Polygenic risk scores for cardiovascular disease: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association

JW O'Sullivan, S Raghavan, C Marquez-Luna… - Circulation, 2022 - Am Heart Assoc
Cardiovascular disease is the leading contributor to years lost due to disability or premature
death among adults. Current efforts focus on risk prediction and risk factor mitigation ‚which …

New insights into cerebrovascular pathophysiology and hypertension

AJS Webb, DJ Werring - Stroke, 2022 - Am Heart Assoc
Despite advances in acute management and prevention of cerebrovascular disease, stroke
and vascular cognitive impairment together remain the world's leading cause of death and …

[HTML][HTML] A single-cell atlas of chromatin accessibility in the human genome

K Zhang, JD Hocker, M Miller, X Hou, J Chiou… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Current catalogs of regulatory sequences in the human genome are still incomplete and lack
cell type resolution. To profile the activity of gene regulatory elements in diverse cell types …

Gut microbially produced indole-3-propionic acid inhibits atherosclerosis by promoting reverse cholesterol transport and its deficiency is causally related to …

H Xue, X Chen, C Yu, Y Deng, Y Zhang… - Circulation …, 2022 - Am Heart Assoc
Background: Accumulating evidence has shown that disorders in the gut microbiota and
derived metabolites affect the development of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease …

Constrained maximum likelihood-based Mendelian randomization robust to both correlated and uncorrelated pleiotropic effects

H Xue, X Shen, W Pan - The American Journal of Human Genetics, 2021 - cell.com
With the increasing availability of large-scale GWAS summary data on various complex traits
and diseases, there have been tremendous interests in applications of Mendelian …

Associations of combined genetic and lifestyle risks with incident cardiovascular disease and diabetes in the UK Biobank Study

MA Said, N Verweij, P van der Harst - JAMA cardiology, 2018 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Genetic and lifestyle factors both contribute to the risk of develo**
cardiovascular disease, but whether poor health behaviors are associated with similar …

The Mediterranean diet, plasma metabolome, and cardiovascular disease risk

J Li, M Guasch-Ferré, W Chung… - European heart …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Aims To investigate whether metabolic signature composed of multiple plasma metabolites
can be used to characterize adherence and metabolic response to the Mediterranean diet …

Polycystic ovary syndrome and risk of type 2 diabetes, coronary heart disease, and stroke

T Zhu, J Cui, MO Goodarzi - Diabetes, 2021 - Am Diabetes Assoc
Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) has been associated with diabetes and cardiovascular
disease; however, whether the relationship is causal is uncertain. We conducted a two …

Genetically determined levels of circulating cytokines and risk of stroke: role of monocyte chemoattractant protein-1

MK Georgakis, D Gill, K Rannikmäe, M Traylor… - Circulation, 2019 - Am Heart Assoc
Background: Cytokines and growth factors have been implicated in the initiation and
propagation of vascular disease. Observational studies have shown associations of their …

Urate, blood pressure, and cardiovascular disease: evidence from mendelian randomization and meta-analysis of clinical trials

D Gill, AC Cameron, S Burgess, X Li, DJ Doherty… - …, 2021 - Am Heart Assoc
Serum urate has been implicated in hypertension and cardiovascular disease, but it is not
known whether it is exerting a causal effect. To investigate this, we performed Mendelian …