Sentences with phrase «detect heart artery»

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The next stage is offering men over 65 a simple ultrasound test to detect early abdominal aortic aneurysm, or Triple A - the weakening of the main artery from heart to abdomen which kills over 3000 men a year — eventually saving more than 1600 lives each year.

«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.

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.

Dr James Rudd, a cardiologist and researcher from the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine at the University of Cambridge adds: «Sodium fluoride is a simple and inexpensive radiotracer that should revolutionise our ability to detect dangerous calcium in the arteries of the heart and brain.

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.

deCODE MI ™ The deCODE MI ™ test detects two SNPs located on chromosome 9p21, discovered by deCODE and which various genome - wide association studies have confirmed as the highest impact genetic risk factor for heart attack and coronary artery disease identified to date.

This is the 1st study to report a connection between respiratory infections like bronchitis, influenza and pneumonia, and increased heart attack risk in individuals as confirmed by coronary angiography (a special type of X-Ray used for detecting blockages in heart arteries).

Yesterday we both had Heart scans to detect plaque deposits in our coronary arteries.

Testing for the presence of microfilariae by reviewing blood smears is also used to detect early infection, the period before the adult heartworms has established residence in the arteries or heart and begun reproducing.