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Papers

(The median citation count of Current Vascular Pharmacology is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Cardiovascular Complications of Sleep Disorders: A Better Night’s Sleep for a Healthier Heart / From Bench to Bedside	24
Effects of Maternal Obesity and Gestational Diabetes Mellitus on the Placenta: Current Knowledge and Targets for Therapeutic Interventions	23
Thromboprophylaxis in Patients with COVID-19: Systematic Review of National and International Clinical Guidance Reports	23
Prevalence, Diagnosis, and Treatment with 3 Different Statins of Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease/Non-alcoholic Steatohepatitis in Military Personnel. Do Genetics Play a Role?	21
Lifestyle, Maternal Nutrition and Healthy Pregnancy	20
Inflammatory Markers in Cardiovascular Disease; Lessons Learned and Future Perspectives	20
Endothelial Dysfunction and Inflammatory Markers of Vascular Disease	19
Pre- and Post-Conditioning of the Heart: An Overview of Cardioprotective Signaling Pathways	19
The Burden of Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors in the Middle East: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Focusing on Primary Prevention	18
Metabolic Adaptations to Pregnancy in Healthy and Gestational Diabetic Pregnancies: The Pancreas - Placenta Axis	18
Coronary Calcium Risk Score and Cardiovascular Risk	18
Pathogenic Mechanisms of Trimethylamine N-Oxide-induced Atherosclerosis and Cardiomyopathy	14
The Innate Immune System and Cardiovascular Disease in ESKD: Monocytes and Natural Killer Cells	14
Effects of Maternal Obesity On Placental Phenotype	14
Vitamin D and Vascular Disease	13
PCSK9 Inhibitors and Ezetimibe Monotherapy in Patients Not Receiving Statins: A Meta-Analysis of Randomized Trials	13
Efficacy and Safety of Antiplatelet Therapies in Symptomatic Peripheral Artery Disease: A Systematic Review and Network Meta-Analysis	12
The Myometrium in Pregnant Women with Obesity	12
Erectile Dysfunction as a Cardiovascular Risk Factor: Time to Step Up?	11
New Insights into the Role of FGF-23 and Klotho in Cardiovascular Disease in Chronic Kidney Disease Patients	11
Obesity and Gestational Diabetes in Pregnant Care and Clinical Practice	9
Cardioprotective Effects of Natural Products via the Nrf2 Signaling Pathway	9
Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease and Vascular Disease	9
Increased Fetal Cardiovascular Disease Risk: Potential Synergy Between Gestational Diabetes Mellitus and Maternal Hypercholesterolemia	9
Could Antioxidant Supplementation Delay Progression of Cardiovascular Disease in End-Stage Renal Disease Patients?	9

Compelling Indications Should be Listed for Individual Beta-Blockers (Due to Diversity), Not for the Whole Class	8
Outcomes of Anticoagulant Therapy with Low-Molecular-Weight Heparin (LMWH) and Warfarin for Thromboangiitis Obliterans (TAO)	8
Diabetes Mellitus, Arterial Stiffness and Cardiovascular Disease: Clinical Implications and the Influence of SGLT2i	8
Pulse Wave Velocity Assessment for Cardiovascular Risk Prognostication in ESKD: Weighting Recent Evidence	8
Assessment and Management of Volume Overload Among Patients on Chronic Dialysis	7
Intermittent Fasting as Possible Treatment for Heart Failure	7
Effects of Gentiana lutea Root on Vascular Diseases	7
Cardiovascular Disease in Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Obstructive Sleep Apnoea Syndrome and Overlap Syndrome	7
Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Children	7
The Role of Inflammation as a Preponderant Risk Factor in Cardiovascular Diseases	7
Endocrine Disorders and Peripheral Arterial Disease: A Series of Reviews	7
Effect of Mineralocorticoid Receptor Antagonists in Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction and with Reduced Ejection Fraction - A Narrative Review	7
Features of a Balanced Healthy Diet with Cardiovascular and Other Benefits	6
STOPP/START Anti-aggregation and Anticoagulation Alerts in Atrial Fibrillation	6
