Simple blood test may help to predict cardiovascular risk in older women
...nflammation in the development of atherosclerosis, thickening and hardening of the arteries, according to background information in the article. Measurement of a number of different molecules involved in inflammation has been proposed as a way to identify and monitor patients at risk for coronary heart disease....Air pollution thickens the blood
...ability to alter cell function so that it promotes thickening or coagulation of the blood. And they point to a potential synergy between the factors that boost inflammation and blood thickening. Ultrafine particles of inhaled particulate matter can enter the bloodstream, raising the possibility that their "thic...News tips for Tuesday, November 9, 2004
... to control mice. There was also less vessel wall thickening and a 57 percent decrease in artery narrowing (stenosis). Thus IL-12 vaccine blockade may become "a promising strategy for the treatment of atherosclerosis," the scientists said. 4:30 p.m. Abstract 3775 Women's coffee drinking may reduce insu...Taking pills, even if placebo, predicts better survival in heart failure
... heart failure is a condition characterized by the thickening of the walls of the heart. Over time this thickening restricts the heart's ability to pump enough blood to the body's tissues, and thereby to provide the...Air pollution may cause and speed up artery disease
... lipids damage the artery walls. This can lead to thickening of the artery wall, calcification and plaques and ultimately ruptures," Kuenzli said. "It is interesting that the effects of air pollution were particularly strong in older women. Also, those with increased cardiovascular risk profiles appeared to ...Oxygen therapy may improve vision worsened by diabetes
...ous laser therapy, it is possible that the reduced thickening of the macula achieved by oxygen allowed the laser to exercise a stabilizing effect. Diabetic macular edema affects up to 10 percent of all patients with diabetes. It is caused when high blood sugar, through a cascade of events, causes damage in nor...New drug is safer and more effective in preventing heart tranplant rejection
...splantation, and cardiac allograft vasculopathy, a thickening of the heart wall that can restrict blood flow. Findings from the second year of a multi-center study of the new anti-rejection drug everolimus were presented Thursday (April 22, 2004) at the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation...Insights from intravascular ultrasound explore treatment benefits
... findings of attenuation of development of intimal thickening by using everolimus remained even on analysis of 2 year end-points. Dr. Javier Segovia, Clinic Puerta de Hierro, Madrid, reported in a third study that sirolimus, another proliferation signal inhibitor, reduced coronary lesions of patients with esta...CellCept's cardioprotective profile reinforced
...sults, including an increase in MIT (measures the thickening of the wall of the coronary artery) of at least 0.3mm from baseline to one-year, are widely considered to be a marker for poor long-term outcome after heart transplantation. The analysis showed that a significantly larger number of patients treated w...Mycophenolate mofetil superior to azathioprine: Slows vascular disease progression after transplant
...cantly lower progression of intimal thickening, or thickening of the inner artery walls, compared with azathioprine (AZA). Intimal thickening is becoming increasingly important as a surrogate marker for long-term outcomes after heart transpla...Sounds of New York, evidence for a preferred ear, ultrasound for the eye
...tions as hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, an excessive thickening of heart muscle. Researchers will describe experiments that have shown the feasibility of ultrasound treatments in the beating heart (2aBB10, 2aBB9, 2aBB2). Finally, Ronald H. Silverman of Weill Medical College of Cornell University in New York ( r...Heart transplant survival: Results may be key to rejection prevention, detection, treatment
...raft vasculopathy (transplant vessel damage). This thickening of artery walls in a transplanted heart can result...r life threatening events. "Ultrasound can measure thickening in arterial walls and molecular testing can help us evaluate graft damage early, thus, allowing us t...Exercise is key to reversing obesity-related heart risk in children
...en who continued exercising had significantly less thickening of the carotid wall and more improvements in body fat content and lipid measures. By the end of the year, the endothelium-dependent dilation increased significantly in the initial exercise group (to 7.4 percent) and to 8.6 percent in those who kept ...Texas Children's Hospital implants first MicroMed/DeBakey child ventricular assist device
... resident Anna Grudziecke, whose cardiomyopathy, a thickening of the heart muscle, caused a rapid deterioration of her heart, underwent surgery on Friday, March 26 at Texas Children's Hospital in Houston, Texas. The surgery took approximately four hours. Added benefits of this device include reduced surgery ...HIV-infected have thicker carotid artery wallspredictor of heart attack & stroke
...HMC). "The greater rate of progression in arterial thickening among HIV patients is a cause for concern because it indicates that these patients could experience more vascular events in the future. Our primary motivation for starting a cardiac specialty clinic was to address cardiac issues and risk factors in H...Cardiac MRI detects thinned heart muscle previously deemed unsalvageable
...meters to 7.4 millimeters, while the systolic wall thickening increased from 4 percent to 32 percent. Systole is that part of the heart's pumping cycle when it contracts and pushes blood out to the body, while the diastole is when the heart relaxes and fills with blood in preparation for the next heart beat. "P...Bone marrow stem cells build new circulation to lungs
...s. The stem cell group also had a reduction in thickening of the heart wall. This indicated, that the cells were not only repairing the smaller vessels, but there were also improvements in larger vessels. We found a regenerative approach that could lead to a new clinical therapy for this devastating di...American Thoracic Society journal news tips for October 2003 (first issue)
... that their observation about the presence of both thickening of the basement membrane and airway eosinophilia in children with mild asthma suggest that airway remodeling processes begin early in the course of the disease and most likely occur in parallel with the establishment of chronic inflammation and not s...Immunosuppressant everolimus significantly reduces life-threatening heart transplant complications
...asculopathy (also known as chronic rejection), the thickening of the innermost wall of the transplanted heart's coronary arteries, which can restrict blood supply and place the patient's life at risk. "After one year post-transplant, cardiac allograft vasculopathy is the most serious cause of long-term complica......ed in the inflammatory processes that cause artery thickening and buildup. However, researchers know little about IL-6's relation to psychological risk factors, Suarez says. Suarez examined the link between depression and hostility and IL-6 levels in 90 healthy, nonsmoking men ages 18 to 45. After giving a bloo...