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  1. Insulin resistance (IR)-related indices are validated prognostic markers in metabolic disorders, but have not been applied to preclinical or clinical obesity. This study aimed to investigate the relationship b...

    Authors: Jinling Hu, Cong Shang, Yueqing Huang, Chaonan Sun and Jing Zhang
    Citation: Cardiovascular Diabetology 2025 24:407
  2. To assess the impact of glycated hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) in individuals without diabetes and at the extremes of cardiovascular risk factor (CVRF) burden on the incidence of atherosclerotic cardiovascular diseas...

    Authors: Soroush Masrouri, Amirhossein Hasanpour, Navid Ebrahimi and Farzad Hadaegh
    Citation: Cardiovascular Diabetology 2025 24:406
  3. Despite the growing burden of youth-onset type 2 diabetes (Y-T2D), the long-term risk for fatal/non-fatal cardiovascular disease (CVD) in Y-T2D compared to peers is unknown. The International Childhood Cardiov...

    Authors: Noemi Malandrino, Faith S. Davis, Sophia B. Glaros, Ila N. Kacker, Samson L. Cantor, Natalie A. Macheret, Geethika Thota, Lilian Mabundo, Maureen Sampson, Alan Remaley, Marissa Lightbourne, Sheela N. Magge, Jack A. Yanovski and Stephanie T. Chung
    Citation: Cardiovascular Diabetology 2025 24:405
  4. This prospective study investigated plaque morphologies based on the underlying culprit lesion pathology in relation to the Atherogenic Index of Plasma (AIP) in patients with acute ST-elevated myocardial infar...

    Authors: Xiaoxiao Zhao, Runzhen Chen, Nan Li, Linghan Xue, Chen Liu, Peng Zhou, Yi Chen, Shaodi Yan, Li Song, Hanjun Zhao, Jiannan Li and Hongbing Yan
    Citation: Cardiovascular Diabetology 2025 24:404
  5. Epicardial adipose tissue is gaining increasing interest as a cardiometabolic imaging biomarker, but its exact role in coronary artery disease is not fully understood. This study aimed to investigate the relat...

    Authors: Jolien Geers, Nipun Manral, Caroline Park, Guadalupe Flores Tomasino, Kajetan Grodecki, Joel Lenell, Mikolaj Buchwald, Aryabod Razipour, Jacek Kwiecinski, Hidenari Matsumoto, Mohamed Marwan, Stephan Achenbach, Daniel S. Berman, Marc R. Dweck, David E. Newby, Piotr J. Slomka…
    Citation: Cardiovascular Diabetology 2025 24:403
  6. This study investigated the relationship between estimated glucose disposal rate (eGDR), aging acceleration (AgeAccel), and mortality in adults diagnosed with cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic (CKM) stages 1 to 4.

    Authors: Mo-Yao Tan, Zhen-Ni Jiang, Yao-Qin Li, Zi-Yu Li and Bin Niu
    Citation: Cardiovascular Diabetology 2025 24:402
  7. It remains unclear whether certain individuals with type 2 diabetes (T2D) derive greater cardiovascular benefit from GLP-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1RAs). Here, we integrate individual-level data from cardiovasc...

    Authors: Mario Luca Morieri, Enrico Longato, Veronica Sciannameo, Emily Donatiello, Paola Berchialla, Angelo Avogaro, Agostino Consoli and Gian Paolo Fadini
    Citation: Cardiovascular Diabetology 2025 24:401
  8. Epicardial adipose tissue (EAT) and arterial stiffness are determinants of excess risk of cardiovascular disease in persons with diabetes. This study aimed to evaluate the relationship between both of these co...

    Authors: Omar Nouhou Koutcha, Sopio Tatulashvili, Nanthara Sritharan, Pierre Boutouyrie, Imen Rezgani, Marouane Boubaya, Mohamed Lamine Mariko, Lucie Allard, Meriem Sal, Coralie Bloch-Queyrat, Mohamed Zerguine, Pierre-Yves Brillet, Zouhour El Fekih, Rosa-Maria Bruno, Hélène Bihan and Emmanuel Cosson
    Citation: Cardiovascular Diabetology 2025 24:400
  9. Plozasiran (VSA001, ARO-APOC3) is an RNA interference therapy that targets Apolipoprotein C3 (APOC3), a key regulator of lipoprotein metabolism. The study aimed at assessing the safety, tolerability, pharmacok...

