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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="publisher-id">abc.20220007</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.36660/abc.20220007</article-id>
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          <subject>Minieditorial</subject>
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        <article-title>Neoplasias e a Avalia&#231;&#227;o do Risco de Doen&#231;a Cardiovascular</article-title>
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          <contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">0000-0002-3339-8866</contrib-id>
          <name>
            <surname>Bittar</surname>
            <given-names>Cristina Salvadori</given-names>
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            <sup>1</sup>
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            <sup>2</sup>
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            <sup>3</sup>
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        <institution content-type="orgname">InCor</institution>
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          <named-content content-type="city">S&#227;o Paulo</named-content>
          <named-content content-type="state">SP</named-content>
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        <country country="BR">Brasil</country>
        <institution content-type="original">Instituto do Cora&#231;&#227;o - InCor,S&#227;o Paulo, SP &#8211; Brasil</institution>
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        <country country="BR">Brasil</country>
        <institution content-type="original">Instituto do C&#226;ncer - ICESP,S&#227;o Paulo, SP &#8211; Brasil</institution>
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        <institution content-type="orgname">Hospital S&#237;rio Liban&#234;s</institution>
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          <named-content content-type="city">S&#227;o Paulo</named-content>
          <named-content content-type="state">SP</named-content>
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        <country country="BR">Brasil</country>
        <institution content-type="original">Hospital S&#237;rio Liban&#234;s, S&#227;o Paulo, SP &#8211; Brasil</institution>
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        <corresp id="c01"> Correspond&#234;ncia: Cristina Salvadori Bittar Universidade de S&#227;o Paulo Instituto do C&#226;ncer do Estado de S&#227;o Paulo &#8211; Cardiologia- Av. Dr. Arnaldo, 251. CEP 01246-000, S&#227;o Paulo, SP - Brasil Email: <email>cristina.bittar@hc.fm.usp.br</email> </corresp>
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      <pub-date date-type="pub" publication-format="electronic">
        <day>07</day>
        <month>03</month>
        <year>2022</year>
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      <pub-date date-type="collection" publication-format="electronic">
        <month>02</month>
        <year>2022</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>118</volume>
      <issue>2</issue>
      <fpage>486</fpage>
      <lpage>487</lpage>
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          <license-p> This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. </license-p>
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        <kwd>Doen&#231;a da Art&#233;ria Coronariana/complica&#231;&#245;es</kwd>
        <kwd>Neoplasias Pulmonares/complica&#231;&#245;es</kwd>
        <kwd>Angiografia Coron&#225;ria Percut&#226;nea/m&#233;todos</kwd>
        <kwd>&#205;ndice de Gravidade de Doen&#231;a</kwd>
        <kwd>Interven&#231;&#227;o Coron&#225;ria Percut&#226;nea/m&#233;todos</kwd>
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    <p>A doen&#231;a cardiovascular (DCV) e as neoplasias s&#227;o, na atualidade, as duas principais causas de mortalidade no Brasil e no mundo.<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B1">1</xref></sup> Tanto a incid&#234;ncia de c&#226;ncer quanto a de doen&#231;a cardiovascular aumentam com a idade, sendo que 77% dos casos de c&#226;ncer s&#227;o diagnosticados em pacientes com mais de 55 anos e, concomitantemente, o risco cardiovascular tamb&#233;m &#233; maior em pacientes homens acima de 55 anos e mulheres acima de 65 anos. No Brasil, em 2016, as DCV apresentaram as maiores taxas de mortalidade e anos de vida perdidos ajustados por incapacidade, em ambos os sexos.<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B2">2</xref></sup></p>
    <p>Devido ao grande impacto das duas doen&#231;as mais prevalentes que emergem em paralelo e interagem entre si, &#233; importante considerarmos como manejar essas duas doen&#231;as individualmente e do ponto de vista populacional. Al&#233;m disso, poucos estudos exploraram a popula&#231;&#227;o de indiv&#237;duos com uma &#8220;carga dupla&#8221; dessas doen&#231;as, conhecida como &#8220; <italic>double burden</italic> &#8221;.<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B3">3</xref></sup></p>
    <p>Essas patologias compartilham uma s&#233;rie de fatores de risco modific&#225;veis e mecanismos fisiopatol&#243;gicos que frequentemente coexistem nos mesmos pacientes. <sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B4">4</xref></sup></p>