Male Patients with Takayasu Arteritis and Coronary Artery Involvement are Prone to Have Serious Coronary Stenosis and High Mortality	6
Contrast-induced Nephropathy in Non-cardiac Vascular Procedures, A Narrative Review: Part 1	6
Interleukin-10 in the Vasculature: Pathophysiological Implications	6
Current Insights on the Role of Irisin in Endothelial Dysfunction	6
COVID-19-associated Coagulopathy and Thromboembolism: Determination of Their Patterns and Risk Factors as Predictors of Mortality Among Severe COVID-19 Patients	6
Cardiovascular Risk and Quality of Life in Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease Patients on Therapy With Tolvaptan: A Pilot Study	5
Cardiovascular Benefits of Extended-Time Nocturnal Hemodialysis	5
Efficacy and Safety of Evolocumab in Reducing Low-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol Levels in Chinese Patients with Non-ST-segment Elevation Acute Coronary Syndrome	5
Inflammasomes in the Pathophysiology of Maternal Obesity: Potential Therapeutic Targets to Reduce Long-Term Adverse Health Outcomes in the Mother and Offspring	5
Role of Vitamins in Cardiovascular Health: Know Your Facts-Part 2	5
Contribution of STIM-Activated TRPC-ORAI Channels in Pulmonary Hypertension Induced by Chronic Sustained and Intermittent Hypoxia	5
Efficacy and Safety of Direct Oral Anticoagulants in the Treatment of Left Ventricular Thrombus After Acute Anterior Myocardial Infarction in Patients Who Underwent Percutaneous Coronary Intervention	5
Vitamin K Supplementation in Chronic Kidney Disease Patients: Where is the Evidence?	5
The Prospect of Genomic, Transcriptomic, Epigenetic and Metabolomic Biomarkers for The Personalized Prevention of Type 2 Diabetes and Cardiovascular Diseases	5
Contrast-induced Nephropathy in Non-cardiac Vascular Procedures, A Narrative Review: Part 2	5
Stromal Cell-Derived Factor (SDF) 2 and the Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress Response of Trophoblast Cells in Gestational Diabetes Mellitus and In vitro Hyperglycaemic Condition	5
COVID-19 and Inflammatory Markers	5
Vitamin K for the Treatment of Cardiovascular Disease in End-Stage Renal Disease Patients: Is there Hope?	5
Prognostic Significance of Relative Hyperglycemia after Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in Patients with and without Recognized Diabetes	5
COVID-19 and Kidney Disease: A Clinical Perspective	4
The Neuro-Vascular Consequence of Diabetes: Foot Amputation and Evaluation of its Risk Factors and Health-Related Economic Impact	4
Association of PAF and its Metabolic Enzymes with GGT and the Fatty Liver Index in Healthy Volunteers	4
Comparison of Postprandial Serum Triglyceride and Apolipoprotein B Concentrations between the Two Phases of Menstrual Cycle in Healthy Women	4
Have We Learnt all from IMPROVE-IT? Part II. Subanalyses of the Effects of Ezetimibe Added to Statin Therapy on Selected Clinical and Laboratory Outcomes, Cost-Effectiveness, Guidelines, and Clinical	4
Selenium, Selenoproteins and 10-year Cardiovascular Risk: Results from the ATTICA Study	4
Targeted Therapies in Patients with Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension Due to Congenital Heart Disease	4
Epicardial Adipocyte-derived TNF-α Modulates Local Inflammation in Patients with Advanced Coronary Artery Disease	4
Negatively-charged Liposome Nanoparticles Can Prevent Dyslipidemia and Atherosclerosis Progression in the Rabbit Model	4
The cGAS-STING Pathway: A Ubiquitous Checkpoint Perturbing Myocardial Attributes	4
Diet and Sudden Death: How to Reduce the Risk	4
By Discontinuing Beta-Blockers Before an Exercise Test, We may Precipitate a Rebound Phenomenon	4
Epicardial Adipocyte-derived TNF-α Modulates Local Inflammation in Patients with Advanced Coronary Artery Disease	4
Have We Learnt all from IMPROVE-IT? Part I. Core Results and Subanalyses on the Effects of Ezetimibe Added to Statin Therapy Related to Age, Gender and Selected Chronic Diseases (Kidney Disease, Diabe	4
Role of Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors in Cardiovascular Physiology and Pathophysiology: Current Trends and Perspectives	3