    Authors: Fangfang Wang, Dong You, Xiaoye Niu, Jack Shi, Ye Li, Lihang Qi and Haiyan Li
    Citation: Cardiovascular Diabetology 2025 24:399
  10. This study aimed to elucidate the role of insulin resistance in the progression from non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) to cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic (CKM) diseases, and to explore the potential in...

    Authors: Chao Hou, Xiangling Yuan, Min Peng, Xuan Shi, Dahong Yang, Fang Wang, Ke Song, Gelin Xu and Jianzhong Shi
    Citation: Cardiovascular Diabetology 2025 24:398
  11. Degeneration of organ-specific nervous systems precede major clinical conditions such as heart failure, dementia, diabetic retinopathy, and diabetic neuropathy. Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor (GLP1R) agonist...

    Authors: Frank C. T. van der Heide, Indra L. M. Steens, Archana Singh-Manoux, Séverine Sabia, Tan Lai Zhou, Sebastian Köhler, Miranda T. Schram, Carla J. H. van der Kallen, Tos T. J. M. Berendschot, Carroll A. B. Webers, Marleen M. J. van Greevenbroek, Anke Wesselius, Ilja C. W. Arts, Jacobus F. A. Jansen, Walter H. Backes, Thomas T. van Sloten…
    Citation: Cardiovascular Diabetology 2025 24:397
  12. Macrophage efferocytosis, essential for the resolution of inflammation and plaque stability in atherosclerosis, is impaired in diabetes. Thrombomodulin (TM) and endothelial protein C receptor (EPCR), key media...

    Authors: Saira Ambreen, Amna Arif, Saikal Shamkeeva, Ahmed Elwakiel, Surinder Pal, Shihai Jiang, Muhammad Asad Farhan, Zuhir Halloul, John H. Griffin, Berend Isermann and Khurrum Shahzad
    Citation: Cardiovascular Diabetology 2025 24:396
  13. Cardio-Kidney-Metabolic (CKM) syndrome results from the complex interaction of cardiovascular, renal and metabolic comorbidities. Data on the epidemiology and clinical impact of the CKM syndrome in patients wi...

    Authors: Giulio Francesco Romiti, Davide Antonio Mei, Bernadette Corica, Marco Proietti, Giuseppe Boriani, Brian Olshansky, Tze-Fan Chao, Menno V. Huisman and Gregory Y. H. Lip
    Citation: Cardiovascular Diabetology 2025 24:395
  14. Type 4a myocardial infarction (MI) is a relevant complication in non–ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI) patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). While glucometabolic statu...

    Authors: Matteo Armillotta, Luca Bergamaschi, Francesco Angeli, Marta Belmonte, Marcello Casuso Alvarez, Angelo Sansonetti, Damiano Fedele, Sara Amicone, Lisa Canton, Davide Bertolini, Andrea Impellizzeri, Francesca Bodega, Nicole Suma, Francesco Pio Tattilo, Daniele Cavallo, Ornella Di Iuorio…
    Citation: Cardiovascular Diabetology 2025 24:394
  15. Cholesterol, high-density lipoprotein, and glucose (CHG) index, an alternative marker of insulin resistance (IR), play a significant role in predicting cardiovascular diseases. However, its prognostic value in...

    Authors: Zhen Guo, Zhenyu Xiong, Wenjing Zhang, Guanzhong Chen, Mengjie Xie, Ziwei Zhou, Shaozhao Zhang, Menghui Liu, Jiaying Li, Xinxue Liao and Xiaodong Zhuang
    Citation: Cardiovascular Diabetology 2025 24:393
  16. Lipid metabolism plays a pivotal role in the pathogenesis of metabolic dysfunction-associated fatty liver disease (MASLD). However, the effect of the atherogenic index of plasma (AIP)—a novel biomarker for ass...

    Authors: Meiping Gan, Bo Chen, Minghui Qin, Ling Zhang and Xiaolin Wang
    Citation: Cardiovascular Diabetology 2025 24:391
  17. Deep learning (DL) models can quantify coronary artery calcification using non-gated chest CT scans. However, the prognostic value of a DL-based coronary artery calcium score (DL-CACS) for predicting major adv...

    Authors: Yidan Xu, Yarong Yu, Xiaoying Ding, Jiajun Yuan, Lihua Yu, Xu Dai, Runjianya Ling, Yufan Wang and Jiayin Zhang
    Citation: Cardiovascular Diabetology 2025 24:389
  18. Cancer-associated signaling pathways, particularly the ALK/LTK receptor tyrosine kinases and their ligand ALKAL2, have recently been implicated in chronic inflammation and myocardial remodeling. However, the r...

