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A new study, presented today at the 2013 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS), identifies predictors of complications and mortality following a hip fracture, including dialysis, cardiac disease, diabetes, and a longer time before surgery – the only modifiable risk factor when patients are hospitalized. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-outlines-factors-poor-outcome-mortality.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 21 Mar 2013 01:20:02 EST news283024473 Mice with many of the pathologies of Alzheimer's Disease showed fewer signs of the disease when given a protein-restricted diet supplemented with specific amino acids every other week for four months. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-low-protein-diet-alzheimer-mice.html Alzheimer's disease & dementia Thu, 14 Feb 2013 11:50:01 EST news280064039 In a study to be presented on February 15 at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine's annual meeting, The Pregnancy Meeting, in San Francisco, researchers will report findings that women with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and cardiac symptoms have a 31 percent incidence of cardiac dysfunction. The use of echocardiograms should be considered in the clinical management of these women. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-obstructive-apnea-cardiac-symptoms-percent.html Sleep apnea Mon, 11 Feb 2013 11:10:01 EST news279801570 Cardiac disease is associated with increased risk of mild cognitive impairment such as problems with language, thinking and judgment—particularly among women with heart disease, a Mayo Clinic study shows. Known as nonamnestic because it doesn't include memory loss, this type of mild cognitive impairment may be a precursor to vascular and other non-Alzheimer's dementias, according to the findings published online Monday in JAMA Neurology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-cardiac-disease-linked-higher-mental.html Neuroscience Mon, 28 Jan 2013 16:00:01 EST news278591411 People experiencing chronic shortness of breath may soon have a new way to help alleviate their discomfort, according to a Penn State College of Medicine pulmonology researcher. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-treatment-relieve-chronic-shortness.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 19 Dec 2012 16:34:13 EST news275157248 Rituximab, a drug used to treat cancer and arthritis, may help patients with antiphospholipid antibodies (aPLs) who suffer from aPL-related clinical problems that do not respond to anticoagulation, such as cardiac disease and kidney disease, according to a new study by rheumatology researchers at Hospital for Special Surgery. The study appears online ahead of print, in the journal Arthritis and Rheumatism. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-rituximab-clinical-problems-tied-antiphospholipid.html Arthritis & Rheumatism Tue, 20 Nov 2012 09:47:07 EST news272627178 (Medical Xpress)—Parents who smack or shout at their children could be placing them at greater risk of developing cancer, heart disease and asthma. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-children-corporal-greater-cancer-heart.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 12 Nov 2012 09:13:38 EST news271933940 Experts in emergency cardiac care from around the world met in Istanbul to discuss ways to improve outcomes in patients with acute cardiac disease. This was the first annual meeting of the newly launched Acute Cardiovascular Care Association (ACCA) of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC). The congress concludes today. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-early-cardiac-patients-treatment.html Cardiology Mon, 22 Oct 2012 10:12:44 EST news270119552 (Medical Xpress)—Cardiac patients suffering from depression are at greater risk for new cardiac events or cardiac death than patients without depression. It is still unclear which underlying mechanisms play a role in this adverse relationship. Researchers from Tilburg University, the Veterans Affair Hospital in San Francisco, and VU University Medical Center in the Netherlands suggest that inflammatory processes could be involved (Psychoneuroendocrinology, August 2012). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-white-blood-cells-cardiac-patients.html Cardiology Thu, 06 Sep 2012 08:50:32 EST news266140206 Doctors who believe that women have "atypical" coronary heart disease symptoms are less certain when diagnosing heart disease in women.  As a result, women are less likely than men to receive treatments for an urgent cardiac event, finds a new study in the Journal of Health and Social Behavior. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-diagnostic-confidence-key-prompt-treatment.html Cardiology Wed, 29 Aug 2012 08:30:03 EST news265447116 A promising new drug target for the treatment and prevention of heart failure has been discovered by researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, NY, US. The study was presented at the ESC Congress 2012 by principal investigator Professor Roger J. Hajjar, MD. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-drug-treatment-heart-failure.html Cardiology Mon, 27 Aug 2012 11:00:02 EST news265280484 (Medical Xpress) -- A three-year study by researchers at the University of Stirling has found that reflexology to the upper half of the left foot (the heart reflex point) had an effect on the hearts of healthy volunteers. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-reflexology-affects-hearts-non-cardiology-patients.html Cardiology Sun, 15 Jul 2012 17:26:19 EST news261591937 As thousands of Americans await a life-saving kidney or liver transplant, medical teams are paying close attention to another organ: their hearts. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-hearts-kidney-liver-transplants.html Cardiology Thu, 12 Jul 2012 09:51:50 EST news261305493 (HealthDay) -- As many as 300,000 people in the United States may have chronic Chagas disease -- mostly spread by blood-sucking insects -- health officials report. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-people-chagas-disease.