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      <journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">Arq Bras Cardiol</journal-id>
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        <journal-title>Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia</journal-title>
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      <issn pub-type="ppub">0066-782X</issn>
      <issn pub-type="epub">1678-4170</issn>
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        <publisher-name>Sociedade Brasileira de Cardiologia - SBC</publisher-name>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5935/abc.20190153</article-id>
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          <subject>Short Editorial</subject>
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        <article-title>Psoriasis and Cardiovascular Disease: Lesion Beyond the Skin</article-title>
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          <contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">0000-0001-5526-8790</contrib-id>
          <name>
            <surname>Bacchiega</surname>
            <given-names>Bruno Cesar</given-names>
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        <institution content-type="orgname">Hospital de C&#226;ncer de Barretos</institution>
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          <city>Barretos</city>
          <state>SP</state>
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        <country country="BR">Brazil</country>
        <institution content-type="original">Hospital de C&#226;ncer de Barretos, Barretos, SP - Brazil</institution>
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        <institution content-type="orgname">Santa Casa de Miseric&#243;rdia de Barretos</institution>
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          <city>Barretos</city>
          <state>SP</state>
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        <country country="BR">Brazil</country>
        <institution content-type="original">Santa Casa de Miseric&#243;rdia de Barretos, Barretos, SP - Brazil</institution>
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        <corresp id="c1"><bold>Mailing Address: Bruno Cesar Bacchiega,</bold> Hospital de C&#226;ncer de Barretos - Rua Antenor Duarte Vilela, 1331. Postal Code: 14784-400, Barretos, SP - Brazil. E-mail: <email>brunobacchiega@gmail.com</email>
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      <pub-date date-type="pub" publication-format="electronic">
        <day>02</day>
        <month>09</month>
        <year>2019</year>
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      <pub-date date-type="collection" publication-format="electronic">
        <month>08</month>
        <year>2019</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>113</volume>
      <issue>2</issue>
      <fpage>250</fpage>
      <lpage>251</lpage>
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        <title>Keywords</title>
        <kwd>Cardiovascular Diseases</kwd>
        <kwd>Atherosclerosis</kwd>
        <kwd>Inflammation</kwd>
        <kwd>Risk Factors</kwd>
        <kwd>Systemic Atherosclerotic Disease</kwd>
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    <p>Interesting to find an article<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B1">1</xref> that apparently belongs to the dermatology field in a cardiology journal. Why read about psoriasis? A disease that, for several years, many colleagues regarded as eminently skin-related and of benign course, especially in its plaque form. As it happens, epidemiological studies<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B2">2</xref><sup>,</sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B3">3</xref> and an international registry<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B4">4</xref> revealed that the risk of cardiovascular (CV) events increased approximately 50% in the group of psoriatic individuals compared to the general population, markedly in younger patients.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B5">5</xref> How to explain this situation? Systemic inflammation seems to be the "missing link" between CV diseases, neoplasms, and chronic systemic inflammatory diseases (e.g., psoriasis or rheumatoid arthritis).<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B6">6</xref>
