Topic Cardiology
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EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH
The effect of PCSK9 immunization on the hepatic level of microRNAs associated with PCSK9/LDLR pathway.
Arch Med Sci 2023;19(1):203–208
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CLINICAL RESEARCH
Implications of the 2021 ESC cardiovascular risk classification among 283,000 European immigrants living in a low-risk region: a population-based analysis in Catalonia
Emili Vela, Montse Cleries, Usama Bilal, Maciej Banach, John W McEvoy, Martin Bødtker Mortensen, Michael Joseph Blaha, Khurram Nasir, Josep Comin-Colet, Josepa Mauri, Miguel Cainzos-Achirica
Arch Med Sci 2023;19(1):35–45
CLINICAL RESEARCH
Compositional and functional properties of high-density lipoproteins in relation to coronary in-stent restenosis
Shiva Ganjali, Elahe Mahdipour, Seyed Hamid Aghaee-Bakhtiari, Majid Ghayour-Mobarhan, Sara Saffar Soflaei, Maciej Banach, Anatol Kontush, Amirhossein Sahebkar
Arch Med Sci 2023;19(1):57–72
CLINICAL RESEARCH
Is COVID-19 another case of the obesity paradox? Results from an international ecological study on behalf of the REPROGRAM Consortium Obesity study group
Sonu Bhaskar, Sanja Jovanovic, Anubhav Katyal, Narayanan K. Namboodiri, Dimitrios Chatzis, Maciej Banach
Arch Med Sci 2023;19(1):25–34
CLINICAL RESEARCH
Automatic daily remote monitoring in heart failure patients implanted with a cardiac resynchronisation therapy-defibrillator: a single-centre observational pilot study
Arch Med Sci 2023;19(1):73–85
EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH
The direct effect of lipopolysaccharide on an isolated heart is different from the effect on cardiac myocytes in vitro
Arch Med Sci 2023;19(1):216–228
Editor's Choice
INVITED EDITORIAL
2022: the year in cardiovascular disease – the year of upfront lipid lowering combination therapy
Maciej Banach, Zeljko Reiner, Arrigo F.G. Cicero, Pierre Sabouret, Margus Viigimaa, Amirhossein Sahebkar, Arman Postadzhiyan, Dan Gaita, Daniel Pella, Peter E. Penson, International Lipid Expert Panel (ILEP)
Arch Med Sci 2022;18(6):1429–1434
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Which future for aspirin in acute coronary syndromes treated with percutaneous coronary intervention? An overview on aspirin-free strategies
Arch Med Sci 2022;18(6):1689–1692
CLINICAL RESEARCH
APOA1 (-75 G>A and 83 C>T) and APOB (2488 C>T) polymorphisms and their association with myocardial infarction, lipids and apolipoproteins in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus
Fidel Antonio Casillas, Diana Emilia Martínez Fernández, Yeminia Valle, Maricela Aceves Ramírez, Brenda Parra-Reyna, Salvador Sarabia Pulido, Cesar Manuel Guzmán Sánchez, Héctor Enrique Flores Salinas, Francisco Muñoz Valle, Jorge Ramón Padilla Gutiérrez
Arch Med Sci 2022;18(6):1438–1445
RESEARCH LETTER
Impact of bariatric surgery on circulating PCSK9 levels as a marker of cardiovascular disease risk: a meta-analysis
Arch Med Sci 2022;18(5):1372–1377
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
mRNA vaccination in children and youth: a cautionary note
Arch Med Sci 2022;18(5):1404–1406
SYSTEMATIC REVIEW/META-ANALYSIS
Right ventricular dysfunction and pulmonary hypertension in COVID-19: a meta-analysis of prevalence and its association with clinical outcome
Yudi Her Oktaviono, Eka Prasetya Budi Mulia, Kevin Luke, David Nugraha, Irma Maghfirah, Agus Subagjo
Arch Med Sci 2022;18(5):1169–1180
Editor's Choice
GUIDELINES/RECOMMENDATIONS
Post-discharge and long-term follow-up after an acute coronary syndrome: International Collaborative Group of CNCF position paper.
