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Established and Emerging Lipid-Lowering Drugs for Primary and Secondary Cardiovascular Prevention
Despite treatment with statins, patients with elevated low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) and triglycerides remain at increased risk for...
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Cardiovascular safety of using non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs for gout: a Danish nationwide case-crossover study
Gout attacks are treated with uric-lowering and anti-inflammatory drugs. In patients with gout, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) could...
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A phenome-wide association and factorial Mendelian randomization study on the repurposing of uric acid-lowering drugs for cardiovascular outcomes
Uric acid has been linked to various disease outcomes. However, it remains unclear whether uric acid-lowering therapy could be repurposed as a...
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Characteristics and Trends in Clinical Trials of Cardiovascular Drugs in China from 2009 to 2021
BackgroundCardiovascular disease remains the leading cause of death worldwide and brings a heavy burden. However, the development of cardiovascular...
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Prediction of cardiovascular risk in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma receiving anti-angiogenic drugs: lessons from sorafenib
Antiangiogenics are associated with an increased risk of major adverse cardiac and cerebrovascular events (MACE). The identification of at-risk...
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Repurposing drugs to treat cardiovascular disease in the era of precision medicine
Drug repurposing is the use of a given therapeutic agent for indications other than that for which it was originally designed or intended. The...
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Predicting the effectiveness of drugs used for treating cardiovascular conditions in newborn infants
BackgroundCardiovascular support (CVS) treatment failure (TF) is associated with a poor prognosis in preterm infants.
MethodsMedical charts of...
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Cardiovascular Insights for the Appropriate Management of Chronic Venous Disease: A Narrative Review of Implications for the Use of Venoactive Drugs
Evidence suggests that chronic venous disease (CVD) may be a cardiovascular disorder, as patients with CVD are prone to developing arterial...
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Interactions between erectile dysfunction, cardiovascular disease and cardiovascular drugs
Sexual health has a fundamental role in overall health and well-being, and a healthy and dynamic sex life can make an important contribution to a...
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RNA Therapeutics: the Next Generation of Drugs for Cardiovascular Diseases
Purpose of ReviewRNA therapeutics are a new and rapidly expanding class of drugs to prevent or treat a wide spectrum of diseases. We discuss the...
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Risk of incident cardiovascular events with disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs among adults with rheumatoid arthritis: a nested case-control study
ObjectiveThis study examined the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) associated with the disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (DMARDs) in...
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Cardiovascular and mortality outcomes with GLP-1 receptor agonists vs other glucose-lowering drugs in individuals with NAFLD and type 2 diabetes: a large population-based matched cohort study
Aims/hypothesisWe aimed to determine whether the use of glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1RA) in individuals with non-alcoholic fatty...
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Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and its control measures on cardiovascular and antidiabetic drugs use in France in 2020: a nationwide repeated cohort study
Since pandemic start, patients may have faced difficulties in accessing to care and treatment. This study aimed at assessing the impact of COVID-19...
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Cardiovascular Outcome Trials with Glucose-Lowering Drugs
Purpose of ReviewThis review summarizes recent cardiovascular outcome trials (CVOTs) with glucose-lowering drugs.
Recent FindingsThe majority of...
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Update in uric acid, hypertension, and cardiovascular diseases
A direct relationship between serum uric acid levels and hypertension, cardiovascular, renal and metabolic diseases has been reported in many basic...
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Cardiovascular effects of approved drugs for rheumatoid arthritis
The risk of cardiovascular disease is increased in patients with rheumatoid arthritis compared with the general population owing to the influence of...
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Psoriasis and Molecular Target Therapies: Evidence of Efficacy in Preventing Cardiovascular Comorbidities
Psoriasis is now considered a systemic disease, and several comorbidities have been described such as cardiovascular diseases, neurologic and...
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Reducing Cardiovascular Disease—An Alternative Approach
PurposeStatin drugs are effective at reducing cardiovascular events, but adherence to statin therapy remains a problem for patients and their...
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Drug therapy problems among hospitalized patients with cardiovascular disease
BackgroundOptimal utilization of cardiovascular drugs is crucial in reducing morbidity and mortality associated with cardiovascular diseases....