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    <p>The interest of cardiology in this interdisciplinary theme is not new. In the past two decades, the understanding of atherosclerosis as a systemic vascular inflammatory disease and that sustained systemic inflammatory activity accelerates its physiopathological mechanisms has been consolidated. In 2003, Sattar et al<italic>.</italic><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B7">7</xref> used rheumatoid arthritis as a physiopathological model to systematize the process of accelerated atherosclerosis. Systemic inflammation would increase the hepatic synthesis of C-reactive protein (CRP), induce lipolysis with the release of free fatty acids, and intensify insulin resistance and oxidation of low-density lipoproteins (LDL), culminating in endothelial dysfunction associated with increased expression of adhesion molecules and accelerating the atherosclerotic disease. In 2011, Boehnck et al.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B8">8</xref> coined the term "psoriatic march" to describe possible mechanisms that could justify the increase in CV events in the physiopathological model of psoriasis. As expected, the foundation and steps of the process are extremely similar to those found in rheumatoid arthritis. The sustained systemic inflammation caused by psoriasis would increase the synthesis of CRP, vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), P-selectin, resistin, and leptin. Such proteins would be involved in raising insulin resistance, which ultimately would intensify the endothelial dysfunction and stimulate the expression of adhesion molecules. These steps reveal the importance of the subclinical atherosclerotic phase (endothelial dysfunction, vascular stiffness, and overexpression of vascular adhesion molecules) and biomarkers (CRP, leptin, and resistin) in this physiopathological process. In the article that prompted this short editorial, the authors compared arterial stiffness with pulse wave velocity (PWV), carotid intima-media thickness (IMT), metabolic syndrome data, and CRP levels in a cohort of psoriatic individuals and volunteers. The results reported were statistically significant and corroborated the hypothesis that psoriatic patients with intense disease activity are more prone to have metabolic syndrome, elevated CRP, and signs of subclinical atherosclerosis (increased IMT and arterial stiffness) compared to the control group.</p>
    <p>The development of biomarkers to aid in the diagnosis, prognosis, and therapeutic follow-up of atherosclerotic disease is a reality. CRP and natriuretic peptides are well established for coronary artery disease and heart failure, respectively. Several biomarkers were studied specifically for psoriasis and risk of CV events: CRP, interleukin-6 (IL-6), leptin, and adiponectin. The results were similar to those of the general population, with increased CV risk in the presence of high CRP and IL-6 levels. Leptin presents conflicting findings, and adiponectin, as an adipokine with CV protective effects, is reduced in most studies.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B9">9</xref> In addition, a new molecule might become a protagonist biomarker: GlycA - molecule analyzed by nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometry. This marker is correlated with the risk of coronary artery disease and vascular inflammation. In psoriatic patients, it was associated with both disease activity - estimated by the psoriasis area and severity index (PASI) - and risk of CV events, regardless of traditional risk factors, including CRP. Moreover, GlycA and vascular inflammation levels decreased in patients undergoing drug therapy with anti-tumor necrosis factor-alpha (anti-TNF-a),<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B10">10</xref> suggesting a correlation with therapeutic clinical response.</p>
    <p>Given the importance of the theme, the American Academy of Dermatology<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B11">11</xref> and the European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR)<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B12">12</xref> have published recommendations on how to evaluate CV risk and make the necessary interventions to reduce such risks. Among the various scores that estimate CV risk factors, the EULAR group adopted the Systematic Coronary Risk Evaluation (SCORE), designed by the European Society of Cardiology. Unfortunately, no score or tool that estimates the probability of events can safely determine them in these high-risk populations (due to the chronic systemic inflammation). The dermatology guideline suggests increasing the estimated CV risk by 50% in psoriatic patients with active disease in &gt;10% of the body surface or who have been indicated for phototherapy or systemic drug therapy to compensate. The EULAR group recommended the same procedure, proposing an adjustment of 1.5 times for patients with rheumatoid arthritis with extra-axial involvement, &gt;10 years of disease, and presence of rheumatoid factor (RF) or serum anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide antibody (anti-CCP).</p>
