Sentences with phrase «for coronary disease»

In a study published by the National Institutes of Health, «TFA (Trans Fatty Acid) intake is positively associated with markers of systemic inflammation... (the) influences of TFAs on inflammation and of implications for coronary disease, diabetes, and other conditions is warranted.»

«With the speed of this scanner, we can now provide completely noninvasive diagnosis and even risk assessment for coronary disease.»

«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.

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The company is selling a thing (the kit) by saying it can provide «health reports on 254 diseases and conditions,» including categories such as «carrier status,» «health risks,» and «drug response,» and specifically as a «first step in prevention» that enables users to «take steps toward mitigating serious diseases» such as diabetes, coronary heart disease, and breast cancer...» Most of the uses «listed on your website, a list that has grown over time,» the FDA writes, «are medical device uses [for the] Personal Genome Service.»

With fat considered the culprit in heart disease, it's no surprise the Dietary Guidelines for Americans in the 1980s suggested reducing total fat, saturated fat, and dietary cholesterol intake to prevent coronary heart disease.

Various studies at the time suspected sugar was bad for the heart, and the latest JAMA suggests the Foundation paid the researchers to counter those arguments and «downplay early warning signs that sucrose consumption was a risk factor in [coronary heart disease].»

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.

Prior to this role, Ryan was an Associate on the Cardio - Renal Team within the TechAtlas division of RA Capital, where he mapped competitive landscapes of drugs and medical devices for disease indications and capabilities, with a focus on coronary artery disease, stroke, and dyslipidemia.

The early Christians were learning what Christians today believe, that God was in the process of revealing his message to them; and, the message is: the end will come soon enough; we will be judged for everything we have done while in the body; that only God through Christ's death on the cross can atone for our sins; and, we should remain vigilant and be prepared for the end — whether that comes in the form of natural death, through cancer, car accidents, coronary heart disease or some other form.

In a study that examined food intake patterns and risk of death from coronary heart disease, researchers followed more than 16,000 middle - aged men in the U.S., Finland, The Netherlands, Italy, former Yugoslavia, Greece and Japan for 25 years.

A recent systematic review and meta - analysis reported no significant association between the consumption of saturated fatty acids (SFAs) and the risk of coronary heart disease (CHD)(1), but the study failed to specify the replacement macronutrient for saturated fat.

This meta - analysis of epidemiologic studies showed there is no significant evidence for concluding dietary saturated fat is linked to coronary heart disease or cardiovascular disease.

In case you missed it, a recent landmark study published in the peer reviewed International Journal of Epidemiology found that risk for coronary heart disease, stroke, total cardiovascular disease and death other than from cancer was reduced with each 200g a day increase in fruit and vegetables up to 800g a day, and 600g a day for cancer.

Marion Nestle, a professor of nutrition, food studies and public health at New York University, wrote an editorial accompanying the new paper in which she said the documents provided «compelling evidence» that the sugar industry had initiated research «expressly to exonerate sugar as a major risk factor for coronary heart disease.»

All products must also meet government regulatory requirements for making a coronary heart disease health claim.

After adjusting for known risk factors, no significant association between estimated gluten intake and the risk of subsequent overall coronary heart disease was found.

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.»

We considered the cost of hypertension alone plus the cost of hypertension as a risk factor for other cardiovascular disease, 41 subtracting out that portion resulting from coronary heart disease.42, 43 We used a direct annual cost of $ 998 and indirect annual morbidity cost of $ 98.

FDA talk paper: FDA approves new health claim for soy protein and coronary heart 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.

Over 10 to 14 years of follow - up, they documented 634 cases of coronary heart disease, which they matched with control subjects for age, smoking status and the date blood was drawn.

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).

They also re-examined real GWAS data to find promising new candidates for genetic interactions that affect bipolar disorder, coronary artery disease, Crohn's disease, and rheumatoid arthritis.

The scientists now know of 62 such hereditary risk factors for CAD, a disease in which the coronary arteries are narrowed.

