News articles tagged with 'artery'
Regions with higher rate of diagnoses have lower fatality rate for chronic conditions
— 16 Mar 2011 13:22 | HealthAn examination of data for more than 5 million Medicare beneficiaries finds that hospital regions that have a greater frequency of diagnoses have a lower case-fatality rate for chronic…
International collaborative identifies 13 new heart-disease-associated gene sites
— 6 Mar 2011 19:18 | HealthAn international research collaboration has identified 13 new gene sites associated with the risk of coronary artery disease and validated 10 sites found in previous studies. Several…
Peripheral artery disease harder on women
— 5 Feb 2011 14:21 | HealthSmall calf muscles may be a feminine trait, but for women with peripheral artery disease (PAD) they're a major disadvantage. Researchers at Northwestern Medicine point to the smaller…
New nanoparticles make blood clots visible
— 3 Feb 2011 17:57 | HealthFor almost two decades, cardiologists have searched for ways to see dangerous blood clots before they cause heart attacks…
NIH researchers identify genetic cause of new vascular disease
— 3 Feb 2011 17:21 | HealthClinical researchers at the National Institutes of Health's Undiagnosed Diseases Program (UDP) have identified the genetic cause of a rare and debilitating vascular disorder not previously…
Altered gene protects some African-Americans from coronary artery disease
— 28 Jan 2011 16:24 | HealthA team of scientists at Johns Hopkins and elsewhere has discovered that a single alteration in the genetic code of about a fourth of African-Americans helps protect them from coronary…
Mammograms: Detecting more than breast cancer, may help assess heart risk in kidney disease patients
— 21 Jan 2011 19:17 | HealthRoutine mammograms performed for breast cancer screening could serve another purpose as well: detecting calcifications in the blood vessels of patients with advanced kidney disease,…
New measure trumps HDL levels in protecting against heart disease
— 13 Jan 2011 16:30 | HealthThe discovery that high levels of high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol (the 'good cholesterol') is associated with reduced risk of cardiovascular disease has fostered intensive…
For CABG, use of artery from arm does not appear to be superior to vein grafts from the leg
— 12 Jan 2011 17:25 | HealthUse of a radial artery (located within the forearm, wrist and hand) graft compared with a saphenous vein (from the leg) graft for coronary artery bypass grafting did not result in improved…
Porphyromonas gingivalis accelerates inflammatory atherosclerosis in a mouse model
— 4 Jan 2011 21:53 | HealthAtherosclerosis is the leading cause of death in the developed world. While a number of risk factors for atherosclerosis have been defined, scientists continue to study other possible…