    <p>Another factor as important as risk stratification is the treatment. What are the possible drug interventions to control CV events in psoriasis? Reducing inflammation seems to be crucial to decrease CV diseases. In a cohort of psoriatic patients, the use of anti-TNF-a drugs decreased carotid IMT in men, and aortic stiffness in both genders.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B13">13</xref> Even more impressive was the analysis of data collected by a Danish registry of psoriatic arthritis, in which the use of immunobiologicals and methotrexate reduced overall mortality.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B14">14</xref> A meta-analysis helped to estimate the impact of anti-inflammatory therapies on the psoriatic population.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B15">15</xref> The use of anti-TNF-a reduced major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) - cardiovascular death, acute myocardial infarction (AMI), or non-fatal cerebrovascular accident (CVA) - robustly by 70%. Methotrexate led to a 19% drop in the risk of AMI and 28% in global events. On the other hand, treatment with selective COX-2 inhibitor non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs more than doubled the risk of CVA, while corticosteroid raised MACE by 62%.</p>
    <p>Until now, the most debated randomized clinical study was the Canakinumab Anti-inflammatory Thrombosis Outcomes Study (CANTOS),<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B15">15</xref> which confirmed the hypothesis that the control of systemic inflammation reduces CV events in very high-risk patients (those who had AMI and even after optimized secondary therapy maintained high t-CRP levels)<italic>.</italic> This study revealed that interleukin 1b blockade with a monoclonal antibody controlled the systemic inflammation and, additionally to the optimized treatment, decreased CV mortality, AMI, and CVA by 15% in a population with a high risk of recurrence of CV events. This fact opened doors for paradigmatic changes in the understanding of the physiopathology of the coronary artery disease and will contribute very significantly to the future development of new medicines, with targets unexplored until now.</p>
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        <p>Short Editorial related to the article: Cardiovascular Risk in Psoriasis Patients: Clinical, Functional and Morphological Parameters</p>
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        <article-title>Psor&#237;ase e Doen&#231;a Cardiovascular: Les&#227;o al&#233;m da Pele</article-title>
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            <surname>Bacchiega</surname>
            <given-names>Bruno Cesar</given-names>
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        <corresp id="c2"><bold>Correspond&#234;ncia: Bruno Cesar Bacchiega,</bold> Hospital de C&#226;ncer de Barretos - Rua Antenor Duarte Vilela, 1331. CEP: 14784-400, Barretos, SP - Brasil. E-mail: <email>brunobacchiega@gmail.com</email>
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      <p>Interessante encontrarmos um artigo<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B1">1</xref> aparentemente dermatol&#243;gico em revista cardiol&#243;gica. Por que ler sobre psor&#237;ase? Enfermidade que por muitos colegas, e por v&#225;rios anos, foi considerada eminentemente cut&#226;nea e de curso benigno, principalmente na sua forma em placa. Todavia, estudos epidemiol&#243;gicos<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B2">2</xref><sup>,</sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B3">3</xref> e um registro internacional<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B4">4</xref> observaram um aumento em torno de 50% no risco de eventos cardiovasculares neste grupo frente &#224; popula&#231;&#227;o geral, marcadamente em pacientes mais jovens.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B5">5</xref> Como explicar tudo isso? Inflama&#231;&#227;o sist&#234;mica parece ser o &#8220;elo perdido&#8221; entre doen&#231;a cardiovascular (CV), neoplasias e doen&#231;as sist&#234;micas inflamat&#243;rias cr&#244;nicas (ex, psor&#237;ase ou artrite reumat&#243;ide).<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B6">6</xref>
