Sentences with phrase «heart arteries»

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).

We could eliminate 80 - 90 % of cases of clogged heart arteries by teaching the remarkable proven benefits of plant - based whole food diets to children, expectant parents, medical students, nurses, and hospital administrators.

As a cardiologist and a strong advocate of plant - based nutrition (it's the only diet ever shown to reverse existing heart artery blockages), I was...

Stents are small, expandable metal mesh tubes that are inserted in blocked heart arteries during a heart catheterization procedure to improve blood flow to the heart muscle.

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.

As a cardiologist and a strong advocate of plant - based nutrition (it's the only diet ever shown to reverse existing heart artery blockages), I was more than a little excited when a friend called a few weeks ago and asked if I wanted to go to dinner with Brian Wendel, the executive producer of the smash hit Forks Over Knives.

WEDNESDAY, Aug. 31, 2016 (HealthDay News)-- The largest trial ever conducted on stents — tiny tubes that help keep heart arteries open — suggests that pricey drug - coated (or eluting) versions may perform no better for patients over the long - term, in terms of patient survival, compared to cheaper, «bare metal» versions.

Our product for carpal tunnel, for example, borrowed a balloon feature widely used to dilate heart arteries, and modified it to cut the compressing ligament.

Published in Internal Medicine Journal, this is the first study to report an association between respiratory infections such as pneumonia, influenza and bronchitis and increased risk of heart attack in patients confirmed by coronary angiography (a special X-Ray to detect heart artery blockages).

Of more concern is a published study of patients with clogged heart arteries due to atherosclerosis.

In the next ten minutes, I performed a procedure that showed that she had normal heart arteries, unusual for a heart attack, but she had a lot of damage to the heart muscle.

Can something as simple as aged, odorless garlic affect the status of damaged heart arteries?

Very few people in Western societies follow a diet consisting of 14 % or less of calories from fat but the relationship with the healthy heart arteries of the Tsimane argue for largely whole food, plant based diets with very little or no butter, full fat dairy, animal meats, oils, or eggs.

If the SM22 promoter could be linked with a therapeutic gene, such as one that curbs the proliferation of smooth muscle cells in heart arteries that have been widened in a procedure called angioplasty, the medical benefits would be enormous.

That is chronic stable angina and usually indicates a severely blocked heart artery, but the risk of imminent heart attack is not high.

And while some of that spending — on rapid angioplasty to open clogged heart arteries — appears to be paying off, a lot of the dollars spent in the six months after a heart attack don't seem to be making much of a difference in the long - term death rate for patients.

And, some treatments — like antimetabolites — can cause spasm of the heart arteries, which can cause chest pain symptoms but could lead to heart attacks as well.

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

The researchers slip a band filled with gel around a pig's heart artery.

Meanwhile, between the years 2000 and 2012, participants visited study clinics several times to undergo CT scanning to determine the amount of calcium deposits in their heart arteries.

Five years later, 12.3 % had signs of calcium accumulation in their heart arteries.

According to the scientific research, ribose is very effective in people with clogged heart arteries, thus improving the blood flow.

As was written centuries ago, it may truly be «impossible to survive» if the heart arteries are blocked.

A near total blockage in a heart artery known as the «widow maker.»

The concept that heart arteries and the heart itself are innocent bystanders of the blood we bathe them in is important.

If you have PAD there's a 50 % chance you also have a blockage in one of the heart arteries, says Dr. Miller.

That said, clogged heart arteries are still the number - one cause of death in the United States.

But processed foods can cause the cells lining the GI tract to separate, and allow toxic bowel contents to leak directly into the bloodstream and heart arteries.

This chemical then reaches our heart arteries and stimulates CAD.

The health of our GI tract dictates, to a large degree, the status of our heart arteries.

I am an interventional cardiologist and admit to placing thousands and thousands of stents in heart arteries.

After a stress test examination that was abnormal, he had a heart catheterization showing severe blockages in all of his heart arteries including the «widowmaker» artery, the most serious location for a blockage that can cause sudden death.

Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, using advanced imaging, have tested this type of preparation and demonstrated it to slow the progression of plaque in heart arteries.

Researchers in Japan have further discovered that saunas may improve the health of cells within the heart arteries, specifically by boosting the strength of cells that form the artery lining.

Walnuts, almonds, hazelnuts, and pistachios, are the types of nuts that are very beneficial because of the l - arginine compounds, which improves * the health of the heart artery walls.

While meat products have no carbs many over indulge in bacon and other high - fat proteins that can cause problems like high cholesterol and clogging our heart arteries.

Research studies indicate that this antioxidant packed fruit is very effective in preventing heart disease by effectively moving the food through the digestive tract and keeping any excess fat from building up on the walls of the heart arteries.

LDL cholesterol is considered bad because it contributes to plaque buildup in the heart arteries, which increases the risk for heart disease, including heart attacks and strokes.

This causes elevated blood pressure in the head, arms and heart arteries, but not the lower extremities.

There is ample scientific evidence that a whole foods, plant based diet can stabilize and even reverse blockages in heart arteries.

For most people, the first symptoms result from atheroma progression within the heart arteries, most commonly resulting in a heart

When you have heart disease, your heart arteries usually get blocked, thus disrupting normal blood flow.