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Lipomatous atrial septum thickness and all-cause mortality across the LASH severity spectrum
Martinez-Dominguez, P, Nouraei, H, Wong, C Kit, Lara-Breitinger, K, Lopez-Jimenez, F, Bird, J G, Kane, G C, Pislaru, S V, Tsaban, G, Martinez‐Dominguez, Pavel , Nouraei, Hasti , Lara-Breitinger, Kyla M , López-Jiménez, Francisco , Kane, Garvan C. , Pislaru, S V, Tsaban, Gal
European Journal of Preventive Cardiology | June 11, 2026 | Volume: 33 | Issue: Supplement_2 | Pages: No page available
Abstract Background Lipomatous atrial septal hypertrophy (LASH) is generally viewed as a benign anatomical finding. Although extracardiac fat depots have been linked to adverse cardiometabolic outcomes, the prognostic implications of LASH have not been well defined. Purpose To evaluate whether LASH thickness is independently associated with long-term all-cause mortality. Methods We reviewed adult patients who underwent diagnostic transesophageal echocardiography at our Clinic sites from 2010–2017. LASH was identified by a dumbbell-shaped interatrial septum with maximal thickening ≥5 mm in the bicaval midesophageal view. All-cause mortality through January 1, 2024, served as the primary endpoint. Septal thickness was evaluated using restricted cubic splines and Cox proportional hazards models adjusted for age, sex, body mass index, Charlson Comorbidity Index, and left ventricular ejection fraction. Results Among 1,397 patients (mean age 69±12 years; 60% male), median LASH thickness was 14.2±4.4 mm. LASH severity was classified as mild (<15 mm; n=763), moderate (15-20 mm; n=522), or severe (>20 mm; n=112). During 7.5±4.0 years of follow-up, 586 deaths (42%) occurred. Mortality was higher with increasing septal thickness (37%, 46%, and 56%; p < 0.001). Each 1-mm increase in LASH-thickness was associated with higher adjusted mortality (adjusted-hazard-ratio 1.03; 95%-confidence-interval 1.01-1.05). Spline modeling suggested a risk increase beginning near 16 mm; thickness >16 mm carried a 26% higher mortality risk (adjusted-hazard-ratio 1.26; 95%-confidence-interval 1.06-1.50). Conclusions LASH was associated with long-term mortality independent of BMI and other clinical factors. Septal fat accumulation may provide a useful, noninvasive marker that complements broader cardiac risk assessment.Risk for all-cause mortality across LASHFor image description, please refer to the figure legend and surrounding text.
The Global, Regional, and National Burden of Adult Lip, Oral, and Pharyngeal Cancer in 204 Countries and Territories
Collaborators, GBD 2019 Lip, Oral, and Pharyngeal Cancer, Compton, Kelly, Xu, Rixing, Mishra, Rashmi , Drangsholt, Mark, Antunes, José Leopoldo Ferreira , Acheson, Alistair, Lu, Dan , Wallace, Lindsey E., Kocarnik, Jonathan , Fu, Weijia , Dean, Frances , Pennini, Alyssa, Henrikson, Hannah , Alam, Shazia , Ababneh, Emad , Abdoun, Meriem , Abidi, Hassan , Ali, Hiwa Abubaker, Adane, Tigist Demssew , Ahmad, Aqeel , Rashid, Tarik A. , Hamad, Hanadi Al , Alahdab, Fares , Alimohamadi, Yousef, Alipour, Vahid, Anwar, Sumadi Lukman, Anyasodor, Anayochukwu Edward , Aravkin, Aleksandr Y. , Aruleba, Raphael Taiwo , Azadnajafabad, Sina , Azangou‐Khyavy, Mohammadreza , Badar, Muhammad , Barqawi, Hiba Jawdat , Bashir, Nasir Zeeshan , Bashiri, Azadeh, Benzian, Habib , Bhagat, Devidas S. , Bhojaraja, Vijayalakshmi S, Bouaoud, Souad, Braithwaite, Dejana , Брико, Н. И. , Chakraborty, Promit Ananyo , Chattu, Vijay Kumar , Chaurasia, Akhilanand , Chen, Mengxuan , Cho, William C. , Chu, Dinh‐Toi , Chukwu, Isaac Sunday , Chung, Eunice, Martins, Natália , Dadras, Omid , Dandona, Lalit , Dandona, Rakhi , Daneshpajouhnejad, Parnaz , Molla, Meseret Derbew , Dessalegn, Fikadu Nugusu, Digesa, Lankamo Ena , Dixit, Shilpi Gupta , Dixit, Abhinav , Djalalinia, Shirin , Tantawi, Maha El , Enyew, Daniel Berhanie, Erku, Daniel , Ezzeddini, Rana, Fagbamigbe, Adeniyi Francis , Falzone, Luca , Fetensa, Getahun, Fukumoto, Takeshi , Gebrehiwot, Mesfin , Ghashghaee, Ahmad , Golechha, Mahaveer , Goleij, Pouya , Gorini, Giuseppe , Guimarães, André Luiz Sena , Gupta, Sapna , Halboub, Esam , Hanif, Asif , Harorani, Mehdi , Hasani, Hamidreza, Hassan, Abbas M. , Hassen, Mohammed Bheser, Hay, Simon I , Herrera-Serna, Brenda Yuliana , Hosseinzadeh, Mehdi , Ilić, Irena , Isola, Gaetano , Jaiswal, Abhishek , Jani, Chinmay , Javaheri, Tahereh , Jayaram, Shubha, Joseph, Nitin , Kadashetti, Vidya, Karanth, Shama D. , Kaur, Harkiran , Keykhaei, Mohammad , Khader, Yousef , Khajuria, Himanshu , Khanali, Javad , Khatib, Mahalaqua Nazli , Kashani, Hamid Reza Khayat , Kim, Min Seo , Kompani, Farzad , Kurmi, Om , Lal, Dharmesh Kumar, Lee, Yo Han , Lim, Stephen S , Listl, Stefan , Lopukhov, Platon D , Mafi, Ahmad R , Malik, Ahmad Azam , Maulud, Sazan Qadir , Nasab, Entezar Mehrabi, Mirfakhraie, Reza , Misganaw, Awoke, Misra, Sanjeev , Mithra, Prasanna , Mohammad, Yousef , Moni, Mohammad Ali , Moraga, Paula , Mubarik, Sumaira , Murray, Christopher J L , Swamy, Sreenivas Narasimha, Narayana, Aparna Ichalangod, Nassereldine, Hasan , Natto, Zuhair S. , Nayak, Biswa Prakash , Negru, Șerban , Nggada, Haruna Asura , Núñez-Samudio, Virginia , Oancea, Bogdan , Padrón‐Monedero, Alicia , Pandey, Anamika , Patel, Jay , Pezzani, Raffaele , Piracha, Zahra Zahid , Rabiee, Navid , Radhakrishnan, Venkatraman , Rahmani, Amir M. , Rao, Sowmya J, Rath, Goura Kishor, Rawaf, David Laith , Rawassizadeh, Reza , Rezaei, Nazila, Rezapour, Aziz , Riad, Abanoub , Romero‐Rodríguez, Esperanza , Manjula, S, Chandan, S N , Saddik, Basema , Saeed, Umar , Safaei, Mohsen , Sahebazzamani, Maryam , Samy, Abdallah M , Santric-Milicevic, Milena M , Sathian, Brijesh , Satpathy, Maheswar , Šekerija, Mario , Senthilkumaran, Subramanian , Seylani, Allen, Shafaat, Omid , Sharew, Mequannent Melaku Sharew, Sharifi‐Rad, Javad , Shorofi, Seyed Afshin, Shrestha, Sunil , Malleshappa, Sudeep K Siddappa , Singh, Paramdeep , Sinha, Dhirendra Narain , Solomon, Yonatan , Suleman, Muhammad , Abdulkader, Rizwan Suliankatchi , Abkenar, Yasaman Taheri, Tan, Ker‐Kan , Tbakhi, Abdelghani, Thiyagarajan, Arulmani , Tovani‐Palone, Marcos Roberto , Volovăț, Simona Ruxandra , Westerman, Ronny, Wickramasinghe, Nuwan Darshana , Xiao, Hong , Zadnik, Vesna, Zare, Iman, Zhang, Zhi-Jiang , Force, Lisa M , Hugo, Fernando Neves , Hoogar, Praveen , Rezaei, Nazila , Rezaei, Nazila , Shivakumar, KM , Collaborators, GBD 2019 Lip, Oral, and Pharyngeal Cancer, Cunha, Amanda Ramos da , Kerr, Alexander Ross , Wallace, Lindsey E., Abd‐Elsalam, Sherief , Abu‐Gharbieh, Eman , Addo, Isaac Yeboah , Ahmad, Sajjad , Akonde, Maxwell , Al‐Maweri, Sadeq Ali , Alsharif, Ubai , Ansari‐Moghaddam, Alireza , Anwar, Sumadi Lukman, Arabloo, Jalal , Asaad, Malke, Ashraf, Tahira , Athari, Seyyed Shamsadin , Attia, Sameh , Baghcheghi, Nayereh , Banach, Maciej , Bardhan, Mainak , Bernabé, Eduardo , Bjørge, Tone , Călina, Daniela Cornelia , Carreras, Giulia , Dai, Xiaochen , Soltani, Reza Darvishi Cheshmeh , Darwesh, Aso Mohammad , Debela, Sisay Abebe , Dianatinasab, Mostafa , Sayed, Iman El , Gaewkhiew, Piyada , Gallus, Silvano , Gill, Paramjit Singh , Gomez, Ricardo Santiago , Gupta, Bhawna , Gupta, Veer Bala , Gupta, Vivek , Haj‐Mirzaian, Arvin , Halwani, Rabih , Hariyani, Ninuk , Hassanipour, Soheil , Hayat, Khezar , Holla, Ramesh , Horita, Nobuyuki , Hussain, Salman , Ilesanmi, Olayinka Stephen , Ilić, Milena , Jayarajah, Umesh , Kandaswamy, Eswar , Karaye, Ibraheem