The role of obesity in carotid plaque instability: interaction with age, gender, and cardiovascular risk factors

2017 ACC/AHA/AAPA/ABC/ACPM/AGS/APhA/ASH/ASPC/NMA/PCNA Guideline for the Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Management of High Blood Pressure in Adults

(2018) Paul K. Whelton et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY

Carotid plaque instability is not related to quantity but to elemental composition of calcification

(2017) S. Bischetti et al.   NUTRITION METABOLISM AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES

LEADER 5: prevalence and cardiometabolic impact of obesity in cardiovascular high-risk patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus: baseline global data from the LEADER trial

(2016) L. Masmiquel et al.   Cardiovascular Diabetology

An obesity paradox: an inverse correlation between body mass index and atherosclerosis of the aorta

(2016) Sergey V Brodsky et al.   CARDIOVASCULAR PATHOLOGY

Obesity and Cardiovascular Disease

(2016) Francisco B. Ortega et al.   CIRCULATION RESEARCH

Report of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Working Group on Sex Differences Research in Cardiovascular Disease

(2016) Christine Maric-Bilkan et al.   HYPERTENSION

Body-mass index and all-cause mortality: individual-participant-data meta-analysis of 239 prospective studies in four continents

(2016) Emanuele Di Angelantonio et al.   LANCET

Gender differences in patients with carotid stenosis

(2016) Konstanze Stoberock et al.   Vasa-European Journal of Vascular Medicine

Hypertension, Obesity, Diabetes, and Heart Failure–Free Survival

(2016) Faraz S. Ahmad et al.   JACC-Heart Failure

Ultrasound Characteristics of Symptomatic Carotid Plaques: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

(2015) Waleed Brinjikji et al.   CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASES

Non-invasive Carotid Artery Imaging to Identify the Vulnerable Plaque: Current Status and Future Goals

(2015) A. Huibers et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF VASCULAR AND ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY

The Obesity Paradox in Stroke: Impact on Mortality and Short-term Readmission

(2015) Raquel Barba et al.   Journal of Stroke & Cerebrovascular Diseases

Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks in 188 countries, 1990–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

(2015) Mohammad H Forouzanfar et al.   LANCET

Obesity Increases Stroke Risk in Young Adults

(2015) Walter N. Kernan et al.   STROKE

Obesity Increases Risk of Ischemic Stroke in Young Adults

(2015) Andrew B. Mitchell et al.   STROKE

The Obesity Paradox in Stroke: Impact on Mortality and Short-term Readmission

(2015) Raquel Barba et al.   Journal of Stroke & Cerebrovascular Diseases

Guidelines for the Primary Prevention of Stroke

(2014) James F. Meschia et al.   STROKE

2013 ACC/AHA Guideline on the Treatment of Blood Cholesterol to Reduce Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Risk in Adults

(2013) Neil J. Stone et al.   CIRCULATION

Metabolic mediators of the effects of body-mass index, overweight, and obesity on coronary heart disease and stroke: a pooled analysis of 97 prospective cohorts with 1·8 million participants

(2013)   LANCET

Carotid Plaque MRI and Stroke Risk

(2013) Ajay Gupta et al.   STROKE

Evidence for obesity paradox in patients with acute coronary syndromes: a report from the Swedish Coronary Angiography and Angioplasty Registry

(2012) Oskar Angerås et al.   EUROPEAN HEART JOURNAL

Sex-related differences in carotid plaque features and inflammation

(2012) Giuseppe Sangiorgi et al.   JOURNAL OF VASCULAR SURGERY

Asymptomatic carotid plaque rupture with unexpected thrombosis over a non-canonical vulnerable lesion

(2011) Alessandro Mauriello et al.   ATHEROSCLEROSIS

Evidence of a topographical link between unstable carotid plaques and luminal stenosis: Can we better stratify asymptomatic patients with significant plaque burden?

(2011) Alessandro Mauriello et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY

Obesity and Recurrent Vascular Risk After a Recent Ischemic Stroke

(2011) Bruce Ovbiagele et al.   STROKE

An autopsy study of coronary atherosclerosis and its relation to anthropometric measurements/indices of overweight and obesity in men

(2011) Prateek Rastogi et al.   Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine

Measures of Adiposity and Future Risk of Ischemic Stroke and Coronary Heart Disease in Older Men and Women

(2010) J. R. Kizer et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY

Excess Body Weight and Incidence of Stroke

(2010) Pasquale Strazzullo et al.   STROKE

Association Between Obesity and Mortality After Acute First-Ever Stroke

(2010) Konstantinos Vemmos et al.   STROKE

Estrogen and Mechanisms of Vascular Protection

(2009) Dongqi Xing et al.   ARTERIOSCLEROSIS THROMBOSIS AND VASCULAR BIOLOGY

A pathobiologic link between risk factors profile and morphological markers of carotid instability

(2009) Alessandro Mauriello et al.   ATHEROSCLEROSIS

Obesity and Cardiovascular Disease

(2009) Carl J. Lavie et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY

Body-mass index and cause-specific mortality in 900 000 adults: collaborative analyses of 57 prospective studies

(2009) Prospective Studies Collaboration   LANCET

Body mass index and mortality in heart failure: A meta-analysis

(2008) Antigone Oreopoulos et al.   AMERICAN HEART JOURNAL

High-resolution multicontrast-weighted MR imaging from human carotid endarterectomy specimens to assess carotid plaque components

(2008) Sebastiano Fabiano et al.   EUROPEAN RADIOLOGY

General and Abdominal Adiposity and Risk of Death in Europe

(2008) T. Pischon et al.   NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE