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Double Face of Statins at the Crossroad of Coronary Atherosclerotic Plaque and Aortic Valve Calcification?
- Source :
- JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging. 11:1930-1931
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2018.
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Abstract
- We read with interest the manuscript by Lee et al. [(1)][1], which reports statin use impact on coronary plaque features. Statins increase coronary artery calcification, reducing local inflammation, changing phenotypic plaque composition, and lowering the high-risk plaques, as also observed in
- Subjects :
- Aortic valve
030213 general clinical medicine
medicine.medical_specialty
030204 cardiovascular system & hematology
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Calcinosis
Internal medicine
Coronary plaque
medicine
Humans
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging
business.industry
Plaque composition
Aortic Valve Stenosis
Statin treatment
medicine.disease
Plaque, Atherosclerotic
medicine.anatomical_structure
Aortic Valve
Coronary artery calcification
Aortic valve stenosis
Cardiology
Hydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA Reductase Inhibitors
Aortic valve calcification
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 1936878X
- Volume :
- 11
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....2a39d77b6303c84a5dfc530effa706a6