Sentences with phrase «as coronary artery»

Common complex disorders, such as coronary artery disease, develop as a result of multiple genetic and environmental factors.

The finding has far - reaching implications in understanding and treating low - oxygen health conditions such as coronary artery disease and tumor growth.

Cardiologist Dr. Leslie Miller discusses the vital role of adult stem cells in helping the body repair itself as well as the potential benefits of cell therapy as an alternative option if you are living with symptoms of a chronic condition such as coronary artery disease or osteoarthritis that affect your ability to live a normal life.

The review is in response to growing evidence connecting environmental noise, including from road traffic and aircrafts, to the development of heart disease, such as coronary artery disease, arterial hypertension, stroke and heart failure.

«Pro-oxidative stress is found in many chronic diseases, such as coronary artery disease.

Free radicals attack weak carbon - hydrogen bonds and are a major source of the kind of oxidative cell damage that can occur in conditions such as coronary artery disease, neurological disorders and retinal ailments.

A 2014 meta - analysis concluded that cardiovascular disease such as coronary artery disease and stroke is less likely with 3 — 5 cups of non-decaffeinated Kona per day but more likely with over 5 cups per day.

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CRP is thought to indicate the amount of inflammation in the body, which may be connected to illnesses such as cancer, diabetes and coronary artery disease.

From the file of Rather Obvious News, this study from the University of Michigan Medical School: children who consume foods purchased from school vending machines, school stores, snack bars and other sales that compete with the federal school lunch program are «more likely to develop poor diet quality — and that may be associated with being overweight, obese or at risk for chronic health problems such as diabetes and coronary artery disease.»

The food pyramid recommends that kids eat «fish rich in omega - 3 fatty acids, such as salmon, trout, and herring,» because fish oil may help prevent coronary artery disease.

Fish oil: The food pyramid recommends that kids eat «fish rich in omega - 3 fatty acids, such as salmon, trout, and herring,» because fish oil may help prevent coronary artery disease.

As a group, women in the study were older than men and were less likely to have been previously diagnosed with coronary artery disease.

These cytokines are known to be involved in problems in other body organs, such as the joints (arthritis), the coronary arteries (atherosclerosis) and the lungs (asthma).

The findings echo past studies, which have shown patients with multiple narrowed arteries have better outcomes with coronary artery bypass grafting, also known as CABG or heart bypass surgery, than with angioplasty, also known as percutaneous coronary intervention or PCI, a less - invasive option in which a stent is inserted to hold the arteries open.

Additional analysis of UK Biobank data from 112,338 people of European ancestry revealed that a specific form of rs9349379 known as the G allele, which was present in 36 % of these individuals, was associated with an increased risk of coronary artery disease.

Women who have a cardiac arrest are less likely than men to receive potentially life - saving procedures such as angiography to look for blocked coronary arteries or angioplasty to open them, according to new research in Journal of the American Heart Association, the Open Access Journal of the American Heart Association / American Stroke Association.

Other treatments, such as radiation, can affect the heart arteries and cause the development of coronary artery disease or blockages.

«Spontaneous coronary artery disease identified as inherited.»

Researchers also included a human genetics study of approximately 188,000 people, which found that carriers of mutations that disable ANGPTL3 had nearly 40 percent fewer incidents of coronary artery disease as compared to those with fully functioning ANGPTL3.

The study shows those apparently healthy individuals identified with increased carotid plaque burden and coronary artery calcium were two to three times more likely to have an adverse event such as an artery blockage, or a piece of plaque becoming loose causing a heart attack or stroke.

Deaths from coronary artery disease have dramatically fallen for both men and women over the last 30 years as statins have gained in popularity, but that reduction has been much greater for men than for women.

In contrast, men have greater tumor necrosis factor - alpha, homocysteine and uric acid levels as well as higher coronary artery calcium score than women.

Red wine stimulates the formation of endothelium - dependent relaxation factors such as nitric oxide, which improve endothelial function in coronary arteries possibly because of the high phenol concentration in red wine.

Overall, nearly 20 percent of the men and 12 percent of the women who participated in the study developed or died from heart disease, a suite of conditions that includes stroke, coronary heart disease caused by the buildup of plaque in the heart's arteries, acute coronary syndromes such as heart attack, and other diseases.

Participants with coronary heart disease at baseline were excluded, as were participants with cancer, stroke and coronary artery surgery.

When all the data were analysed, those whose mothers had experienced a complication of pregnancy were almost three times as likely to develop early coronary artery heart disease as those whose mothers had had a problem - free pregnancy.

Previous results from the KIHD study have shown that frequent sauna bathing also significantly reduces the risk of sudden cardiac death, the risk of death due to coronary artery disease and other cardiac events, as well as overall mortality.