    <p>O c&#226;ncer de pulm&#227;o &#233; a causa n&#250;mero 1 de morte por c&#226;ncer em homens e a causa n&#250;mero 2 em mulheres em todo o mundo. Evid&#234;ncias de v&#225;rios estudos apoiam uma forte associa&#231;&#227;o entre c&#226;ncer de pulm&#227;o e DCV: os pacientes com c&#226;ncer de pulm&#227;o t&#234;m um risco aumentado de aproximadamente 66% de DCV e um risco aumentado de 89% de doen&#231;a arterial coronariana isoladamente em compara&#231;&#227;o com aqueles sem c&#226;ncer de pulm&#227;o.<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B5">5</xref></sup></p>
    <p>No estudo realizado por Mingzhuang Sun et al.<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B6">6</xref></sup> publicado neste volume do Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia, foi realizada uma an&#225;lise transversal de 75 pacientes rec&#233;m-diagnosticados com neoplasia de pulm&#227;o, entre 2009 e 2019, em um hospital em Beijing, China (Chinese PLA General Hospital). Esses pacientes foram submetidos a cineangiocoronariografia e comparados com 225 pacientes-controle sem neoplasia.</p>
    <p>Os pacientes com tratamento cardiol&#243;gico (angioplastia ou revasculariza&#231;&#227;o coronariana) ou com tratamento oncol&#243;gico pr&#233;vio foram exclu&#237;dos.</p>
    <p>A gravidade da doen&#231;a coronariana foi avaliada utilizando o escore SYNTAX, sendo dividido em quartis, com base na distribui&#231;&#227;o do escore em todos os indiv&#237;duos do estudo.</p>
    <p>A maioria dos pacientes com neoplasia foi diagnosticada com o tipo n&#227;o pequenas c&#233;lulas (92%) em est&#225;gio I e II (75%). Em pacientes com c&#226;ncer de pulm&#227;o, o escore SYNTAX foi de 20,0%, 20,0%, 24,0% e 36,0% nos pacientes nos quartis mais baixo, m&#233;dio-inferior, m&#233;dio-superior e mais alto, respectivamente. Nos pacientes-controle, a porcentagem de pacientes foi de 26,7%, 26,2%, 25,8% e 21,3% do quartil mais baixo ao mais alto, respectivamente. Houve uma diferen&#231;a na distribui&#231;&#227;o dos escores entre os pacientes com c&#226;ncer de pulm&#227;o e os pacientes-controle, tendo o grupo com c&#226;ncer uma porcentagem significativamente mais alta de pacientes com escores SYNTAX mais alto (36% versus 21,6%).</p>
    <p>A mensagem principal que o estudo levanta &#233; a de que existem evid&#234;ncias epidemiol&#243;gicas mostradas neste e em outros estudos sobre a rela&#231;&#227;o existente entre o diagn&#243;stico oncol&#243;gico, principalmente nos casos de c&#226;ncer de pulm&#227;o, mama e c&#243;lon e o risco aumentado de DCV.<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B7">7</xref></sup> Dessa forma, o diagn&#243;stico dessas neoplasias deve desencadear a lembran&#231;a de uma avalia&#231;&#227;o de risco de DCV concomitante, uma vez que o tratamento e, consequentemente, o progn&#243;stico de ambas as patologias evoluiu grandemente nos &#250;ltimos anos, com aumento de sobrevida.<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B8">8</xref></sup> Sendo assim, trata-se de tema importante tanto para os cardio-oncologistas quanto para os cardiologistas em geral, dada a alta preval&#234;ncia. Neste estudo, a avalia&#231;&#227;o coronariana foi realizada atrav&#233;s de cineangiocoronariografia, mas levanta tamb&#233;m uma reflex&#227;o e algumas hip&#243;teses sobre o melhor m&#233;todo de avalia&#231;&#227;o de DCV nesta popula&#231;&#227;o, dadas as particularidades e a complexidade dos pacientes nesta situa&#231;&#227;o.</p>
    <p>Trata-se de um estudo realizado na popula&#231;&#227;o chinesa que nos lembra da necessidade de gera&#231;&#227;o e busca de dados nacionais para conhecimento do nosso perfil populacional e planejamento de a&#231;&#245;es futuras de doen&#231;as t&#227;o prevalentes.</p>
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          <italic>Minieditorial referente ao artigo: Associa&#231;&#227;o entre a Gravidade da Doen&#231;a Arterial Coronariana e C&#226;ncer de Pulm&#227;o: Um Estudo Piloto Transversal</italic>
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        <article-title>Neoplasms and the Evaluation of Risk of Cardiovascular Disease</article-title>
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          <name>
            <surname>Bittar</surname>
            <given-names>Cristina Salvadori</given-names>
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        <country country="BR">Brazil</country>
        <institution content-type="original">Instituto do Cora&#231;&#227;o - InCor, S&#227;o Paulo, SP &#8211; Brazil</institution>
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        <country country="BR">Brazil</country>
        <institution content-type="original">Instituto do C&#226;ncer - ICESP, S&#227;o Paulo, SP &#8211; Brazil</institution>
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        <institution content-type="original">Hospital S&#237;rio Liban&#234;s, S&#227;o Paulo, SP &#8211; Brazil</institution>
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        <corresp id="c01001">Mailing address: Cristina Salvadori Bittar &#8226; Universidade de S&#227;o Paulo Instituto do C&#226;ncer do Estado de S&#227;o Paulo &#8211; Cardiologia- Av. Dr. Arnaldo, 251. Postal Code 01246-000, S&#227;o Paulo, SP - Brazil Email: cristina.bittar@hc.fm.usp.br</corresp>
