Abstract:
:This article deals with the question of whether or not the risk factor concept, a principal aspect of preventive cardiology, has contributed to patient care in coronary heart disease. The risk factors considered are plasma cholesterol, high blood pressure, smoking, diabetes and marked obesity. With the exception of plasma cholesterol and diabetes, all of these factors enhance myocardial oxygen consumption and thus, in the presence of coronary insufficiency, promote myocardial ischemia. Their modification is therefore good general medical practice, even if not related to coronary atherosclerosis. Diabetes needs adequate medical treatment in patients both with and without coronary atherosclerosis. Because of the occasional occurrence of spontaneous regression of coronary atherosclerosis and the morphologic and functional complexity of coronary artery pathology, it has never been and probably never will be demonstrated that lowering plasma cholesterol levels by diet or other means will cause regression of coronary atherosclerosis. It follows that modification or treatment of risk factors is implemented for good medical reasons but does not demonstrably or predictably affect coronary artery disease. It is concluded that the contribution of the risk factor concept to patient care in coronary heart disease has been, and still is, trivial.
journal_name
J Am Coll Cardioljournal_title
Journal of the American College of Cardiologyauthors
Meijler FLdoi
10.1016/s0735-1097(83)80006-0subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1983-01-01 00:00:00pages
13-9issue
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0735-1097issn
1558-3597pii
S0735-1097(83)80006-0journal_volume
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杂志文章abstract::To date, attempted balloon dilation of stenotic standard Blalock-Taussig shunts has been largely disappointing. It has been suggested that this may be due to the use of balloons of insufficient diameter. Balloon dilation of stenotic Blalock-Taussig shunts was attempted with use of relatively large balloons in five pat...
journal_title:Journal of the American College of Cardiology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0735-1097(91)90613-e
更新日期:1991-08-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVES:This study investigates alterations in myocardial microvasculature, fibrosis, and hypertrophy before and after mechanical unloading of the failing human heart. BACKGROUND:Recent studies demonstrated the pathophysiologic importance and significant mechanistic links among microvasculature, fibrosis, and hyper...
journal_title:Journal of the American College of Cardiology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.jacc.2010.04.019
更新日期:2010-07-27 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:The respective impacts of transvalvular flow, gradient, sex, and their interactions on mortality in patients with severe aortic stenosis undergoing surgical aortic valve replacement (AVR) are unknown. OBJECTIVES:This study sought to compare the impact of pre-operative flow-gradient patterns on mortality aft...
journal_title:Journal of the American College of Cardiology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.jacc.2020.02.065
更新日期:2020-04-28 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of the American College of Cardiology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.jacc.2016.06.062
更新日期:2016-09-27 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of the American College of Cardiology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.jacc.2015.09.068
更新日期:2015-12-08 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of the American College of Cardiology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.jacc.2014.10.031
更新日期:2015-01-20 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVES:To compare seven-year survival in the Bypass Angioplasty Revascularization Investigation (BARI) patients randomly assigned to percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) versus coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). BACKGROUND:The primary results of BARI reported no significant difference in five...
journal_title:Journal of the American College of Cardiology
pub_type: 临床试验,杂志文章,多中心研究,随机对照试验
doi:10.1016/s0735-1097(00)00533-7
更新日期:2000-04-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVES:To define the role of mast cells in plaque destabilization. BACKGROUND:Inflammation is an essential feature of human coronary plaques. Macrophages and T lymphocytes are considered to contribute to destabilization of the plaques. The role of mast cells in this setting is less well studied. We therefore count...
journal_title:Journal of the American College of Cardiology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/s0735-1097(98)00283-6
更新日期:1998-09-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of the American College of Cardiology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/s0735-1097(02)01749-7
更新日期:2002-04-03 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of the American College of Cardiology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.jacc.2012.09.037
更新日期:2013-01-08 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVES:This study was designed to assess the feasibility and safety of a Remote Navigation System (RNS, NaviCath, Haifa, Israel) in which the angioplasty guidewire, the balloon, and the stent are navigated via a computerized system. BACKGROUND:Percutaneous coronary interventions (PCIs) are manually performed under...
journal_title:Journal of the American College of Cardiology
pub_type: 临床试验,杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.jacc.2005.09.024
更新日期:2006-01-17 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVES:This study was undertaken to elucidate the prevalence of aortic valve abnormalities in the elderly. BACKGROUND:The age of persons treated actively for valve disorders is increasing. More information is needed about the prevalence of aortic valve disease in old age. METHODS:Randomly selected men and women i...
journal_title:Journal of the American College of Cardiology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0735-1097(93)90249-z
更新日期:1993-04-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of the American College of Cardiology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/s0735-1097(87)80250-4
更新日期:1987-04-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of the American College of Cardiology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/s0735-1097(87)80152-3
更新日期:1987-07-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of the American College of Cardiology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/s0735-1097(03)00943-4
更新日期:2003-10-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVES:The purpose of this study is to evaluate the feasibility in detecting blood flow in the left anterior descending coronary artery (LAD) using transthoracic color Doppler (CD) imaging (in both second harmonic and fundamental mode) along with contrast enhancement and to verify if this new noninvasive method alo...
journal_title:Journal of the American College of Cardiology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/s0735-1097(99)00164-3
更新日期:1999-07-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVES:The aim of this study was to determine the impact of the metabolic syndrome (MS) on operative mortality after a coronary artery bypass grafting surgery (CABG). BACKGROUND:Diabetes and obesity are highly prevalent among patients undergoing CABG. However, it remains unclear whether these factors have a signif...
