Does the burden of non-modifiable cardiovascular risk factors correlate with OCT-defined plaque characteristics in patients with acute coronary syndromes?
In patients with ACS, a higher burden of non-modifiable risk factors is associated with calcified plaques rather than plaque erosion or vulnerability.
In patients with ACS, the burden of NMRFs was not correlated with OCT-defined plaque vulnerability or the prevalence of plaque rupture, both at culprit and non-culprit lesions. Conversely, a higher number of NMRF was linked to a greater probability of calcified plaque and a lower probability of plaque erosion.
Scalamera et al. (Fri,) studied this question.