Angioplasty Summit 2004 > Syllabus

Dietary magnesium intake and the future risk of coronary heart disease (the Honolulu Heart Program).
Preventing myocardial infarction in the young adult in the first place: how do the National Cholesterol Education Panel III guidelines perform?
Plasma concentration of C-reactive protein and the calculated Framingham Coronary Heart Disease Risk Score.
Prognostic significance of coronary artery calcium in asymptomatic subjects with usual cardiovascular risk.
Increased C-reactive protein level after coronary stent implantation in patients with stable coronary artery disease.
Relationship of metabolic syndrome and fibrinolytic dysfunction to cardiovascular disease.
Hepatic lipase mutations,elevated high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, and increased risk of ischemic heart disease: the Copenhagen City Heart Study.
Mitral annular calcification: a marker of severe coronary artery disease in patients under 65 years old.
Hormone-replacement therapy and cardiovascular diseases.
Role of lipid and lipoprotein profiles in risk assessment and therapy.
Adipose tissue alpha-linolenic acid and nonfatal acute myocardial infarction in Costa Rica.
Influences of matrix metalloproteinase-3 gene variation on extent of coronary atherosclerosis and risk of myocardial infarction.
Protective role of uncoupling protein 2 in atherosclerosis.
Interleukin-18 and the Risk of Coronary Heart Disease in European Men: The Prospective Epidemiological Study of Myocardial Infarction (PRIME).
Plasma concentrations and genetic variation of matrix metalloproteinase 9 and prognosis of patients with cardiovascular disease.
Meta-analysis of sero-epidemiologic studies of the relation between Chlamydia pneumoniae and atherosclerosis: does study design influence results?
Risk factors for cardiovascular disease in patients with periodontitis.
Depression as a risk factor for mortality after acute myocardial infarction*1.
Inflammatory Markers and Onset of Cardiovascular Events. Results From the Health ABC Study.
Inflammatory markers and cardiovascular disease (The Health, Aging and Body Composition [Health ABC] Study).
The prognostic importance of endothelial dysfunction and carotid atheroma burden in patients with coronary artery disease.
Acute systemic inflammation enhances endothelium-dependent tissue plasminogen activator release in men.
Impact of age on procedural and 1-year outcome in percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty: a report from the NHLBI Dynamic Registry.
Screening for early detection of cardiovascular disease in asymptomatic individuals.
MRC/BHF Heart Protection Study of cholesterol-lowering with simvastatin in 5963 people with diabetes: a randomised placebo-controlled trial.
Diabetes and vascular disease: pathophysiology, clinical consequences, and medical therapy: Part I.
Chlamydia pneumoniae IgA titres and coronary heart disease: prospective study and meta-analysis. Danesh, J., P. Whincup, et al.
Predictors of cardiac and noncardiac mortality among 14,697 patients with coronary heart disease.
C-reactive protein increases plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 expression and activity in human aortic endothelial cells: implications for the metabolic syndrome and atherothrombosis.
Role of chronic hyperglycemia in the pathogenesis of coronary microvascular dysfunction in diabetes.
Predictive value of basal C-reactive protein levels for myocardial salvage in patients with acute myocardial infarction is dependent on the type of reperfusion treatment.
Neutrophil elastase in human atherosclerotic plaques: production by macrophages.
The influence of left ventricular hypertrophy on survival in patients with coronary artery disease: do race and gender matter?
Inflammation in the prediabetic state is related to increased insulin resistance rather than decreased insulin secretion.
Mitral annular calcification predicts cardiovascular morbidity and mortality: the Framingham Heart Study.
Hormone replacement therapy and risk of acute myocardial infarction in postmenopausal women with diabetes mellitus.
Prevention of cardiovascular ischemic events: high-risk and secondary prevention.
Predictive value of noninvasively determined endothelial dysfunction for long-term cardiovascular events in patients with peripheral vascular disease.
Smoking and health outcomes after percutaneous coronary intervention.
Beta2-adrenergic receptor polymorphisms and risk of incident cardiovascular events in the elderly.
Framingham risk function overestimates risk of coronary heart disease in men and women from Germany--results from the MONICA Augsburg and the PROCAM cohorts.
Arterial compliance adds to conventional risk factors for prediction of angiographic coronary artery disease.
Low body mass index is a risk factor for impaired endothelium-dependent vasodilation in humans: role of nitric oxide and oxidative stress.
Circulating endothelial progenitor cells, vascular function, and cardiovascular risk.
Vascular disease, hypertension, and prevention: "from endothelium to clinical events".
Hormone therapy and the progression of coronary-artery atherosclerosis in postmenopausal women.
