A study of people with obstructive sleep apnea suggests that high CPAP pressures may explain why the machines do not lower a patient's risk of heart disease, which is about two to three times higher than average.
Feb 26, 2024
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Using intravascular imaging to guide stent implantation during percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in heart disease patients significantly improves survival and reduces adverse cardiovascular events compared to angiography-guided ...
Feb 21, 2024
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Ultrahigh-spatial-resolution photon-counting detector CT improved assessment of coronary artery disease (CAD), allowing for reclassification to a lower disease category in 54% of patients, according to a new study published ...
Feb 20, 2024
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In the largest genome-wide association study to date on type 2 diabetes, a team of international researchers, co-led by a University of Massachusetts Amherst genetic epidemiologist, has located 1,289 genetic markers associated ...
Feb 19, 2024
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With those New Year's resolutions six weeks behind us, some people may have reverted to less healthy ways of eating. Heart Month is a great time to remind yourself why a healthy diet is important for more than just your waistline.
Feb 17, 2024
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In Mexico City, researchers at the Instituto Nacional de CardiologĂa Ignacio Chávez have studied genetic underpinnings of one of the most pressing public health challenges of our times: cardiovascular disease (CVD).
Feb 14, 2024
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Over the past 15 years, researchers have identified hundreds of regions in the human genome associated with heart attack risk. However, researchers lack efficient ways to explore how these genetic variants are molecularly ...
Feb 7, 2024
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Heart attack risk almost doubles in the first year after a stroke or when combined with a tear in a neck artery wall; however, a tear without a stroke does not seem to raise heart attack risk, according to preliminary research ...
Feb 1, 2024
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The severity and prognosis of coronary artery disease are closely associated with treatment strategy choice. To achieve timely, accurate, early selection of a suitable treatment plan and assess patients' prognosis, researchers ...
Jan 29, 2024
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Liver fibrosis scores (LFSs) are novel tools for predicting cardiovascular events in patients with coronary artery disease. A study appearing in Cardiovascular Innovations and Applications aimed at examining the prognostic ...
Jan 29, 2024
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