journal_title:Journal of the American College of Cardiology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.jacc.2007.04.075
更新日期:2007-08-28 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVES:The purpose of this study was to evaluate the role of the myocardial redox state in the development of in-hospital complications after cardiac surgery and the effect of statins on the myocardial redox state. BACKGROUND:Statins improve clinical outcome after cardiac surgery, but it is unclear whether they ex...
journal_title:Journal of the American College of Cardiology
pub_type: 杂志文章,随机对照试验
doi:10.1016/j.jacc.2011.08.062
更新日期:2012-01-03 00:00:00
abstract::The goal of this study was to assess fibrinolytic activity after vessel wall injury and to correlate changes in fibrinolytic activity with angiographic and histologic findings. Accordingly, in 18 atherosclerotic rabbits, vessel wall injury was produced by means of iliac artery balloon angioplasty (the injury group), w...
journal_title:Journal of the American College of Cardiology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0735-1097(92)90502-e
更新日期:1992-02-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVES:The aim of this study was to compare outcomes after transfemoral transcatheter aortic valve implantation with the Medtronic CoreValve (MCV) versus the Edwards SAPIEN/SAPIEN XT transcatheter heart valve (ESV) for severe aortic stenosis. BACKGROUND:No large matched comparison study has been conducted so far e...
journal_title:Journal of the American College of Cardiology
pub_type: 杂志文章,多中心研究
doi:10.1016/j.jacc.2012.11.050
更新日期:2013-02-26 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of the American College of Cardiology
pub_type: 临床试验,杂志文章,随机对照试验
doi:10.1016/0735-1097(89)90409-9
更新日期:1989-11-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Reliable methods for predicting myocardial infarction in patients with established coronary artery disease are lacking. Coronary 18F-sodium fluoride (18F-NaF) positron emission tomography (PET) provides an assessment of atherosclerosis activity. OBJECTIVES:This study assessed whether 18F-NaF PET predicts my...
journal_title:Journal of the American College of Cardiology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.jacc.2020.04.046
更新日期:2020-06-23 00:00:00
abstract::An international survey identified 40 patients less than 20 years old who underwent surgical implantation of an automatic implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (AICD). There was a history of aborted sudden cardiac death or sustained ventricular tachycardia in 92.5% of these patients. Twenty-two patients (55%) had str...
journal_title:Journal of the American College of Cardiology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/s0735-1097(10)80338-9
更新日期:1990-10-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVES:We examined whether activated protein C (APC) is an effective conjunctive therapy to thrombolysis in patients with ST-segment-elevated acute myocardial infarction (AMl). BACKGROUND:Activated protein C possesses both systemic anticoagulant and anti-inflammatory properties. It has been also shown to enhance f...
journal_title:Journal of the American College of Cardiology
pub_type: 临床试验,杂志文章,多中心研究,随机对照试验
doi:10.1016/s0735-1097(03)01059-3
更新日期:2003-10-15 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVES:We evaluated whether the reported difference in the ventricular defibrillation threshold (DFT) between short-term intravenous and oral amiodarone is due to the effect of amiodarone's active metabolite desethylamiodarone (DEA). BACKGROUND:Amiodarone is frequently used in patients with implantable cardioverte...
journal_title:Journal of the American College of Cardiology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/s0735-1097(98)00160-0
更新日期:1998-06-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVES:This study was undertaken to assess prospectively the prognostic power of early ST segment elevation resolution in a large cohort of patients with myocardial infarction and to test the value of differences in ST segment resolution as a surrogate end point. BACKGROUND:Previous studies revealed that the use o...
journal_title:Journal of the American College of Cardiology
pub_type: 临床试验,杂志文章,多中心研究,随机对照试验
doi:10.1016/0735-1097(95)00372-x
更新日期:1995-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::Seventy adults who tested positive for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) were prospectively studied with serial echocardiography to better define the prevalence and progression of cardiac disease in such patients. Fifty outpatients (Group A), including 44 with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and 6 with AIDS...
journal_title:Journal of the American College of Cardiology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/s0735-1097(10)80134-2
更新日期:1991-05-01 00:00:00
abstract::Products of ischemic metabolism can make a major contribution to electrical instability of the heart. In particular, enhanced extracellular potassium slows conduction, thereby predisposing to reentrant circuits, especially when levels of cyclic adenosine monophosphate (AMP) increase in the early ischemic period. Other...
journal_title:Journal of the American College of Cardiology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/s0735-1097(85)80549-0
更新日期:1985-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) imaging has been shown to accurately portray cardiac anatomy and function. To investigate the potential of NMR imaging for the assessment of coronary stenosis in patients with chest pain, ultrafast NMR imaging in conjunction with a T1 (longitudinal relaxation time) contrast agent was p...
journal_title:Journal of the American College of Cardiology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0735-1097(91)90754-w
更新日期:1991-10-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVES:We tested the hypothesis that cardioprotection with ischemic preconditioning (PC) is lost in the aging, or senescent, heart. BACKGROUND:Although infarct size reduction with PC has been documented in virtually all models, a purported exception to this paradigm is the aging heart, the population in which card...
journal_title:Journal of the American College of Cardiology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/s0735-1097(01)01603-5
更新日期:2001-11-15 00:00:00