Sentences with phrase «more narrowing of the arteries»

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Men and women (median age 61.7) in the study were categorized as having no coronary artery disease, mild disease (less than 50 percent of coronary artery narrowed), or obstructive disease (more than 50 percent artery obstruction).

Current guidelines recommend heart bypass for patients with substantial narrowing of two or more arteries due to extensive plaque buildup, a condition known as multivessel coronary artery disease.

To be included in this study, patients had to show evidence of more than 70 percent narrowing in the arteries of the heart and more than 50 percent in the left main coronary artery.

But a new mouse study out of the Washington University School of Medicine (WUSM) shows that a natural sugar called trehalose can actually arm the immune system with more of the machinery it needs to combat atherosclerosis, a dangerous condition in which plaque build up hardens and narrows the arteries.

But a new mouse study shows that a natural sugar called trehalose can actually arm the immune system with more of the machinery it needs to combat atherosclerosis, a dangerous condition in which plaque build up hardens and narrows the arteries.

Genetics may account for up to one third of all cases of hypertension, but for most of us causative factors include arteriosclerosis (narrower, stiffer arteries), inactivity, being overweight of obese, chronic stress, diabetes and having more fluid retention due to too much refined white salt.