2021 ESC Guidelines on cardiovascular disease prevention in clinical practice: Developed by the Task Force for cardiovascular disease prevention in clinical practice …

FLJ Visseren, F Mach, YM Smulders… - European heart …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Atherosclerotic cardiovascular (CV) disease (ASCVD) incidence and mortality rates are
declining in many countries in Europe, but it is still a major cause of morbidity and mortality …

Adipose tissue dysfunction in obesity, diabetes, and vascular diseases

GR Hajer, TW Van Haeften… - European heart …, 2008 - academic.oup.com
The classical perception of adipose tissue as a storage place of fatty acids has been replaced
over the last years by the notion that adipose tissue has a central role in lipid and glucose …

Obesity and cancer: the role of dysfunctional adipose tissue

RCM Van Kruijsdijk, E Van Der Wall… - … , biomarkers & prevention, 2009 - AACR
Overweight and obesity are health problems of epidemic proportions, increasing the risk not
only of cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes mellitus but also of various types of …

[HTML][HTML] Simvastatin with or without ezetimibe in familial hypercholesterolemia

JJP Kastelein, F Akdim, ESG Stroes… - … England Journal of …, 2008 - Mass Medical Soc
Background Ezetimibe, a cholesterol-absorption inhibitor, reduces levels of low-density
lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol when added to statin treatment. However, the effect of ezetimibe on …

[HTML][HTML] Inclisiran in patients at high cardiovascular risk with elevated LDL cholesterol

KK Ray, U Landmesser, LA Leiter… - … England Journal of …, 2017 - Mass Medical Soc
Background In a previous study, a single injection of inclisiran, a chemically synthesized
small interfering RNA designed to target PCSK9 messenger RNA, was found to produce …

Dementia and cognitive decline in type 2 diabetes and prediabetic stages: towards targeted interventions

GJ Biessels, MWJ Strachan, FLJ Visseren… - The lancet Diabetes & …, 2014 - thelancet.com
Type 2 diabetes is associated with dementia, and also with more slight cognitive decrements.
In this Review we discuss trajectories from normal cognition to dementia in people with …

Carotid intima-media thickness progression as surrogate marker for cardiovascular risk: meta-analysis of 119 clinical trials involving 100 667 patients

P Willeit, L Tschiderer, E Allara, K Reuber… - Circulation, 2020 - Am Heart Assoc
Background: To quantify the association between effects of interventions on carotid intima-media
thickness (cIMT) progression and their effects on cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk. …

Metabolic and additional vascular effects of thiazolidinediones

FMAC Martens, FLJ Visseren, J Lemay, EJP de Koning… - Drugs, 2002 - Springer
Several cardiovascular risk factors (dyslipidaemia, hypertension, glucose intolerance,
hypercoagulability, obesity, hyperinsulinaemia and low-grade inflammation) cluster in the insulin …

The metabolic syndrome is associated with advanced vascular damage in patients with coronary heart disease, stroke, peripheral arterial disease or abdominal aortic …

JK Olijhoek, Y van der Graaf, JD Banga… - European heart …, 2004 - academic.oup.com
Aims The metabolic syndrome is associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular
disease in patients without a cardiovascular history. We investigated whether the metabolic …

[HTML][HTML] Long-term efficacy and safety of inclisiran in patients with high cardiovascular risk and elevated LDL cholesterol (ORION-3): results from the 4-year open-label …

KK Ray, RPT Troquay, FLJ Visseren… - The Lancet Diabetes & …, 2023 - thelancet.com
Introduction Whether long-term treatment with the twice-yearly, siRNA therapeutic inclisiran,
which reduces hepatic production of proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9 (PCSK9), …