News tagged with coronary heart
Oxidative stress: Less harmful than suspected?
Arterial calcification and coronary heart disease, neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's, cancer and even the aging process itself are suspected to be partially caused or accelerated ...
Dec 05, 2011 |
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Blood biomarker associated with prevalence, severity of Alzheimer's, but not risk of development
Higher levels in blood of the protein clusterin, also known as apolipoprotein J, are significantly associated with the prevalence and severity of Alzheimer's disease, but not with the risk of onset of new disease, according ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Apr 05, 2011 |
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Are ICDs up to par with patients living longer?
Most patients with ischemic cardiomyopathy (ICM) and dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) who have an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) now live more than seven years and those ICD patients with hereditary heart disease ...
Apr 04, 2011 |
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Study finds routine periodic fasting is good for your health, and your heart
Fasting has long been associated with religious rituals, diets, and political protests. Now new evidence from cardiac researchers at the Intermountain Medical Center Heart Institute demonstrates that routine periodic fasting ...
Apr 03, 2011 |
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Patients with severe non-inflammatory respiratory disease face anemia risk
A study of nearly 600 patients with severe non-inflammatory respiratory disease has found that a significant percentage also suffered from anaemia, according to the April issue of IJCP, the International Journal of Clinic ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Mar 31, 2011 |
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Coronary artery calcium scans may help lower heart disease risk without increasing tests and costs
A new study of coronary artery calcium scanning – a simple, noninvasive test that gives patients baseline information about plaque in their coronary arteries—has shown that the scan helps them make heart-healthy ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Mar 23, 2011 |
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Study examines outcomes of high-dose antiplatelet drug after stent placement
Modifying a patient's dosage of the antiplatelet drug clopidogrel for 6 months depending on the patient's level of platelet reactivity did not result in combined lower rates of nonfatal heart attack, stent thrombosis (clot) ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Mar 15, 2011 |
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International Women's Day provides a 'red alert' for women's hearts
On International Women's Day (8th March), the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) is calling for action to reduce the gender disparities that are currently resulting in women receiving second rate cardiovascular (CV) care. ...
Mar 08, 2011 |
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Effects of alcohol on risk factors for cardiovascular disease
A summary paper on the effects of alcohol consumption on biologic mechanisms associated with coronary heart disease provides an excellent review of a large number of intervention studies in humans. Appropriate analyses were ...
Mar 07, 2011 |
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Scientists identify new marker for heart disease
A new study from the Libin Cardiovascular Institute at the University of Calgary's Faculty of Medicine is shedding light on an underlying cause of heart disease.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Feb 22, 2011 |
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Obesity and knee osteoarthritis shorten healthy years of life
An estimated 10 million Americans suffer from knee osteoarthritis (OA), making it one of the most common causes of disability in the US. Due to obesity and symptomatic knee OA, Americans over the age of 50 will together lose ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Feb 15, 2011 |
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Obesity is heart disease killer in its own right, irrespective of other risk factors
Obesity is a killer in its own right, irrespective of other biological or social risk factors traditionally associated with coronary heart disease, suggests research published online in Heart.
Feb 14, 2011 |
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Searching for the soul of the genome (w/ Video)
The discovery that a "gene desert" on chromosome 9 was a hotspot for coronary artery disease (CAD) risk was among the highlights of findings produced recently by genome-wide association studies, which compare the genomes ...
Feb 09, 2011 |
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Elevated levels of cardiac biomarkers following CABG surgery associated with increased risk of death
Patients who underwent coronary artery bypass graft surgery and had elevated levels of the cardiac enzymes creatine kinase or troponin in the 24 hours following surgery had an associated intermediate and long-term increased ...
Feb 08, 2011 |
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Reducing recurrent cardiac events by reducing stress
Following the results of a study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine showing that cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) produces a 41% reduction in fatal and non-fatal first recurrent CVD events, the European Societ ...
Jan 31, 2011 |
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