Pierre Sabouret, Gilles Lemesle, Anne Bellemain-Appaix, Pierre Aubry, Pier-Paolo Bocchino, Erik Rafflenbeul, Loïc Belle, Jim Nolan, Marco Bernardi, Giuseppe Biondi-Zoccai, Michael P. Savage, Maciej Banach, Guillaume Cayla
Arch Med Sci 2022;18(4):839–854
Editor's Choice
SYSTEMATIC REVIEW/META-ANALYSIS
Relationship between low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, lipid-lowering agents and risk of stroke: a meta-analysis of observational studies (n = 355,591) and randomized controlled trials (n = 165,988)
Maciej Banach, Niloofar Shekoohi, Dimitri P. Mikhailidis, Gregory Y.H. Lip, Adrian V. Hernandez, Mohsen Mazidi, on behalf of the Lipid and Blood Pressure Meta-analysis Collaboration (LBPMC) Group and the International Lipid Expert Panel (ILEP)
Arch Med Sci 2022;18(4):912–929
SYSTEMATIC REVIEW/META-ANALYSIS
The association between coffee and caffeine consumption and renal function: insight from individual-level data, Mendelian randomization, and meta-analysis
Mohsen Mazidi, Dimitri P. Mikhailidis, Abbas Dehghan, Jacek Jóźwiak, Adrian Covic, Naveed Sattar, Maciej Banach, on behalf of the Lipid and Blood Pressure Meta-analysis Collaboration (LBPMC) Group and the International Lipid Expert Panel (ILEP)
Arch Med Sci 2022;18(4):900–911
CLINICAL RESEARCH
Hypertensive urgencies during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in a tertiary hospital setting: a U-shaped alarming curve
Ioannis Leontsinis, Vasilios Papademetriou, Christina Chrysohoou, Maria Kariori, Ioannis Dalakouras, Panayotis Tolis, Christos Fragoulis, Theodoros Kalos, Fotios-Panagiotis Tatakis, Kyriakos Dimitriadis, Michael Doumas, Helen Sambatakou, Maria Pirounaki, Constantinos Mihas, Niki Katsiki, Sonu Bhaskar, Georgios Tsivgoulis, Dimitrios Tousoulis, Maciej Banach, Konstantinos Tsioufis
Arch Med Sci 2022;18(4):982–990
SYSTEMATIC REVIEW/META-ANALYSIS
Left atrial volume index predicts response to cardiac resynchronisation therapy: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Arch Med Sci 2022;18(4):930–938
Editor's Choice
HOT TOPICS
Which patients at risk of cardiovascular disease might benefit the most from inclisiran? Polish experts’ opinion. The compromise between EBM and possibilities in healthcare
Maciej Banach, Jarosław Kaźmierczak, Przemysław Mitkowski, Krystian Wita, Marlena Broncel, Mariusz Gąsior, Marek Gierlotka, Robert Gil, Piotr Jankowski, Maciej Niewada, Adam Witkowski
Arch Med Sci 2022;18(3):569–576
CLINICAL RESEARCH
Design and rationale of a nationwide screening analysis from the LIPIDOGRAM2015 and LIPIDOGEN2015 studies
Jacek J. Jóźwiak, Sławomir Kasperczyk, Tomasz Tomasik, Tadeusz Osadnik, Adam Windak, Krzysztof Studziński, Mirosław Mastej, Alberico Catapano, Kausik K. Ray, Dimitri P. Mikhailidis, Peter P. Toth, George Howard, Gregory Y. H. Lip, Maciej Tomaszewski, Fadi J. Charchar, Naveed Sattar, Bryan Williams, Thomas M. MacDonald, Paweł Krzemień, Michał Dobrakowski, Aleksandra Kasperczyk, Dariusz Nowak, Łukasz Skowron, Żaneta Żak, Joanna Lewek, Maciej Banach
Arch Med Sci 2022;18(3):604–616
CLINICAL RESEARCH
Cardiovascular risk and metabolic profile of Polish citizens from Lower Silesia. First signs of metabolic crisis?
