New hope for severe heart disease patients
... positively, with most experiencing a reduction in angina and finding that they were able to reduce their intake of pain relief with marked improvements in some patients," Professor Graham said. "This is an incredible result, especially when you consider that many of these patients had already undergone ...Moderate drinking lowers women's risk of heart attack
...eart attack, coronary bypass surgery, angioplasty, angina or a previous diagnosis of cardiovascular disease were excluded from the study. Participants -- 320 heart attack patients and 1,565 controls -- were enrolled between 1996 and 2001. Extensive information was collected on the type of beverage consum...Erectile dysfunction -- the canary in the mineshaft?
...nephrolithiasis was 1.15; the risk was highest for angina among individual outcomes analyzed. No increased stroke risk was observed. While the statistical risk for CVD in stone disease patients was modest, results correlate with other studies investigating a link between CVD and nephrolithiasis and may cont...Unfair treatment boosts heart attack risk
... new cases of fatal and non-fatal heart attack and angina in people who had had no signs of heart disease when the study began. Just under 3,000 people felt they were unfairly treated, of whom 64 out of 966 in the "low" category had had a heart attack or angina. This compares with 98 out of 1368 in the ...Angioplasty reduces long-term cardiac risk among heart patients with 'silent' ischemia
...an occur without accompanying signs or symptoms of angina (chest pain due to inadequate supply of oxygen to the heart muscle), but can be detected by electrocardiogram (ECG) and other techniques. Silent ischemia has been shown to predict adverse prognosis in patients after myocardial infarction (MI, heart ...London asthma sufferers get space-based help
...th asthma, emphysema, bronchitis, heart disease or angina as well as for those who live or work in London. The service has operated in the Borough of Croydon, the largest borough by population, since July 2005 and has received a positive response with 80 percent of users saying it has helped them manage the...Novel anti-oxidant and anti-inflammatory agent shows effectiveness on key endpoints in trial
...44 high-risk cardiovascular patients with unstable angina (chest pain) or who had suffered a heart attack. P...revascularization and hospitalization for unstable angina diagnosed with blocked coronary artery. Dr. Jean-Claude Tardif will present the results of this...MERLIN TIMI-36 study provides new safety and efficacy data for unique anti-anginal therapy
...roved new pharmaceutical approach to treat chronic angina is a novel drug called ranolazine, which was appro...ine therapy in patients who continue to experience angina despite treatment with another class of anti-anginal medication. This restriction is due to theoreti...Study finds coronary procedure adds no benefit over 'optimal medical therapy' alone
...he PCI group was more likely to report relief from angina throughout most of the follow-up period, but this difference disappeared over five years of follow-up. "People assume that once you have PCI, it's curative," said first author and presenter William E. Boden, MD. "I think the best we can say is th...Pairing medical therapy with coronary intervention fails to reduce heart disease deaths
... The one benefit found for the PCI group was less angina compared with the medical therapy group, suggesting that while, on average, PCI does not allow patients to live longer or reduce their chances for a heart attack, it does improve their symptoms and quality of life. "Conventional wisdom would indica...Breast cancer survivors experience long-term heart disease risk from radiotherapy
...ients had an increase in the risk of heart attack, angina (chest pain due to an oxygen shortage in the heart...th the general female population. The incidence of angina seemed to increase over time. The researchers found differences in cardiovascular disease incidence...No benefit to mechanically opening arteries days after a heart attack
...s been proven to improve symptoms in patients with angina and to prolong life in patients early after a heart attack," said Dr. Hochman. "This study shows that angioplasty provides no benefit in these patients with a total blockage and no or mild symptoms late after a heart attack. Patients should know whet...Early statin therapy for patients with acute coronary syndromes reduces death, cardiovascular events
...comes, particularly cardiovascular death, unstable angina and revascularization when prescribed within 14 days of hospitalization for acute coronary syndrome," the authors write. "These benefits took more than four months to begin to accrue and were sustained for two years. During these two years, there w...Coronary surgery -- keeping the way clear
...ng, causing a restricted blood flow and leading to angina or heart attacks. By inserting a wire mesh tube collapsed to a narrow diameter (the stent) into the narrow part of the artery, and inflating a balloon catheter inside, the artery is successfully held open. This procedure often causes damage to the ar...Study points to improvements needed in China heart care
...oblem in the management of heart attack and severe angina patients in China, according to the results of a study announced today at the World Congress of Cardiology in Barcelona, Spain. "China's health care system has undergone considerable changes toward a 'fee for service' model where access to treatmen...Sister, can you spare a million?
...ng her lifetime. But even a woman who suffers from angina without an obstruction can expect her condition to...k medications and therapies to reduce ischemia and angina over their lifetimes," said Bairey Merz, who holds the Women's Guild Chair in Women's Health at Ceda...Popular statin reduces recurrent stroke risk
...eir risk of cardiovascular events such as unstable angina by 42 percent; and their need for coronary revascularization procedures, such as coronary artery bypass grafting or cardiac catheterization, by 45 percent, compared to treatment with an inactive placebo. In the trial, the researchers enrolled 4,731...ESC releases updated Guidelines for the Management of Stable Angina Pectoris
... for invasive investigation and treatment. "Stable angina pectoris is responsible for considerable morbidity and mortality throughout the world," said Professor Kim Fox, chairperson of the ESC Guidelines on the Management of Stable Angina Pectoris. "Improvements in the investigation, management and treatmen...Statins prove life-saving in patients with acute coronary syndromes
...py reduced the risk of another episode of unstable angina by 17 percent and the need to open a blocked coronary artery with a catheter-based procedure or coronary bypass surgery by 9 percent. The improvement in survival was noticeable early on but became statistically certain only after six months of statin...Evidence for omega 3 fats less conclusive than we thought, say experts
... a high intake of omega 3 fats for people who have angina but have not had a heart attack. To understand the effects of omega 3 fats on health, we need more high quality randomised controlled trials of long duration that also report the associated harms, they conclude. We are faced with a paradox, says Eric...