Toufik Abdul-Rahman, Ileana Lizano-Jubert, Neil Garg, Suprateeka Talukder, Pablo Perez Lopez, Wireko Andrew Awuah, Rohan Shah, Diego Chambergo, Emiliano Cantu-Herrera, Mobeen Farooqi, Nikolaos Pyrpyris, Heloisa de Andrade, Adriana C Mares, Rahul Gupta, Wesam Aldosoky, Tanveer Mir, Carl J Lavie, Shady Abohashem
Calcific aortic valve stenosis (CAS), the most prevalent valvular disease worldwide, has been demonstrated to frequently occur in conjunction with coronary artery disease (CAD), the third leading cause of death worldwide. Atherosclerosis has been proven to be the main mechanism involved in CAS and CAD. Evidence also exists that obesity, diabetes, and metabolic syndrome (among others), along with specific genes involved in lipid metabolism, are important risk factors for CAS and CAD, leading to common pathological processes of atherosclerosis in both diseases...
2023: Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases