News tagged with coronary atherosclerosis


Contraceptive use may be safe, but information gaps remain

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Jan 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Introduced in the 1960s, oral contraceptives have been used by about 80 percent of women in the United States at some point in their lives. For women without pre-existing risks for heart disease, the early formulations were ...


Long-term HIV treatment may reduce risk for atherosclerosis

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created Aug 04, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Antiretroviral drugs for HIV do not increase the risk for coronary atherosclerosis, a central risk factor for heart disease, according to a study led by the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health to be ...





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Study of testosterone in older men

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center announced today that it will participate in a large national study of the effectiveness of testosterone as a treatment for anemia, cardiovascular disease, ...


Too much selenium can increase your cholesterol

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created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A new study from the University of Warwick has discovered taking too much of the essential mineral selenium in your diet can increase your cholesterol by almost 10%.


Findings suggest lipid assessment in vascular disease can be simplified, without the need to fast

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created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Lipid assessment in vascular disease can be simplified by measuring either total and HDL cholesterol levels or apolipoproteins, without the need to fast and without regard to triglyceride levels, according to a study in the ...


1 in 4 hospitalized heart failure patients with Medicare back in hospital within a month

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created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Almost a quarter of heart failure patients with Medicare are back in the hospital within a month after discharge, researchers report in Circulation: Heart Failure, a journal of the American Heart Association.


Researchers using excimer laser angioplasty to blast arterial blockages in heart and kidneys

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created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Using an excimer laser to widen narrowed or obstructed blood vessels in hard-to-reach areas of heart and kidney arteries may be feasible and safe, according to a study by a team of researchers from the Virginia ...


Kidney function decline increases risk of heart failure and premature death

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created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Declining kidney function is linked to a higher risk of heart failure, heart attack, peripheral arterial disease, and early death in individuals with or without kidney disease, according to a pair of studies appearing in ...


Small increases in phosphorus mean higher risk of heart disease

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created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Higher levels of phosphorus in the blood are linked to increased calcification of the coronary arteries— a key marker of heart disease risk, according to a study in an upcoming issue of Clinical Journal of the American So ...


Scientists reveal a new mechanism that increases atherosclerosis in mice

Scientists reveal a new mechanism that increases atherosclerosis in mice

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created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- For all the good it does, a liver protein that senses and gets rid of drugs and pollutants from our body has a downside. For the first time, it has been shown that when it is chronically activated, ...


Drug that increases good cholesterol reduces clogging of arteries

Drug that increases good cholesterol reduces clogging of arteries

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created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A drug that raises levels of 'good' cholesterol, when taken in addition to standard statin therapy to lower 'bad' cholesterol, can reduce the furring up of arteries in patients with established ...


Study points to new uses, unexpected side effects of already existing drugs

Study points to new uses, unexpected side effects of already existing drugs

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created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Scientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine and the University of California, San Francisco have developed and experimentally tested a technique to predict new target diseases ...



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