Showing papers by "Kimon Stamatelopoulos published in 2011"
TL;DR: Whether these beneficial arterial changes are direct effects of the IL-6/IL-6 receptor pathway inhibition, maintained over time and translate into better clinical outcome warrants further studies.
136 citations
TL;DR: Steeper BP variations may produce a greater stress on the arterial wall and may have an additive role to vascular risk factors and BP parameters in the detection of the severity of coronary artery lesions in normotensive individuals with suspected coronary artery disease.
Abstract: ObjectivesPrevious studies have demonstrated that the time rate of blood pressure (BP) variation was associated with early carotid atherosclerosis, independent of peripheral and central BP levels. We evaluated the association between the rate of BP variation, derived from ambulatory BP monitoring (A
40 citations
TL;DR: Plasma SDF-1 was significantly decreased in ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) compared to stable angina pectoris (SAP) or to non-ST-e Elevation my cardiac infarctions (N STEMI) independent of cardiovascular therapy.
33 citations
TL;DR: Diurnal fluctuations of prolactin levels are associated with decreased endothelial function that occurs early in the morning in men with hypertension, although this study did not assess causality.
23 citations
TL;DR: Patients with office BP levels in the prehypertensive range, who also have elevated daytime ABP levels, had higher CCA-IMT values than patients with pre Hypertension with normal daytimeABP values and normotensive individuals.
21 citations
TL;DR: Shorter polyglutamine stretch in the androgen receptor correlates with more severe CAD and worse predisposing factors in postmenopausal women undergoing coronary angiography, which may support the adverse cardiovascular effect of lifelong androgenic exposure in this selected group of women.
Abstract: Objective:Androgen may adversely affect vascular health in women. We investigated the associations between the androgen receptor gene (CAG)n repeat polymorphism, which affects androgen receptor transcriptional activity, and the severity of coronary artery disease (CAD) in women undergoing co
12 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated possible associations between the (TAAAA) n polymorphism of sex hormone binding globulin (SHBG) gene promoter, which influences transcriptional efficiency of the SHBG gene and early markers of atherosclerosis.
12 citations
01 Apr 2011
1 citations