Aortic Calcium: Epidemiology and Progression -- Ancillary to MESA
Cardiovascular DiseasesHeart Diseases2 moreTo study the epidemiology of aortic calcium.
Non Obstructive Versus Obstructive Coronary Artery Disease
Non-Obstructive Coronary Artery DiseaseThe goal of this observational study is to study the non obstructive type of ischemic heart disease by identifying unique clinical features , frequency and age group .in patient admitted in coronary care unit , suffered from angina or heart attack. . The main question[s] it aims to answer are: how it different from classical type of ischemic heart disease ( obstructive coronary artery disease) what is frequency and age prevalence of these patient Participants evaluated by history , clinical examination, serum troponin and coronary angiography.
Diagnostic Study of Transthoracic Echocardiography for Coronary Heart Disease
Coronary Heart DiseaseThis study is a prospective, single-center clinical trial,Comparison of transthoracic echocardiography and coronary angiography in coronary heart disease using a paired-analysis clinical trial.This study is based on the basis of clinical screening for coronary heart disease.
Coronary Artery Disease Severity in Newly Diagnosed Dysglycemia
Coronary Artery DiseaseDysglycemiaThis cohort study will measure how severe is the coronary artery disease (CAD), at time of CAD diagnosis, clinically and angiographically in the different cohorts of newly diagnosed diabetes and prediabetes versus normal glycemia patients in the study center.
Is Glucagon-like Peptide-1 Insufficiency a Residual Risk in Coronary Artery Disease?
Coronary Artery DiseaseIn this study, the investigators hypothesized that significant proportion of patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) has reduced capacity of glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) secretion, which is detectable as blunted response of plasma active GLP-1 level to oral glucose loading and that reduced GLP-1 secretory function is associated with increased severity of coronary artery stenosis but not with classic risk factors for CAD. To test this hypothesis, the investigators will analyze correlation between GLP-1 secretory capacity and severity of coronary artery stenosis determined by Gensini Score (GS), an established score system for coronary artery stenoses. Additionally, the investigators will analyze relationship between level of "total" GLP-1 and severity of coronary artery stenosis to determine how it is different from the active GLP-1 - coronary stenosis relationship.
Clinical Evaluation of the CADence Device in Detection of Coronary Artery Diseases
Coronary Artery DiseaseThis is a multi-center, prospective, non-randomized, double-blinded trial to evaluate the sensitivity and specificity of the CADence device in detecting the existence of clinically significant coronary artery disease as determined by either standard or CT angiography.
Centralised Pan-Algerian Survey on the Undertreatment of Hypercholesterolemia
HypercholesterolemiaCardiovascular Disease4 moreCentralized Pan-Algerian Survey on the undertreatment of hypercholesterolemia. The purpose of this study is to establish the proportion of patients on lipid-lowering pharmacological treatment reaching the LDL-C goals according to the Third Joint European Task Force guidelines in the survey population.
Myocardial Blood Flow by 15O Water PET
Coronary Heart DiseaseCoronary heart disease is a very common condition caused by narrowings in the blood vessel supplying the heart. the investigators are studying new tests to diagnose heart disease. In this study the investigators plan to investigate a special scan called a PET/CT (Positron emission tomography/computed tomography) and a new type of CT (Computed tomography) scan to tell us about the flow of blood to the heart muscle.
New Three-dimensional Methods of Analysis for the Detection of Coronary Artery Disease by Dobutamine...
Coronary Artery DiseaseEchocardiography1 moreThe investigators are going to recruit patients who have a scheduled elective coronary angiography and going to do a dobutamin stress echography (DSE) before the coronary examination. Next to a regular 2D-DSE, the investigators will perform an 3-dimensional DSE, incl ventriculography. In the interventional part (coronary angiography), they will measure each stenosis with fractional flow-reserve (FFR)and herewith graduate its stenosis severity.
Cardiovascular Disease Protection Tissue
Myocardial IschemiaRecent evidence of a potential role for cardiac progenitor cells (CPCs) in cardiac repair and the discovery of a vasoprotective axis of the renin-angiotensin system (RAS) offer such breakthroughs. Investigators have observed that an imbalance in the vasoprotective axis {angiotensin converting enzyme 2 (ACE2)/angiotensin-(1-7) [Ang-(1-7)]/Mas receptor} and the vasodeleterious axis [angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE)/angiotensin II (AngII)/AngII type 1 receptor (AT1R)] of the RAS within the CPCs affects their functionality and regenerative potential. Investigators believe that restoring the balance between these two axes of the RAS is essential to improve CPC function and enhance their reparative capabilities. These observations have led to the hypothesis that genetic modification of CPCs by overexpression of ACE2/Ang-(1-7) will enhance their reparative function and improve their potential to attenuate myocardial ischemia-induced cardiac damage.