Hypertension-Mediated Organ Damage In Young Patients With First-Diagnosed And Never Treated Systolic Hypertension	3
The Emerging Role of CircRNAs in Atherosclerosis	3

Exosomes and Exosomal microRNAs in Age-associated Stroke	3
The Recent Trends in All-cause and Cardiovascular Mortality among People with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus - Success is Still Far Away, and We Must Do Better!	3
The Relation Between Red Blood Cell Distribution Width and Coronary Atherosclerotic Plaque Vulnerability Detected by Intracoronary Optical Coherence Tomography	3
Role of Glycine and Glycine Receptors in Vascular Endothelium: A New Perspective for the Management of the Post-Ischemic Injury	3
Editorial on Prevalence, Diagnosis and Treatment with 3 Different Statins of Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease/Non-Alcoholic Steatohepatitis in Military Personnel. Do Genetics Play a Role?	3
An Eight-year, Single-center Experience on Ultrasound Assisted Thrombolysis with Moderate-dose, Slow-infusion Regimen in Pulmonary Embolism	3
Varicocele at High Altitude; Venous Outflow Restriction by Hypobaric Hypoxia	3
Pharmacy and Exercise as Complimentary Partners for Successful Cardiovascular Ageing	3
Identification of Novel and Known LDLR Variants Triggering Severe Familial Hypercholesterolemia in Saudi Families	2
MDMB-FUBINACA Influences Brain Angiogenesis and the Expression of VEGF, ANG-1, and ANG-2	2
Epigenetic Changes as a Possible Mechanism Leading to Increased Fetal Cardiovascular Disease Risk in Pregnancies with Gestational Diabetes Mellitus and/or Maternal Hypercholesterolemia	2
Diabetic Cardiomyopathy: Clinical and Metabolic Approach	2
Current Choice for LDL-C Lowering in High-Risk CVD Patients Intolerant to Statins	2
Preliminary Study of the Distinctive Mechanism of Shenqi Compound in Treating Rats with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus by Comparing with Metformin	2
Rationale and Design of the ACS-BP Study: Prognostic Value of In-Hospital Blood Pressure and Indices of Atherosclerosis in Acute Coronary Syndromes	2
Patients with Polyvascular Disease: A Very High-risk Group	2
Inclisiran. A New Kid on the New Block for Treating Hypercholesterolaemia	2
Effects of Sodium-Glucose Cotransporter-2 Inhibitors on Cardiac Structural and Electrical Remodeling: From Myocardial Cytology to Cardiodiabetology	2
Drugs as Possible Triggers of Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy- Update 2022: Systematic Review	2
Cilofexor for the Treatment of Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis	2
Lipoprotein (a) as a Biomarker for Cardiovascular Diseases and Potential New Therapies to Mitigate Risk	2
Gout Flares and Intercritical Gout: Do they Play a Significant Role in Predicting Cardiovascular Events?	2
Comparison of Efficacy and Safety between Thrombolysis Plus Anticoagulation vs. Anticoagulation Alone for the Treatment of Acute Submassive Pulmonary Embolism: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis	2
Combination Therapy with Ezetimibe: An Alternative Strategy to Statin Monotherapy in the Management of Patients with Non-cardiac Vascular Disease	2
Protective Role of Cytochrome C Oxidase 5A (COX5A) against Mitochondrial Disorder and Oxidative Stress in VSMC Phenotypic Modulation and Neointima Formation	2
Ezetimibe and Insulin Resistance	2
Antihypertensive Therapy in Patients Receiving Maintenance Hemodialysis: A Narrative Review of the Available Clinical-Trial Evidence	2
Arterial Stiffness as a Cardiovascular Risk Factor for the Development of Preeclampsia and Pharmacopreventive Options	2
Protective or Inhibitory Effect of Pharmacological Therapy on Cardiac Ischemic Preconditioning: A Literature Review	2
Effect of Intermittent Fasting on Lipid Profile, Anthropometric and Hepatic Markers in Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD): A Systematic Review	2
Effect of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus and Hypercholesterolemia on Fetal Cardiovascular Disease Risk: The Role of Epigenetics	2
