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The Role of MicroRNAs in the Progression of Cardiovascular Diseases
Černá, Václava ; Pešta, Martin (advisor) ; Vítovec, Jiří (referee) ; Chottová Dvořáková, Magdaléna (referee)
Current applied research of microRNA molecules is focused on the identification of their roles in the pathogenesis of various types of diseases, including cardiovascular (CV), with the assumption of their use as biomarkers or treatment targets. Cardiovascular diseases have a high incidence and prevalence in the population, are predominantly chronic, and are also a leading cause of hospitalization and death, and therefore represent a major burden on patients and the health system. Many metabolic parameters are currently used in the diagnosis of cardiovascular diseases and cardiovascular risk assessment, mostly proteins and lipids, while parameters from the group of nucleic acids, whether in the form of mutations in DNA molecules, or various RNA molecules, are very limited so far. Despite the undeniable importance and contribution of metabolic biomarkers in the diagnosis and prognosis of cardiovascular diseases, these markers still do not allow effective identification of all patients at high risk, and therefore additional molecules are being sought that could contribute to the accuracy of this identification. Finding other potential diagnostic and prognostic markers to contribute to the more precise CV risk assessment, and subsequently also to the more effective treatment of patients at high risk,...
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