M. , Kauppila, Joonas H. , Tabari, Mohammad Amin Khazeei , Koohestani, Hamid Reza , Kumar, G Anil , Vecchia, Carlo La , Lal, Dharmesh Kumar, Landires, Iván , Lasrado, Savita , Ledda, Caterina , Libra, Massimo , Mahumud, Rashidul Alam , Mathur, Manu Raj , Meena, Jitendra Kumar , Meštrović, Tomislav , Mohammadi, Mokhtar, Mohammadi, Esmaeil , Mokdad, Ali H. , Morrison, Shane D. , Mozaffari, Hamid Reza , Nair, Tapas Sadasivan , Nouraei, Hasti , Olagunju, Andrew T , Bali, Ahmed Omar , Padubidri, Jagadish Rao , Pardhan, Shahina , Radhakrishnan, Raghu , Rahmani, Amir Masoud, Rahmanian, Vahid , Rao, Chythra R , Rawaf, Salman , Razeghinia, Mohammad Sadegh , Rezaei, Negar , Rezaei, Nima , Rezapour, Aziz , Roberts, Thomas J. , Roshandel, Gholamreza , Saeb, Mohammad Reza , Sahebkar, Amirhossein , Farrokhi, Amir Salek , Shahsavari, Hamid R. , Shamsoddin, Erfan , Shetty, Jeevan K. , Shivakumar, K. M. , Shobeiri, Parnian , Singh, Jasvinder A. , Singh, Garima Prateek , Talaat, Iman Mamdouh , Tiyuri, Amir , Unnikrishnan, Bhaskaran , Vo, Bay, Wang, Cong , Yu, Chuanhua , Yüce, Deniz , Yunusa, Ismaeel , Zoladl, Mohammad , Alahdab, Fares
JAMA Oncology | September 7, 2023 | Volume: 9 | Issue: 10 | Pages: 1401
ImportanceLip, oral, and pharyngeal cancers are important contributors to cancer burden worldwide, and a comprehensive evaluation of their burden globally, regionally, and nationally is crucial for effective policy planning.ObjectiveTo analyze the total and risk-attributable burden of lip and oral cavity cancer (LOC) and other pharyngeal cancer (OPC) for 204 countries and territories and by Socio-demographic Index (SDI) using 2019 Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors (GBD) Study estimates.Evidence ReviewThe incidence, mortality, and disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) due to LOC and OPC from 1990 to 2019 were estimated using GBD 2019 methods. The GBD 2019 comparative risk assessment framework was used to estimate the proportion of deaths and DALYs for LOC and OPC attributable to smoking, tobacco, and alcohol consumption in 2019.FindingsIn 2019, 370 000 (95% uncertainty interval [UI], 338 000-401 000) cases and 199 000 (95% UI, 181 000-217 000) deaths for LOC and 167 000 (95% UI, 153 000-180 000) cases and 114 000 (95% UI, 103 000-126 000) deaths for OPC were estimated to occur globally, contributing 5.5 million (95% UI, 5.0-6.0 million) and 3.2 million (95% UI, 2.9-3.6 million) DALYs, respectively. From 1990 to 2019, low-middle and low SDI regions consistently showed the highest age-standardized mortality rates due to LOC and OPC, while the high SDI strata exhibited age-standardized incidence rates decreasing for LOC and increasing for OPC. Globally in 2019, smoking had the greatest contribution to risk-attributable OPC deaths for both sexes (55.8% [95% UI, 49.2%-62.0%] of all OPC deaths in male individuals and 17.4% [95% UI, 13.8%-21.2%] of all OPC deaths in female individuals). Smoking and alcohol both contributed to substantial LOC deaths globally among male individuals (42.3% [95% UI, 35.2%-48.6%] and 40.2% [95% UI, 33.3%-46.8%] of all risk-attributable cancer deaths, respectively), while chewing tobacco contributed to the greatest attributable LOC deaths among female individuals (27.6% [95% UI, 21.5%-33.8%]), driven by high risk-attributable burden in South and Southeast Asia.Conclusions and RelevanceIn this systematic analysis, disparities in LOC and OPC burden existed across the SDI spectrum, and a considerable percentage of burden was attributable to tobacco and alcohol use. These estimates can contribute to an understanding of the distribution and disparities in LOC and OPC burden globally and support cancer control planning efforts.