    Authors: Yipaerguli Maimaiti, Minhui Wang, Shuai Chen, Feifei Li, Jingmeng Liu, Xinrui Wu, Jianjun Chen, Qiujing Chen, Weifeng Shen, Fenghua Ding, Yang Dai and Lin Lu
    Citation: Cardiovascular Diabetology 2025 24:388
  19. Epicardial adipose tissue (EAT) plays an important role in the pathogenesis of coronary artery disease (CAD). The association between EAT and obstructive CAD or myocardial ischemia has been established, but it...

    Authors: Chunbo Wang, Wenji Yu, Xiaoyu Yang, Fan Sun, Yu Tian, Yue Yue, Feifei Zhang, Xiaoliang Shao, Yunmei Shi, Bao Liu, Jianfeng Wang, Sijin Li and Yuetao Wang
    Citation: Cardiovascular Diabetology 2025 24:387
  20. The C-Reactive Protein-Triglyceride-Glucose Index (CTI) has been proposed as a novel biomarker for insulin resistance and inflammation. However, research on the relationship between CTI changes and stroke is l...

    Authors: Yibo Yang and Aihua Liu
    Citation: Cardiovascular Diabetology 2025 24:386
  21. Cardiovascular outcome trials have shown that glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonists (GLP1-RAs) reduce cardiovascular event rates more effectively than placebo and in patients with type 2 diabetes at increa...

    Authors: Kathrine Kold Sørensen, Puriya Daniel Würtz Yazdanfard, Bochra Zareini, Ulrik Pedersen-Bjergaard, Vanja Kosjerina, Mikkel Porsborg Andersen, Anders Munch, Johan Sebastian Ohlendorff, Stefanie Schmid, Stefanie Lanzinger, Pratik Choudhary, Clare Gillies, Safoora Gharibzadeh, Marcus Lind, Viktor Tasselius, Jens Michelsen…
    Citation: Cardiovascular Diabetology 2025 24:385
  22. Recent evidence suggests that inhibiting 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A reductase (HMGCR), a key enzyme in cholesterol biosynthesis, has beneficial effects on lipid metabolism and blood pressure (BP), b...

    Authors: Daniela Pacella, Maria Lembo, Valentina Trimarco, Alessia Izzo, Maria Virginia Manzi, Stanislovas S. Jankauskas, Imma Forzano, Paola Gallo, Alessandra Spinelli, Carmine Morisco, Stefano Cristiano, Paola Ida Rozza, Eliana Esposito, Felicia Rozza, Lorena Esposito, Sun King B. Bear…
    Citation: Cardiovascular Diabetology 2025 24:384
  23. Patients with diabetes admitted to emergency care face a higher risk of complications, including prolonged hospital stays, admissions to the intensive care unit and mortality.

    Authors: Per Wändell, Marcelina Wierzbicka, Karolina Sigurdsson, Anna Olofsson, Caroline Wachtler, Torgny Wessman, Olle Melander, Ulf Ekelund, Anders Björkelund, Axel C. Carlsson and Toralph Ruge
    Citation: Cardiovascular Diabetology 2025 24:383
  24. The triglyceride-glucose (TyG) index, TyG-body mass index (TyG-BMI), TyG-waist circumference (TyG-WC), TyG-waist-to-height ratio (TyG-WHtR), and estimated glucose disposal rate (eGDR) serve as surrogate marker...

    Authors: Xianlin Ruan, Yihang Ling, Jinming Chen, Yulong Xiang, Huangtao Ruan, Weipeng Zhang, Ling Jing, Xin Gao, Yibo He, Xiaozhao Lu, Tian Chang, Junyan Xu and Jiyan Chen
    Citation: Cardiovascular Diabetology 2025 24:382
  25. Emerging evidence has highlighted the connection between the Triglyceride-glucose (TyG) index and the development and severity of coronary artery disease. However, the role of the TyG index in predicting adver...

    Authors: Senlin Hu, Haoyu Yan, Yang Sun, Daowen Wang, Hesong Zeng and Guanglin Cui
    Citation: Cardiovascular Diabetology 2025 24:380
  26. Metabolic disorders, cardiovascular diseases, and chronic kidney diseases are closely interrelated, and the proposal of cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic (CKM) syndrome concept has received extensive attention.T...

    Authors: Huihong Wu, Yang Zhou, Xinxing Lai, Bin Ma, Lu Ding, Xiaojie Zhu, Zixin Chen and Ziwang Liu
    Citation: Cardiovascular Diabetology 2025 24:379
  27. Testosterone deficiency is common in men with diabetes. Effects of testosterone therapy on kidney failure and cardiovascular outcomes in diabetic men remain poorly understood. Our aim was to assess whether tes...

