My 83 year old mother, in seemingly excellent health for her age, developed shortness of breath and light-headedness the other day. Went to the hospital...
Peptide Assay Distinguishes Pulmonary From Cardiac DyspneaResults of a new study found that about 25% of patients with diabetes type 1 or type 2 have symptoms...
Although both paclitaxel- and sirolimus-eluting stents reduce restenosis in small coronary vessels, the sirolimus-eluting version appears to be more effective,...
Transdermal estradiol's effect on increasing arterial blood flow during treatment for advanced prostate cancer may explain its initial cardiotoxicity, British...
Antibody evidence of Chlamydia pneumoniae infection, particularly IgA, is associated with an increased risk of ischemic stroke, according to the results of two...
HIV-infected patients without the metabolic syndrome have endothelial dysfunction similar to that seen in HIV-negative patients with type 2 diabetes, while...
Infection with Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), manifesting as infectious mononucleosis, in adolescents and young adults, more than doubles the risk of developing...
The risk of complications after bariatric surgery increases slightly for each additional year over age 60, according to a report in the Archives of Surgery for...
Magnesium intake in young adults is inversely proportional to the risk for metabolic syndrome, according to the results of a prospective study reported in the...
Transdermal estradiol's effect on increasing arterial blood flow during treatment for advanced prostate cancer may explain its initial cardiotoxicity, British...
Ambulatory blood pressure (BP) is better than office BP for providing prognostic information about cardiovascular morbidity and mortality, according to a study...
Direct intramyocardial percutaneous delivery of autologous bone marrow is a practical procedure that appears to be beneficial to patients with refractory...
For patients with aortic dissection (AD) confined to the descending aorta (Stanford type B), retrograde endovascular stent-graft placement is associated with a...
In patients taking metformin as monotherapy to treat type 2 diabetes, achieving a low level of glycosylated hemoglobin level (HbA1c) during the first year...
The peak level of creatinine kinase (CK) after primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for acute myocardial infarction (MI) is directly associated...
Systemic delivery of small interfering RNAs in a liposomal formulation can silence the apolipoprotein B (ApoB) gene in non- human primates, according to a...
Older patients with heart failure are more likely to comply with medication regimens and appointment keeping, and less with exercise and weighing, according to...
Aerobic-based cardiac rehabilitation may help improve heart rate recovery (HRR) in patients with heart failure (HF) and low exercise capacity, according to...
Clinical Classification Schemes for Predicting HemorrhageBackground: There is substantial evidence from clinical trials that lowering low- density lipoprotein...
Background: Although warfarin and other anticoagulants can prevent ischemic events, they can cause hemorrhage. Quantifying the rate of hemorrhage is crucial...
Japanese researchers have harvested endometrial stem cells from human menstrual blood. These stem cells have "an extremely higher potential" as a source of...
Implications TALISMAN is the first double-blind, placebo-controlled study in critical limb ischemia subjects not eligible for revascularization (surgical...
The first clinical trial of gene therapy in patients with critical limb ischemia not eligible for revascularization has shown a significant decrease in...
HDL cholesterol predicts major adverse coronary events independent of other cardiovascular risk factors, according to a report in the March American Heart...
Measurement of the ankle/brachial index (ABI) is a simple way of identifying patients with diabetes who are at increased risk of future cardiovascular disease,...
The peak level of creatinine kinase (CK) after primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for acute myocardial infarction (MI) is directly associated...
Results of a Dutch study confirm that low ankle-brachial index (ABI) values at rest are a strong and independent predictor of long-term mortality and highlight...
Contraception with depo-medroxyprogesterone acetate (DMPA) is associated with an increase in the risk of diabetes in some Latino women with prior gestational...
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