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        <kwd>Coronary Artery Disease/complications</kwd>
        <kwd>Lung Neoplasms/complications</kwd>
        <kwd>Coronary Angiography/methods</kwd>
        <kwd>Severity of Illness Index</kwd>
        <kwd>Percutaneous Coronary Intervention/methods</kwd>
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      <p>Cardiovascular disease (CVD) and neoplasms are currently the two leading causes of mortality in Brazil and in the world.<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B1">1</xref></sup> Both the incidence of cancer and neoplasms increase with age, with 77% of cancer cases being diagnosed in patients older than 55 and, concomitantly, the cardiovascular risk is also higher in male patients older than 55 and women older than 65. In Brazil, in 2016, CVDs had the highest rates of mortality and disability-adjusted years of life lost, in both sexes.<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B2">2</xref></sup></p>
      <p>Due to the great impact of the two most prevalent diseases that emerge in parallel and interact with each other, it is important to consider how to manage these two diseases individually and from a population point of view. In addition, few studies have explored the population of individuals with a double burden of these diseases.<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B3">3</xref></sup></p>
      <p>These pathologies share a number of modifiable risk factors and pathophysiological mechanisms that often coexist in the same patients.<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B4">4</xref></sup></p>
      <p>Lung cancer is the number 1 cause of cancer death in men and the number 2 cause of cancer death in women worldwide. Evidence from several studies supports a strong association between lung cancer and CVDs: patients with lung cancer have an approximately 66% increased risk of CVD and an 89% increased risk of coronary artery disease alone compared with those without lung cancer.<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B5">5</xref></sup></p>
      <p>In the study conducted by Mingzhuang et al.<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B6">6</xref></sup> published in this volume of Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia, a cross-sectional analysis was performed of 75 newly diagnosed patients with lung cancer between 2009 and 2019 at a hospital in Beijing, China (Chinese PLA General Hospital). These patients underwent coronary angiography and were compared with 225 control patients without neoplasms.</p>
      <p>Patients under cardiological treatment (angioplasty or coronary artery bypass grafting) or with previous cancer treatment were excluded.</p>
      <p>The severity of coronary artery disease was assessed using the SYNTAX score, divided into quartiles, based on the distribution of the score across all study subjects.</p>
      <p>Most patients with neoplasms were diagnosed with the non-small cell type (92%) in stage I and II (75%). In lung cancer patients, the SYNTAX score was 20.0%, 20.0%, 24.0%, and 36.0% in the patients in the lowest, lowest-middle, upper-middle, and highest quartiles, respectively. In control patients, the percentage of patients was 26.7%, 26.2%, 25.8% and 21.3% from the lowest to the highest quartile, respectively. There was a trend in the distribution of patient scores that differed between lung cancer patients and control patients, with the cancer group having a significantly higher percentage of patients with higher SYNTAX scores (36% versus 21.6%).</p>
      <p>The main message that the study conveys is that there is epidemiological evidence shown in this and in other studies about the relationship between oncological diagnosis, especially in cases of lung, breast and colon cancer, and the increased risk of CVD.<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B7">7</xref></sup> Therefore, diagnosis of these neoplasms should trigger the reminder of a risk assessment of concomitant CVD, since the treatment and, consequently, the prognosis of both pathologies has greatly evolved in recent years, with increased survival.<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B8">8</xref></sup> It is then an important topic for both cardio-oncologists and cardiologists in general, given its high prevalence. In this study, coronary evaluation was performed using coronary angiography, but it also raises a reflection and some hypotheses about the best method for evaluating CVDs in this population, given the particularities and complexity of patients in this situation.</p>
      <p>This is a study carried out with the Chinese population that reminds us of the need to generate and search for national data in order to have better knowledge about our population profile and plan future actions for such prevalent diseases.</p>
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            <italic>Short Editorial related to the artice: Association between the Severity of Coronary Artery Disease and Lung Cancer: A Pilot Cross-Sectional Study</italic>
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