Arch Med Sci 2022;18(3):617–623
RESEARCH LETTER
Biochemical and cardiovascular predictors of PIMS-TS risk in children after COVID-19 recovery: preliminary results of the LATE-COVID-Kids Study
Izabela Jatczak-Pawlik, Joanna Lewek, Elżbieta Czkwianianc, Agnieszka Blomberg, Natalia Krysiak, Krzysztof Zeman, Piotr Jankowski, Maciej Banach
Arch Med Sci 2022;18(2):545–552
SYSTEMATIC REVIEW/META-ANALYSIS
Omega-6 fatty acids and the risk of cardiovascular disease: insights from a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials and a Mendelian randomization study
Mohsen Mazidi, Niloofar Shekoohi, Niki Katsiki, Maciej Banach, the Lipid and Blood Pressure Meta-analysis Collaboration (LBPMC) Group
Arch Med Sci 2022;18(2):466–479
BASIC RESEARCH
Twelve-month kinetics of circulating fibrosis-linked microRNAs (miR-21, miR-29, miR-30, and miR-133a) and the relationship with extracellular matrix fibrosis in dilated cardiomyopathy
Paweł Rubiś, Justyna Totoń-Żurańska, Maria Kołton-Wróż, Paweł Wołkow, Ewelina Pitera, Sylwia Wiśniowska-Śmiałek, Ewa Dziewięcka, Ann Garlitski, Piotr Podolec
Arch Med Sci 2022;18(2):480–488
PoLA/CFPiP/PCS/PSLD/PSD/PSH guidelines on diagnosis and therapy of lipid disorders in Poland 2021
Maciej Banach, Paweł Burchardt, Krzysztof Chlebus, Piotr Dobrowolski, Dariusz Dudek, Krzysztof Dyrbuś, Mariusz Gąsior, Piotr Jankowski, Jacek Jóźwiak, Longina Kłosiewicz-Latoszek, Irina Kowalska, Maciej Małecki, Aleksander Prejbisz, Michał Rakowski, Jacek Rysz, Bogdan Solnica, Dariusz Sitkiewicz, Grażyna Sygitowicz, Grażyna Sypniewska, Tomasz Tomasik, Adam Windak, Dorota Zozulińska-Ziółkiewicz, Barbara Cybulska
Arch Med Sci 2021;17(6):1447–1547
Quality of life in heart failure patients undergoing hybrid comprehensive telerehabilitation versus usual care – results of the Telerehabilitation in Heart Failure Patients (TELEREH-HF) Randomized Clinical Trial
Ewa Piotrowicz, Anna Mierzyńska, Maciej Banach, Izabela Jaworska, Michał Pencina, Ilona Kowalik, Sławomir Pluta, Dominika Szalewska, Grzegorz Opolski, Wojciech Zaręba, Renata Glowczynska, Robert Irzmański, Piotr Orzechowski, Zbigniew Kalarus, Ryszard Piotrowicz
Arch Med Sci 2021;17(6):1599–1612
STATE OF THE ART PAPER
Cardiac parasympathetic modulation in the setting of radiofrequency ablation for atrial fibrillation
Arch Med Sci 2021;17(6):1716–1721
RESEARCH LETTER
Stent-graft and double-guiding catheter technique to rescue iatrogenic coronary perforation
Arch Med Sci 2021;17(6):1800–1803
CLINICAL RESEARCH
Postmarketing nutrivigilance safety profile: a line of dietary food supplements containing red yeast rice for dyslipidemia
Maciej Banach, Niki Katsiki, Gustavs Latkovskis, Manfredi Rizzo, Daniel Pella, Peter Edward Penson, Željko Reiner, Arrigo FG Cicero
Arch Med Sci 2021;17(4):856–863
CLINICAL RESEARCH
Concomitant multi-vessel disease is associated with a lower procedural death rate in patients treated with percutaneous coronary interventions within the left main coronary artery (from the ORPKI registry)
Rafał Januszek, Artur Dziewierz, Zbigniew Siudak, Tomasz Rakowski, Tomasz Kameczura, Tomasz Tokarek, Dariusz Dudek, Stanisław Bartuś
