Sentences with phrase «artery calcium on»
The study is one of a series of studies being conducted at the Intermountain Medical Center Heart Institute on the effects of coronary artery calcium on heart disease.
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8 percent of patients with no calcium went on to receive revascularization to restore blood flow to the heart, compared to 6.5 percent of patients who had calcium in their coronary arteries.
Non-Classical Monocytes and Monocyte Chemoattractant Protein - 1 (MCP - 1) Correlate with Coronary Artery Calcium Progression in Chronically HIV - 1 Infected Adults on Stable Antiretroviral Therapy.
The tiny particles are 1,000 times smaller than the tip of a human hair, and are designed to latch on to atherosclerotic plaques — hard deposits made from accumulated fat, cholesterol and calcium that build up on the walls of arteries and are prone to rupture, producing dangerous clots.
The author of an article published in Integrative Medicine in 2015 noted that increased calcium supplementation — needed by older women to reduce their risk of osteoporosis — may become problematic because it can lead to deposits on artery and blood vessel walls.
And if you have vitamin K2 deficiency, your calcium ends up on your arteries and kidneys instead of helping to rebuild your teeth.
Participants were also tested for atherosclerosis, based on the buildup of calcium in their major arteries.