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Plaque characteristics and biomarkers predicting regression and progression of carotid atherosclerosis

The factors that influence the atherosclerotic disease process in high-risk individuals remain poorly understood. Here, we used a combination of vascular imaging, risk factor assessment, and biomarkers to identify factors associated with 3-year change in carotid disease severity in a cohort of high-...

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Autores principales: Khan, Faisel, Gonçalves, Isabel, Shore, Angela C., Natali, Andrea, Palombo, Carlo, Colhoun, Helen M., Östling, Gerd, Casanova, Francesco, Kennbäck, Cecilia, Aizawa, Kunihiko, Persson, Margaretha, Gooding, Kim M., Strain, David, Looker, Helen, Dove, Fiona, Belch, Jill, Pinnola, Silvia, Venturi, Elena, Kozakova, Michaela, Nilsson, Jan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9381367/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35858591
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.xcrm.2022.100676
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Sumario:The factors that influence the atherosclerotic disease process in high-risk individuals remain poorly understood. Here, we used a combination of vascular imaging, risk factor assessment, and biomarkers to identify factors associated with 3-year change in carotid disease severity in a cohort of high-risk subjects treated with preventive therapy (n = 865). The results show that changes in intima-media thickness (IMT) are most pronounced in the carotid bulb. Progression of bulb IMT demonstrates independent associations with baseline bulb IMT, the plaque gray scale median (GSM), and the plasma level of platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) (standardized β-coefficients and 95% confidence interval [CI] −0.14 [−0.06 to −0.02] p = 0.001, 0.15 [0.02–0.07] p = 0.001, and 0.20 [0.03–0.07] p < 0.001, respectively). Plasma PDGF correlates with the plaque GSM (0.23 [0.15–0.29] p < 0.001). These observations provide insight into the atherosclerotic process in high-risk subjects by showing that progression primarily occurs in fibrotic plaques and is associated with increased levels of PDGF.