June 8, 2020: Recent Findings

Investigators use FHS data to find association between atherosclerosis and changes in the structure, heart function

Even among individuals free of heart failure and myocardial infarction, there appears to be evidence of an association between calcium buildup in the coronary arteries (atherosclerosis) and changes in the structure and function of the heart.

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Castro-Diehl C, Song RJ, Mitchell GF, McManus D, Cheng S, Vasan RS, et al. (2020) Association of subclinical atherosclerosis with echocardiographic indices of cardiac remodeling: The Framingham Study. PLoS ONE 15(5): e0233321. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0233321