Sentences with phrase «coronary artery event»

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The Xarelto partnership is seeking additional approved uses, with trials underway in patients with acute coronary syndrome, and for reduction of major adverse cardiovascular events in patients with heart failure or peripheral artery disease.

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.

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.

If this occurs in one of your large coronary arteries, it's a catastrophic event,» said Gary K. Owens, PhD, of UVA's Robert M. Berne Cardiovascular Research Center.

Study findings indicate that among older adults who had diabetes for a shorter duration (9 years or less), nonfatal cardiovascular complications had the highest incidence (coronary artery disease, congestive heart failure, and cerebrovascular disease), followed by diabetic eye disease and acute hypoglycemic events.

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.

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.

«We do show that obstructive coronary artery disease and myocardial ischemia remain the strongest predictors of future cardiovascular events, but for the first time, in a randomized comparison we demonstrate the ability of CT angiography (CTA) to identify a large group of at - risk patients who would have been missed by functional stress testing,» says Hoffmann, who is director of the MGH Cardiac MR PET CT Program.

The addition of mitral valve (MV) repair (a valve of the heart) to coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), a type of open - heart surgery, did not result in significant benefit to the patient and was associated with increased risk of neurological events.

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.

Imaging of the coronary arteries with computed tomography (CT) angiography provides an accurate assessment of arterial plaque and could have a dramatic impact on the management of diabetic patients who face a high risk of heart attacks and other cardiovascular events, according to a new multicenter study published online in the journal Radiology.

NEW YORK (November 18, 2014)-- The addition of mitral valve (MV) repair (a valve of the heart) to coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), a type of open - heart surgery, did not result in significant benefit to the patient and was associated with increased risk of neurological events.

However, larger controlled studies with long - term follow - up are required to demonstrate whether the favorable properties of DFS translate into improved event - free survival in patients with coronary artery disease.»

In some patients with coronary artery disease, mental stress may precipitate ischemia — a deficiency in blood flow to the heart â $ «a risk factor for adverse events and death independent of other cardiovascular risk factors such as smoking, cholesterol and diabetes.

But when researchers looked at prediabetes paired with high blood pressure, they found a significant increase in coronary artery disease severity and cardiovascular events.

The low rate of cardiac events led the researchers to conclude that both types of activity are safe for heart patients but that high - intensity interval training, in particular, should be considered by adults with coronary artery disease, because of its significant benefits for the heart.

In the case that you already have plaques in your arteries, fish oil can help make them more stable so that they don't burst and cause a coronary event (11).

A team of German researchers systematically reviewed all of the published yoga research up until October 2013 to ascertain yoga's effectiveness in reducing «mortality, nonfatal cardiac events, exercise capacity, health - related quality of life, and modifiable cardiac risk factors» for those with a prior diagnosis of coronary artery disease, heart failure, cardiac dysrhythmia, cardiomyopathy or valvular heart disease.

A «cardiac event» in June revealed that lad coronary artery was 95 % blocked and it put the fear of God in me.

This diet is not one to model after, «The data collected through this new investigation shows that Eskimos do have a similar prevalence of [coronary artery disease] CAD to non-Eskimo populations, and in fact, they have very high rates of mortality due to cerebrovascular events (strokes).

Design: A systematic review of the published literature through January 2015 was performed by using sensitive search strategies to identify randomized controlled clinical trials that evaluated the effects of fasting on either clinically relevant surrogate outcomes (e.g., weight, cholesterol) or actual clinical event endpoints [e.g., diabetes, coronary artery disease (CAD)-RSB- and any other studies that evaluated the effects of fasting on clinical event outcomes.

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