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ReviewNature reviews. Cardiology2025

Phenotyping atherosclerotic plaque and perivascular adipose tissue: signalling pathways and clinical biomarkers in atherosclerosis.

Kajetan Grodecki, Jolien Geers, Jacek Kwiecinski, Andrew Lin, Leandro Slipczuk, Piotr J Slomka, Marc R Dweck, Nitesh Nerlekar, Michelle C Williams, Daniel Berman and 3 more

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Review in Nature reviews. Cardiology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

22 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors.

Kajetan Grodecki *Department of Biomedical Sciences, and Department of Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Biomedical Imaging Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0358-5679
Jolien Geers *Department of Biomedical Sciences, and Department of Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Biomedical Imaging Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Jacek KwiecinskiDepartment of Interventional Cardiology and Angiology, National Institute of Cardiology, Warsaw, Poland.
Andrew LinMonash Victorian Heart Institute and Monash Health Heart, Monash University, Victorian Heart Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Leandro SlipczukDivision of Cardiology, Montefiore Healthcare Network/Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, NY, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3091-3735
Piotr J SlomkaDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, and Department of Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Biomedical Imaging Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Marc R DweckBritish Heart Foundation Centre of Research Excellence, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
Nitesh NerlekarMonash Victorian Heart Institute and Monash Health Heart, Monash University, Victorian Heart Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Michelle C WilliamsBritish Heart Foundation Centre of Research Excellence, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-3556-2428
Daniel BermanDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, and Department of Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Biomedical Imaging Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Thomas MarwickBaker Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
David E NewbyBritish Heart Foundation Centre of Research Excellence, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
Damini DeyDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, and Department of Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Biomedical Imaging Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA, USA. damini.dey@cshs.org.ORCID 0000-0003-2236-6970

Funding

AI-enabled characterization of fibrocalcific aortic valve disease and inflammation from CT Angiography: Patient-specific outcome predictionR01HL175875 · CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER · 2025 to 2025
$789k
Effect of Intensive Medical Treatment on Quantified Coronary Artery Plaque Components with Serial Coronary CTA in Women with Non-Obstructive CADR01HL151266 · NHLBI · CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER · PI Damini Dey, Balaji K. Tamarappoo · 2023 to 2023
$388k
British Heart Foundation RG/F/22/110093European Association of Cardiovascular ImagingNHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL148787NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL151266NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL175875
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Computed tomography coronary angiography provides a non-invasive evaluation of coronary artery disease that includes phenotyping of atherosclerotic plaques and the surrounding perivascular adipose tissue (PVAT). Image analysis techniques have been developed to quantify atherosclerotic plaque burden and morphology as well as the associated PVAT attenuation, and emerging radiomic approaches can add further contextual information. PVAT attenuation might provide a novel measure of vascular health that could be indicative of the pathogenetic processes implicated in atherosclerosis such as inflammation, fibrosis or increased vascularity. Bidirectional signalling between the coronary artery and adjacent PVAT has been hypothesized to contribute to coronary artery disease progression and provide a potential novel measure of the risk of future cardiovascular events. However, despite the development of more advanced radiomic and artificial intelligence-based algorithms, studies involving large datasets suggest that the measurement of PVAT attenuation contributes only modest additional predictive discrimination to standard cardiovascular risk scores. In this Review, we explore the pathobiology of coronary atherosclerotic plaques and PVAT, describe their phenotyping with computed tomography coronary angiography, and discuss potential future applications in clinical risk prediction and patient management.

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Adipose TissueComputed Tomography AngiographyCoronary Artery DiseaseCoronary VesselsPlaque, AtheroscleroticSignal TransductionBiomarkersCoronary AngiographyHumansPhenotypeBiomarkers

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