Arch Med Sci 2021;17(4):881–890
RESEARCH LETTER
COVID-19 and cardiovascular complications – the preliminary results of the LATE-COVID study
Arch Med Sci 2021;17(3):818–822
RESEARCH PAPER
Improved COVID-19 ICU admission and mortality outcomes following treatment with statins: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Amir Vahedian-Azimi, Seyede Momeneh Mohammadi, Farshad Heidari Beni, Maciej Banach, Paul C Guest, Tannaz Jamialahmadi, Amirhossein Sahebkar
Arch Med Sci 2021;17(3):579–595
BASIC RESEARCH
Serum anti-inflammatory and inflammatory markers have no causal impact on telomere length: a Mendelian randomization study
Mohsen Mazidi, Niloofar Shekoohi, Niki Katsiki, Michal Rakowski, Dimitri P. Mikhailidis, Maciej Banach
Arch Med Sci 2021;17(3):739–751
CLINICAL RESEARCH
Long-term outcomes of percutaneous coronary interventions within coronary artery bypass grafts
Arch Med Sci 2021;17(3):628–637
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Drucebo effect – the challenge we should all definitely face!
Arch Med Sci 2021;17(2):542–543
STATE OF THE ART PAPER
Game of “crowning” season 8: RAS and reproductive hormones in COVID-19 – can we end this viral series?
Andrei Cosmin Cismaru, Laurentiu Gabriel Cismaru, Seyed Fazel Nabavi, Ioana Berindan-Neagoe, Emilio Clementi, Maciej Banach, Seyed Mohammad Nabavi
Arch Med Sci 2021;17(2):275–284
STATE OF THE ART PAPER
Levosimendan in the modern treatment of patients with acute heart failure of various aetiologies
Arch Med Sci 2021;17(2):296–303
CLINICAL RESEARCH
Plasma renin activity, serum aldosterone concentration and selected organ damage indices in essential arterial hypertension
Tomasz Pizoń, Marek Rajzer, Wiktoria Wojciechowska, Tomasz Drożdż, Dorota Drożdż, Marta Rojek, Krystian Gruszka, Danuta Czarnecka
Arch Med Sci 2021;17(1):9–18
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Acute pericarditis in a young patient with IgG immunodeficiency
Arch Med Sci 2020;16(6):1461–1463
CLINICAL RESEARCH
Modern prevalence of the Fredrickson-Levy-Lees dyslipidemias: findings from the Very Large Database of Lipids and National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey
Vasanth Sathiyakumar, Vincent A. Pallazola, Jihwan Park, Rachit M. Vakil, Peter P. Toth, Mariana Lazo-Elizondo, Renato Quispe, Eliseo Guallar, Maciej Banach, Roger S. Blumenthal, Steven R. Jones, Seth S. Martin
Arch Med Sci 2020;16(6):1279–1287
CLINICAL RESEARCH
Assessment of the relationship between endocan and obstructive sleep apnea severity
Hamdi Pusuroglu, Umut Somuncu, Ismail Bolat, Ozgur Akgul, Hayriye Ak Yıldırım, Sinem Ozbay Ozyilmaz, Vesile Ornek, Ozgur Surgit, Huseyin Karakurt, Ayfer Utkusavas, Nermina Alagic, Aydın Yıldırım
Arch Med Sci 2020;16(6):1346–1352
CLINICAL RESEARCH
Cardiovascular risk factors among cancer patients qualified for systemic treatment. Analysis of a cardiovascular disease-free cohort from the Polish multicentre study ONCOECHO
