Risk stratification in cardiovascular disease primary prevention - scoring systems, novel markers, and imaging techniques

Advances in Measuring the Effect of Individual Predictors of Cardiovascular Risk: The Role of Reclassification Measures

(2013) Nancy R. Cook et al.   ANNALS OF INTERNAL MEDICINE

Study design and rationale for the Stabilization of pLaques usIng Darapladib—Thrombolysis in Myocardial Infarction (SOLID-TIMI 52) trial in patients after an acute coronary syndrome

(2011) Michelle L. O'Donoghue et al.   AMERICAN HEART JOURNAL

Influence of Noninvasive Cardiovascular Imaging in Primary Prevention

(2011) Daniel G. Hackam et al.   ARCHIVES OF INTERNAL MEDICINE

Impact of Coronary Artery Calcium Scanning on Coronary Risk Factors and Downstream Testing

(2011) Alan Rozanski et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY

Study design and rationale for the clinical outcomes of the STABILITY Trial (STabilization of Atherosclerotic plaque By Initiation of darapLadIb TherapY) comparing darapladib versus placebo in patients with coronary heart disease

(2010) Harvey White et al.   AMERICAN HEART JOURNAL

The JUPITER Trial: Responding to the Critics

(2010) Paul M. Ridker et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY

Cholesterol Lowering, Cardiovascular Diseases, and the Rosuvastatin-JUPITER Controversy

(2010) Michel de Lorgeril   ARCHIVES OF INTERNAL MEDICINE

Association of a Genetic Variant in the ALOX5AP with Higher Risk of Ischemic Stroke: A Case-Control, Meta-Analysis and Functional Study

(2010) Sophie Domingues-Montanari et al.   CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASES

A Novel Loss-of-Function DDAH1 Promoter Polymorphism Is Associated With Increased Susceptibility to Thrombosis Stroke and Coronary Heart Disease

(2010) Hu Ding et al.   CIRCULATION RESEARCH

Non-diabetic hyperglycaemia correlates with angiographic coronary artery disease prevalence and severity

(2010) D.M. Konstantinou et al.   DIABETES & METABOLISM

HbA1c as predictor of all-cause mortality in individuals at high risk of diabetes with normal glucose tolerance, identified by screening: a follow-up study of the Anglo–Danish–Dutch Study of Intensive Treatment in People with Screen-Detected Diabetes in Primary Care (ADDITION), Denmark

(2010) M. V. Skriver et al.   DIABETOLOGIA

Randomized trial of an inhibitor of secretory phospholipase A2 on atherogenic lipoprotein subclasses in statin-treated patients with coronary heart disease

(2010) Robert S. Rosenson et al.   EUROPEAN HEART JOURNAL

Is carotid intima media thickness useful for individual prediction of cardiovascular risk? Ten-year results from the Carotid Atherosclerosis Progression Study (CAPS)

(2010) M. W. Lorenz et al.   EUROPEAN HEART JOURNAL

Lipoprotein(a) as a cardiovascular risk factor: current status

(2010) Børge G. Nordestgaard et al.   EUROPEAN HEART JOURNAL

Improvement of cardiovascular risk prediction: time to review current knowledge, debates, and fundamentals on how to assess test characteristics

(2010) Michel Romanens et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CARDIOVASCULAR PREVENTION & REHABILITATION

Outcomes of interest in evidence-based evaluations of genetic tests

(2010) Jeffrey R Botkin et al.   GENETICS IN MEDICINE

Optimal Cardiovascular Prevention Strategies for the 21st Century

(2010) Simon Capewell et al.   JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

Association Between a Literature-Based Genetic Risk Score and Cardiovascular Events in Women

(2010) Nina P. Paynter   JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

Carotid Intima-Media Thickness and Presence or Absence of Plaque Improves Prediction of Coronary Heart Disease Risk

(2010) Vijay Nambi et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY

2010 ACCF/AHA Guideline for Assessment of Cardiovascular Risk in Asymptomatic Adults

(2010) Philip Greenland et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY

Coronary Artery Calcium Progression: An Important Clinical Measurement?

(2010) John W. McEvoy et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY

Does Carotid Intima-Media Thickness Regression Predict Reduction of Cardiovascular Events?

(2010) Pierluigi Costanzo et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY

Using Apolipoprotein B to Manage Dyslipidemic Patients: Time for a Change?

(2010) Charles R. Harper et al.   MAYO CLINIC PROCEEDINGS

Two Years after Molecular Diagnosis of Familial Hypercholesterolemia: Majority on Cholesterol-Lowering Treatment but a Minority Reaches Treatment Goal

(2010) Roeland Huijgen et al.   PLoS One

Criteria for Evaluation of Novel Markers of Cardiovascular Risk

(2009) Mark A. Hlatky et al.   CIRCULATION

Left ventricular hypertrophy versus chronic kidney disease as predictors of cardiovascular events in hypertension: a Greek 6-year-follow-up study

(2009) Costas Tsioufis et al.   JOURNAL OF HYPERTENSION

Reappraisal of European guidelines on hypertension management: a European Society of Hypertension Task Force document

(2009) Giuseppe Mancia et al.   JOURNAL OF HYPERTENSION

Value and Limitations of Existing Scores for the Assessment of Cardiovascular Risk

(2009) Marie Therese Cooney et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY

Meta-Analysis of the Relationship Between Non–High-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol Reduction and Coronary Heart Disease Risk

(2009) Jennifer G. Robinson et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY

Genome-wide haplotype association study identifies the SLC22A3-LPAL2-LPA gene cluster as a risk locus for coronary artery disease

(2009) David-Alexandre Trégouët et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Genetic Variants Associated with Lp(a) Lipoprotein Level and Coronary Disease

(2009) Robert Clarke et al.   NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE

C-Reactive Protein and Parental History Improve Global Cardiovascular Risk Prediction

(2008) Paul M Ridker et al.   CIRCULATION

The Residual Risk Reduction Initiative: a call to action to reduce residual vascular risk in dyslipidaemic patients

(2008) Jean-Charles Fruchart et al.   Diabetes & Vascular Disease Research

Detection of intraplaque hemorrhage by magnetic resonance imaging in symptomatic patients with mild to moderate carotid stenosis predicts recurrent neurological events

(2008) Nishath Altaf et al.   JOURNAL OF VASCULAR SURGERY

Lipids, lipoproteins, and apolipoproteins as risk markers of myocardial infarction in 52 countries (the INTERHEART study): a case-control study

(2008) Matthew J McQueen et al.   LANCET

Carotid plaque, a subclinical precursor of vascular events: The Northern Manhattan Study

(2008) T. Rundek et al.   NEUROLOGY

Rosuvastatin to Prevent Vascular Events in Men and Women with Elevated C-Reactive Protein

(2008) Paul M Ridker et al.   NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE