2022
Gene Sequencing Identifies Perturbation in Nitric Oxide Signaling as a Nonlipid Molecular Subtype of Coronary Artery Disease
Khera AV, Wang M, Chaffin M, Emdin CA, Samani NJ, Schunkert H, Watkins H, McPherson R, Erdmann J, Elosua R, Boerwinkle E, Ardissino D, Butterworth A, Di Angelantonio E, Naheed A, Danesh J, Chowdhury R, Krumholz H, Sheu W, Rich S, Rotter J, Chen Y, Gabriel S, Lander E, Saleheen D, Kathiresan S. Gene Sequencing Identifies Perturbation in Nitric Oxide Signaling as a Nonlipid Molecular Subtype of Coronary Artery Disease. Circulation Genomic And Precision Medicine 2022, 15: e003598. PMID: 36215124, PMCID: PMC9771961, DOI: 10.1161/circgen.121.003598.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsMolecular subtypesCAD riskHigher systolic blood pressureCoronary artery disease patientsEndothelial nitric oxide synthase geneDamaging missense variantsRisk of CADSystolic blood pressureCoronary artery diseaseRisk of hypertensionNitric oxide synthase geneMissense variantsNitric oxide synthesisRare variantsOxide synthase geneDiscrete molecular subtypesNitric Oxide SignalingLow density lipoprotein receptor geneArtery diseaseBlood pressureEndothelial functionVascular toneDisease patientsCAD casesCholesterol concentrations
2013
Target cardiovascular risk rather than cholesterol concentration
Krumholz HM. Target cardiovascular risk rather than cholesterol concentration. The BMJ 2013, 347: f7110. PMID: 24284344, DOI: 10.1136/bmj.f7110.Peer-Reviewed Original Research