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ReviewFrontiers in physiology2021

Pathophysiology of Circulating Biomarkers and Relationship With Vascular Aging: A Review of the Literature From VascAgeNet Group on Circulating Biomarkers, European Cooperation in Science and Technology Action 18216.

Kristina R Gopcevic, Eugenia Gkaliagkousi, János Nemcsik, Ömür Acet, M Rosa Bernal-Lopez, Rosa M Bruno, Rachel E Climie, Nikolaos Fountoulakis, Emil Fraenkel, Antonios Lazaridis and 5 more

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Review in Frontiers in physiology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
14citing papers in PubMed
2.6field-weighted citation impact, top 10% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

14 citing papers in PubMed, 21 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Review
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  3. Microvascular Health as a Key Determinant of Organismal Aging.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025
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  5. Potential Noninvasive Biomarkers to Assess the Aging Process.Expert reviews in molecular medicine · 2025
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  6. Cardiovascular Aging.Reviews in cardiovascular medicine · 2025
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  10. Vascular ageing: moving from bench towards bedside.European journal of preventive cardiology · 2023
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  12. Biomarkers of aging.Science China. Life sciences · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

15 authors at 12 institutions in 11 countries.

Kristina R GopcevicLaboratory for Analytics of Biomolecules, Department of Chemistry in Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Belgrade, Serbia.
Eugenia Gkaliagkousi3rd Department of Internal Medicine, Papageorgiou Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.
János NemcsikDepartment of Family Medicine, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary.
Ömür AcetVocational School of Health Science, Pharmacy Services Program, Tarsus University, Tarsus, Turkey.
M Rosa Bernal-LopezInternal Medicine Department, Regional University Hospital of Malaga, Instituto de Investigacion Biomedica de Malaga, University of Malaga, CIBER Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y la Nutrición, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Málaga, Spain.
Rosa M BrunoUnversite de Paris, INSERM, U970, Paris Cardiovascular Research Center, Paris, France.
Rachel E ClimieUnversite de Paris, INSERM, U970, Paris Cardiovascular Research Center, Paris, France.
Nikolaos FountoulakisFaculty of Life Sciences and Medicine, King's College London - Waterloo Campus, London, United Kingdom.
Emil Fraenkel1st Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital and Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, Košice, Slovakia.
Antonios Lazaridis3rd Department of Internal Medicine, Papageorgiou Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.
Petras NavickasClinic of Cardiac and Vascular Diseases, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania.
Keith D RochfortSchool of Nursing, Psychotherapy and Community Health, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland.
Agnė ŠatrauskienėClinic of Cardiac and Vascular Diseases, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania.
Jūratė ZupkauskienėClinic of Cardiac and Vascular Diseases, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania.
Dimitrios Terentes-PrintziosFirst Department of Cardiology, Hippokration Hospital, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
Vilnius University · LTAristotle University of Thessaloniki · GRBaker Heart and Diabetes Institute · AUDublin City University · IEInstituto de Salud Carlos III · ESKing's College London · GBNational and Kapodistrian University of Athens · GRParis Cardiovascular Research Center · FRSemmelweis University · HUTarsus University · TRUniversity of Belgrade · RSUniversity of Pavol Jozef Šafárik · SK

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Impairment of the arteries is a product of sustained exposure to various deleterious factors and progresses with time; a phenomenon inherent to vascular aging. Oxidative stress, inflammation, the accumulation of harmful agents in high cardiovascular risk conditions, changes to the extracellular matrix, and/or alterations of the epigenetic modification of molecules, are all vital pathophysiological processes proven to contribute to vascular aging, and also lead to changes in levels of associated circulating molecules. Many of these molecules are consequently recognized as markers of vascular impairment and accelerated vascular aging in clinical and research settings, however, for these molecules to be classified as biomarkers of vascular aging, further criteria must be met. In this paper, we conducted a scoping literature review identifying thirty of the most important, and eight less important, biomarkers of vascular aging. Herein, we overview a selection of the most important molecules connected with the above-mentioned pathological conditions and study their usefulness as circulating biomarkers of vascular aging.

Indexed as

cellular matrixcirculating biomarkersepigeneticsinflammationoxidative stressvascular aging

Identifiers

PMID34970157
PMCPMC8712891
OpenAlexW4200133753

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