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Depressed women may face an increased risk of stroke, according to new research reported in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-depression-linked-women.html Cardiology Thu, 11 Aug 2011 16:00:02 EST news232287487 Siblings of those who have been hospitalized with potentially lethal blood clots in the legs or pelvis are more likely to also suffer the disorder than those with healthy siblings, according to research published in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-siblings-blood-clots-leg-higher.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 08 Aug 2011 16:00:07 EST news232030656 Kansas State University's Sherry Fleming is investigating the factor that initiates the immune system's "drama queen": the one responsible for intestinal cell damage after hemorrhage. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-trauma-drama-queen-immune.html Medical research Mon, 08 Aug 2011 12:50:01 EST news232025531 Italian researchers may have identified a genetic "signature" for dangerous plaque that leads to stroke. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-genetic-signature-plaque.html Medical research Thu, 04 Aug 2011 16:00:07 EST news231690724 The percentage of graduating neurology residents comfortable treating stroke with a clot-busting drug has increased dramatically over the past 10 years, according to research published in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-neurology-residents-comfortable-clot-busting-drug.html Neuroscience Thu, 04 Aug 2011 16:00:02 EST news231690659 Researchers at Emory and Georgia Tech have developed a method for predicting which areas of the coronary arteries will develop more atherosclerotic plaque over time, based on intracoronary ultrasound and blood flow measurements. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-perilous-plaque-coronary-arteries-fluid.html Medical research Wed, 03 Aug 2011 11:59:02 EST news231591521 Even small amounts of physical activity will help reduce heart disease risk, and the benefit increases as the amount of activity increases, according to a quantitative review reported in Circulation, journal of the American Heart Association. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-heart-disease.html Health Mon, 01 Aug 2011 16:40:03 EST news231433770 The stroke rate for pregnant women and those who recently gave birth increased alarmingly over the past dozen years, according to research reported in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-women-pregnancy.html Health Fri, 29 Jul 2011 04:40:01 EST news231130517 If you suffer traumatic brain injury, your risk of having a stroke within three months may increase tenfold, according to a new study reported in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-traumatic-brain-injury-linked-tenfold.html Medical research Thu, 28 Jul 2011 16:00:04 EST news231084917 Children born with heart defects that pummel their lungs with up to three times the normal blood volume quickly find their lungs in jeopardy as well. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-pressure-newborns-lungs.html Medical research Wed, 27 Jul 2011 11:10:04 EST news230982020 People are significantly more likely to inherit a predisposition to heart attack than to stroke, according to research reported in Circulation: Cardiovascular Genetics, an American Heart Association journal. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-genes-greater-role-heart.html Cardiology Tue, 26 Jul 2011 16:00:18 EST news230886140 Preventing heart disease before it starts is a good long-term investment in the nation's health, according to a new policy statement from the American Heart Association. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-heart-disease-good-investment.html Cardiology Mon, 25 Jul 2011 16:46:35 EST news230831180 A positive outlook on life might lower your risk of having a stroke, according to new research reported in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-optimism.html Cardiology Thu, 21 Jul 2011 16:35:45 EST news230484935 The same artery-clogging process (atherosclerosis) that causes heart disease can also result in age-related vascular cognitive impairments (VCI), according to a new American Heart Association/American Stroke Association scientific statement published online in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-vascular-linked-dementia.html Cardiology Thu, 21 Jul 2011 16:26:11 EST news230484354 Obese people with high levels of abdominal fat and liver fat may face increased risks for heart disease and other serious health problems, according to research published in Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology: Journal of the American Heart Association. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-liver-belly-fat-high-heart.html Cardiology Thu, 21 Jul 2011 16:25:18 EST news230484299 A medicine designed to improve levels of "good" cholesterol may also help control blood sugar in people with diabetes who are taking cholesterol-lowering drugs, according to a new analysis in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-experimental-drug-good-cholesterol-diabetes.html Cardiology Mon, 18 Jul 2011 16:00:35 EST news230221686 Milk and soy protein supplements were associated with lower systolic blood pressure compared to refined carbohydrate dietary supplements, in a study reported in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-soymilk-protein-dietary-supplements-linked.html Cardiology Mon, 18 Jul 2011 16:00:03 EST news230221567 Doctors have been dispensing advice to heart failure patients and for the first time researchers have found that it works. While self-care is believed to improve heart failure outcomes, a highlight of the recent American Heart Association scientific statement on promoting heart failure self-care was the need to establish the mechanisms by which self-care may influence neurohormonal, inflammatory, and hemodynamic function. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-heart-failure-doctor.html Cardiology Wed, 13 Jul 2011 16:27:28 EST news229793239 An ultrasound test can tell if people with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and heart disease are at risk of heart attack or death, according to new research reported in Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging, an American Heart Association journal. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-heart-ultrasound-death-hiv-patients.html Cardiology Tue, 12 Jul 2011 16:39:50 EST news229707574 A broad, regional system to lower the temperature of resuscitated cardiac arrest patients at a centrally-located hospital improved outcomes, according to a study in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-regional-cool-cardiac-patients-outcomes.html Cardiology Mon, 11 Jul 2011 16:00:15 EST news229615246 Obstructive sleep apnea may cause changes in blood vessel function that reduces blood supply to the heart in people who are otherwise healthy, according to new research reported in Hypertension: Journal of the American Heart Association. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-links-obstructive-apnea-blood-vessel.html Sleep apnea Mon, 11 Jul 2011 16:00:01 EST news229615150 An injection of stem cells into the heart could offer hope to many of the 850,000 Americans whose chest pain doesn't subside even with medicine, angioplasty or surgery, according to a study in Circulation Research: Journal of the American Heart Association. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-stem-cell-patients-options.html Cardiology Thu, 07 Jul 2011 16:35:32 EST news229275319 Countries with lower national income have disproportionately higher rates of death and disability associated with stroke compared with ischemic heart disease, according to a study published in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-poor-countries-disproportionately-higher-burden.html Cardiology Tue, 05 Jul 2011 17:03:57 EST news229104198 Ten weeks of preventive supplementation with a natural form of vitamin E called tocotrienol in dogs that later had strokes reduced overall brain tissue damage, prevented loss of neural connections and helped sustain blood flow in the animals' brains, a new study shows. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-natural-vitamin.html Cardiology Tue, 05 Jul 2011 14:39:30 EST news229095549 Heart disease can sneak up on women in ways that standard cardiac tests can miss. It's part of a puzzling gender gap: Women tend to have different heart attack symptoms than men. They're more likely to die in the year after a first heart attack. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-heart-disease-killer-women.html Cardiology Mon, 04 Jul 2011 08:40:01 EST news228987591 Biomedical research at Arizona State University will be boosted with support from the American Heart Association for the work of three bioengineers. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-asu-bioengineers-cardiovascular-health.html Cardiology Tue, 28 Jun 2011 16:28:47 EST news228497287 Researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine have found in a Phase II trial that a gene therapy developed at Mount Sinai stabilized or improved cardiac function in people with severe heart failure. Patients receiving a high dose of the therapy, called SERCA2a, experienced substantial clinical benefit and significantly reduced cardiovascular hospitalizations, addressing a critical unmet need in this population. The data are published online in the June 27 issue of the American Heart Association journal Circulation. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-gene-therapy-heart-failure.html Cardiology Tue, 28 Jun 2011 16:27:34 EST news228497233 Coordinating care among emergency medical services (EMS) and hospital systems significantly reduced the time to transfer heart attack patients to hospitals providing emergency coronary angioplasty, according to research reported in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, an American Heart Association journal. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-heart-patients-treatment-faster.html Cardiology Tue, 28 Jun 2011 16:23:26 EST news228496990 When taken with higher doses of aspirin (more than 300 milligrams), the experimental antiplatelet drug ticagrelor was associated with worse outcomes than the standard drug, clopidogrel, but the opposite was true with lower doses of aspirin. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-potent-antiplatelet-drug-effective-low-dose.html Cardiology Mon, 27 Jun 2011 13:00:03 EST news228392704 For the first time, blood vessels created in the lab from donor skin cells were successfully implanted in patients. Functioning blood vessels that aren't rejected by the immune system could be used to make durable shunts for kidney dialysis, and potentially to improve treatment for children with heart defects and adults needing coronary or other bypass graft surgery. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-patients-lab-grown-blood-vessels-donor.html Cardiology Mon, 27 Jun 2011 13:00:01 EST news228392650