January 2012
INTRODUCTION
We sought to evaluate the ability of various metabolic syndrome definitions in predicting primary cardiovascular disease (CVD) outcomes in a vast multiethnic U.S. cohort.
METHODS
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Traditional cardiovascular risk factors and severity of angiographic coronary artery disease in the elderly.
- V. Veeranna, J. Pradhan, A. Niraj, Hesham Fakhry, Luis Afonso
- Medicine
- Preventive cardiology
- 11 December 2009
Over 80% of annual coronary heart disease mortality occurs in the elderly, a rapidly expanding subset of the population. The authors retrospectively examined the relationship between traditional… Expand
Red cell distribution width and risk of coronary heart disease events.
- S. Zalawadiya, V. Veeranna, A. Niraj, J. Pradhan, L. Afonso
- Medicine
- The American journal of cardiology
- 1 October 2010
Red cell distribution width (RDW) has emerged as a powerful predictor of all-cause mortality in variety of cardiovascular settings. However, no data are available associating RDW with coronary heart… Expand
Association of novel biomarkers with future cardiovascular events is influenced by ethnicity: results from a multi-ethnic cohort.
- V. Veeranna, S. Zalawadiya, A. Niraj, A. Kumar, B. Ference, L. Afonso
- Medicine
- International journal of cardiology
- 20 June 2013
BACKGROUND
We sought to define the influence of ethnicity on associations between novel biomarkers and cardiovascular disease (CVD) events among Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) study… Expand
Comparative analysis of red cell distribution width and high sensitivity C-reactive protein for coronary heart disease mortality prediction in multi-ethnic population: findings from the 1999-2004…
- V. Veeranna, S. Zalawadiya, S. Panaich, K. Patel, L. Afonso
- Medicine
- International journal of cardiology
- 15 October 2013
BACKGROUND
Red cell distribution width (RDW) has been shown to predict all-cause and cardiovascular (CVD) mortality. However, the predictive ability of RDW for future coronary heart disease (CHD)… Expand
Association of cystatin C with measures of obesity and its impact on cardiovascular events among healthy US adults.
- S. Panaich, V. Veeranna, Chirag P Bavishi, S. Zalawadiya, A. Kottam, L. Afonso
- Medicine
- Metabolic syndrome and related disorders
- 27 October 2014
BACKGROUND
This study sought to explore the relationship between cystatin C (CysC) and anthropometric measures of obesity and the influence of this association on mortality [cardiovascular disease… Expand
Induction of the CXC Chemokine Interferon-&ggr;–Inducible Protein 10 Regulates the Reparative Response Following Myocardial Infarction
- M. Bujak, M. Dobaczewski, +7 authors N. Frangogiannis
- Medicine
- Circulation research
- 6 November 2009
Rationale: Interferon-&ggr;–inducible protein (IP)-10/CXCL10, an angiostatic and antifibrotic chemokine with an important role in T-cell trafficking, is markedly induced in myocardial infarcts, and… Expand
Severity of Coronary Artery Disease in Obese Patients Undergoing Coronary Angiography: “Obesity Paradox” Revisited
- A. Niraj, Jyotiranjan Pradahan, Hesham Fakhry, V. Veeranna, L. Afonso
- Medicine
- Clinical cardiology
- 1 August 2007
Recent studies have highlighted the existence of an ‘obesity paradox’ in patients undergoing coronary angiography, i.e., a high body mass Index (BMI) is associated with less severe coronary lesions.… Expand