A lower frequency of depressive episodes is associated with a 34 percent decreased risk of coronary artery disease and a 33 percent decreased risk of type 2 diabetes, irrespective of lifestyle risk factors and genetic susceptibility. ...
Feb 16, 2022
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By combining information from two advanced imaging techniques with clinical data, physicians can improve their prediction of heart attacks, according to research published in the January issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine. ...
Jan 11, 2022
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A health education class tailored to South Asian culture was associated with improvements in certain cardiac risk factors and lower odds of death among participants, a new study shows.
Nov 16, 2021
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Women are significantly less likely than men to undergo coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) using guideline-recommended approaches, which may result in worse outcomes after surgery, according to a scientific presentation ...
Jan 30, 2021
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An international group led by researchers from the RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences have used a combination of genome-wide association analysis—or GWAS—and a trans-ancestry comparison of different GWAS studies, ...
Oct 6, 2020
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(HealthDay)—Myocardial infarction (MI) events may occur earlier in life in patients with psoriasis, which in turn may affect hospital outcomes, according to a study published online Sept. 11 in the Journal of the American ...
Sep 21, 2020
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A growing body of research suggests heart attacks, angina and other heart events increase during winter and summer.
Jul 2, 2020
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A Polygenic Risk Score—a genetic assessment that doctors have hoped could predict coronary heart disease (CHD) in patients—has been found not to be a useful predictive biomarker for disease risk, according to a Vanderbilt ...
Feb 21, 2020
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A new study in Cardiovascular Research finds that machine learning, the patterns and inferences computers use to learn to perform tasks, can predict the long-term risk of heart attack and cardiac death. Indeed, machine learning ...
Dec 19, 2019
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(HealthDay)—For patients with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes, visit-to-visit hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) variability is associated with increased risks for cardiovascular disease and microvascular complications, according to ...
Nov 19, 2019
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