Tag: "atherosclerosis" at medical news
Stress: It's Not Just All In Your Head; Scientists Map The Wear And Tear Of Daily Life
...iseases), aswell as bone loss, muscular weakening, atherosclerosis
and increased insulinlevels that cause higher levels of fat deposition in the body, especiallyaround the abdomen. "People end up with that 'apple' body shape that researchers haveshown over and over again predisposes us to heart disease," says McEw...
Heart Attack Survivors Can Lower Stroke Risk By Taking Cholesterol-Lowering Drug, Study Says
...echolesterol reduction should reduce the amount of atherosclerosis
in thecoronary arteries and in the carotid arteries leading to the brain." The new study expands upon findings from two recent drug trials. Thesestudies examined whether lowering cholesterol in people who survived a firstheart attack reduced ...
Added Benefit Found For Aspirin Use In Patients With Vessel Disease
...nal ofthe American Heart Association. When atherosclerosis
-- which is caused by fatty deposits clogging theb...und that when aspirin was given to 14patients with atherosclerosis
and endothelial dysfunction, there was a strongtendency for improved function of the diseased blood ...
Studies Look At Threshold Effect Of Cholesterol-Lowering "Statin" Drugs
... but noevidence of coronary heart disease or other atherosclerosis
-- to reduce theirLDL levels to at least 130 mg/dL. For individuals with heart disease, the NCEP goal is 100 mg/dL, or below, says Grundy. LDL cholesterol is called the "bad" cholesterol because it helps form the obstructions inside the blood vess...
Old Drugs, New Tricks
...beneficial vascular action during the treatment of atherosclerosis
andpost-angioplasty restenosis, conditions in which activation of vascular musclecells is a key event. This may justify widening the indications of fibrates tocoronary disease not linked to hyperlipidemia. Atherosclerosis is induced by a large number...
Successful Atherosclerosis Treatment Program
...ation was to determine whether participation in an atherosclerosis
treatment program would reduce the oxidative susceptibility of LDL from patients with coronary artery disease. The treatment program included intensive exercise therapy, stress management, and consumption of a diet containing 10% fat. The size and an...
Elderly Patients May Be Undertreated For High Cholesterol, Wake Forest Doctor Says
... electrocardiograms, carotidultrasound (to measure atherosclerosis
or hardening of the arteries and itseffect on blood supply to the brain), spirometry to measure lung function,fasting glucose levels to look for diabetes, and objective measures of loss ofmemory and brain function. The goal of the study is to...
Antibiotics Reduce Inflammation In Heart Disease But Effect On Heart Attacks Remains Unproven
... of Chlamydiabacteria can cause rabbits to develop atherosclerosis
and the progress of thisdisease can be delayed by giving the animals antibiotics," says Anderson. Co-authors are John Carlquist, Ph.D.; Ann Allen, B.S.; Sanjeev Trehan,M.D.; Cindy Nielson, Pharm.D.; Staci Hall; John Brady, B.S., Marlene Egger...
Hardening Of The Aorta Increases The Risk Of Stroke
...ective, long-term study of the relationshipbetween atherosclerosis
in the aorta and risk of stroke and death. We foun...ed as moderate. The remaining 5 percent had severe atherosclerosis
inthe aorta. "When I went to medical school, we were taught that the aorta was prettymuch s...
Sex And Survival: In Some Matters Of The Heart Women Have The Edge
..." says Adams. Ischemic heart disease results from atherosclerosis
caused by fat-laden plaqueobstructions that develop in blood vessels. Nonischemic heart failure resultsfrom high blood pressure or other factors that can weaken the heart muscle. Adams' study used data from the Flolan International Randomize...
AVANT Atherosclerosis Vaccine Raises HDL, Reduces Atherosclerosis In Vaccinated Animals
...erlying cause of heart attacks and stroke. AVANT's atherosclerosis
vaccine works by eliciting antibodies that block theactivity of cholesteryl ester transfer protein (CETP), a molecule that mediatesthe movement of cholesterol from HDL to low density lipoprotein (LDL), or "bad"cholesterol. Blocking CETP activity res...
Clogged Neck Artery May Warn Of Heart Attack As Well As Stroke
...iation. Coronary heart disease is characterized by atherosclerosis
-- accumulations offat, cholesterol and other cell...evious studies have reported that individuals with atherosclerosis
in theircarotid arteries are likely to have coronary heart disease. This study wasdesigned to refin...
Early stroke treatment with t-PA has long-lasting benefit, according to NEJM report
...whena blood vessel in the brain becomes blocked by atherosclerosis
or a clot. Hemorrhagic stroke is caused by a ruptured blood vessel in the brain. According to the American Heart Association's 1998 Georgia StrokeReport, stroke symptoms include sudden weakness or numbness on one side of thebody; sudden diffi...
Walking cuts risk of heart attack in elderly men
...helps prevent heart disease by reducing therisk of atherosclerosis
-- the buildup of fatty deposits that can clog heartarteries -- and of blood clots and irregular heartbeat, both of which cantrigger a heart attack. The study's findings may extend to younger men as well as women, according toSnell and Mitchell. The...
Study to test whether antibiotics can reduce heart disease risk
...calledChlamydia pneumoniae, may be associated with atherosclerosis
-- hardening of thearteries. Nearly everybody gets...arching for other answers. Coronary artery atherosclerosis
that is accelerated by infections suchas Chlamydia pneumoniae could be part of that answer. ...
Risk factors for stroke after heart surgery identified
...dup in their aortic artery before surgery. "Aortic atherosclerosis
is a recognized risk factor for stroke -- both for...hough age was not a risk factor for these strokes, atherosclerosis
-- whichcauses plaque build-ups that block blood flow in an artery -- was a risk factor. Gender was ...
University of Pittsburgh study finds that simple test spots early signs of heart disease in women
...alcium in these arteries indicates the presence of atherosclerosis
and can bepresent long before obstructions occur. "While the EBCT predictably showed that premenopausal women with high riskfactors developed calcification after menopause, we were surprised to find thatthe test also showed the same subclinical disea...
Wake Forest's largest study will examine whether weight control can slow hardening of the arteries in diabetics
...ess of carotid artery wallsto gauge the buildup of atherosclerosis
-- hardening of the arteries -- and willbe a key m...arotid ultrasound to measure the pace of advancing atherosclerosis
anddeveloping statistical methods to interpret these data. In the study, the researchers wil...
New light on the role of microbial pathogens in atherosclerosis
...ies(32% of all deaths in France, for example), and atherosclerosis
is often theunderlying process. Genetic and enviro...in people already at risk, or as the chief causeof atherosclerosis
in people with none of the classical risk factors. Alain Tedgui, Ziad Mallat (Inserm unit 141, heade...
New therapy raises good cholesterol results in regression of heart disease in mice
... form ofcholesterol -- and caused a "shrinkage" of atherosclerosis
in mice experiments-- may lead to novel treatment ...L cholesterol. By comparison, the controlanimals' atherosclerosis
progressed during the four weeks. Previous studies in animals have shown that apoA-1 can slow progre...
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