Sentences with phrase «lower carotid»

However, increasing social support was linked to lower carotid intima - media thickness in those with RA.

Not exact matches

Because carotid cells produce so much dopamine — up to 45 times more than the fetal neurons — and because they thrive in the relatively low oxygen concentrations found in the brain, he explains, they may do a better job at correcting Parkinson's symptoms than the fetal cells do — and they raise fewer ethical questions.

The normal job of the carotid body, nestled in the carotid artery, is to signal your brain to step up your breathing if your blood oxygen concentrations drop too low.

«Our study was a population study, so it can't establish cause and effect, but it certainly suggests the hypothesis that lowering pollution levels would reduce the incidence of carotid artery stenosis and stroke,» says Dr. Newman.

Dr. Berger and his colleagues found that people diagnosed with diabetes but without known heart disease are at a very high risk for developing peripheral vascular disease of the lower extremities or the carotid artery.

They focused on three different types of PVD: arterial disease in the lower extremities, called peripheral artery disease; carotid artery stenosis, which is blockage in the carotid arteries, the major blood vessels in the neck that supply blood to the brain, neck and face; and abdominal aortic aneurysm, an enlargement of the lower aorta, the major blood vessel that supplies blood to the body.

The drug, while lowering cholesterol effectively, failed to slow the progression of carotid artery plaque.

In people with HIV, low vitamin D levels have been linked to thicker carotid arteries as well as a weaker comeback for the immune system after starting antiretroviral therapy.

• Obesity • Current smoking • Carotid artery narrowing • Type 2 diabetes • Low educational attainment • High levels of homocysteine • Depression • High blood pressure • Frailty

Recent studies suggest that the rate of stroke in patients with [narrowed carotid arteries without symptoms] is lower than the rates found in this trial, according to the highlighted report posted by the American Association for Critical Illness Insurance, the trade group.

Although the study found the rate of stroke in patients without a carotid endarterectomy to be 1.8 percent a year over a 10 - year period, the rates are thought to be about 1 percent a year, but may be as low as around 0.5 percent a year.

Proficient reader of nuclear stress tests, viability studies, stress ECG, stress echocardiography, transthoracic echocardiography, noninvasive vascular ultrasound including carotid Duplex, lower extremity arterial Duplex, venous Duplex, venous reflux, visceral Duplex in addition to performing and interpreting transesophageal echocardiography; additional comfort with TEE / Cardioversion.

Performs quantitative and qualitative vascular tests including carotid duplex imaging, upper and lower extremity venous studies, venous insufficiency studies, upper and lower extremity arterial studies, and abdominal vascular studies.

Performed ultrasounds on lower venous extremities, abdomen, small parts, arterioles, carotids and OBGYN.

Preparing for PVR / segmental pressures of the lower and upper extremities and carotid duplex examination