Full blood count and peripheral arterial disease severity and prognosis

Spanos K., Matsagkas M., Giannoukas A.

Age dependence of brachial cuff-based ambulatory PWV in end-stage kidney disease patients undergoing long-term peritoneal dialysis

Vaios V., Georgianos P.I., Vareta G., Divanis D., Dounousi E., Eleftheriadis T., Papagianni A., Zebekakis P.E., Liakopoulos V. (2022)

Background: The newly introduced device Mobil-O-Graph (IEM, Stolberg, Germany) combines brachial cuff oscillometry and pulse wave analysis, enabling the determination of pulse wave velocity (PWV) via complex mathematic ...

Progression of conventional cardiovascular risk factors and vascular disease risk in individuals: insights from the PROG-IMT consortium

Bahls M., Lorenz M.W., Dörr M., Gao L., Kitagawa K., Tuomainen T.-P., Agewall S., Berenson G., Catapano A.L., Norata G.D., Bots M.L., van Gilst W., Asselbergs F.W., Brouwers F.P., Uthoff H., Sander D., Poppert H., Hecht Olsen M., Empana J.P., Schminke U., Baldassarre D., Veglia F., Franco O.H., Kavousi M., de Groot E., Mathiesen E.B., Grigore L., Polak J.F., Rundek T., Stehouwer C.D.A., Skilton M.R., Hatzitolios A.I., Savopoulos C., Ntaios G., Plichart M., McLachlan S., Lind L., Willeit P., Steinmetz H., Desvarieux M., Ikram M.A., Johnsen S.H., Schmidt C., Willeit J., Ducimetiere P., Price J.F., Bergström G., Kauhanen J., Kiechl S., Sitzer M., Bickel H., Sacco R.L., Hofman A., Völzke H., Thompson S.G., on behalf of the PROG-IMT Study Group (2020)

Aims: Averaged measurements, but not the progression based on multiple assessments of carotid intima-media thickness, (cIMT) are predictive of cardiovascular disease (CVD) events in individuals. Whether this is true for ...

Decreased serum DNase1-activity in patients with autoimmune liver diseases

Gatselis N.K., Vakrakou A.G., Zachou K., Androutsakos T., Azariadis K., Hatzis G., Manoussakis M.N., Dalekos G.N. (2017)

Deoxyribonuclease1 (DNase1) is involved in chromatin degradation of apoptotic cells. Its deficiency results in accumulation of self-DNA, which in turn may induce inflammation and autoimmunity. We assessed for the first ...