Sentences with phrase «coronary artery heart»

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.

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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.

A person who suffers from angina has coronary arteries that have narrowed so much that they no longer feed the heart with sufficient oxygen for it to function properly.

These improvements to my lifestyle began after I got a CT scan of my heart, which showed moderately calcicfied lesions in my coronary arteries.

In the study, the researchers found that people with one inactive copy of NPC1L1 appeared to be protected against high LDL cholesterol — the so - called «bad» cholesterol — and coronary heart disease, a narrowing of the heart's arteries that can lead to heart attacks.

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.

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.

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.

He carried one genetic mutation that in modern humans raises the risk of coronary heart disease by 40 per cent, and two others that made him prone to a build - up of fat in the linings of his arteries.

A Mayo Clinic study has identified a familial association in spontaneous coronary artery dissection, a type of heart attack that most commonly affects younger women, suggesting a genetic predisposition to the condition, researchers say.

Just like the coronary arteries, where heart attacks occur, the carotid arteries can become clogged with fatty tissue.

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

«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.

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.

8 percent of patients with no calcium went on to receive revascularization to restore blood flow to the heart, compared to 6.5 percent of patients who had calcium in their coronary arteries.

«Calcium testing in coronary arteries better way to predict heart attacks than stress testing alone.»

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 disHeart Institute on the effects of coronary artery calcium on heart disheart disease.

The coronary arteries supply blood to the heart muscle and no alternative blood supply exists, so a blockage in the coronary arteries reduces the supply of blood to heart muscle.

For the study, researchers measured the level of calcium in the coronary arteries during stress testing using two common diagnostic tests — positron emission tomography, or PET, and computed tomography, or CT — to determine a patient's risk of heart disease.

«Conducting a PET / CT test to measure coronary artery calcium means clinicians can tell the difference between the potential risk of heart disease and actually having disease,» Le said.

A targeted anti-inflammatory drug can reduce the risk of heart attacks or strokes, often brought on by narrowed coronary arteries (pictured), in high - risk patients.

The study was an investigation of 578 consecutive patients with heart attack due to a coronary artery blockage, who provided information on recent and usual occurrence of symptoms of respiratory infection.

In the case of heart disease, Reaven says that high blood concentrations of insulin and glucose can damage the endothelium that lines coronary arteries and set the stage for the formation of plaques.

The clear result of this clinical study — that the combination reduced strokes, heart attacks and cardiovascular death by practically 25 per cent compared to either drug alone in both patients with stable coronary or peripheral artery disease — caused the clinical trial to be stopped early, after 23 months, in February 2017.

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.

«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.

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.

Comorbidities included hypertension, diabetes, coronary artery disease, heart failure, remote history of cardiothoracic surgery, valvular heart disease, pulmonary disease, chronic kidney disease, neurologic disease and AF.

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.

These risk factors raise the likelihood of developing heart and blood vessel diseases and conditions in adulthood, including coronary artery disease, heart attacks, strokes, high blood pressure, obesity and type 2 diabetes.

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

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 extent and severity of heart disease were measured by quantitative coronary angiography — a procedure that determines the degree of blockage in arteries.

They discovered that heart attack, coronary artery bypass, and angina were associated with decreased sexual activity, but that those cardiovascular factors did not influence sexual desire or satisfaction.

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.

Furthermore, women under the age of 35 had a 4.6-fold increased risk of congestive heart failure and a 2.5-fold increased risk of 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.

In the largest study of its kind to evaluate the relationship between vitamin D levels and coronary artery disease, vitamin D deficiency (20ng / mL) was observed in 70.4 percent of patients undergoing coronary angiography — an imaging test used to see how blood flows through the arteries in the heart.

Vitamin D deficiency is an independent risk factor for heart disease with lower levels of vitamin D being associated with a higher presence and severity of coronary artery disease, according to research to be presented at the American College of Cardiology's 63rd Annual Scientific Session.

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.

They found that patients from this group who required admission to intensive or critical care units after surgery were more likely to have a history of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, congestive heart failure, coronary artery disease, chronic kidney disease, or suffering blood loss of more than 1,000 milliliters during surgery or requiring vasopressors (medications that raise low blood pressure) during surgery.

Coronary artery disease was more prevalent among women with low rates of sexual activity; and women who had suffered a heart attack, had a coronary artery bypass, or angina were also less sexuallyCoronary artery disease was more prevalent among women with low rates of sexual activity; and women who had suffered a heart attack, had a coronary artery bypass, or angina were also less sexuallycoronary artery bypass, or angina were also less sexually active.

In one procedure called a coronary angioplasty, a surgeon inserts and inflates a tiny balloon inside a blocked or narrow artery to widen it and allow blood to flow through to the heart thereby decreasing the risk of a heart attack or stroke.

NSTEMI (non-ST segment elevation myocardial infarction) is the less severe type, occurring when a blood clot partly clogs a coronary artery and only a portion of the heart muscle supplied by that artery is damaged.

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.

A heart attack occurs when blood flow to an area of the heart is blocked by a narrowed or completely obstructed coronary artery, resulting in damage of heart muscle.

In the case of coronary arteries, which supply blood to heart muscle cells, this process produces blockages that can lead to a heart attack.»

Some 500,000 people die in the United States each year from coronary heart disease, which is usually caused by heart arteries getting clogged with fatty plaque.

Narrowed or blocked coronary arteries can result in a heart attack or sudden cardiac death.

It is difficult to diagnose and, without treatment, 25 percent of children with KD develop coronary artery aneurysms — balloon - like bulges of heart vessels — that may eventually result in heart attacks, congestive heart failure or sudden death.