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      <p>O interesse da cardiologia neste tema interdisciplinar n&#227;o &#233; novo. Nas &#250;ltimas duas d&#233;cadas se consolidou o entendimento da aterosclerose como doen&#231;a inflamat&#243;ria sist&#234;mica vascular e que seus mecanismos fisiopatol&#243;gicos s&#227;o acelerados por atividade inflamat&#243;ria sist&#234;mica sustentada. Utilizando a atrite reumat&#243;ide como modelo fisiopatol&#243;gico, Sattar et al<italic>.</italic><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B7">7</xref> em 2003, sistematizaram o processo de aterosclerose acelerada. A inflama&#231;&#227;o sist&#234;mica aumentaria a s&#237;ntese hep&#225;tica de prote&#237;na C reativa (PCR), induziria lip&#243;lise com libera&#231;&#227;o de &#225;cidos graxos livres, intensificaria a resist&#234;ncia insul&#237;nica e oxida&#231;&#227;o de lipoprote&#237;nas de baixa densidade (LDL), culminando com disfun&#231;&#227;o endotelial em conjunto com maior express&#227;o de mol&#233;culas de ades&#227;o, acelerando a doen&#231;a ateroscler&#243;tica. Em 2011, Boehnck et al.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B8">8</xref> cunharam o termo &#8220;<italic>psoriatic march</italic>&#8221; para descrever, no modelo fisiopatol&#243;gico da psor&#237;ase, poss&#237;veis mecanismos para justificar o aumento dos eventos CV. Como era de se esperar, o esqueleto e as etapas do processo s&#227;o extremamente assemelhadas ao visto na artrite reumat&#243;ide. A inflama&#231;&#227;o sist&#234;mica sustentada desencadeada pela psor&#237;ase elevaria a s&#237;ntese de PCR, de fator de crescimento do endot&#233;lio vascular (VEGF), p-selectina, resistina e leptina. Tais prote&#237;nas estariam envolvidas com o aumento da resist&#234;ncia insul&#237;nica, que em &#250;ltima an&#225;lise intensificaria a disfun&#231;&#227;o endotelial e estimularia a express&#227;o de mol&#233;culas de ades&#227;o. Com o reconhecimento destas etapas, fica clara a import&#226;ncia, neste processo fisiopatol&#243;gico, da fase subcl&#237;nica da aterosclerose (disfun&#231;&#227;o endotelial, rigidez vascular e hiperexpress&#227;o de mol&#233;culas de ades&#227;o vascular) e dos biomarcadores (PCR, leptina, resistina). No artigo que ensejou este minieditorial, os autores compararam rigidez arterial por velocidade de onda de pulso (VOP), espessamento m&#233;dio intimal (EMI) carot&#237;deo, dados para s&#237;ndrome metab&#243;lica e n&#237;veis de PCR numa coorte de indiv&#237;duos com psor&#237;ase e volunt&#225;rios. Os resultados descritos, com signific&#226;ncia estat&#237;stica, corroboraram com a hip&#243;tese de que pacientes com psor&#237;ase com atividade de doen&#231;a intensa teriam mais s&#237;ndrome metab&#243;lica, PCR elevada e ind&#237;cios de aterosclerose subcl&#237;nica (EMI e rigidez arterial aumentados) frente ao grupo controle.</p>
      <p>O desenvolvimento de biomarcadores para auxiliar no diagn&#243;stico, progn&#243;stico e seguimento terap&#234;utico da doen&#231;a ateroscler&#243;tica &#233; uma realidade. No caso da doen&#231;a arterial coronariana, a PCR est&#225; bem estabelecida. Para insufici&#234;ncia card&#237;aca, os pept&#237;deos natriur&#233;ticos. No caso espec&#237;fico da psor&#237;ase e risco de eventos cardiovasculares, diversos biomarcadores foram estudados: PCR, interleucina-6 (IL - 6), leptina e adiponectina. Os resultados foram semelhantes aos da popula&#231;&#227;o geral, com aumento do risco CV em vig&#234;ncia de PCR, IL-6 elevadas. A leptina tem achados conflitantes e a adiponectina, por ser uma adipocina com efeitos protetores cardiovasculares, aparece reduzida na maior parte dos estudos.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B9">9</xref> Al&#233;m destes, uma nova mol&#233;cula poder&#225; vir a ser um biomarcador protagonista: GlycA. Mol&#233;cula analisada via espectometria por resson&#226;ncia nuclear magn&#233;tica. Este marcador tem correla&#231;&#227;o com risco de doen&#231;a arterial coronariana e inflama&#231;&#227;o vascular. Nos pacientes com psor&#237;ase, teve tanto correla&#231;&#227;o com atividade de doen&#231;a estimada pelo <italic>psoriasis area and severity &#237;ndex (PASI</italic>) quanto com risco de eventos CV independente dos fatores de risco tradicionais, incluindo a PCR. Ademais, houve redu&#231;&#227;o dos n&#237;veis de GlycA e de inflama&#231;&#227;o vascular nos pacientes submetidos a terapia com drogas anti fator de necrose tumoral alfa (anti-TNF),<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B10">10</xref> sugerindo que tamb&#233;m tem correla&#231;&#227;o com resposta cl&#237;nica terap&#234;utica.</p>