What they found was that a third of the 62 SNPs were associated with traditional risk factors for coronary artery diseases, e.g., high blood pressure or cholesterol values.

Doctors recommend statins for people without known coronary disease whose LDL, or «bad» cholesterol is 190 mg / dL or higher, the heart association says.

All patients had multivessel coronary artery disease and were determined to be equally appropriate candidates for either angioplasty or bypass.

The study, called the Bypass Surgery Versus Everolimus - Eluting Stent Implantation for Multivessel Coronary Artery Disease (BEST) trial, is one of only two randomized controlled trials to compare bypass to angioplasty since the introduction of everolimus - eluting stents, a new generation of drug - eluting stent.

Although it is not yet clear how all this is related, these findings are very valuable, since they provide new starting points for clarifying how coronary artery diseases emerge and are thus important steps towards new therapies.

Earlier studies have demonstrated that cocoa flavanol intake improves the elasticity of blood vessels and lowers blood pressure — but, for the most part, these investigations have focused on high - risk individuals like smokers and people that have already been diagnosed with conditions like hypertension and coronary heart disease.

Even after accounting for modest differences in diet, physical activity, smoking and other lifestyle factors, the association between skipping breakfast (or eating very late at night) and coronary heart disease persisted.

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.

A new strategy — an injectable antibody — for lowering blood lipids and thereby potentially preventing coronary artery disease and other conditions caused by the build - up of fats, cholesterol, and other substances on the artery walls, is supported by findings from two new studies from researchers in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

Cardiac function assessment for heart failure, coronary angiography for ischaemic heart disease and Holter ECG monitoring for lethal arrhythmias can identify the type of myocardial injury and help physicians select a prophylactic therapeutic strategy against sudden cardiac death in hemodialysis patients.»

«Our study shows the significant impact of adding carotid plaque measurement using vascular ultrasound and coronary calcium scoring with CT scan to our conventional assessment for cardiovascular disease,» says Roxana Mehran, MD, the study's co-lead author and Director of Interventional Cardiovascular Research and Clinical Trials at the Zena and Michael A. Weiner Cardiovascular Institute at Mount Sinai Heart at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

And a 2007 study published in the European Journal of Epidemiology followed 1,500 older people for five years and found no association between urinary sodium levels and the risk of coronary vascular disease or death.

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.

Vitamin D also reduces inflammation, an underlying mechanism for obesity related development of coronary artery disease, says Raed.

Deaths from coronary artery disease have dramatically fallen for both men and women over the last 30 years as statins have gained in popularity, but that reduction has been much greater for men than for women.

A study by investigators at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) published this week in PLOS ONE identifies four factors that may account for sex differences in statin therapy among patients with coronary artery disease (CAD), pointing to interventions and additional research that will be needed to help overcome this sex disparity and reduce cardiovascular risk for women.

By 2002 the results were positive enough for the American Heart Association panel on which Kris - Etherton sat to issue a statement recommending increased fish consumption for the general public and daily consumption or supplements of fish oil for coronary heart disease patients.

The operation to straighten out and puff up crooked and collapsed veins, called venoplasty, is almost identical to cardiac angioplasty — a common treatment for diseased coronary arteries.

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.

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.»

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.

Richard J. McManus, F.R.C.G.P., of the University of Oxford, and colleagues randomly assigned 552 patients with hypertension and a history of stroke, coronary heart disease, diabetes, or chronic kidney disease to self - monitoring of blood pressure combined with an individualized self - titration algorithm or a control group (patients received usual care consisting of seeing their health care clinician for routine blood pressure measurement and adjustment of medication if necessary).

The study also found a 20 % decrease in admissions for dehydration and a 13 % decrease in admissions for coronary artery diseases.

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.

If antibiotics ever do prove effective for treating coronary artery disease, he says, the results would be «staggering.

More than five missing teeth increased the risk for coronary heart disease events and myocardial infarctions as much as 140 %.