Using the scale as a benchmark, patients without a history of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, congestive heart failure, coronary artery disease, or cirrhosis have only a 3.1 percent probability of developing late, serious complications following joint replacement surgery.

The new Penn - developed model replaces a previous model that only examined pre-operative features such as a history of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, congestive heart failure, or coronary artery disease.

Soliman said the finding that atrial fibrillation was associated only with NSTEMI heart attacks suggests that factors contributing to partial blockage of the coronary arteries or increased oxygen demand, such as sudden increase in heart rate, are more likely to explain the association between a-fib and heart attack than those factors linked to total blockage caused by the migration of a blood clot to a coronary artery from the site of its formation.

During the nearly month - long follow - up period, there were no differences between the two groups in the percentages of patients that had a stent placed to open an artery, underwent coronary artery bypass surgery, returned to the emergency room or experienced a major cardiac event, such as heart attack.

Use of the novel anticoagulant otamixaban did not reduce ischemic events compared with unfractionated heparin plus eptifibatide but increased bleeding among patients with non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes undergoing a percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI; procedures such as balloon angioplasty or stent placement used to open narrowed coronary arteries), according to a study published by JAMA.

An analysis of diagnostic test results from the Prospective Multicenter Imaging Study for Evaluation of Chest Pain (PROMISE) trial — in which patients with stable chest pain were randomized to either anatomic or functional testing as an initial diagnostic strategy — showed that the presence and extent of coronary artery disease detected by CT angiography better predicted the risk for future cardiac events than did measures of exercise tolerance or restricted blood flow to the heart muscle.

«In addition, practitioners have to look for other risk factors that are more common in obese patients such as diabetes, hypertension or coronary artery disease.»

All study participants either had an acute coronary syndrome such as a heart attack or unstable angina 30 days to one year before enrolling; had cerebrovascular atherosclerotic disease, in which the arteries that supply blood to the brain become constricted; had peripheral vascular disease, a group of disorders affecting blood vessels outside of the heart and brain; or had both diabetes and coronary artery disease.

The study published online in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, found smokers are more likely to be hospitalized for leg events, heart attack and coronary heart disease related to atherosclerotic peripheral artery disease, known as PAD, than non-smokers with PAD.

And then same for older people, of course, the same situation where they're not as robust, if you will, as people who are in their 20s and 30s and can handle that and losing the fluids and not have complications of coronary artery disease and other things that go with that for an older person.

«This is significant to stroke care because many stroke risk factors — such as high blood pressure, heart failure, coronary artery disease — are more common in old age.

«Further, the additional assessment of NAFLD with CT could improve the risk stratification of patients with suspected coronary artery disease, as our results show that the presence of NAFLD is associated with high - risk coronary plaque independent of traditional risk factors and severity of coronary artery disease.»

Chronic total occlusion, a complete blockage of the coronary artery, sometimes referred to as the «final frontier in interventional cardiology,» represents a major challenge for catheter - based percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI).

They also had only half as much ApoC - III protein in their blood, and they were less likely to develop calcification of coronary arteries, which can lead to coronary heart disease.

Analyses of pre-transplant risk factors such as obesity, diabetes, coronary artery disease were conducted.

The APOC3 mutation carriers also had little calcification of their coronary arteries, a measure of early atherosclerosis, as compared with those who didn't carry the mutation, the researchers report in tomorrow's issue of Science.

Coronary artery disease, or the buildup of plaque and blockages in the heart's arteries, is the most common cause of cardiac arrest, though it can also be caused by other forms of heart disease as well as some genetic diseases and other conditions.

The researchers found that both obstructive and mild, or non-obstructive, coronary artery disease as determined by CCTA were related to patient deaths and MACE.

During the follow - up period, 295 (30.3 percent) of the patients experienced a MACE, such as heart attack or a procedure to re-open an obstructed artery called a coronary revascularization.

These women also reported on their coronary health, indicating whether they had an angiogram that confirmed CHD - related chest pain, a heart attack, or cardiovascular procedures such as angioplasty, coronary artery bypass graft surgery or stents.

Men and women (median age 61.7) in the study were categorized as having no coronary artery disease, mild disease (less than 50 percent of coronary artery narrowed), or obstructive disease (more than 50 percent artery obstruction).

Just a handful of studies have looked over the course of a year, let alone years, such as this study, which followed patients for an average of 10 years after their coronary artery disease diagnosis to see if they were ever diagnosed with depression.

Current guidelines recommend heart bypass for patients with substantial narrowing of two or more arteries due to extensive plaque buildup, a condition known as multivessel coronary artery disease.