News tagged with microvascular angina
Doctor finds a way to treat a controversial angina in the heart's tiny arteries
Mar 27, 2009 |
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Most chest pain is caused by fatty deposits that hinder blood flow through the main, spaghetti-thick arteries of the heart.
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Heart study shows many suffer poor quality of life
Sep 15, 2009 |
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The world's largest quality of life study of chronic angina patients has revealed that almost one in three experience frequent chest pain, which affects their daily life.
Angina: New drug gets right to the heart of the problem
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Jan 07, 2009 |
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A compound designed to prevent chest pains in heart patients has shown promising results in animal studies, say scientists. In the second issue of the British Journal of Pharmacology to be published by Wiley-Blackwell, resear ...
Men with angina at twice the risk of heart attack and death compared with women
Aug 07, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Men with angina are twice as likely to have a heart attack and almost three times as likely to suffer a heart disease-related death than women with the same condition, finds a study published on bmj.com today ...
Gap between sexes in care of common heart condition
Apr 03, 2008 |
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Women with a common heart condition may receive a lower level of medical care compared to men with the same condition, according to researchers at the University of Aberdeen.
Heart rate-lowering drug improves exercise capacity in patients with stable angina
Oct 30, 2008 |
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Results from a late-breaking clinical trial, presented at the 2008 Canadian Cardiology Congress (CCC) in Toronto, show for the first time that combining the pure heart rate reduction medication ivabradine to current treatments ...
Herbal trials flawed but worth pursuing
Oct 27, 2006 |
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Researchers say Chinese trials using an herbal remedy with conventional treatments to treat angina showed some benefits but are unreliable.
Study examines prevalence of chest pain in patients 1 year after heart attack
Jun 23, 2008 |
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Nearly one in five patients experiences chest pain one year after having a heart attack, according to a report in the June 23 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
Diabetes associated with different types of brain injury in patients with dementia
Jan 12, 2009 |
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Patients with dementia and diabetes appear to display a different pattern of injuries in their brains than patients with dementia but without diabetes, according to an article posted online today that will appear in the March ...
Your own stem cells can treat heart disease
Nov 17, 2009 |
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The largest national stem cell study for heart disease showed the first evidence that transplanting a potent form of adult stem cells into the heart muscle of subjects with severe angina results in less pain and an improved ...
Women and South Asians with angina have worse clinical outcomes
Sep 22, 2008 |
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Women and South Asian people with typical pain were more likely than those with atypical pain to receive a diagnosis of angina pectoris and to have increased mortality rates or acute coronary complications, a study by UK ...
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