Marta Nowakowska, Edyta Płońska-Gościniak, Andrzej Szyszka, Łukasz Chrzanowski, Magdalena Krakowska, Piotr Potemski, Katarzyna Mizia-Stec, Zbigniew Gąsior, Artur Bodys, Maciej Siński, Adrianna Gościńska-Szmagała, Piotr Gościniak, Monika Różewicz, Beata Zaborska, Wojciech Braksator, Dariusz Kosior, Jaroslaw D. Kasprzak
Arch Med Sci 2020;16(6):1295–1303
CLINICAL RESEARCH
Modern prevalence of dysbetalipoproteinemia (Fredrickson-Levy-Lees type III hyperlipoproteinemia)
Vincent A. Pallazola, Vasanth Sathiyakumar, Jihwan Park, Rachit M. Vakil, Peter P. Toth, Mariana Lazo-Elizondo, Emily Brown, Renato Quispe, Eliseo Guallar, Maciej Banach, Roger S. Blumenthal, Steven R. Jones, David Marais, Daniel Soffer, Allan D. Sniderman, Seth S. Martin
Arch Med Sci 2020;16(5):993–1003
BASIC RESEARCH
MicroRNA-214-5p protects against myocardial ischemia reperfusion injury through targeting the FAS ligand
Yuan Lu, Jue Xi, Yao Zhang, Chenzong Li, Wensu Chen, Xiaoqin Hu, Min Zhang, Fengyun Zhang, Hui Wei, Zhi Li, Zhirong Wang
Arch Med Sci 2020;16(5):1119–1129
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Closure of patent foramen ovale for secondary prevention of cryptogenic stroke: current perspectives
Arch Med Sci 2020;16(5):1243–1246
CLINICAL RESEARCH
Respiratory sinus arrhythmia is reduced after pulmonary vein isolation in patients with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation
Christiane Jungen, Fares-Alexander Alken, Christian Eickholt, Katharina Scherschel, Pawel Kuklik, Niklas Klatt, Jana Schwarzl, Julia Moser, Mario Jularic, Ruken Oezge Akbulak, Benjamin Schaeffer, Stephan Willems, Christian Meyer
Arch Med Sci 2020;16(5):1022–1030
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Predictors of long-term survival in patients treated with targeted temperature management after cardiac arrest
Arch Med Sci 2020;16(5):1250–1253
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Percutaneous left ventricular pseudoaneurysm closure
Arch Med Sci 2020;16(5):1247–1249
BASIC RESEARCH
MiR-330-3p functions as a tumor suppressor that regulates glioma cell proliferation and migration by targeting CELF1
Arch Med Sci 2020;16(5):1166–1175
CLINICAL RESEARCH
Multicentre early experience with totally subcutaneous cardioverter-defibrillators in Poland
Krzysztof Kaczmarek, Maciej Kempa, Marcin Grabowski, Mateusz Tajstra, Adam Sokal, Iwona Cygankiewicz, Radosław Zwoliński, Marcin Michalak, Michal Kowara, Szymon Budrejko, Anna Kurek, Jerzy K. Wranicz, Grzegorz Raczak, Grzegorz Opolski, Mariusz Gąsior, Oskar Kowalski, Paweł Ptaszyński
Arch Med Sci 2020;16(4):764–771
CLINICAL RESEARCH
Early and late outcomes after transcatheter versus surgical aortic valve replacement in obese patients
Giovanni Mariscalco, Paola D’Errigo, Fausto Biancari, Stefano Rosato, Francesco Musumeci, Marco Barbanti, Marco Ranucci, Gennaro Santoro, Gabriella Badoni, Danilo Fusco, Martina Ventura, Corrado Tamburino, Fulvia Seccareccia
Arch Med Sci 2020;16(4):796–801
Lipid-lowering therapy and renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system inhibitors in the era of the COVID-19 pandemic
Arch Med Sci 2020;16(3):485–489
