New Cardiovascular Risk Factors: 2nd Edition
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Biology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 September 2025 | Viewed by 1707
Special Issue Editor
Interests: blood pressure; cardiovascular disease; metabolic syndrome; hypertension; atherosclerosis; cardiovascular epidemiology; metabolism; metabolic diseases; abdominal obesity; internal medicine
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Dear Colleagues,
Atherosclerosis is a common condition of vascular aging. However, several factors could influence this process, resulting in increased cardiovascular risk at a young age.
In addition to well-known factors (e.g., high blood pressure, dyslipidemia, diabetes, excess body weight), there are several emerging factors associated with atherosclerosis, such as inflammation, endothelial dysfunction, intestinal microbiota alteration, uric acid, vitamin D, or miRNA expression, that could potentially explain the residual cardiovascular risk.
This Special Issue focused on cardiovascular risk factors aims to report the most current scientific evidence available on this topic and reviews of the current literature on the role of emerging factors in the development of atherosclerosis, as demonstrated by both experimental and clinical studies, in order to gather a large body of data from which to start to highlight new potential objectives for reducing cardiovascular risk.
Dr. Antonio Barbato
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- atherosclerosis
- cardiovascular risk
- arterial stiffness
- blood pressure
- vitamin D
- miRNA
- inflammation
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