Prevalence of Diabetes and Cardiovascular Comorbidity in the Canadian Community Health Survey 20022003 by Frank Mo, Lisa M. Pogany, Felix C.K. Li, Howard Morrison

“…Diabetes mellitus is a major risk factor for heart disease (heart attack, angina, and heart failure), stroke, and hypertension, which shorten the average life expectancy. …”
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Advanced Machine Learning to Predict Coronary Artery Disease Severity in Patients with Premature Myocardial Infarction by Yu-Hang Wang, Chang-Ping Li, Jing-Xian Wang, Zhuang Cui, Yu Zhou, An-Ran Jing, Miao-Miao Liang, Yin Liu, Jing Gao

“…Results: Glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c), angina, apolipoprotein B (ApoB), total bile acid (TBA), B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP), D-dimer, and fibrinogen (Fg) were associated with the severity of lesions. …”
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Correlation between the Serum Platelet-Derived Growth Factor, Angiopoietin-1, and Severity of Coronary Heart Disease by Sisi Pang, Zhengxian Tao, Xiaoyan Min, Chuanwei Zhou, Dijia Pan, Zhen Cao, Xiangming Wang

“…Patients with ACS included 61 patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI group) and 20 patients with unstable angina pectoris (UAP group). The 29 patients who were hospitalized for chest pain undergoing coronary angiography without stenosis and with TIMI level 3 blood flow were selected as the control group. …”
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Association of C1q/TNF-Related Protein-9 (CTRP9) Level with Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Patients with Coronary Artery Disease by Zexuan Li, Yunhui Du, Lixin Jia, Jingyao Fan, Ruifeng Guo, Xinliang Ma, Xiao Wang, Shaoping Nie, Yongxiang Wei

“…From August 2016 to March 2019, consecutive eligible patients with CAD (n=154; angina pectoris, n=88; acute myocardial infarction [AMI], n=66) underwent cardiorespiratory polygraphy. …”
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Clinical and anamnestic characteristics of patients with clinical manifestations of peripheral artery disease as a function of Т(–786)С polymorphism of the endothelial NO-synthase... by V.I. Tseluyko, L.M. Yakovleva, O.D. Yarova

“…The patients with C/C genotype had more severe course of the coronary artery disease (CAD): myocardial infarction in ІІІ group was 31.7 % (13) (vs 3.0 % (1) in І group, р = 0.005 and 7.7 % (2) in ІІ group, р = 0.045); the stable angina of ІІІ functional class was detected significantly more often in ІІІ group (29.3 % (12) vs 3 % (1), p = 0.008). …”
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Real-world treatment patterns of patients with acute coronary syndrome based on 15-year data by Inga S. Egorova, Natalia N. Vezikova

“…The most common ACS outcome was myocardial infarction (2 955 (35.4%) patients with Q-wave MI and 2 045 (24.5%) patients with non-Q-wave MI). Unstable angina was diagnosed in 1 569 (18.8%) patients. …”
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Beating-Heart Coronary Artery Bypass grafting (BH-CABG) in patients with End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD): comparison of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) predicted risk with ac... by Louis Samuels, Anastasia Arce, Samiat Agunbiade, Suzanne Raws, Afshin Parsikia

“…Case presentation included: 24 NSTEMI, 4 STEMI, 6 Unstable Angina, 7 CHF, 1 Cardiac Arrest, and 13 with a positive exercise stress test (EST) for renal transplant screening. …”
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Association of β-Blocker Therapy at Discharge with Clinical Outcomes after Acute Coronary Syndrome in Patients without Heart Failure by Yan Chen, Xiao-fang Tang, Run-lin Gao, Yue-jin Yang, Bo Xu, Jin-qing Yuan

“…Subgroup analysis demonstrated that the β-blocker use at discharge reduced the 2-year mortality in patients with unstable angina (UA) (HR 0.42, 95% CI 0.19 to 0.94, P=0.034). …”
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Association between weight-adjusted-waist index and long-term prognostic outcomes in cardiovascular disease patients: results from the NHANES 1999–2018 study by Hanbin Li, Wen Zhong, Hongxin Cheng, Shiqi Wang, Ran Li, Lu Wang, Chengqi He, Quan Wei

“…The risk of all-cause mortality increased with WWI and showed a linear association in patients with congestive heart failure, heart attack (P-overall < 0.05, P − nonlinear > 0.05); WWI was nonlinearly associated with the risk of all-cause mortality in patients with coronary heart disease and angina (P-overall < 0.05, P − nonlinear < 0.05). Survival curve analysis further showed that all cause and cardiovascular mortality were higher in the high WWI group (Q4) (P < 0.001). …”
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Adipose-Derived Stromal Cells for Treatment of Patients with Chronic Ischemic Heart Disease (MyStromalCell Trial): A Randomized Placebo-Controlled Study by Abbas Ali Qayyum, Anders Bruun Mathiasen, Naja Dam Mygind, Jørgen Tobias Kühl, Erik Jørgensen, Steffen Helqvist, Jens Jørgen Elberg, Klaus Fuglsang Kofoed, Niels Groove Vejlstrup, Anne Fischer-Nielsen, Mandana Haack-Sørensen, Annette Ekblond, Jens Kastrup

“…We aimed to evaluate the effect of intramyocardial injections of autologous VEGF-A165-stimulated adipose-derived stromal cells (ASCs) in patients with refractory angina. MyStromalCell trial is a randomized double-blind placebo-controlled study including sixty patients with CCS/NYHA class II-III, left ventricular ejection fraction > 40%, and at least one significant coronary artery stenosis. …”
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Differential Diagnosis, Clinical Characteristics, and Interventions of Braid-Like Coronary Artery: Case Series Analysis Based on Optical Coherence Tomography by Wen-Xiu Leng, Huan-Huan Wang, Hai Ming Liu, Ying Song, Lian-Jun Xu, Jing-Jing Xu, Xue-Yan Zhao, Xiao-Yan Tan, Rong Li, Zhan Gao, Li-Jian Gao, Jue Chen, Jin-Qing Yuan, Yue-Jin Yang, Ji-Lin Chen

“…Four patients were diagnosed with an old myocardial infarction and the other 3 with unstable angina. The braid-like lesions were located in the left anterior descending arteries in 2 patients and in the right coronary arteries in the other 5. …”
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The Association Between Mitral Regurgitation and Long-Term Outcomes in Acute Myocardial Infarction Undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: A Retrospective Large Sample Cohor... by Yan N, Wu P, Zhu B, Ma A, Wang X, Hai X, Ma X, Jiang H, Yang S

“…All patients were clinically followed for 3-year to collect major adverse cardiac and cerebrovascular events (MACCEs), comprising all-cause death, nonfatal myocardial infarction (MI), rehospitalization for angina, rehospitalization for heart failure (RHF), and stroke. …”
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Epicardial Fat Tissue: A Potential Marker for Coronary Microvascular Dysfunction by Waiel Abusnina, Ilan Merdler, Matteo Cellamare, Kalyan R. Chitturi, Abhishek Chaturvedi, Irwin M. Feuerstein, Cheng Zhang, Sevket Tolga Ozturk, Teshome Deksissa, Vaishnavi Sawant, Kassandra Lopez, Lior Lupu, Dan Haberman, Itsik Ben‐Dor, Lowell F. Satler, Ron Waksman, Hayder D. Hashim, Brian C. Case

“…Methods and Results The CMDR (Coronary Microvascular Disease Registry) is a prospective, 2‐center registry that is enrolling patients with angina and nonobstructive coronary artery disease who underwent invasive hemodynamic assessment of the coronary microvasculature. …”
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How far back do we need to look to capture diagnoses in electronic health records? A retrospective observational study of hospital electronic health record data by Tom Marshall, Elizabeth Sapey, Miles D Witham, Steve Harris, Rachel Cooper, Chris Plummer, Felicity Evison, James Wason, Heather J Cordell, Suzy Gallier, Fiona E Matthews, Ewan Pearson, Avan A Sayer, Mervyn Singer, Joanne Field, Mohammed Osman, Sian Robinson, Victoria Bartle, Thomas Scharf, Jadene Lewis, Rominique Doal, Peta le Roux, Ray Holding, Paolo Missier

“…For stroke, 4 of the top 10 reached 90% completeness by 5 years of lookback; angina pectoris was &gt;90% coded at 7 years and previous transient ischaemic attack completeness continued to rise out to 10 years of lookback.Conclusion A 7-year lookback captures most, but not all, common diagnoses. …”
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Temporal trends in characteristics and outcome of heart failure patients with and without significant coronary artery disease by Entela Bollano, Björn Redfors, Araz Rawshani, Dimitrios Venetsanos, Sebastian Völz, Oskar Angerås, Charlotta Ljungman, Joakim Alfredsson, Tomas Jernberg, Truls Råmunddal, Petur Petursson, J. Gustav Smith, Oscar Braun, Henrik Hagström, Ole Fröbert, David Erlinge, Elmir Omerovic

“…No such increase was seen for indications angina pectoris and ST‐elevation myocardial infarction. …”
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Improving Growth Performance, Biochemical Parameters and Reducing Mortality due to Ascites in Broilers by Propranolol Inclusion by Shahriar Saidian, Somaya Farahmand, Mokhtar Fathi, Salar Saifi

“…B-blockers (or b-adrenergic antagonists) are a group of drugs widely used in the treatment of cardiovascular diseases, namely arterial hypertension, cardiac arrhythmias, and angina pectoris as well as other types of pathologies such as anxiety or glaucoma. …”
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ASIC3: A Lactic Acid Sensor for Cardiac Pain by D.C. Immke, E.W. McCleskey

“…Angina, the prototypic vasoocclusive pain, is a radiating chest pain that occurs when heart muscle gets insufficient blood because of coronary artery disease. …”
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Prognostic Value of Atherosclerotic Extent in Diabetic Patients with Nonobstructive Coronary Artery Disease by Yipu Ding, Zinuan Liu, Guanhua Dou, Xia Yang, Xi Wang, Dongkai Shan, Bai He, Jing Jing, Yundai Chen, Junjie Yang

“…During a median follow-up of 31.77 months, 50 major adverse cardiovascular events (MACEs) (6.15%) were experienced, including 2 cardiovascular deaths, 14 nonfatal myocardial infarctions, 27 unstable anginas requiring hospitalization, and 7 strokes. …”
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