Association Between Telomere Length and Cardiovascular Risk: Pharmacological Treatments Affecting Telomeres and Telomerase Activity	2
The Significance of Renal Function in Response to Cardiac Resynchronisation Therapy – A Piece of a Much Larger Puzzle	1
New Antithrombotic Strategies and Coronary Stent Technologies for Patients at High Bleeding Risk Undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Intervention	1
A Narrative Review of Recent Studies on the Role of Vitamin D in the Prevention of Cardiac and Renal Risk and Additional Considerations for COVID-19 Vulnerability	1
Imbalance of Pro- and Anti-inflammatory Cytokines Induced Different Types of Recurrent Atrial Arrhythmias after Drug Eluting Coronary Stent Implantation	1
Thyroid Disorders and Peripheral Arterial Disease	1
Mechanisms of Endothelial Dysfunction and Cardiovascular System Adaptation	1
Management of Dyslipidaemia for the Prevention of Stroke: Clinical Practice Recommendations from the Lipid Association of India	1
Inflammation and LDL Reduction	1
The Impact of Various Blood Pressure Measurements on Cardiovascular Outcomes	1
Paget’s Disease of Bone and Cardiovascular Risk: A Pilot Study	1
Diabetes and Obesity in Pregnancy: From Patients to Molecular Mechanisms	1
Neutrophil-Lymphocyte Ratio and Red Blood Cell Distribution Width in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation and Rheumatic Valve Disease	1
Novel Therapeutic Strategies for Cardiorenal Protection in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes and Chronic Kidney Disease	1
Cardiac and Vascular Impairment in Patients with Mild Psoriasis: A Longitudinal Study	1
Pro-inflammatory Mediators and Oxidative Stress: Therapeutic Markers for Recurrent Angina Pectoris after Coronary Artery Stenting in Elderly Patients	1
Cardiometabolic Risk, Peripheral Arterial Disease and Cardiovascular Events in Polycystic Ovary Syndrome: Time to Implement Systematic Screening and Update the Management	1
Implications of COVID-19 to Stroke Medicine: An Epidemiological and Pathophysiological Perspective	1
Growth Hormone, Atherosclerosis and Peripheral Arterial Disease: Exploring the Spectrum from Acromegaly to Growth Hormone Deficiency	1
Burden of Ischemic Heart Diseases among US States from 1990-2019	1
Role of Vitamins in Cardiovascular Health: Know Your Facts - Part 1	1
Effects of Xuezhikang versus Pravastatin on Triglyceride Level in Patients with T2DM and Dyslipidemia: Study Protocol for a Multicenter Randomized Controlled Trial	1
The Effect of Menopause and Menopausal Hormone Therapy on the Risk of Peripheral Artery Disease	1
MiR-199a-5p Deficiency Promotes Artery Restenosis in Peripheral Artery Disease by Regulating ASMCs Function via Targeting HIF-1α and E2F3	1
Thyroid Status and Vascular Risk: An Update	1
Aortic Intima-Media Thickness is Increased in Neonates of Mothers with Gestational Diabetes Mellitus: The Role of Thioredoxin-Interacting Protein as a Marker of Oxidative Stress	1
Twin Anemia-Polycythemia Sequence (TAPS): From Basic Research to Clinical Practice	1
P2Y12 Inhibitor or Aspirin Monotherapy in Patients with Coronary Artery Disease: is it Time for a Paradigm Shift?	1
Evaluation of Therapeutic Agents Targeting the Pathogenesis of Coronary Artery Spasm: A Mini Review	1
A Nutraceutical Compound Containing a Low Dose of Monacolin K, Polymethoxyflavones, Phenolic Acids, Flavonoids, and Hydroxytyrosol Improves HDL Functionality	1
The Fundamental Role of Stress Echo in Evaluating Coronary Artery Disease in Specific Patient Populations	1
Less Known but Clinically Relevant Comorbidities of Atrial Fibrillation: A Narrative Review	1
Rationale for the Concept of Impending Hypertension-Mediated Organ Damage	1
Significance of Beta-Blocker in Patients with Hypertensive Left Ventricular Hypertrophy and Myocardial Ischemia	1
Acetylsalicylic Acid (Aspirin) for Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Events in Patients with Diabetes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials	1