Some veterinary
cardiologists say this disease may occur in 80 to 90 % of Cavaliers.
Not exact matches
Dr. Rob Ostfeld, a
cardiologist at Montefiore
says eating more plants and eating less animal products is the best way to prevent heart
disease and other diet - related illnesses.
«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 main value of our research is the pinpointing of the importance of endothelin - 1 and blood vessel constriction to multiple vascular
diseases,»
says senior author Sekar Kathiresan, a
cardiologist at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard University.
Rigid artery walls are an independent predictor of cardiovascular - related
disease and death and vitamin D deficiency appears to be a contributor,
says Dr. Yanbin Dong, geneticist and
cardiologist at the Georgia Prevention Institute at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University.
«This is probably the first handle we have on what makes the heart young and what makes it old,»
says cardiologist Deepak Srivastava of the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular
Disease in San Francisco, California, who was not involved in the work.
«To me, this suggests that the presence of fetal cells in the female brain prevents
disease,»
says cardiologist Hina Chaudhry of Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City.
But
cardiologist Nilesh Samani of the University of Leicester in the U.K.
says that the Danish group took «a fine approach» that can be applied to other biomarkers, especially before hundreds of millions of dollars are spent to develop drugs that target a molecule that may not in fact be causing a
disease.
«With technological improvements, medical imaging has become an increasingly vital tool in diagnosing and treating patients with heart
disease, but the rising use of the tests has led to increasing radiation exposure over the past two decades,»
said Reza Fazel, M.D., M.Sc., chair of the writing committee for the statement and
cardiologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.
«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.
«The system means patients with aortic valve
disease who are considered high risk for surgery, now have a new option,»
said Deepak Vivek, MD, interventional
cardiologist and director, Orlando Health Heart Institute Valve Center.
«I think it's important for patients with rheumatoid arthritis to understand that their
disease alone carries added risk of heart
disease and discuss that with their rheumatologist and perhaps suggest that their rheumatologist work with a
cardiologist or a preventive cardiology clinic to come up with a plan to reduce cardiovascular risk,» Dr. Gabriel
says.
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.
«Despite stunning improvements in cardiovascular deaths over the last decade, women still fare worse than men and heart
disease in women remains underdiagnosed, and undertreated, especially among African - American women,»
said writing group chair Laxmi Mehta, M.D., a noninvasive
cardiologist and Director of the Women's Cardiovascular Health Program at The Ohio State University.
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.
«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.
Cardiologist Suzanne Steinbaum, DO, who directs the Women and Heart
Disease program at Lenox Hill Hospital, in New York City, agrees that more research in this area is needed, but she
says she already discusses sleep issues with her patients.
«Folic acid has a role in decreasing homocysteine, but decreasing homocysteine doesn't seem to have a role in the outcome of heart
disease,»
says Suzanne Steinbaum, DO, a preventive
cardiologist with Lenox Hill Hospital, in New York City.
It should be an eye - opener for
cardiologists as well as for neurologists and doctors of all kinds, Zafarlotfi
says, adding that future research is likely to strengthen the link between insomnia, heart
disease, and related conditions such as stroke.
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.
«While people know stress plays a role in how they feel physically, they're often unaware that it is a risk factor for heart
disease,»
says Suzanne Steinbaum, MD, an attending
cardiologist at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City.
«For many people the first sign of coronary artery
disease is a heart attack or sudden death,»
says Thomas Lee, MD,
cardiologist and editor in chief of the Harvard Heart Letter.
About 10 % of statin users get aches and pains,
says William W. O'Neill, MD, a
cardiologist and medical director of Henry Ford Health System's Center for Structural Heart
Disease at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit.
While genetics play a large role in your heart
disease risk factors, Dr. Suzanne Steinbaum, D.O., a preventive
cardiologist from New York and a national Go Red For Women volunteer,
says keeping track of your numbers always helps.
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.
«Most women worry far more about breast cancer than heart
disease,»
says Elsa - Grace V. Giardina, MD,
cardiologist and director of the Center for Womens Health at New York Presbyterian Hospital and Health Editorial Advisory Board member.
«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.
«We always think about liver
disease and what we are seeing from this trial is that we have to keep a look out for acute kidney failure too,»
said Dr. Suzanne Steinbaum, a preventive
cardiologist at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City.
«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.
Dr. Stern
said veterinary
cardiologists were trained to measure taurine levels in dogs diagnosed with DCM if they weren't a breed known to have a genetic link to the
disease, such as Doberman pinschers or boxers.
«Grip strength could be an easy and inexpensive test to assess an individual's risk of death and cardiovascular
disease,»
said principal investigator Dr. Darryl Leong, an assistant professor of medicine of McMaster's Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine and
cardiologist for the hospital.