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Morteza Naghavi

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From vulnerable plaque to vulnerable patient: a call for new definitions and risk assessment strategies: Part I

M Naghavi, P Libby, E Falk, SW Casscells, S Litovsky… - Circulation, 2003 - Am Heart Assoc
Atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease results in >19 million deaths annually, and coronary
heart disease accounts for the majority of this toll. Despite major advances in treatment of …

From vulnerable plaque to vulnerable patient—part III: executive summary of the Screening for Heart Attack Prevention and Education (SHAPE) Task Force report

M Naghavi, E Falk, HS Hecht, MJ Jamieson… - The American journal of …, 2006 - Elsevier
Screening for early-stage asymptomatic cancers (eg, cancers of breast and colon) to prevent
late-stage malignancies has been widely accepted. However, although atherosclerotic …

Association of influenza vaccination and reduced risk of recurrent myocardial infarction

M Naghavi, Z Barlas, S Siadaty, S Naguib, M Madjid… - Circulation, 2000 - Am Heart Assoc
Background—Numerous studies have suggested that microbial agents may promote
atherosclerosis. A smaller body of research has suggested that acute respiratory infection may be a …

Vulnerable atherosclerotic plaque: a multifocal disease

W Casscells, M Naghavi, JT Willerson - Circulation, 2003 - Am Heart Assoc
2072 angina, 16, 17 together with recent demonstrations that serum levels of C-reactive
protein (CRP) predicts the risk of myocardial infarction (MI) or stroke better than total and low-…

Influenza infection exerts prominent inflammatory and thrombotic effects on the atherosclerotic plaques of apolipoprotein E–deficient mice

M Naghavi, P Wyde, S Litovsky, M Madjid, A Akhtar… - Circulation, 2003 - Am Heart Assoc
Background— The role of infection in the development and complications of atherosclerosis
has been the focus of much attention. We reported previously that influenza vaccination was …

pH Heterogeneity of human and rabbit atherosclerotic plaques; a new insight into detection of vulnerable plaque

M Naghavi, R John, S Naguib, MS Siadaty, R Grasu… - Atherosclerosis, 2002 - Elsevier
Background: Atherosclerotic plaques are heterogeneous with respect to inflammation,
calcification, vascularity, oxygen, and temperature. We hypothesized that they also vary in pH and …

Influenza and cardiovascular disease: a new opportunity for prevention and the need for further studies

M Madjid, M Naghavi, S Litovsky, SW Casscells - Circulation, 2003 - Am Heart Assoc
To test the effect of influenza on atherosclerosis, we inoculated atherosclerotic apolipoprotein
E–deficient mice with influenza A and found a marked increase in inflammation and …

Machine learning outperforms ACC/AHA CVD risk calculator in MESA

…, T Kuznetsova, M Budoff, M Naghavi - Journal of the …, 2018 - Am Heart Assoc
Background Studies have demonstrated that the current US guidelines based on American
College of Cardiology/American Heart Association (ACC/AHA) Pooled Cohort Equations …

Vasa vasorum imaging: a new window to the clinical detection of vulnerable atherosclerotic plaques

…, E Falk, G Stone, M Leon, M Naghavi - Current atherosclerosis …, 2005 - Springer
Complications of vulnerable atherosclerotic plaques (rupture, luminal and mural thrombosis,
intraplaque hemorrhage, rapid progression to stenosis, spasm, and so forth) lead to heart …

The role of periadventitial fat in atherosclerosis: an adipose subset with potential diagnostic and therapeutic implications

…, M Madjid, A Burke, M Naghavi… - … of pathology & …, 2007 - meridian.allenpress.com
Context.—It has become increasingly evident that adipose tissue is a multifunctional organ
that produces and secretes multiple paracrine and endocrine factors. Research into obesity, …