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 05 Jul 2012 17:20:01 EST news260725866 Scientists have discovered a new function for a protein that protects cells during injury and could eventually translate into treatment for conditions ranging from cardiovascular disease to Alzheimer's. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-newly-protein-function-cells-injury.html Medical research Thu, 07 Jun 2012 12:00:01 EST news258289123 Scientists from The Scripps Research Institute and Pfizer Inc. have published a new study showing how a new drug called tafamidis (Vyndaqel) works. Tafamidis, approved for use in Europe and currently under review by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), is the first medication approved by a major regulatory agency to treat an amyloid disease, a class of conditions that include Alzheimer's. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-reveals-world-drug-amyloid-disease.html Medical research Tue, 29 May 2012 16:57:51 EST news257529296 Scientists know that Vitamin D deficiency is not healthy. However, new research from the University of Copenhagen now indicates that too high a level of the essential vitamin is not good either. The study is based on blood samples from 247,574 Copenhageners. The results have just been published in the reputed scientific Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-vitamin-d-unhealthy.html Health Tue, 29 May 2012 09:50:03 EST news257503783 A true obesity epidemic is gradually advancing throughout the developed world. A large new Danish-British study from the University of Copenhagen and University of Bristol documents for the first time a definite correlation between a high BMI and the risk of developing life-threatening cardiac disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-heavy-arguments-danger-obesity.html Health Tue, 01 May 2012 17:30:01 EST news255107494 Dubai (20 April 2012): Women with heart disease are more likely to give birth to female rather than male babies according to a new study presented today at the World Congress of Cardiology. The study found that three-quarters of the 216 children born to 200 pregnant women with diagnosed heart disease were female. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-women-heart-disease-baby-girls.html Cardiology Fri, 20 Apr 2012 06:09:52 EST news254120984 A new study by Dr. Andrew Krahn shows that over a quarter of unexplained cardiac arrests occurred after the patient had an event of fainting, known as syncope. According to Dr. Krahn, a Cardiologist at London Health Sciences Centre and a Scientist at Lawson Health Research Institute, more than half of the fainting episodes had characteristics that would point to a serious heart rhythm problem, based on a simple fainting questionnaire that can be administered in a doctor's office or emergency room. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-fainting-factor-cardiac.html Cardiology Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:54:59 EST news248014486 Heart disease is still the No. 1 killer of women, but 80 percent of heart disease is preventable. Although the majority of heart attacks occur in the ten years after menopause, the disease process starts much earlier. If a woman can keep her risks for cardiac disease low before the age of 50, then there is a good chance she can avoid heart disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-heart-disease-women.html Health Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:10:41 EST news247479034 If you have stable cardiovascular disease, it is more than likely that you can safely engage in sexual activity, according to an American Heart Association scientific statement. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-sexual-safe-heart-patients.html Cardiology Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:00:01 EST news246209378 Researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine have identified a new drug target that may treat and/or prevent heart failure. The team evaluated failing human and pig hearts and discovered that SUMO1, a so-called "chaperone" protein that regulates the activity of key transporter genes, was decreased in failing hearts. When the researchers injected SUMO1 into these hearts via gene therapy, cardiac function was significantly improved. This research indicates that SUMO1 may play a critical role in the pathogenesis of heart failure. The data are published online in Nature. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-heart-failure.html Cardiology Wed, 07 Sep 2011 13:00:10 EST news234618984 Pre-existing heart disease in pregnancy remains a concern. Complications are frequent and in some cases may be life-threatening for both the mother and her child. In Europe maternal heart disease has now become the major cause of maternal death during pregnancy. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-evidence-field-cvd-pregnancy-sparse.html Cardiology Tue, 30 Aug 2011 08:37:20 EST news233912231 Because of improved management at the acute stage, the risk of dying in hospital after a heart attack has decreased by about 50% in the past 10 years. Likewise, the prescription of recommended medications when patients leave hospital, has resulted in improved survival and fewer recurrent heart attacks. One of the challenges is now to try and further decrease long-term mortality in patients who leave the hospital on "optimal" medical therapy (i.e. who are prescribed all the recommended medications). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-patients-optimal-medical-therapy-heart.html Cardiology Tue, 30 Aug 2011 08:34:51 EST news233912071 When Kathleen Coleman of Oak Park was first diagnosed with cardiac disease at the age of 65, her husband and adult children united with her to wage war on the illness. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-goodbye-dignity-grace.html Health Wed, 15 Jun 2011 09:35:27 EST news227349304 A new pathway has been discovered that links a common dietary lipid and intestinal microflora with an increased risk of heart disease, according to a Cleveland Clinic study published in the latest issue of Nature. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-04-link-common-dietary-fat-intestinal.html Medical research Wed, 06 Apr 2011 13:02:40 EST news221313737