    Authors: Fabrice Bonnet, Patricia Vaduva, Jean-Michel Halimi, Arnaud Dosda, Pierre-Henri Ducluzeau, Laetitia Koppe and Laurent Fauchier
    Citation: Cardiovascular Diabetology 2025 24:378
  28. Insulin resistance (IR)-related indices are increasingly recognized as important contributors to cardio-renal-metabolic (CRM) diseases. However, most prior studies have focused on isolated outcomes or cross-se...

    Authors: Lulu Liu, Guangzan Yu, Xuhou Ji, Yunlong Wang and Hua He
    Citation: Cardiovascular Diabetology 2025 24:377
  29. Type 2 diabetes remains a major global health concern, and plant-based diets (PBD) offer substantial preventive value. The Planetary Health Diet Index (PHDI) captures adherence to an environmentally sustainabl...

    Authors: María del Carmen Aznar de la Riera, Rosario Ortolá, Stefanos N. Kales, Esther García-Esquinas, Fernando Rodríguez-Artalejo and Mercedes Sotos-Prieto
    Citation: Cardiovascular Diabetology 2025 24:376
  30. This study aims to characterize the prevalence of echocardiographic abnormalities and their associated factors in patients with type 1 diabetes.

    Authors: Wenfeng Yang, Chu Lin, Xiaoling Cai, Zonglin Li, Fang Lv, Wenjia Yang, Geling Liu, Xiaolin Yang, Sha Li and Linong Ji
    Citation: Cardiovascular Diabetology 2025 24:375
  31. Atrial fibrillation (AF) confers a high risk of thromboembolism and cardiovascular events, which persists despite optimal oral anticoagulation (OAC). The non-high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (non-HDL-C) to...

    Authors: Eva Soler-Espejo, Yang Chen, José Miguel Rivera-Caravaca, María Pilar Ramos-Bratos, María Asunción Esteve-Pastor, Francisco Marín, Vanessa Roldán and Gregory Y. H. Lip
    Citation: Cardiovascular Diabetology 2025 24:374
  32. Early mortality prediction in critically ill patients with cardiovascular disease remains challenging. This study aimed to develop and validate an ensemble machine learning (ML) model to predict 30-day mortali...

    Authors: Mingxing Lei, Xiao Liu, Longcan Cheng, Yan Li, Nan Tang, Jie Song, Mi Song, Qingqing Su, Mingxuan Liu, Shihui Fu, Baisheng Sun and Yuan Gao
    Citation: Cardiovascular Diabetology 2025 24:373
  33. Insulin resistance (IR) is a key driver of cardiovascular disease. The triglyceride-glucose (TyG) index, derived from fasting triglyceride and glucose levels, has been proposed as a surrogate marker of IR. How...

    Authors: Zhi-Fan Li, Zheng Yin, Xi Li, Meng-Ying Lu, Wen-Jia Zhang, Fang Luo, Yan-Lu Xu, Jian-Jun Li, Ke-Fei Dou, Xiao Wang, Hong Qiu and Na-Qiong Wu
    Citation: Cardiovascular Diabetology 2025 24:372
  34. Sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors (SGLT2i) have demonstrated cardiovascular benefits in randomised controlled trials (RCT). However, the controlled nature of RCTs and the selected trial populations lim...

    Authors: Puriya Daniel Würtz Yazdanfard, Kathrine Kold Sørensen, Bochra Zareini, Ulrik Pedersen-Bjergaard, Johan Sebastian Ohlendorff, Anders Munch, Mikkel Porsborg Andersen, Rasmus Bo Hasselbalch, Henrik Imberg, Viktor Tasseleus, Marcus Lind, Jonathan Valabhji, Pratik Choudhary, Kamlesh Khunti, Stefanie Schmid, Stefanie Lanzinger…
    Citation: Cardiovascular Diabetology 2025 24:371
  35. Combination therapy with glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1RA), sodium-glucose co-transporter 2 inhibitors (SGLT2i), and/or finerenone offers a strategy to reduce the risk of adverse cardiovascul...

    Authors: Arveen Shokravi, Jayant Seth and G. B. John Mancini
    Citation: Cardiovascular Diabetology 2025 24:370
  36. To investigate the associations between the triglyceride-glucose (TyG) index and its obesity-related derivatives with the risk of incident cardio-renal-metabolic multimorbidity (CRMM) in a Middle Eastern adult...

