Alternatives: If you're among the many millions of older Americans without known
coronary disease who are taking these drugs, ask your doctor or other health care provider about treating your slightly elevated cholesterol with a combination of sublingual (under - the - tongue) vitamin B12 (1,000 mcg daily), folic acid (800 mcg daily) and vitamin B6 (200 mg daily).
Another found that patients with
coronary disease who listened to music for 20 minutes exhibited significant reductions in heart rate, respiratory rate, myocardial oxygen demand, and anxiety, both immediately after and one hour after the intervention.
Not exact matches
Patients
who enrolled in BCBS individual plans in 2014 and 2015 have higher rates of certain
diseases — depression, hypertension, diabetes,
coronary artery
disease, HIV and hepatitis C — than individuals enrolled in coverage prior to ACA implementation.
Diseases such as
coronary heart
disease, stroke and non-insulin dependent diabetes are more likely to develop in older children and adults
who are obese.
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.»
In a cohort of nearly 300,000 women in China, mothers
who breastfed their babies, compared with women
who had never breastfed, had a significantly lower risk of cardiovascular
disease, with adjusted hazard ratios of 0.91 (95 % CI 0.84 - 0.99) for
coronary heart
disease (CHD) and 0.92 (95 % CI 0.85 - 0.99) for stroke, reported Zhengming Chen, MBBS, DPhil, of the University of Oxford in England, and colleagues.
Additionally, the U.S. Nurses» Health Study found only women with a lifetime duration of breastfeeding of 2 years or more had a significantly lower risk of
coronary heart
disease than those
who never breastfed.
Compared with women
who had never breastfed, those
who breastfed between 0 - 6 months, 6 - 12 months, 12 - 18 months, 18 - 24 months, or over 24 months, respectively, had a 1 %, 7 %, 11 %, 13 %, and 18 % lower risk of
coronary heart
disease, with each additional 6 months of breastfeeding per child associated with 4 % lower risk (P < 0.001).
The team published a case series in Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions describing six patients
who were scheduled for angioplasty and stenting for the diagnosis of
coronary artery
disease (five of whom had a cardiac catheterization days prior).
Men
who reported they skipped breakfast had a 27 percent higher risk of heart attack or death from
coronary heart
disease than those
who reported they didn't.
A large 16 - year study finds men
who reported that they skipped breakfast had higher risk of heart attack or death from
coronary heart
disease.
However, results for women
who decreased their alcohol intake over the five year period were not significantly associated with risk of breast cancer or
coronary heart
disease.
People
who regularly eat nuts, including peanuts, walnuts and tree nuts, have a lower risk of developing cardiovascular
disease or
coronary heart
disease compared to people
who never or almost never eat nuts, according to a study published today in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
Participants
who ate peanuts or tree nuts two or more times per week had a 13 percent and 15 percent lower risk of cardiovascular
disease, respectively, and a 15 percent and 23 percent, lower risk of
coronary heart
disease, respectively, compared to those
who never consumed nuts.
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.»
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.
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.
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.
Women
who have PCOS also face a higher risk of developing other health problems, including diabetes and
coronary heart
disease.
When compared to women
who did not have migraine, these results show that women
who reported a migraine had a greater risk for major cardiovascular
disease, including heart attacks, strokes and angina /
coronary revascularization procedures.
The study shows that women
who had a hysterectomy without any ovary removal had a 14 percent increased risk in lipid abnormalities, a 13 percent increased risk of high blood pressure, an 18 percent increased risk of obesity and a 33 percent increased risk of
coronary artery
disease.
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 sexually
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 sexually
coronary artery bypass, or angina were also less sexually active.
The study showed that women under 46
who had both ovaries removed experienced a significantly elevated risk of multiple chronic health conditions that included depression, hyperlipidemia, cardiac arrhythmias,
coronary artery
disease, arthritis, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary
disease and osteoporosis.
«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.
For this study, they focused on the 11,503 participants at visit one
who had no history of
coronary heart
disease or stroke.
Reanalyzing its unpublished data — also stored on old nine - track computer tapes — he found that volunteers
who replaced much of the saturated fat in their diet with polyunsaturated fats high in linoleic acid had a higher risk of death from
coronary heart
disease.