      <p>Devido &#224; import&#226;ncia do tema, as Sociedades Americana de Dermatologia<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B11">11</xref> e a Europeia de Reumatologia<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B12">12</xref> j&#225; publicaram recomenda&#231;&#245;es sobre como avaliar o risco cardiovascular e fazer as interven&#231;&#245;es necess&#225;rias para reduzir tais riscos. Dentre os diversos escores para estimar risco cardiovascular existentes, o grupo <italic>European League Against Rheumatism</italic> (EULAR) optou pelo <italic>Systematic Coronary Risk Evaluation (</italic>SCORE), desenhado pela Sociedade Europeia de Cardiologia. Infelizmente nenhum escore ou ferramenta para estimar a probabilidade de eventos consegue determin&#225;-lo de forma segura nestas popula&#231;&#245;es de alto risco (dada pela inflama&#231;&#227;o sist&#234;mica cr&#244;nica). Para compensar, a diretriz de dermatologia sugere, nos pacientes psori&#225;sicos com doen&#231;a ativa em &gt;10% da superf&#237;cie corp&#243;rea ou que tenham indica&#231;&#227;o de fototerapia ou terapia medicamentosa sist&#234;mica, que o risco CV estimado seja aumentado em 50%. O mesmo foi recomendado pelo grupo EULAR, sendo que a corre&#231;&#227;o de 1,5 vezes foi indicada nos pacientes com artrite reumatoide com acometimento extra axial, doen&#231;a &gt; 10 anos e presen&#231;a de Fator Reumatoide (FR) ou anticorpo anti pept&#237;deo c&#237;trico citrulinado (anti CCP) s&#233;ricos.</p>
      <p>Outro ponto t&#227;o importante quanto a estratifica&#231;&#227;o do risco seria o tratamento. Quais s&#227;o as poss&#237;veis interven&#231;&#245;es medicamentosas para controle de eventos CV na psor&#237;ase? A redu&#231;&#227;o da inflama&#231;&#227;o parece ser o cerne para a diminui&#231;&#227;o das doen&#231;as cardiovasculares. Numa coorte de portadores de psor&#237;ase, o uso de drogas anti-TNF reduziram EMI de car&#243;tidas em homens e rigidez a&#243;rtica em ambos os g&#234;neros.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B13">13</xref> Mais impressionante ainda foi a an&#225;lise dos dados coletados pelo registro dinamarqu&#234;s de artrite psori&#225;sica, no qual o uso dos imunobiol&#243;gicos e metotrexato reduziu a mortalidade global.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B14">14</xref> Uma metan&#225;lise ajudou a estimar o impacto de terapias anti-inflamat&#243;rias na popula&#231;&#227;o psori&#225;sica.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B15">15</xref> O uso dos anti-TNF reduziu desfechos maiores cardiovasculares (MACE) - morte cardiovascular, infarto agudo do mioc&#225;rdio (IAM) ou acidente vascular encef&#225;lico (AVE) n&#227;o fatais - de forma robusta em 70%. O metotrexato impactou queda de 19% no risco de IAM e de eventos globais em 28%. Por outro lado, o tratamento com anti-inflamat&#243;rios n&#227;o esteroidais inibidores COX2 seletivos mais que dobrou o risco de AVE, enquanto que o corticosteroide elevou os MACE em relevantes 62%.</p>
      <p>At&#233; o momento, o estudo cl&#237;nico randomizado mais debatido e que confirmou a hip&#243;tese de que o controle da inflama&#231;&#227;o sist&#234;mica, em pacientes de muito alto risco (pacientes p&#243;s IAM que mesmo ap&#243;s terapia secund&#225;ria otimizada mantinham PCR-t elevada), reduziria eventos CV foi o <italic>Canakinumab Anti-Inflammatory Thrombosis Out- comes Study (CANTOS).</italic><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B16">16</xref> Tal trabalho demonstrou que o bloqueio da interleucina 1b com um anticorpo monoclonal controlou a inflama&#231;&#227;o sist&#234;mica e reduziu, de forma adicional ao tratamento otimizado, a mortalidade cardiovascular, IAM e AVE em 15% numa popula&#231;&#227;o de alt&#237;ssimo risco de recorr&#234;ncia de eventos CV. Este fato abriu caminhos para mudan&#231;as paradigm&#225;ticas no entendimento da fisiopatologia da doen&#231;a arterial coronariana e contribuir&#225; de forma muito significativa no desenvolvimento futuro de novos medicamentos, com alvos at&#233; ent&#227;o inexplorados.</p>
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          <p>Minieditorial referente aoo artigo: Risco Cardiovascular em Pacientes Psori&#225;sicos: Avalia&#231;&#227;o de Par&#226;metros Cl&#237;nicos, Funcionais e Morfol&#243;gicos</p>
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