Sentences with phrase «more coronary»

Body weight, associated with animal protein intake, was associated with more cancer and more coronary heart disease.

If you have blockages in three or more coronary arteries, your doctor is likely to recommend bypass surgery.

«It is not clear whether this relationship is due to confounding factors such as poor socioeconomic environment, or nutrition, during childhood that on the one hand determine achieved height and on the other the risk of coronary heart disease, or whether it represents a primary relationship between shorter height and more coronary heart disease.

Not exact matches

However, Burke and colleagues43 analyzed data from 514 Western Australian aborigines with almost 14 years of follow - up and found that risk of coronary heart disease increased in participants consuming eggs more than twice per week.

If a mild coronary or other physical illness forces them to slow down for awhile, and if this gives them the occasion to take stock in themselves and they realize that they have been forsaking the important things in life for the unimportant, then any physical pain and any damage done to their career would be more than offset by their recovery of a proper sense of values, by their recovery of their self.

Now more and more churches are building ramps and designing new structures or renovating old ones so that persons with crutches or in wheelchairs, persons who have suffered coronaries, etc., can enter easily.

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 2014 meta - analysis concluded that cardiovascular disease such as coronary artery disease and stroke is less likely with 3 — 5 cups of non-decaffeinated Kona per day but more likely with over 5 cups per day.

Diseases such as coronary heart disease, stroke and non-insulin dependent diabetes are more likely to develop in older children and adults who are obese.

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.»

Additionally, the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) study concluded that consumers who eat fast food two or more times a week had a one - hundred percent increase in their insulin resistance compared to consumers who ate at fast food establishments less than once a week.

Trans fats — fats that are partially hydrogenated, making them more shelf - stable — have been linked to higher levels of bad cholesterol and elevated risk of coronary heart disease.

Additionally, the U.S. Nurses» Health Study found only women with a lifetime duration of breastfeeding of 2 years or more had a significantly lower risk of coronary heart disease than those who never breastfed.

In women, aortic calcification appears earlier than coronary artery calcification, and thus may be a more sensitive indicator of subclinical cardiovascular disease than coronary artery calcification.25 However, a previous Dutch study26 found no significant association between coronary calcification and whether a woman had ever compared with never breastfed.

Like Krieger's mice, people with this mutation had high HDL but were also more likely to have coronary heart disease.

The study, led by Mark Pletcher of the University of California, San Francisco, compared the effects of both cigarette and marijuana smoking over a period of 20 years in a group of more than 5,000 adults, part of a longitudinal study called Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA).

In this study, published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, researchers also identified six further variants in the human genome that occur more frequently in a coronary artery disease (CAD).

After researchers excluded other features in these communities, including recreational centers, the data suggested that decreased access to heart - healthy food stores is the common thread in more rapid progression of coronary atherosclerosis in middle - aged and older individuals.

Women using hormone replacement therapy were also 20 percent more likely to have a coronary calcium score of zero (the lowest possible score, indicating a low likelihood of heart attack) and 36 percent less likely to have a coronary calcium score above 399 (indicative of severe atherosclerosis and high heart attack risk).

Participants who ate peanuts or tree nuts two or more times per week had a 13 percent and 15 percent lower risk of cardiovascular disease, respectively, and a 15 percent and 23 percent, lower risk of coronary heart disease, respectively, compared to those who never consumed nuts.

The study shows those apparently healthy individuals identified with increased carotid plaque burden and coronary artery calcium were two to three times more likely to have an adverse event such as an artery blockage, or a piece of plaque becoming loose causing a heart attack or stroke.

In fact, the study finds, over 5,700 additional patients ended up having such procedures — called coronary angiography — during the shortage, exposed them to more risk and radiation.

To address this, BWH investigators used state of the art natural language processing tools to review the course of more than 24,000 patients with coronary artery disease treated at either BWH or Massachusetts General Hospital between 2000 and 2011.

They were four times more likely to have coronary artery calcification.

For more than a decade, stents have propped open closed coronary arteries in a million people every year.

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

An angiogram showed that one coronary artery was more than 90 percent blocked and he needed a bypass.

Maintaining or achieving blood pressure control in patients with arthritis and concomitant hypertension (treated or untreated) could avoid more than 70,000 deaths from stroke and 60,000 deaths from coronary heart disease each year, 2 making it important to investigate the effects of various NSAIDs on blood pressure.

