Jaap W. Deckers

TL;DR: Although estimates decrease with age, measures of overall and central adiposity predict incident heart failure among community dwelling older adults.

TL;DR: The usefulness of specific targets for LDL cholesterol levels has been questioned and has been abandoned in recent American guidelines, but European opinion leaders continue to emphasize the value of targets to improve adherence to therapy and to consider additional therapy, such as combination of statin and ezetimibe, in a small group of very high-risk patients.

TL;DR: It is concluded that conditional upon modern treatment, including secondary prevention with beta-blockers and revascularization procedures in selected patients with symptoms refractory to medical therapy, exercise-induced angina and painless ST segment depression do not identify a group of patients at higher risk of sudden death or fatal reinfarction during the 4 years after myocardial infarction.

TL;DR: Larger ascending and descending thoracic aortic diameters indexed by body mass index were associated with greater risk of adverse cardiovascular outcomes and mortality in women and men.