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Global variation in lipoprotein/a levels among patients with coronary heart dis...
Barkas, Fotios; Brandts, Julia; De Bacquer, Dirk; Jennings, Catriona; De Backer, Guy G.; Kotseva, Kornelia; Ryden, Lars; Lip, Gregory Y. H.Background Lipoprotein(a) [Lp(a)] is a common risk factor for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, potentially more atherogenic per particle than low-density lipoprotein. An estimated 1.5 billion individuals globally have elevated levels ≥125 nmol/L, considered as a risk-enhancing threshold. Although Lp(a) levels vary by ethnicity, ongoing trials of novel therapies in predominantly secondary prevention patie...
Frequency of residual combined dyslipidemia and hypertriglyceridemia in patient...
Santos, Raul D.; Ray, Kausik K.; De Bacquer, Dirk; Jennings, Catriona; Kotseva, Kornelia; Rydén, Lars; Lip, Gregory Y. H.; Erlund, Iris; Ganly, SandraBackground and aims: Hypertriglyceridemia (HTG) is independently associated with risk of atherosclerotic events, even when LDL-cholesterol levels appear controlled. This INTERASPIRE study determined the frequency of HTG and residual combined dyslipidemia and their related factors in patients with coronary heart disease (CHD) from 13 countries across six World Health Organization (WHO) regions. Methods: Particip...
Aerobic fitness questionnaires: still not enough to estimate VO2 peak in cardia...
Abreu, AnaThe present study by Lima et al. “Validation of an Aerobic Fitness Questionnaire to estimate VO2 peak in a cohort of adult cardiac patients – Is it enough?”, intends to validate the CLINIMEX Aerobic Fitness Questionnaire (C-AFQ),3 comprising a list of activities, in a Portuguese population sample of 124 CV patients (93% male, mean age 61 years old, 61% with heart failure), who were referred for CPET and cardiac...
World Heart Federation cholesterol roadmap: the Portuguese case
Abreu, Ana; Dores, Hélder; Gonçalves, Lino; Franco, Fátima; Silveira, Conceição; Proença, Gonçalo; Timóteo, Ana Teresa; Cardim, Nuno; Pedro, MónicaAtherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) remains the major cause of premature death and disability; effective cardiovascular (CV) risk prevention is fundamental. The World Heart Federation (WHF) Cholesterol Roadmap provides a framework for national policy development and aims to achieve ASCVD prevention. At the invitation of the WHF, a group of experts from the Portuguese Society of Cardiology (SPC), addr...
Variation in secondary prevention of coronary heart disease: the INTERASPIRE study
McEvoy, John William; Jennings, Catriona; Kotseva, Kornelia; De Bacquer, Dirk; De Backer, Guy; Erlund, Iris; Vihervaara, Terhi; Lip, Gregory Y HBackground and aims: INTERASPIRE is an international study of coronary heart disease (CHD) patients, designed to measure if guideline standards for secondary prevention and cardiac rehabilitation are being achieved in a timely manner. Methods: Between 2020 and 2023, adults hospitalized in the preceding 6-24 months with incident or recurrent CHD were sampled in 14 countries from all 6 World Health Organization r...
Cardiopulmonary exercise testing in clinical practice: principles, applications...
Dores, Hélder; Mendes, Miguel; Abreu, Ana; Durazzo, Anaí; Rodrigues, Cidália; Vilela, Eduardo; Cunha, Gonçalo; Gomes Pereira, José; Bento, LuísaCardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) provides a noninvasive and integrated assessment of the response of the respiratory, cardiovascular, and musculoskeletal systems to exercise. This information improves the diagnosis, risk stratification, and therapeutic management of several clinical conditions. Additionally, CPET is the gold standard test for cardiorespiratory fitness quantification and exercise prescrip...
The Young Community of the European Association of Preventive Cardiology: foste...
Perone, Francesco; Jorstad, Harald Thune; D’Ascenzi, Flavio; Castelletti, Silvia; Abreu, Ana; Papadakis, MichaelThe European Association of Preventive Cardiology (EAPC) of the ESC is a multidisciplinary network of healthcare professionals with an interest in all aspects of cardiovascular disease prevention. Its mission is to promote excellence in research, clinical practice, education, and policy in cardiovascular health, including population science, primary care, secondary prevention and rehabilitation, and sports card...
Forging education in preventive cardiology for the near future
Abreu, AnaThe real dimension of prevention in medicine has been recently understood, in a wider context, allowing to think of increased well-being, quality of life, and reduction of cardiovascular (CV) risk, disease, disability, and early mortality. In this context, preventive cardiology has evolved, including not only CV primary and secondary prevention but also expanding to CV health promotion, forging behaviours, targ...
Exercise in advanced chronic kidney disease patients: risk or gain?
Abreu, AnaCardiovascular (CV) disease (CVD), sharing many common risk factors with chronic kidney disease (CKD), is a major contributor to reduced life expectancy in CKD patients, being CV risk exponentially related to renal function decline. Exercise training (ExT), and the broader spectrum CV rehabilitation (CVR), can contribute to CV and renal risk factors and disease management, but are rarely prescribed to patients ...
Reliability and validity of the Global Physical Activity Questionnaire for port...
Ribeiro, Mariana; Fernandes, Elisabete; Borges, Mariana; Pires, Madalena; Melo, Xavier; Pinto, Fausto J.; Abreu, Ana; Pinto, RitaThe Global Physical Activity Questionnaire (GPAQ) has been used often to assess physical activity (PA) patterns. However, the European Portuguese version of this instrument has not been validated. We aimed to validate the self-administered GPAQ, version 2, (GPAQv2) for Portuguese adults. We included 32 participants in a pilot study of a Portuguese adaptation of the test and 108 participants in an assessment of ...