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Arguable ICD placement in a sarcoidosis patient with extensive cardiac involvement
Arch Med Sci 2020;16(3):707–708
CLINICAL RESEARCH
Potato consumption is associated with total and cause-specific mortality: a population-based cohort study and pooling of prospective studies with 98,569 participants
Arch Med Sci 2020;16(2):260–272
CLINICAL RESEARCH
Takotsubo syndrome – fatal prognosis of patients with low body mass index in 5-year follow-up
Małgorzata Zalewska-Adamiec, Jolanta Małyszko, Hanna Bachórzewska-Gajewska, Anna Tomaszuk-Kazberuk, Sławomir J. Dobrzycki
Arch Med Sci 2020;16(2):282–288
SYSTEMATIC REVIEW/META-ANALYSIS
Pregnancy-associated plasma protein A as a predictor of all-cause mortality and cardiovascular events in patients with chronic kidney disease: a meta-analysis of prospective studies
Arch Med Sci 2020;16(1):8–15
RESEARCH LETTER
Effect of atorvastatin on delirium status of patients in the intensive care unit: a randomized controlled trial
Seyed Mojtaba Sohrevardi, Fatemeh Shojaei Nasab, Mohammad Reza Mirjalili, Mohammad Bagherniya, Arefeh Dehghani Tafti, Mohammad Hossein Jarrahzadeh, Mahmoud Reza Azarpazhooh, Mohsen Saeidmanesh, Maciej Banach, Tannaz Jamialahmadi, Amirhossein Sahebkar
Arch Med Sci 2021;17(5):1423–1428
GUIDELINES/RECOMMENDATIONS
Is type 2 diabetes mellitus a coronary heart disease equivalent or not? Do not just enjoy the debate and forget the patient!
Arch Med Sci 2019;15(6):1357–1364
SYSTEMATIC REVIEW/META-ANALYSIS
Pulse wave velocity as a measure of arterial stiffness in patients with familial hypercholesterolemia: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Željko Reiner, Luis E. Simental-Mendía, Massimiliano Ruscica, Niki Katsiki, Maciej Banach, Khalid Al Rasadi, Tannaz Jamialahmadi, Amirhossein Sahebkar
Arch Med Sci 2019;15(6):1365–1374
CLINICAL RESEARCH
Association of lipoprotein(a) and major adverse cardiovascular events in patients with percutaneous coronary intervention
Arch Med Sci 2019;15(6):1375–1380
CLINICAL RESEARCH
Prognostic role of traditional cardiovascular risk factors in patients with idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension
Kamil Jonas, Marcin Waligóra, Wojciech Magoń, Tomasz Zdrojewski, Jakub Stokwiszewski, Wojciech Płazak, Piotr Podolec, Grzegorz Kopeć
Arch Med Sci 2019;15(6):1397–1406
CLINICAL RESEARCH
E-selectin gene haplotypes are associated with the risk of myocardial infarction
Jarosław Gorący, Mariusz Kaczmarczyk, Andrzej Ciechanowicz, Krzysztof Safranow, Joanna Gorący, Katarzyna Jakubowska, Dariusz Chlubek, Iwona Gorący
Arch Med Sci 2019;15(5):1223–1231
CLINICAL RESEARCH
Associations between neutrophil/lymphocyte ratio, platelet/lymphocyte ratio, albuminuria and uric acid and the estimated glomerular filtration rate in hypertensive patients with chronic kidney disease stages 1–3
Arch Med Sci 2019;15(5):1232–1239
CLINICAL RESEARCH
Association of systolic blood pressure and pulse pressure with microalbuminuria in treatment-naïve hypertensive patients
Arch Med Sci 2019;15(4):832–836
