Sentences with phrase «heart disease patients»

That's significant because doctors have been slow to prescribe the pricey therapy, waiting to see whether or not the impressive cuts in LDL cholesterol lead to improved outcomes for heart disease patients.

One study of heart disease patients found that a daily dose of pomegranate juice over three months showed improvements in blood flow to the heart.

Most were younger than the average heart disease patient and had only a single vessel affected.

He has worked with the most severe heart disease patients and turned their heart disease around completely.

Lots of heart disease patients have calcium deposits in their arteries.

But they've been hampered by somewhat skeptical physicians who still aren't sure that the drugs are worth their price (their topline costs are around $ 14,000 per treatment course); part of the problem is that it's unclear whether or not those dramatic cholesterol reductions actually translate into broader health outcomes like a reduced risk of stroke or heart attack in heart disease patients.

Good news: A recent research letter in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology found that only 0.7 % of heart disease patients who'd suffered a heart attack reported having had sex within an hour before the attack, showing it's highly unlikely that sex is a trigger.

The current NCEP guidelines, published in 2001 and revised in 2004, recommend statins for heart disease patients with LDL («bad») cholesterol levels greater than 70 milligrams per deciliter of blood and for people who have a moderately elevated risk of heart disease as well as LDL levels above 100 mg / dL.

[7] A three - month study showed a 15 % reduction in cardiovascular disease risk with the diet, and another study reported a 50 — 70 % reduction of the risk of recurrence in coronary heart disease patients after four years of follow - up.

Suspecting that a difference in expression of the VEGF gene might account for the varying ability of the heart to build its own bypass vessels, Andrew Levy and his colleagues at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel, used angiography pictures to rank 51 heart disease patients into three groups, based on the number of new blood vessels their arteries had grown in response to a clog.

Although medical and surgical treatments available today for the ischemic heart disease patients diminish the risk of acute myocardial infarction and reduce to some extent the incidence of recurrent heart attack, one of the unsolved challenges is to affect myocardium remodeling occurring during ischemic heart failure.

There is also credible evidence that even in chronic heart disease patients that manufacture adequate levels of L - Carnitine, that providing additional L - Carnitine has shown considerable benefit in management of progression and severity of disease.

This is the mechanism that allows aspirin to be helpful in preventing abnormal clots, an important part of treatment for many human heart disease patients as well as pets with abnormal clotting tendencies.

Edwards Lifesciences» Sapien 3 artificial heart valve, implanted through a catheter, is an alternative for heart disease patients whose conditions are bad enough to make surgery too risky.

«Could there be a reason why heart disease patients or diabetics or even just obesity maybe would get exposed to higher levels of BPA than the rest of us?»

But a new Tel Aviv University study finds that stem cell therapy may, in fact, harm heart disease patients.

«Cardiac stem cells from heart disease patients may be harmful: Researchers discover molecular pathway involved in toxic interaction between host cells and immune system.»

Compared to married heart disease patients, being unmarried was associated with a higher risk of dying, according to new research in Journal of the American Heart Association, the Open Access Journal of the American Heart Association / American Stroke Association.

«Heart disease patients advised to avoid being outside in rush hour traffic.»

Researchers looked at 536 heart disease patients between 30 and 70 years old to evaluate sexual activity in the 12 months before a heart attack and estimate the association of frequency of sexual activity with subsequent cardiovascular events, including fatal heart attack, stroke or cardiovascular death.

University of Cincinnati Uncovering novel genetic causes and risks in congenital heart disease patients

Researchers in the Netherlands looked at nearly 2,400 middle - aged and elderly heart disease patients without dementia and found a clear association between blood levels of NT - proBNP and brain damage detected on MRIs.

«There was a study that asked heart disease patients, «Does anybody care if you're alive?»

Sex is rarely the cause of a heart attack, and most heart disease patients are safe to resume sexual activity after a heart attack, according to a research letter published today in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

«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.»

In the current work, researchers applied a new approach called genome - wide association, which utilizes a set of markers spanning the entire genome, to compare the DNA of heart disease patients with that of healthy people (ScienceNOW, 26 April).

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 work also suggests that an anticlotting drug commonly prescribed for heart disease patients might soothe lupus symptoms.

Adipose - Derived Regenerative Cells Improve Cardiac Functional Capacity at 18 Months in Chronic Ischemic Heart Disease Patients; Statistically Significant Improvement in MVO2 Reported by Cytori at American Heart Association (November, 2010).

Joachim Fandrey, a physiologist at the University of Duisburg - Essen in Germany, adds that the results suggest that nitroglycerin patches, which have a long track record in treating chest pain in heart disease patients, might boost EPO production in people suffering from anemia due to kidney disease or cancer.

The researchers are currently testing a gene editing technique (CRISPER) to inhibit the gene responsible for the negative inflammatory properties of the cardiac stem cells of heart disease patients.

Some heart disease patients may not be able to grow new blood vessels around blocked arteries because they can't make enough of a vital protein, according to a report in the latest issue of Circulation.

The day after his disciplinary dismissal from University of Tokyo for «damaging the university's honor or credibility,» Hisashi Moriguchi maintained in an interview with ScienceInsider that he really did participate in a groundbreaking experiment to treat a heart disease patient with cardiac muscle cells derived from the patient's own induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells.

Heart disease patients have been advised to avoid being outside during rush hour traffic in a paper published in European Heart Journal.

After the pig experiment worked well, he used his Boston area facility to culture the 30 million cardiac muscle cells that he says were injected into a heart disease patient in mid-2011.

Sexual activity can be a concern for many heart attack patients who worry about exertion triggering another heart event, but data on the harms and benefits of sexual activity in heart disease patients is limited.

Researchers led by Ruth McPherson of the University of Ottawa Heart Institute in Canada and Jonathan Cohen of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas examined about 300 heart disease patients and 300 controls using 100,000 markers.

The researchers emphasize the importance of continual screening of depression for all heart disease patients.

Particle emissions from the burning of biomass, transport, and long distance transport pose hazard for coronary heart disease patients

Heart disease patients who practice yoga in addition to aerobic exercise saw twice the reduction in blood pressure, body mass index and cholesterol levels when compared to patients who practiced either Indian yoga or aerobic...

Heart disease patients are closer to a cure thanks to cutting - edge research by stem cell biologist and Gladstone alumna Li Qian, PhD.

One study found that heart disease patients who exercised and had positive attitudes were 42 percent less likely to die of all causes during a five - year follow - up period, compared to patients who were negative and didn't exercise.

My wife had heard of Dr Esselstyn's work with heart disease patients.

Two to three cloves a day cut the odds of subsequent heart attacks in half for heart disease patients and garlic also tops the National Cancer Institute's list of potential cancer - preventive foods.

... we now need to distinguish those heart disease patients who have «residual cholesterol risk» from those who have «residual inflammatory risk.»

Particle emissions from the burning of biomass, transport, and long distance transport pose hazard for coronary heart disease patients