Early heart disease in parents linked to thicker artery walls in offspring
...walls. This noninvasive imaging technique detects vascular disease before symptoms are present. O'Donnell notes that many previous studies investigating family history relied on the offspring's reports to determine if parents had heart disease. This introduces the possibility of recall bias, as people with...Cedars-Sinai Medical tipsheet for July 2003
...isolated a key step in the mechanism that leads to vascular plaque buildup and blood clot formation. UNIQUE CENTER TARGETS BOTH EXCESSIVE AND INSUFFICIENT LEVELS OF MALE HORMONES IN WOMEN Although commonly referred to as "male" hormones, androgens also circulate in the bloodstreams of women. If they rise ...Could a mandated food additive aimed at better fetal development be a risk for seniors?
...ch frequently are encountered in cardiac and other vascular disorders. B-12 deficiency can also result in anemia (lower levels of red blood cells) and damage to the nervous system. Common symptoms for the deficiency are fatigue from anemia, mental confusion and sensory and movement difficulties. Vegans (stri...UC Davis physicians use high-tech virtual system
...ing David Dawson, associate professor and chief of vascular surgery, and Daniel Link, professor and chief of interventional radiology, also believe simulators have a role in medical education. "Simulation systems enable physicians to learn new procedures, measure their level of skill and maintain proficiency ...Endografts help prevent deaths from abdominal aortic aneurysms
... endograft is giving emergency room physicians and vascular surgeons a promising alternative for treating rupt...., professor of radiology and division director of vascular and interventional radiology at the University of Michigan. "Studies have shown that, in select pati...Other highlights of the May 21 JNCI
...rian cancer growth by increasing the expression of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), which promotes a...odies, and examining their ability to induce tumor vascular permeability. One fragment, permeability-enhancing peptide (PEP), had the same vasopermeability acti...Study showed the number one prescribed Alzheimer's treatment beneficial in vascular dementia (VaD)
...pezil HCl tablets), may also benefit patients with vascular dementia (VaD), according to a study analysis presented at the American Academy of Neurology (AAN) 55th Annual Meeting. There are no medications approved to treat VaD, which affects approximately 1.3 million Americans. VaD is caused by a single, lo...Parkinson's drug linked to heart disease risk factor
...py was responsible for the increased prevalence of vascular disease, Diaz-Arrastia said. Low levels of vitamin B12 and folic acid are a common cause of increases in homocysteine levels in the blood. Deficiencies of these vitamins, however, did not explain the elevated homocysteine levels among patients who ha...Rush begins use of magnetic guided navigation system
...cally controlled system to enter the brain and its vascular system to treat a variety of diseases without surgically opening up the skull and brain. "Magnet-guided neurosurgery allows us to use a guidewire and catheter to manipulate surgical tools within the brain in ways that previously were impossible," ...By repairing vessels, bone marrow cells slow atherosclerosis in mice
...ly resistant to damage because stem cells known as vascular progenitor cells (VPCs) produced in the bone marro...ly we have focused on removing multiple sources of vascular injury, we now demonstrate that an alternative approach, vascular rejuvenation, can positively impac...Parents' smoke injures children's blood vessels
... disease and stroke, and is an important marker of vascular damage. Free-radicals, which are unstable molecule...."It is well known that atherosclerotic lesions on vascular tissue are strongly correlated to risk factors that include cigarette smoking," Sinzinger says. "Co...Bone marrow cell transplant treats clogged leg arteries
...r cells, expressed basic fibroblast growth factor, vascular endothelial growth factor and angiopoietin-1. These vascular growth factors play key roles in angiogenesis. "Endothelial progenitor cells have vascular growth fa...Totality of evidence shows aspirin reduces risk of a first heart attack by one-third
...l as the combined risk of heart attack, stroke and vascular death by 15%. These findings strongly support th...oid more than 160,000 heart attacks and many other vascular events each year." In 1988, Dr. Hennekens published the landmark Physicians' Health Study (PHS) find...Engineered blood vessels prove durable and clot resistant
...used for blood vessels, new heart valves, or other vascular prostheses. We expect to begin this research in h... The first patients will be those with peripheral vascular disease, the severe blockage of a leg artery that can lead to amputation....Obese women have thicker carotid artery walls, higher stroke risk
...nal medicine and director of the clinical unit for vascular medicine Federico II University, Naples, Italy. "There is an established link between obesity and damage to the heart, but whether obesity also has an independent effect on the carotid arteries is less well known," he says. Researchers investigated ...Eating fish cuts risk of dementia
...umption and risk of dementia. As well as providing vascular protection, the fatty acids contained in fish oils could reduce inflammation in the brain and may have a specific role in brain development and regeneration of nerve cells, suggest the authors. Healthy dietary habits acquired in infancy could be asso...Calcium-blocker drug slows artery clogging better than beta blocker
...hat accumulate in the arterial wall and binds with vascular cells. "So it may be more powerful than other calcium antagonists," he says....Antibiotic slows atherosclerosis in people with Chlamydia pneumonia antibodies
...ral systemic inflammation, including irritation of vascular walls. In the baseline period, IMT progressed in Cp patients at a rate of 0.12 millimeters a year (mm/year) compared to 0.07 mm/year in patients without the antibody, regardless of other cardiovascular risk factors. After two years of antibiotic tr...Moderately high homocysteine tied to stroke, Alzheimers risk
...ls in patients with stroke, Alzheimer's disease or vascular dementia were consistently higher than homocystein...y poor blood flow to the brain, a condition called vascular dementia (average age 77); 64 stroke patients (average age 74) and 71 healthy volunteers (average ag......oduced substantial additional benefit in all major vascular outcomes. Therefore, in the absence of clear contr...e considered in all patients at high risk of major vascular events."...