Background: Patients with peripheral artery disease (PAD) are at heightened risk of cardiovascular complications. The sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitor dapagliflozin reduces the risk for hos…
Bioinformatics and Molecular Genetics at Centenary Institute, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia (Y.C., R.D.B.). Rare Disease and Gene Therapy Division, The Centenary Institute,…
Wildfire smoke (WFS) is a mixture of respirable particulate matter, environmental gases, and other hazardous pollutants that originate from the unplanned burning of arid vegetation…
BackgroundRecently, machine learning algorithms have identified preprocedural γ‐glutamyl transferase (GGT) as a significant predictor of long‐term mortality after coronary revascularization in the …
Environmental stressors associated with human activities (eg, air and noise pollution, light disturbance at night) and climate change (eg, heat, wildfires, extreme weather events) are…
BACKGROUND: Potassium (K+)-deficient diets, typical of modern processed foods, increase blood pressure (BP) and NaCl sensitivity. A K+-dependent signaling pathway in the kidney distal convoluted…
Correspondence to: Naomi Hamburg, MD, Section of Vascular Biology, Whitaker Cardiovascular Institute, Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston University, Boston, MA 02118. Email Section…
BACKGROUND: The SSaSS (Salt Substitute and Stroke Study) has shown that use of a potassium-enriched salt lowers the risk of stroke, total cardiovascular events, and…
BACKGROUND: Blood-brain barrier damage has traditionally been considered to determine the occurrence and development of poststroke brain edema, a devastating and life-threatening complication. Howeve
After half a century of evidence suggesting the existence of mineralocorticoid receptors (MR) in the vasculature, the advent of technology to specifically knockout the MR…
BACKGROUND: We previously presented the safety and early efficacy of inspIRE study (Pulsed-Field Ablation (PFA) System for the Treatment of Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation by Irreversible…
