News tagged with coronary vessels

The sound of light: Innovative technology shatters the barriers of modern light microscopy

In the past, even modern technologies have failed to produce high-resolution fluorescence images from this depth because of the strong scattering of light. In the Nature Photonics journal, the Munich researchers describe how th ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Jun 30, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (12) | comments 2

Scientists discover a new way our bodies control blood pressure: the P450-EET system

If you are one of the millions of Americans with high blood pressure, more help is on the way. That's because a new research study published in the October 2010 print issue of The FASEB Journal shows that a protein, called ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Sep 30, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Flavanol-rich foods may help heart disease patients, study suggests

(PhysOrg.com) -- Research by an international team of scientists, including a University of California, Davis, nutritionist, provides new evidence that cocoa and other foods rich in a class of nutrients known as flavanols ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jul 30, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

System for eliminating salt may point to new antihypertensives

A study of the body system that deals with Americans' love affair with salt may yield more insight into why so many end up hypertensive and how to better treat them.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Aug 31, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

UBC-Providence health team identifies a key predictor of cardiovascular death

Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) hospitalizes more than 160,000 Canadians every year, and almost one quarter of those patients die from this common form of heart disease. But now a team of Vancouver-based researchers has identified ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Mar 15, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

High-fat diets inflame fat tissue around blood vessels, contribute to heart disease

A study by researchers at the University of Cincinnati (UC) shows that high-fat diets, even if consumed for a short amount of time, can inflame fat tissue surrounding blood vessels, possibly contributing to cardiovascular ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Feb 18, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researcher Connects Sexual Dysfunction with High Blood Pressure

(PhysOrg.com) -- Taben Hale is studying the connection between the two and is working on what might be the best way to find answers for both common problems.

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Mar 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0