Obesity and cardiovascular disease: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association

TM Powell-Wiley, P Poirier, LE Burke, JP Després… - Circulation, 2021‏ - ahajournals.org
The global obesity epidemic is well established, with increases in obesity prevalence for
most countries since the 1980s. Obesity contributes directly to incident cardiovascular risk …

Computational modeling of cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmogenesis: toward clinical translation

NA Trayanova, A Lyon, J Shade… - Physiological …, 2024‏ - journals.physiology.org
The complexity of cardiac electrophysiology, involving dynamic changes in numerous
components across multiple spatial (from ion channel to organ) and temporal (from …

Adipose tissue as a linchpin of organismal ageing

TT Nguyen, S Corvera - Nature Metabolism, 2024‏ - nature.com
Ageing is a conserved biological process, modulated by intrinsic and extrinsic factors, that
leads to changes in life expectancy. In humans, ageing is characterized by greatly increased …

Modulation of Cardiac Arrhythmogenesis by Epicardial Adipose Tissue: JACC State-of-the-Art Review

AC Ernault, VMF Meijborg, R Coronel - Journal of the American College of …, 2021‏ - jacc.org
Obesity is a significant risk factor for arrhythmic cardiovascular death. Interactions between
epicardial adipose tissue (EAT) and myocytes are thought to play a key role in the …

Atrial fibrillation is associated with the fibrotic remodelling of adipose tissue in the subepicardium of human and sheep atria

P Haemers, H Hamdi, K Guedj, N Suffee… - European heart …, 2017‏ - academic.oup.com
Aims Accumulation of atrial adipose tissue is associated with atrial fibrillation (AF). However,
the underlying mechanisms remain poorly understood. We examined the relationship …

Fat infiltration in the infarcted heart as a paradigm for ventricular arrhythmias

E Sung, A Prakosa, S Zhou, RD Berger… - Nature cardiovascular …, 2022‏ - nature.com
Infiltrating adipose tissue (inFAT) has been recently found to co-localize with scar in
infarcted hearts and may contribute to ventricular arrhythmias (VAs), a life-threatening heart …

The living scar–cardiac fibroblasts and the injured heart

EA Rog-Zielinska, RA Norris, P Kohl… - Trends in molecular …, 2016‏ - cell.com
Cardiac scars, often dubbed 'dead tissue', are very much alive, with heterocellular activity
contributing to the maintenance of structural and mechanical integrity following heart injury …

Intramyocardial hemorrhage drives fatty degeneration of infarcted myocardium

I Cokic, SF Chan, X Guan, AR Nair, HJ Yang… - Nature …, 2022‏ - nature.com
Sudden blockage of arteries supplying the heart muscle contributes to millions of heart
attacks (myocardial infarction, MI) around the world. Although re-opening these arteries …

Mechanisms and drug development in atrial fibrillation

D Calvo, D Filgueiras-Rama, J Jalife - Pharmacological Reviews, 2018‏ - Elsevier
Atrial fibrillation is a highly prevalent cardiac arrhythmia and the most important cause of
embolic stroke. Although genetic studies have identified an increasing assembly of AF …

Nonmyocytes as electrophysiological contributors to cardiac excitation and conduction

A Simon-Chica, EM Wülfers… - American Journal of …, 2023‏ - journals.physiology.org
Although cardiac action potential (AP) generation and propagation have traditionally been
attributed exclusively to cardiomyocytes (CM), other cell types in the heart are also capable …