Ask Well: Blockages in the Heart and Brain
A reader asks: Why do people get blockages in the arteries of the heart and brain, but rarely in other organs? (Source: NYT)
Source: NYT - January 5, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: By ANAHAD O'CONNOR Tags: Heart Body Brain Stroke Arteriosclerosis and Atherosclerosis Featured Source Type: news
Ask Well: Blockages in the Heart and Brain
A reader asks: Why do people get blockages in the arteries of the heart and brain, but rarely in other organs? (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - January 5, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: By ANAHAD O'CONNOR Tags: Heart Body Brain Stroke Arteriosclerosis and Atherosclerosis Featured Source Type: news
Ask Well: Blockages in the Heart and Brain
A reader asks: Why do people get blockages in the arteries of the heart and brain, but rarely in other organs? (Source: NYT)
Source: NYT - January 5, 2015 Category: Nutrition Authors: By ANAHAD O'CONNOR Tags: Heart Body Brain Stroke Arteriosclerosis and Atherosclerosis Featured Source Type: news
Well: Ask Well: Blockages in the Heart and Brain
A reader asks: Why do people get blockages in the arteries of the heart and brain, but rarely in other organs? (Source: NYT)
Source: NYT - January 5, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: By ANAHAD O'CONNOR Tags: Heart Body Brain Stroke Arteriosclerosis and Atherosclerosis Featured Source Type: news
Books: Martha Weinman Lear Returns to Medical Memoir, With Less Fury, in ‘Echoes of Heartsounds’
Martha Weinman Lear returns to the territory she covered in “Heartsounds,” but this is not a sequel so much as a rueful epilogue, a brief account of her own recent skirmish with heart disease. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - October 27, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: By ABIGAIL ZUGER, M.D. Tags: Lear, Martha Weinman Heart Echoes of Heartsounds (Book) Health Insurance and Managed Care Arteriosclerosis and Atherosclerosis Books and Literature Source Type: news
New research can improve heart health
(University of Copenhagen) For the first time, researchers at the University of Copenhagen and Rigshospitalet are able to show that a particular gene variant lowers the risk of arteriosclerosis by 41 percent, making the variant an obvious target for future drugs for cardiovascular disease treatment. The results are based on data from nearly 76,000 subjects and have just been published in the renowned New England Journal of Medicine. (Source: EurekAlert! - Biology)
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - June 18, 2014 Category: Biology Source Type: news
Attack is not always the best defense
(Friedrich-Schiller-Universitaet Jena) For many inflammatory diseases as asthma, rheumatism, arteriosclerosis and cancer there are only few effective therapies. But now pharmacists at Jena University developed three new drug candidates against inflammation. The scientists present the potential therapeutic agents in the British Journal of Pharmacology and the Journal of Medical Chemistry. The agents are able to suppress a key enzyme in the body's own cascade of inflammation. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - May 27, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Novel marker and possible therapeutic target for cardiovascular calcification identified
(Brigham and Women's Hospital) Led by Dr. Aikawa, a team of researchers at BWH and Kowa Company, Ltd., a Japanese pharmaceutical company, has discovered certain proteins in osteoclasts, a precursor to bone, that may be used in helping to destroy cardiovascular calcification by dissolving mineral deposits. The research, described in the March 2014 issue of Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology, suggests a potential therapeutic avenue for patients with cardiovascular calcification. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - March 13, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
New coating may reduce blood clot risk inside stents
Coating artery-opening stents with a new compound may someday eliminate a common side effect of the treatment, according to preliminary research in the American Heart Association journal Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology. Stents are tiny mesh tubes that prop open clogged arteries so blood will flow freely to heart muscle, relieving chest pain and reducing the risk of heart attack... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - September 9, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Surgery Source Type: news
Chest Pain Patients Could Get Quick DNA Test for Heart Problems
Testing fragments of DNA in the blood may be a fast way to find out if a patient's chest pain is due to coronary artery disease according to a new US-led study published online this week in the journal Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology. When patients complain of chest pain, they have to undergo a time-consuming and expensive set of tests to find out if the cause is something to do with the heart or some other problem, such as in the muscles, lungs or esophagus... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - July 2, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Heart Disease Source Type: news
Researchers Identify Target To Prevent Hardening Of Arteries
The hardening of arteries is a hallmark of atherosclerosis, an often deadly disease in which plaques, excessive connective tissue, and other changes build up inside vessel walls and squeeze off the flow of oxygen-rich blood throughout the body. Now, researchers at Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute have described the molecular and cellular pathway that leads to this hardening of the arteries - and zeroed in on a particularly destructive protein called Dkk1. Their study was published online today by Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - May 20, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Vascular Source Type: news
The Life Threatening Toll of Stress
New research confirms the life threatening toll of stress. What can you do to combat stress and break this cycle? read more (Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center)
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - May 18, 2013 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Christopher Bergland Tags: Anxiety Depression Health Stress arteriosclerosis biomarker clinical depression depressed patient hardening of the arteries heart disease heart disease patients inflammatory response interleukin 6 loyola university medical center Source Type: news
Jekyll into Hyde: Breathing auto emissions turns HDL cholesterol from 'good' to 'bad'
Academic researchers have found that breathing motor vehicle emissions triggers a change in high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol, altering its cardiovascular protective qualities so that it actually contributes to clogged arteries.
In addition to changing HDL from "good" to "bad," the inhalation of emissions activates other components of oxidation, the early cell and tissue damage that causes inflammation, leading to hardening of the arteries, according to the research team, which included scientists from UCLA and other institutions.
The findings of this early study, done in mice, are available in...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - May 15, 2013 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
Well: Safety: Air Pollution Tied to Heart Disease
Following more than 5,000 people in six cities and air pollution data, researchers found that the greater the level of air pollution, the greater the thickening of the carotid artery, a known risk for heart attack and stroke. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - May 2, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: By NICHOLAS BAKALAR Tags: Heart Air Pollution Body Carotid Arteries Arteriosclerosis and Atherosclerosis Featured Source Type: news
Diet, 'Anti-Aging' Supplements May Help Reverse Blood Vessel Abnormality
A diet low in grains, beans and certain vegetables - combined with "anti-aging" supplements - improved blood vessel function, in a study presented at the American Heart Association's Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology 2013 Scientific Sessions. The blood vessel abnormality, or endothelial dysfunction, occurs when cells lining the interior wall of blood vessels malfunction. It's a serious condition that's often one of the first signs of heart disease. Of the 200 51- to 86-year-old people in the study, 40 percent were women... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - May 2, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Cardiovascular / Cardiology Source Type: news
