It has long been observed that heart failure (HF) is associated with measures of systemic
inflammation. In recent years, there have been significant advancements in our …

Atherosclerosis, a chronic multifactorial disease, is closely related to the development of
cardiovascular diseases and is one of the predominant causes of death worldwide. Normal …

Psoriasis is a systemic inflammatory disease associated with increased risk of comorbidities,
such as psoriatic arthritis, Crohn's disease, malignancy, obesity, and cardiovascular …

The damage inflicted on the myocardium during acute myocardial infarction is the result of 2
processes: ischemia and subsequent reperfusion (ischemia/reperfusion injury). During the …

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common cardiac arrhythmia. However, the development of
preventative therapies for AF has been disappointing. The infiltration of immune cells and …

The onset of heart failure is typically preceded by cardiac hypertrophy, a response of the
heart to increased workload, a cardiac insult such as a heart attack or genetic mutation …

By virtue of their actions on NF-κB, an inflammatory nuclear transcription factor, various
cytokines have been documented to play important regulatory roles in determining cardiac …

Obesity is a risk factor for various cardiovascular diseases including hypertension,
atherosclerosis, and myocardial infarction. Recent studies aimed at understanding the …

Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is the most common microvascular complication of diabetes and
the leading cause of visual impairment in the working-age population in the Western world …

Myocardial ischemia reperfusion injury contributes to adverse cardiovascular outcomes after
myocardial ischemia, cardiac surgery or circulatory arrest. Primarily, no blood flow to the …