Genetics
New genetic insight could help treat rare debilitating heart and lung condition
The largest study of genetic variation in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension has associated two important genes with the disease.
Dec 6, 2018
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Gerontology & Geriatrics
For older adults with heart failure: Can taking too many medications reduce the ability to perform daily activities?
As we age, we tend to develop a number of chronic health conditions and concerns. Often, managing health problems can mean that older adults may take many different medications. When older adults take five or more medicines ...
Dec 3, 2018
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Alzheimer's disease & dementia
Arterial stiffness may predict dementia risk
(HealthDay)—Arterial stiffness may predict dementia risk, independent of subclinical brain damage, according to a study recently published in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease.
Nov 21, 2018
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Cardiology
Medics suggest modifications to coronary artery stenting
Bifurcation lesions are a challenge, even for an experienced cardiac surgeon. Currently, there are two surgical techniques for dealing with them, but no medical consensus on which one applies to which case. Russian scientists ...
Nov 21, 2018
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Cardiology
Genetic analysis links obesity with diabetes, coronary artery disease
A Cleveland Clinic genetic analysis has found that obesity itself, not just the adverse health effects associated with it, significantly increases the risk of Type 2 diabetes and coronary artery disease. The paper was published ...
Nov 16, 2018
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Medical research
Study suggests way to prevent rare pulmonary disease
Research by Vanderbilt scientists suggests that it may be possible to prevent or even reverse pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), a rare, progressive disease characterized by narrowing of and high blood pressure in the ...
Nov 16, 2018
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Cardiology
Bypass beats stents for diabetics with heart trouble: study
(HealthDay)—People with both diabetes and multiple clogged heart arteries live longer if they undergo bypass surgery rather than have their blood vessels reopened with stents, according to follow-up results from a landmark ...
Nov 13, 2018
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Cardiology
Heart attacks more common now in younger people, especially women
Heart attacks once characterized as a part of "old man's disease"—are increasingly occurring in younger people, especially women, according to new research.
Nov 12, 2018
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Alzheimer's disease & dementia
Alzheimer's and cardiovascular disease share common genetics in some patients
Genetics may predispose some people to both Alzheimer's disease and high levels of blood lipids such as cholesterol, a common feature of cardiovascular disease, according to a new study by an international team of researchers ...
Nov 9, 2018
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Cardiology
Mount Sinai is first to use FDA-approved drug-eluting stent that treats PAD
Vascular specialists at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai are the first in the United States to use the Eluvia, a drug-eluting vascular stent system for clinical treatment of peripheral artery disease (PAD), a circulatory ...
Nov 5, 2018
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