Association of polymorphisms of the apolipoprotein(a) gene with lipoprotein(a) levels and myocardial infarction.
Fish and long-chain omega-3 fatty acid intake and risk of coronary heart disease and total mortality in diabetic women.
Low-T3 syndrome: a strong prognostic predictor of death in patients with heart disease.
Correlation of oxidative stress with activity of matrix metalloproteinase in patients with coronary artery disease. Possible role for left ventricular remodelling.
Absence of association between infectious agents and endothelial function in healthy young men.
Relation of high lipoprotein(a) to other traditional atherosclerotic risk factors in patients with coronary heart disease.
Role of cardiac troponin T in the long-term risk stratification of patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention.
Cardiovascular risk factors and atherosclerosis in young males: ARMY study (Atherosclerosis Risk-Factors in Male Youngsters).
Secondary prevention with folic acid: effects on clinical outcomes.
A practical approach to risk assessment to prevent coronary artery disease and its complications.
Diabetes and vascular disease: pathophysiology, clinical consequences, and medical therapy: Part II.
D-dimer, inflammatory markers, and lower extremity functioning in patients with and without peripheral arterial disease.
Coronary risk factors predicting early and late coronary deaths.
Cell-associated and extracellular phospholipid transfer protein in human coronary atherosclerosis.
Cardiovascular risk factors in patients with aortic stenosis predict prevalence of coronary artery disease but not of aortic stenosis: an angiographic pair matched case-control study.
Relation of fibrinogen to cardiovascular events is independent of preclinical cardiovascular disease: the Strong Heart Study.
Antioxidant vitamins for prevention of cardiovascular disease.
Usefulness of carotid intimal medial thickness and flow-mediated dilation in a preventive cardiovascular practice.
Sex hormone levels and risk of cardiovascular events in postmenopausal women.
Clinical application of C-reactive protein for cardiovascular disease detection and prevention.
High-sensitivity C-reactive protein and cardiovascular risk: rationale for screening and primary prevention.
Chronic periodontitis, a significant relationship with acute myocardial infarction.
Role of risk factors in the modulation of tissue factor activity and blood thrombogenicity.
Metabolic syndrome with and without C-reactive protein as a predictor of coronary heart disease and diabetes in the West of Scotland Coronary Prevention Study.
Effects of roxifiban on platelet aggregation and major receptor expression in patients with coronary artery disease for the Roxifiban Oral Compound Kinetics Evaluation Trial-I (ROCKET-I Platelet Substudy).
Why are patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease at increased risk of cardiovascular diseases? The potential role of systemic inflammation in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Multiple infections and subsequent cardiovascular events in the Heart Outcomes Prevention Evaluation (HOPE) Study.
Effect of plasma C-reactive protein levels in modulating the risk of coronary heart disease associated with small, dense, low-density lipoproteins in men (The Quebec Cardiovascular Study).
Endothelial dysfunction induced by hyperhomocyst(e)inemia: role of asymmetric dimethylarginine.
Carbohydrates, dietary glycaemic load and glycaemic index, and risk of acute myocardial infarction.
Exercise and physical activity in the prevention and treatment of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease: a statement from the Council on Clinical Cardiology (Subcommittee on Exercise, Rehabilitation, and Prevention) and the Council on Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Metabolism (Subcommittee on Physical Activity).
Relationships between low-density lipoprotein particle size, plasma lipoproteins, and progression of coronary artery disease: the Diabetes Atherosclerosis Intervention Study (DAIS).
Ergometric score systems after myocardial infarction: prognostic performance of the Duke Treadmill Score, Veterans Administration Medical Center Score, and of a novel score system, GISSI-2 Index, in a cohort of survivors of acute myocardial infarction.
Body mass index: a risk factor for unstable angina and myocardial infarction in patients with angiographically confirmed coronary artery disease.
Relation of thoracic aortic and aortic valve calcium to coronary artery calcium and risk assessment.
Interaction between soluble thrombomodulin and intercellular adhesion molecule-1 in predicting risk of coronary heart disease.
Valvular and thoracic aortic calcium as a marker of the extent and severity of angiographic coronary artery disease.
Diets and clinical coronary events: the truth is out there.
Variation in the matrix metalloproteinase-1 gene and risk of coronary heart disease.
Serologic markers of persistent Chlamydia pneumonia infection and long-term prognosis after successful coronary stenting.
Coronary artery calcium score combined with Framingham score for risk prediction in asymptomatic individuals.
Risk factors for coronary calcification in older subjects. The Rotterdam Coronary Calcification Study.