Specialized transitional nursing care that helps elderly heart failure patients move from hospital to home may cut their risk of death or hospital readmission,...
In healthy subjects, flow-mediated endothelium-dependent vasodilation (FMD) is attenuated in the early morning, a finding that could help clarify why...
The combination of the G460W polymorphism of alpha-adducin and a high sodium intake is associated with higher systolic blood pressure in men, according to a...
In type 2 diabetics previously treated with diet and exercise, repaglinide is comparable to nateglinide in terms of postprandial glycemic effects, but it is...
Exposure to air pollution poses a serious threat to overall and cardiovascular health, the American Heart Association warns in a scientific statement published...
http://heartdisease.about.com/ Comment: Dr. Wang, my question is: Which of these diets will best maintain a healthy state of endothelial function in...
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Flavonoid-rich dark chocolate improves endothelial function and is associated with increased plasma epicatechin concentrations in healthy adults, according to...
In attempts at narrowing what appears to be the vast pool of potential candidates for implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) therapy, more and more...
Angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors appear to be useful in facilitating cardioversion from persistent atrial fibrillation, UK researchers report in...
Stenting of symptomatic atherosclerotic lesions in the vertebral or intracranial arteries using the NEUROLINK System (Guidant Corporation) is safe, feasible,...
Forearm blood glucose testing is an acceptable alternative to finger- prick testing in young diabetic patients, according to a report in the June issue of the...
As well as decreasing insulin resistance by inducing weight loss in obese type 2 diabetics, the gastrointestinal lipase inhibitor orlistat may prompt a helpful...
Statin therapy before and during hospitalization for an acute coronary syndrome (ACS) improves patient outcome, according to results of an observational study...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved trospium chloride for the treatment of overactive bladder, a new device that delivers follitropin alpha for...
Subcutaneous adjusted-dose therapy with unfractionated heparin is as effective and safe as fixed-dose low molecular weight heparin (nadroparin calcium) for the...
Despite convincing data on the benefits of angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor (ACEI) therapy in patients with heart failure (HF), many hospitalized HF...
Health insurers, spurred on by employers grappling with billions of dollars in costs due to obese employees, are increasingly subsidizing programs such as...
HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors (statins) augment collateral vessel growth in ischemic tissue but not in tumors, the result of an animal study suggest. The...
Idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) may be the result of beta1- adrenergic receptor (beta1-AR)-directed autoimmune attack, according to German researchers....
In patients with unexplained electrocardiographic (ECG) repolarization abnormalities, a normal echocardiogram without contrast does not rule out apical...
Angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors significantly reduce all-cause mortality in patients with type 2 diabetes who do not have a history of...
Almost everyone with diabetes should consider taking a statin drug to lower cholesterol, even if they already have low cholesterol levels, the American...
Increased blood levels of carotenoids, but not of retinol, lutein, or tocopherols, are associated with reduced risk of stroke, according to the results of a...
An international research team has developed a prediction model that appears useful in assessing the 6-month risk of death after hospitalization for acute...
Hot on the heels of a worldwide survey showing that even diabetes experts do not pay enough attention to lipid levels as risk factors for cardiovascular...
Because hypercholesterolemia is a risk factor for intracerebral hemorrhage, lipid-lowering medications might theoretically increase the risk of intracerebral...
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