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    About the CNIC
    15 May 2024
    CNIC Co-Leads REACT, an international precision medicine project to transform cardiovascular prevention

    Globally, cardiovascular diseases due to atherosclerosis – the build-up of plaque in arteries – are the leading cause of death. A new Danish-Spanish research collaboration aims to develop methods to detect atherosclerosis at earlier ages and encourage prevention. Denmark’s Novo Nordisk Foundation has granted up to EUR 23 million to cover the first 2.5 years of the REACT initiative. The initiative is expected to run for 8 years in total
    Vicente Andrés, director de investigación básica del CNIC; Dr. Valentín Fuster, director general del CNIC; Dra. del Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Dra. Marina Pollán; Alberto Sanz, director gerente del CNIC; el Dr. Borja Ibáñez, director científico y director de investigación clínica del CNIC; D. Agustín González, subdirector general de redes y centros de investigación cooperativa del Instituto de Salud Carlos III., e Icíar Areilza, secretaria general de la Fundación Pro CNIC.
    About the CNIC
    12 Apr 2024
    Visit of the Director of Carlos III Health Institute, Dr Marina Pollán, to CNIC
    El Dr. Valentín Fuster con la Dra. Guiomar Mendieta
    About the CNIC
    10 Apr 2024
    The Journal of the American College of Cardiology garlands the CNIC author of a PESA-CNIC-SANTANDER study

    Guiomar Mendieta has been awarded the 2023 William W. Parmley Young Author Achievement Award for a paper published in JACC that is considered to an outstanding contribution in the field of atherosclerosis
    About the CNIC
    9 Feb 2024
    CNIC Conference Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Brain Health

    The National Center for Cardiovascular Research Carlos III (CNIC) is excited to announce the upcoming edition of the CNIC Conferences
    Catarina Tristão Pereira, Enrique Lara Pezzi, Raquel Toribio Fernández, Borja Ibáñez, Valentín Fuster, Sergio Callejas, Marta Cortés Canteli, Ana Dopazo, Pilar Martín, Inés García Lunar e Irene Fernández Nueda.
    Research
    23 Jan 2024
    Circulation Research: APOE genetic variants linked to Alzheimer disease are also associated with the development of subclinical aterosclerosis

    The most potent genetic risk factor for Alzheimer disease, APOE4, is associated with an elevated risk of developing subclinical atherosclerosis in middle age, whereas the Alzheimer-protective variant of the same gene, APOE2, protects against subclinical atherosclerosis
    About the CNIC
    18 Jan 2024
    Don´t miss the new videos showcasing research at the CNIC
    Edward Pearce
    Research
    21 Dec 2023
    Edward Pearce: "Prevention is always more economical than treating a heart attack or a heart transplant"

    Johns Hopkins UniversityBloomberg School of Public HealthBaltimore
    Representative results from participants showing atherosclerosis progression (left) and regression (disappearance of plaques, right) in arteries of the neck (carotids) and groin (femorals). Each image pair shows the results of the initial study at baseline and the follow-up study of the same artery 6 years later. The images show representative vascular ultrasound images on the right and 3-dimensional reconstructions on the left.
    Research
    20 Nov 2023
    JACC: Younger people are more vulnerable to the effects of cardiovascular risk associated with high blood cholesterol and hypertension

    Atherosclerosis, previously believed to be an irreversible progressive disease, can be reversed if risk factors are contolled early enough
    The image represent glucose uptake in the brain measured by positron emission tomography in middle-aged individuals with low (top) or high (bottom) sustained cardiovascular risk over 5 years. The colors represent cerebral glucose consumption, with red indicating higher consumption and blue lower consumption
    Research
    31 Aug 2023
    The Lancet Healthy Longevity: Early action to control cardiovascular risk factors preserves brain metabolism

    A study published in The Lancet Healthy Longevity shows that brain metabolism, detected with advanced imaging techniques, declines more sharply in middle-aged people with a sustained high cardiovascular risk over 5 years
    Research
    2 Aug 2023
    Jama Cardiology: Promoting health in high-school students: a randomized group intervention trial