Sirolimus-eluting Coronary Stent is cost effective vs. bypass surgery
... (TCT 2005) Conference. Treatment of multi-vessel coronary artery disease with the CYPHER Stent was found to ...when adjusted for patient differences in extent of coronary artery disease and diabetes, were $6,487 less (21 percent) for CYPHER Stent than for CABG, at $30,38...Testosterone therapy improves sexual function in post-menopausal women
...d, "Testosterone has not been found to alter other coronary heart disease risk factors." The review appears in the most recent issue of The Cochrane Library, a publication of The Cochrane Collaboration, an international organization that evaluates medical research. Systematic reviews draw evidence-based concl...Heart attack death rates found higher in hospitals treating larger share of African Americans
...g certain post-AMI surgical interventions, such as coronary artery bypass grafting. The researchers point out that in this study, 21 percent of the hospitals treated 69 percent of the elderly African-American AMI patients. The average Medicare AMI patient was treated in a hospital where 6.9 percent of AMI pa...Columbia study shows how doctors may manage blood glucose levels during heart surgery
... associated with lower blood glucose levels during coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery. The research presented today at the American Society of Anesthesiologists 2005 Annual Meeting in Atlanta, Ga., showed that CABG patients receiving aprotinin had 24 percent lower blood glucose levels and a decrease ...Justice at workplace associated with reduced risk of coronary heart disease
...he workplace was associated with a reduced risk of coronary heart disease in a large long-term study of Britis... chronic stress and its attendent association with coronary heart disease (CHD). Mika Kivimaki, Ph.D., of the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Helsink...Viagra blunts effects of stress on the human heart
...with an average age of 30 and no previous signs of coronary artery disease, participated in the six-month study. Within a three-hour timeframe, each participant received two separate injections of dobutamine (5 micrograms per kilogram for five minutes), a synthetic, adrenaline-like chemical that increases he...Most comprehensive USA clinical trial to date shows competing medicated stents work equally well
...ton reported that the performance of two competing coronary stents was "virtually identical" in head-to-head c...stents in preventing the recurrence of blockage in coronary arteries repaired via angioplasty. However, only two manufacturers produce drug-eluting stents, whic...Diabetes and depression can be a fatal mix
...ly point to important correlations. In people with coronary artery disease, depression is associated with abou...ent to 80 percent of people with diabetes die from coronary artery disease. Among the biological factors that might account for the link between depression and ...Walking and sports linked with heart health benefits in Japan, too
...y tend to have lower levels of ischemic stroke and coronary heart disease, according to a new study in the Nov...ationship between sports participation and risk of coronary heart disease in Asian countries, where job-related physical activity is generally higher than in We...Growth patterns into childhood reveal risk of coronary heart disease later in life
PORTLAND, Ore. - The risk of developing coronary heart disease as an adult is more strongly related...h, after birth and into childhood reveal a risk of coronary heart disease later in life," said lead study author David Barker, M.D., Ph.D., professor of medicin...Deprived people less likely to get treatment to prevent heart disease
...ing heart disease underestimates the true level of coronary heart disease risk associated with elevated risk factor levels in these groups. Dr Peter Brindle, a researcher at the University of Bristol and a Bristol GP, said of the study: "Our results suggest that 4,196 people in the study, mainly from manual s...CHEST 2005 abstract highlights
... While aspirin therapy within 24 hours of off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting (OPCAB) is standard, new study results show that this treatment may do more harm than good. Researchers at Escorts Heart Institute and Research Center in New Delhi, India, looked at data from 750 patients who underwent OPCABG. ...Annals of Internal Medicine tip sheet for Nov. 1, 2005
...e disease, included education and counseling about coronary risk factors, education plus supervised exercise programs, and structured exercise programs alone. Researchers found benefits associated with all three types of programs. Overall, they positively affected risk factor profiles, such as blood pressur...Characteristic cardiac scar pattern predicts risk of fatal arrhythmias
...tests are widely available to screen patients with coronary artery disease for risk of sudden cardiac death, t...or cardiac assessment. None had previous signs of coronary artery disease, another leading cause of sudden cardiac death, yet were experiencing other symptoms ...Diabetic blacks have less coronary artery disease than diabetic whites
... levels of calcified atherosclerotic plaque in the coronary (heart) arteries and the carotid arteries in the n...risk factors would normally be expected to promote coronary artery disease in the black participants." This result was also observed in the face of increased t...Shortness of breath without chest pain can signify the presence of high risk heart disease
...it may be the only sign of the presence of serious coronary artery disease that may need treatment," said Dani...Medical Center. "If we can identify patients with coronary disease before an event occurs, then the vast majority of the cardiac events could be prevented by m...New drug could substantially reduce deaths from heart attack
...lopidogrel adds to the benefit of aspirin in acute coronary syndromes without ST-segment elevation*. However, clopidogrel's effect on major heart attack patients with ST-elevation has been unclear until now. Zhengming Chen (University of Oxford, UK) and colleagues recruited over 45,800 patients with onset of...African-Americans have worse quality of life after heart attack or unstable angina
...than white patients one year after suffering acute coronary syndromes, such as heart attacks or unstable angin...and poorer quality of life one year after an acute coronary syndrome than whites," said John Spertus, M.D., M.P.H., F.A.C.C., at the Mid America Heart Institute...Reducing barriers to exercise can save women's lives
...y women in developing a healthy lifestyle to avoid coronary heart disease (CHD) a leading killer of women in the US. Women have perceived barriers to modifying their risk of CHD. The most commonly cited barriers were related to exercise, including family commitments interfering with exercise, laziness, and l...No link found between caffeine intake and development of hypertension in women
...e article. Hypertension is a major risk factor for coronary heart disease, stroke, and congestive heart failure. Therefore, even small reductions in the prevalence of hypertension could have a potentially large public health and financial impact. Several previous studies have indicated a possible association...