Sentences with phrase «at coronary»

This 2 year study looked at coronary artery lesions of the heart after consuming different types of fat.

«If you look at your coronary arteries like a hallway, the stress test essentially allows you to throw a ball down the hall, and if it makes it from point A to point B, there's no significant blockage,» Le said.

Managers killed those programs (including one highly anticipated drug aimed at coronary disorders that was about to head into human trials) and prioritized others where there was a clear genetic target for the drug.

Not exact matches

Various studies at the time suspected sugar was bad for the heart, and the latest JAMA suggests the Foundation paid the researchers to counter those arguments and «downplay early warning signs that sucrose consumption was a risk factor in [coronary heart disease].»

When they did suffer from coronary artery disease, it hit them at a later age and they had a better chance of surviving it.

By 2005, they had achieved his own personal goal becoming a Top 100 Cardiac Surgical Program at Memorial Hospital of South Bend in its initial # 3 years of ratings for Valve Replacement and Coronary Bypass Surgery.

With Scalia at 76 years and 7 months and Uncle Clarence at 64 and 4 but patently obese and fixing for a coronary, the future looks bright!!

Death comes with the brutal crash of steel as autos meet on freeways, through the quiet slit of steel with a razor at the wrist, with the thieving suddenness of a coronary occlusion, with the silent stealth of infant crib death, with the adding - machine efficiency of genocide, or with the plotlessness of invisible mass killings in Kampuchea.

[27] The STEP, commonly called the «Templeton Foundation prayer study or «Great Prayer Experiment», used 1,802 coronary artery bypass surgery patients at six hospitals.

A 2001 double - blind study at the Mayo Clinic randomized 799 discharged coronary surgery patients into a control group and an intercessory prayer group, which received prayers at least once a week from 5 intercessors per patient.

Practical Tip: To lower your risk of cardiovascular and coronary heart disease, enjoy a handful of cashews or other nuts, or a tablespoon of nut butter, at least 4 times a week.

The people in Dr. Esselstyn's study were at the last fork on the road of Coronary Artery Disease.

Or at least, until one of the teams keeled over due to coronary blockage.

Marion Nestle, a professor of nutrition, food studies and public health at New York University, wrote an editorial accompanying the new paper in which she said the documents provided «compelling evidence» that the sugar industry had initiated research «expressly to exonerate sugar as a major risk factor for coronary heart disease.»

He had two stents inserted to unblock coronary arteries on Wednesday, forcing him to miss yesterday's Europa League Group A game at Rubin Kazan.

Adults with coronary heart disease should make sure they get at least 1000 mg each day and even higher doses if they have high triglyceride levels.

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.»

Additionally, the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) study concluded that consumers who eat fast food two or more times a week had a one - hundred percent increase in their insulin resistance compared to consumers who ate at fast food establishments less than once a week.

Lou Ceruzzi, the founder and president of Ceruzzi Properties, passed away unexpectedly from a «coronary event» on Aug. 31 at the age of 64.

Of MESA participants studied, 86 percent had coronary artery calcium readings at three different times, with an average of 3.5 years between measurements.

At the same time, they observed that children spend a considerable amount of money on snacks while childhood incidence of chronic dietary - related disease (type - 2 diabetes, coronary artery disease, and obesity) is high and increasing around the world.

ORLANDO, Fla. — Adding a pharmaceutical form of the B vitamin niacin — but not the drug ezetimibe — to a cholesterol - lowering statin drug appears to reduce artery plaque buildup in patients with coronary artery disease, according to much - anticipated results announced at a press conference November 15.

Despite the advent of a new generation of stents, patients with multiple narrowed arteries in the heart who received coronary artery bypass grafting fared better than those whose arteries were opened with balloon angioplasty and stents in a study presented at the American College of Cardiology's 64th Annual Scientific Session.

Physician researchers at Thomas Jefferson University suspect that some cases of coronary artery spasm go unrecognized and are incorrectly treated with stents.

«We found that healthy food stores within one mile of their home was the only significant factor that reduced or slowed the progression of calcium buildup in coronary arteries,» said Ella August, Ph.D., co-lead author who initiated the study and clinical assistant professor of epidemiology at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

«Our study group has spent decades studying the health effects of diet quality and composition, and now this new data also suggests overall dietary habits can be important to lower risk of coronary heart disease,» said Eric Rimm, Sc.D., senior author and Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health and Associate Professor of Medicine at the Harvard Medical School.