    Authors: Soroush Soraneh, Navid Ebrahimi, Soroush Masrouri, Maryam Tohidi, Fereidoun Azizi and Farzad Hadaegh
    Citation: Cardiovascular Diabetology 2025 24:369
  37. Stress hyperglycemia ratio (SHR) has emerged as an innovative biomarker for stress-induced hyperglycemia and various disease prognosis, yet its relationship with mortality in patients with type 2 diabetes and ...

    Authors: Jinling Xu, Hui Zhou and Zhongjing Wang
    Citation: Cardiovascular Diabetology 2025 24:368
  38. The triglyceride-glucose index (TyG) is an emerging marker of metabolic health, yet its association with mortality across different glucose metabolism statuses remains unclear. This study aimed to investigate ...

    Authors: Jiajun Liu, Jinhua Kang, Pengpeng Liang, Zhangxiao Song, Guiyun Li, Xueshan Jin and Hongyan Wu
    Citation: Cardiovascular Diabetology 2025 24:367
  39. The triglyceride-glucose (TyG) index, as a measure of insulin resistance, has been confirmed to be associated with adverse clinical outcomes. The new composite indicator, TyG-A body type index (TyG-ABSI), by i...

    Authors: Mingjie Chen, Jiajie Guo, Yuwen Shangguan, Zhonghua Sun, Xueling He, Qiang Tu and Qingkai Yan
    Citation: Cardiovascular Diabetology 2025 24:366
  40. Combination therapy is gaining attention in type 2 diabetes management due to its potential to reach glycaemic goals within a shorter period. However, the long-term comparative cardiorenal effectiveness of fix...

    Authors: Qiaoling Liu, Paul Welsh, Carlos Celis-Morales, Jennifer S. Lees, Patrick B. Mark and Laura Pazzagli
    Citation: Cardiovascular Diabetology 2025 24:365
  41. Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) patients are at high risk for micro- and macrovascular complications, and cardiovascular (CV) events are a major cause of their increased risk of early death. Despite well-estab...

    Authors: Jens Aberle, Daniel Duerschmied, Martin Grond, Michael Lehrke, Stephan Martin, Sven-Oliver Tröbs, Michael Schultze, Nils Kossack, Lena Margareta Richter and Maximilian Gabler
    Citation: Cardiovascular Diabetology 2025 24:364
  42. Authors: Lijun Feng, Yuxuan Zhang, Chenyun Zhang, Zining Chen, Jingnan Pan, Zhiling Gao, Delong Chen, Abuduwufuer Yidilisi, Jiacheng Fang, Yiyue Zheng, Tingting Mei, Jiantao Liu, Jianping Xiang, Jinlong Zhang, Changling Li, Jifang Cheng…
    Citation: Cardiovascular Diabetology 2025 24:362

    The original article was published in Cardiovascular Diabetology 2025 24:298

  43. Authors: Sun-Joon Moon, Min-Su Kim, Yun Tae Kim, Ha-Eun Lee, Young-Woo Lee, Su-Ji Lee, Euy-Suk Chung and Cheol-Young Park
    Citation: Cardiovascular Diabetology 2025 24:361

    The original article was published in Cardiovascular Diabetology 2025 24:210

  44. Insulin resistance (IR) has been recognized as a critical factor in the progression of cardiovascular disease (CVD), yet its association with cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic (CKM) syndrome remains incompletely...

    Authors: Hao Zhang, Sizhuang Huang, Yanwen Fang, Haihua Zhang, Weixian Yang and Mengyue Yu
    Citation: Cardiovascular Diabetology 2025 24:360
  45. Sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitors, such as Empagliflozin, are antidiabetic drugs that reduce glucose levels and have emerged as a promising therapy for patients with heart failure (HF), althoug...

    Authors: Katrin I. Bauer, Dhanwin Baker, Raissa Lerner, Thomas Koeck, Gregor Buch, Zlatka Fischer, Robin Martens, Ekaterina E. Esenkova, Maximilian Nuber, Miguel A. Andrade-Navarro, Vincent ten Cate, Stefan Tenzer, Philipp S. Wild, Laura Bindila and Elisa Araldi
    Citation: Cardiovascular Diabetology 2025 24:359
  46. Cardiometabolic multimorbidity (CMM) imposes a progressively severe health burden worldwide. Triglyceride-glucose (TyG) index and waist-to-height ratio (WHtR), as indicators of insulin resistance and central a...

    Authors: Longyan Lv, Ping Zhang, Xuerui Chen and Yan Gao
    Citation: Cardiovascular Diabetology 2025 24:358

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