The research team explored data from more than 100,000 participants in the Nurses» Health Study (NHS), looking at rates of cardiovascular disease, specifically incidence of coronary heart disease and stroke.

The study also showed that coronary artery disease was more prevalent in women with low rates of sexual activity.

Soliman said the finding that atrial fibrillation was associated only with NSTEMI heart attacks suggests that factors contributing to partial blockage of the coronary arteries or increased oxygen demand, such as sudden increase in heart rate, are more likely to explain the association between a-fib and heart attack than those factors linked to total blockage caused by the migration of a blood clot to a coronary artery from the site of its formation.

Newer drug - coated stents that keep arteries open have similar long - term rates of death compared with traditional bypass surgery for patients with more than one diseased coronary artery.

In both groups, participants consuming more than two servings a week of yogurt had an approximately 20 percent lower risks of major coronary heart disease or stroke during the follow - up period.

They found that patients from this group who required admission to intensive or critical care units after surgery were more likely to have a history of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, congestive heart failure, coronary artery disease, chronic kidney disease, or suffering blood loss of more than 1,000 milliliters during surgery or requiring vasopressors (medications that raise low blood pressure) during surgery.

«Metabolic syndrome in women may be more closely related to coronary artery disease than other cardiovascular outcomes,» noted Elizabeth Barrett - Connor, MD, corresponding author and Distinguished Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Public Health at UC San Diego School of Medicine.

Coronary artery disease was more prevalent among women with low rates of sexual activity; and women who had suffered a heart attack, had a coronary artery bypass, or angina were also less sexuallyCoronary artery disease was more prevalent among women with low rates of sexual activity; and women who had suffered a heart attack, had a coronary artery bypass, or angina were also less sexuallycoronary artery bypass, or angina were also less sexually active.

Additionally, women with low sexual activity were more likely to have coronary artery disease.

«Type 2 diabetes accompanied by an acute coronary syndrome needs much more attention, especially in order to prevent yet another major cardiac event,» says Principal Investigator Dr. William B. White, a professor in the Pat and Jim Calhoun Cardiology Center at UConn Health.

Doubling certain types of cardiovascular fat can lead to a more than 50 percent increase in coronary events.

Niacin also produces a modest reduction in low - density lipoprotein (LDL cholesterol) and a more substantial reduction in triglyceride levels, which might be expected to lower the risk of coronary heart disease, Lloyd - Jones notes in the article.

Now researchers have reported that an advanced degree of coronary atherosclerosis is more common in cigarette smokers than in nonsmokers, and that it increases with the amount of smoking.»

«In addition, practitioners have to look for other risk factors that are more common in obese patients such as diabetes, hypertension or coronary artery disease.»

To investigate, Csaba Kovesdy, MD (Memphis VA Medical Center and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center) and his colleagues examined information from the national VA research database and looked for associations between blood pressure and various clinical outcomes — coronary heart disease, stroke, kidney failure, and death — in more than 300,000 patients with CKD.

When compared to elective surgery, emergency surgery was 30 percent more expensive for abdominal aortic aneurysm repair, 17 percent more expensive for coronary artery bypass graft and 53 percent more expensive for colon resection.

• Systolic blood pressure levels above 140 mmHg were linked with higher risks of coronary heart disease, stroke, kidney failure, and death in patients with CKD of all ages, but the magnitude of these associations diminished with more advanced age.

«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.»

Dr Prince said: «Women with coronary artery disease spend less time sitting for long periods but we need to do more research to understand why.

Expansion in the use of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI)-- the minimally invasive surgery performed on heart patients instead of using drugs — is seeing more patients with acute coronary syndromes treated more quickly, according to the latest National Audit of PCI (coverinCoronary Intervention (PCI)-- the minimally invasive surgery performed on heart patients instead of using drugs — is seeing more patients with acute coronary syndromes treated more quickly, according to the latest National Audit of PCI (coverincoronary syndromes treated more quickly, according to the latest National Audit of PCI (covering 2012).

The study published online in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, found smokers are more likely to be hospitalized for leg events, heart attack and coronary heart disease related to atherosclerotic peripheral artery disease, known as PAD, than non-smokers with PAD.

Professor Samani said: «For more than 60 years it has been known that there is an inverse relationship between height and risk of coronary heart disease.