Even after accounting for modest differences in diet, physical activity, smoking and other lifestyle factors, the association between skipping breakfast (or eating very late at night) and coronary heart disease persisted.

For the study, the Johns Hopkins team set out to lower the rate at which doctors order cardiac biomarker testing for the diagnosis of acute coronary syndrome by basing the desired rate on scientific evidence.

I don't know how this specific concern became so common, but — completely independently — multiple Ph.D. recipients described to me an imaginary scenario in which they have to explain, presumably to a shocked flight attendant, that while they really wish they could help the elderly gentleman experiencing coronary ischemia, they're actually the kind of doctor who applies for research funding and presents at journal clubs, not the kind who, you know, does stuff.

«Using imaging tests to detect disease in carotid or coronary arteries before it causes symptoms can better identify healthy individuals at increased risk than our current, traditional risk assessment methods,» says the study's principal investigator Valentin Fuster, MD, PhD, Director of Mount Sinai Heart and Physician - in - Chief of The Mount Sinai Hospital.

A new strategy — an injectable antibody — for lowering blood lipids and thereby potentially preventing coronary artery disease and other conditions caused by the build - up of fats, cholesterol, and other substances on the artery walls, is supported by findings from two new studies from researchers in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

«We used different lines of evidence to show that ANGPTL3 deficiency is associated with a reduced risk of coronary artery disease,» said study co-author Kiran Musunuru, MD, PhD, MPH, an associate professor of Cardiovascular Medicine at Penn. «But ultimately we were able to identify that fact that carriers of this genetic mutation did in fact experience a benefit — with little other health risk.»

«Our study shows the significant impact of adding carotid plaque measurement using vascular ultrasound and coronary calcium scoring with CT scan to our conventional assessment for cardiovascular disease,» says Roxana Mehran, MD, the study's co-lead author and Director of Interventional Cardiovascular Research and Clinical Trials at the Zena and Michael A. Weiner Cardiovascular Institute at Mount Sinai Heart at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

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.

A study by investigators at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) published this week in PLOS ONE identifies four factors that may account for sex differences in statin therapy among patients with coronary artery disease (CAD), pointing to interventions and additional research that will be needed to help overcome this sex disparity and reduce cardiovascular risk for women.

To address this, BWH investigators used state of the art natural language processing tools to review the course of more than 24,000 patients with coronary artery disease treated at either BWH or Massachusetts General Hospital between 2000 and 2011.

They also looked at the use of other heart - imaging techniques including PET (short for positron emission tomography), coronary angiography and stress echocardiography.

Statins have proven highly effective at decreasing the risk of a second coronary event and current guidelines recommend statin therapy for all adult patients with coronary artery disease.

Ion S. Jovin, MD, FACC, the study's lead author and medical director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories at McGuire Veterans Affairs Medical Center and associate professor of medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University, said that the study's results are consistent with data from contemporary studies of patients with acute coronary syndrome and STEMI.

Looking at the data, it's clear that most people who are insulin resistant don't get diabetes but are greatly at risk for coronary heart disease, hypertension, non-alcoholic-type liver disease, polycystic ovary syndrome, and several kinds of cancer.»

The study also found distinct blood pressure patterns from ages 18 to 55 that reveal people at high risk for calcification of coronary arteries — a marker for heart disease — by middle age.

- The results are also significant in that the group included different kinds of patients, some of whom had heart failure, coronary disease, and ventricular extrasystole at the same time.

«Most of the studies in this area have focused on the heart and the coronary arteries; no one has really looked at other parts of the vascular system, in particular the carotid arteries,» says Jonathan D. Newman, MD, MPH a cardiologist at NYU Langone Medical Center in the Department of Medicine, Leon H. Charney Division of Cardiology and the study's lead author.

At the start, none of them had coronary heart disease (CHD).

«We wanted to focus on arteries because that's where most of the damage is caused in coronary diseases,» said George Truskey, the R. Eugene and Susie E. Goodson Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Vinik Dean of the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke.

All patients had evidence of, or were at increased risk for, coronary artery disease.

In a bid to get round some of these issues the researchers looked at the association between occasional or persistent mental distress and the risk of death in 950 people with stable coronary heart disease who were between 31 and 74 years old.

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

The research team explored data from more than 100,000 participants in the Nurses» Health Study (NHS), looking at rates of cardiovascular disease, specifically incidence of coronary heart disease and stroke.

Patients were considered to have coronary artery disease if they had a diameter reduction of greater than 50 percent in at least one coronary artery.