«Diet plays a huge role in this condition,» said Dr. Josh Stern, a Morris Animal Foundation - funded researcher, owner of a Golden Retriever Lifetime Study participant (Lira, Hero # 203), and veterinary
cardiologist studying this disease.
Not exact matches
«The very high intake of total and saturated fat did not increase the calculated risk of cardiovascular
diseases,» says professor and
cardiologist Ottar Nygård who contributed to the
study.
«Based on our data, CABG is still the preferred option for multivessel
disease,» said Seung - Jung Park, M.D., a
cardiologist at Asan Medical Center in Seoul, South Korea, and the
study's lead author.
The small
study, based on a survey of 236
cardiologists and internal medicine physicians and trainees at a large tertiary academic medical center, found that although physicians rate nutrition to be as important as statins in terms of reducing the risk of cardiovascular
disease, only 13.5 percent agreed or strongly agreed that they were adequately trained to discuss nutrition with patients.
«Research has long suggested people with heart
disease in rural areas are at a disadvantage when it comes to access to health care and longevity,» says Dr. Sacha Bhatia, lead author of the
study and a
cardiologist at Women's College Hospital.
Neuregulin 1 is already being tested in adults to boost recovery from heart failure, but it hasn't been tried in infants with heart
disease, says
study coauthor Bernhard Kühn, a pediatric
cardiologist at the University of Pittsburgh and Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh.
Matthew J. Budoff, M.D., LA BioMed lead researcher and
cardiologist, has
studied Aged Garlic Extract's benefits for preventing heart
disease.
Human geneticists and
cardiologists studying families with heart
disease may discover, said Stainier, that a mutated form of the gata5 homologue occurs in some cases of heart
disease, in which case the mutated form of the gene could serve as a marker of predisposition to the
disease.
Still, Alenghat, a preventive
cardiologist interested in the intersection of inflammation and cardiovascular
disease, stressed there are several limitations to this
study.
The
study focused on 221 men who had been referred to
cardiologists at the University of Chicago for nuclear stress testing, a widely used non-invasive way to detect the extent, severity, and reversibility of coronary heart
disease.
«This suggests we may need to ask male patients a new set of sensitive questions as part of the evaluation for heart
disease,» said
cardiologist and
study director Parker Ward, MD, assistant professor of medicine and director of the cardiology clinic at the University of Chicago.
This year,
cardiologists can celebrate the 50 - year anniversary of a
study connecting abnormal stress test results and obstructive coronary artery
disease (CAD).
However, J. Chad Teeters, MD, a
cardiologist and assistant professor of clinical medicine at the University of Rochester Medical Center, in New York, says that the
study findings are the latest evidence that homocysteine is of little use as an early warning sign of heart attacks or heart
disease.
Cardiologists read medical journals which regularly run incorrect and biased articles saying Vitamin C is useless for prevention and reversal of heart
disease, such as the 2008 Sesso
study.
Dr. Lee, the founding editor of the Harvard Heart Letter and a
cardiologist at Harvard - affiliated Brigham and Women's Hospital, says that
studies conducted on cardiac patients also point to lower death rates from cardiovascular
disease and stroke.
After
studying Heart
Disease now for 11 years I have the books mentioned here and the best book I have read is by Dr. Kenneth Levy m.d.
cardiologist.
Statin
studies are generally performed by
cardiologists and in the U.S., many statin
studies reported only heart attacks and other cardiovascular events as endpoints, not total mortality, cancer, or infectious
disease.
«This suggests that if you add grief to traditional risk factors for coronary artery
disease, whether it be smoking, hypertension, or family history, the grief may potentially put you over the edge,» says Eugene Storozynsky, M.D., a
cardiologist at the University of Rochester Medical Center, in Rochester, N.Y., who was not involved in the
study.
In a recent
study, dogs lived 74 % longer with the team - oriented care of a Boarded
Cardiologist and a general veterinarian compared to those without a
Cardiologist, when treated for congestive heart failure from valve
disease *.
The Cardiac Education Group, a nonprofit group of board - certified veterinary
cardiologists from both academia and private practice that offers independent recommendations for the evaluation and treatment of canine and feline heart
disease, has recently added a series of new case
studies.
A
study to determine if an EKG is a satisfactory screening test for heart
disease in Irish Wolfhounds is underway by veterinary
cardiologists Dr. Bill Tyrrell and Dr. Henry Green.