The Cardiothoracic Surgical Trials Network (CTSN) is reporting results for the first time from a clinical trial of patients
who have a complication of
coronary heart
disease known as moderate ischemic mitral regurgitation (IMR).
Researchers reported that at age 30,
coronary heart
disease survival was 100 percent in the group of young adults
who received statins from childhood and 93 percent in the affected parents.
Children with inherited high levels of cholesterol
who receive cholesterol - lowering statins in their early years have a lower risk of
coronary heart
disease than their affected parents, according to research presented at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions 2013.
«Heart
disease patients
who sit a lot have worse health even if they exercise: Patients with
coronary artery
disease spend an average of 8 hours each day sitting; men were more sedentary than women.»
Dr Christopher Nelson, British Heart Foundation - funded lecturer
who undertook the analysis said: «We had genetic data through the CARDIoGRAM + C4D consortium on almost 200,000 persons with or without
coronary heart
disease.
This analysis included 8,838 participants from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study
who were initially free of
coronary heart
disease (CHD) and heart failure (HF) and
who had hs - cTnT measured twice, 6 years apart.
And then same for older people, of course, the same situation where they're not as robust, if you will, as people
who are in their 20s and 30s and can handle that and losing the fluids and not have complications of
coronary artery
disease and other things that go with that for an older person.
Patients chosen for the study were adults without
coronary heart
disease who were referred for cardiac stress tests.
«We were looking at the optimum way to evaluate people with chest pain and focusing on those patients
who are generally older, have many risk factors for
coronary disease or may have had prior health problems, basically the intermediate to higher risk population,» Miller said.
The study conducted by LA BioMed researchers examined 5,593 adults with no known heart
disease risk or with minimal risk of heart
disease,
who had undergone
coronary artery calcium screening by non-contrast cardiac computed tomography from 1991 - 2011.
The documents included correspondence between the SRF and a Harvard University professor of nutrition
who was codirector of the SRF's first
coronary heart
disease research program in the 1960s.
New research shows patients with a history of chest discomfort due to
coronary artery
disease — a build up of plaque in the heart's arteries —
who are subsequently diagnosed with depression are much more likely to suffer a heart attack or die compared with those
who are not depressed.
The study included 22,917 patients from 19 medical centers in Ontario, Canada,
who received a diagnosis of stable
coronary artery
disease following
coronary angiogram for chest pain (chronic stable angina) between Oct. 1, 2008, and Sept. 30, 2013.
The researchers analyzed data on 1,823 diabetic patients
who underwent CCTA to detect and determine the extent of
coronary artery
disease, in which a waxy substance called plaque builds up inside the arteries of the heart.
In a new study from Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) published in the April 26 issue of JAMA, researchers found that women
who work more than 10 years of rotating night shift work had a 15 to 18 percent increased risk of developing
coronary heart
disease (CHD), the most common type of heart
disease, as compared with women
who did not work rotating night shifts.
The research team reviewed data on 9,509 men and women with
coronary artery
disease who participated in the Treating to New Targets trial, which originally concluded in 2005.
A study warns that people
who are genetically inclined to storing belly fat may be at an increased risk of developing Type 2 diabetes and
coronary heart
disease.
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.
Most importantly, patients
who received chest RT are at greater risk of cardiac complications, including
coronary artery
disease, valvular heart
disease, congestive heart failure, and pericardial
disease.
Heidenreich et al evaluated women
who received prior RT doses > 35 Gy to the mediastinum for the presence of occult
coronary artery
disease and discovered elevated rates of stress - induced perfusion defects or wall motion abnormalities on echocardiogram.
Those at the highest risk
who also had the highest levels of cardiorespiratory fitness — conducted through oxygen and effort measurements on a stationary bicycle — cut their
coronary heart
disease risk by 49 percent and their AFib risk by 60 percent.
By Anne Harding Healthy middle - aged people
who get enough sleep each night are less likely to accumulate calcium deposits in their
coronary arteries, a sign of heart
disease, than their more sleep - deprived peers.
A new study found that postmenopausal women
who lost and regained weight had about 3.5 times higher risk of sudden cardiac death, and a 66 % greater risk of dying from
coronary heart
disease.