ArticleAtherosclerosis2018
Diastolic blood pressure predicts coronary plaque volume in patients with coronary artery disease.
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- Obesity-Related Serum Monocyte Chemoattractant Protein-1 (MCP-1) as a Biomarker of Plaque Instability in Patients Undergoing Carotid Endarterectomy.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Article
- Association between Short-Term Blood Pressure Variability and Intracranial Atherosclerotic Plaque Vulnerability: A High-Resolution Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study.Journal of atherosclerosis and thrombosis · 2022Article
- Pre-dialysis diastolic blood pressure and intradialytic hypotension in patients undergoing maintenance haemodialysis.Journal of nephrology · 2022Article
- Analysis of Fibrotic Plaques in Angiographic Manifest Cardiac Allograft Vasculopathy in Long-term Heart Transplanted Patients Using Optical Coherence Tomography.Transplantation direct · 2022Article
- Exercise Capacity, Coronary Artery Fatty Plaque, Coronary Calcium Score, and Cardiovascular Events in Subjects With Stable Coronary Artery Disease.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2020Article
- NaF-PET/CT global assessment in detecting and quantifying subclinical cardiac atherosclerosis and its association with blood pressure in non-dyslipidemic individuals.American journal of cardiovascular disease · 2020Article
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Abstract
BACKGROUND AND
aimsHypertension is associated with increased clinical and subclinical coronary artery disease (CAD); however, the relationship between blood pressure and coronary plaque volume is unclear. We examined the effect of systolic blood pressure (SBP) and diastolic blood pressure (DBP) on coronary artery plaque volume.
methods285 subjects with stable CAD on statin therapy underwent coronary computed tomographic angiography to measure volume of fatty, fibrous, noncalcified, calcified and total coronary plaque.
resultsMean (SD) age was 63.1 (7.7); mean (SD) LDL-C, 78.7 mg/dL (28.5). Compared to the highest DBP tertile (>76 mmHg), those in the lowest DBP tertile (≤68 mmHg) had lower volumes of fatty: 10.0 vs. 7.7 mm
conclusionsLevel of DBP predicts coronary plaque with a DBP tertile ≤68 mmHg associated with the least amount of coronary plaque in subjects with LDL-C < 80 mg/dL.
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