AUC	Areas under the curve
ANRIL	Antisense ncRNA in the INK4 locus
Bcl-2	B-cell lymphoma 2
CAD	Coronary artery disease
CDC42	Cell division control protein 42
CHD	Coronary heart disease
EAP	Extrinsic apoptosis pathway
EVs	Extracellular vesicles
EZH	Enhancer of zeste homologue
FRS	Fibroblast growth factor receptor substrate
GSH-PX	Glutathione peroxidase/reductase
HASMCs	Human aortic smooth muscle cells
HDAC	Histone deacetylase
HIFs	Hypoxia-inducible factors
IAP	Intrinsic apoptosis pathway
IHD	Ischaemic heart disease
IL	Interleukin
JAK	Janus kinase
LDL	Low-density lipoprotein
LINC01220	Long intergenic non-protein coding RNA 1220
lncRNA	Long non-coding RNA
MALAT1	Metastasis-associated lung adenocarcinoma transcript 1
MI	Myocardial infarction
MIAT	MI-associated transcript
MMECs	Muscle microvascular endothelial cells
ncRNA	Non-coding RNA
NF-κB	Nuclear factor kappa-light-chain-enhancer of activated B cells
oxLDL	Oxidised LDL
PCD	Programmed cell death
PCI	Percutaneous coronary intervention
PI3K/AKT	Phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase/protein kinase B
PRC	Polycomb repressive complex
PRX/Trx	Peroxiredoxin/thioredoxin
RISC	RNA-induced silencing complex
ROS	Reactive oxygen species
SERCA2a	Sarcoplasmic/endoplasmic reticulum Ca2+-ATPase
SLC8A1	Solute carrier family 8 member A1
STAT	Signal transducer and activator of transcription
STEMI	ST-segment elevation MI
TNF-α	Tumour necrosis factor alpha
VEGF	Vascular endothelial growth factor
VSMCs	Vascular smooth muscle cells