Mayo Clinic research has revealed special echocardiograms show promise for early detection of a potentially deadly complication in rheumatoid arthritis: heart disease.
The findings were being presented at The European League Against Rheumatism annual meeting in Berlin. Rheumatoid arthritis patients are at higher risk of cardiovascular disease and it is important to take steps to intervene, but the risk assessment tools physicians commonly use often underestimate the danger.
Myocardial strain ...
Mayo Clinic research has revealed special echocardiograms show promise for early detection of a potentially deadly complication in rheumatoid arthritis: heart disease.
The findings were being presented at The European League Against Rheumatism annual meeting in Berlin. Rheumatoid arthritis patients are at higher risk of cardiovascular disease and it is important to take steps to intervene, but the risk assessment tools physicians commonly use often underestimate the danger.
Myocardial strain ...
While air pollution has been linked with a number of respiratory problems, a new study conducted by researchers at Tel Aviv University has found that it also increases the risk of heart problems by more than 40 percent. Tel Aviv University's Dr Yariv Gerber followed up on more than 1,200 first time MI patients hospitalized between 1992 and 1993 and found that those who lived in areas with high air pollution were 40 percent more likely to suffer from another heart attack compared to those who lived in areas with a comparatively cleaner air....
A new study published in the journal Aging Cell reveals that reducing your calorie intake would not only help you fight off putting on those excess kilos, but also reduce the burden on the heart as you grow older. The study was conducted by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis who fitted heart monitors on a group of 22 people who followed a Calorie Restriction diet, consuming 30 percent less calories than normal. On comparing the results with another group of 20 ...
An overwhelming majority of African-American patients with hypertension also suffered hidden heart disease caused by high blood pressure even though they displayed no symptoms says a Wayne State University School of Medicine study.
The study - "Subclinical Hypertensive Heart Disease in African-American Patients with Elevated Blood Pressure in an Inner-City Emergency Department" - was conducted by Phillip Levy, M.D., M.P.H., associate professor of Emergency Medicine, and was recently published online in iAnnals of Emergency Medicine/i....
A high chance of getting a promotion at the office could not only provide a boost for your career, but can also help improve your heart health, a new study by researchers at University College London reveals. The researchers looked into the employment histories of more than 4,700 civil servants in Whitehall over a period of 15 years and found that those who worked in departments that had high rates of promotion were at a 20 percent lower risk of developing heart problems compared to those who worked ...
A new study published in the journal Neurosurgery reveals that the experience of a surgeon plays an important role in the outcome of the surgery for patients with spinal stenosis with researchers revealing that if the number of such surgeries conducted by the doctor is less than four per year, then the risk of complications is higher.
The journal is published by a href="http:www.lww.com/"Lippincott Williams (and) Wilkins/a, a part of a href="http:www.wkhealth.com/"Wolters Kluwer Health/a....
Aspirin consumed for a period of five days before a heart surgery can halve the numbers of people developing post-operative acute kidney failure, states research presented at the European Anaesthesiology Congress in Paris on Sunday.
Professor Jianzhong Sun (MD, PhD), professor and attending anaesthesiologist at Jefferson Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University (Philadelphia, USA), told the meeting that in a study of 3,219 patients, pre-operative aspirin therapy was associated with a reduction ...
Popular Atkins diet can heighten the risk of heart disease, say researchers.
Researchers from Sweden found that the introduction of the low-carbohydrate regime led to a surge in saturated fat intake in 2004, with an increase in cholesterol levels three years later.
"While low carbohydrate/high fat diets may help short-term weight loss, these results of this Swedish study demonstrate that long-term weight loss is not maintained and that this diet increases blood cholesterol, which has ...
Even slightly higher levels of glucose in the blood visibly boost the risk of ischemic heart disease reveals latest research from the University of Copenhagen.The study involves more than 80,000 people and has just been published in the well-reputed iJournal of the American College of Cardiology/i.
It is not only diabetics who risk heart-related problems resulting from lifelong above-average blood glucose levels. New research from the University of Copenhagen shows that even a slightly elevated ...
After new guidelines stipulated giving preventive antibiotics before dental procedures only to those at greatest risk of complications the incidence of infective endocarditis among dental patients in Olmsted County, Minn. did not augment, states independent research published in iCirculation/i, an American Heart Association journal. Infective endocarditis is a bacterial infection of the heart lining, heart valve or blood vessel.
Although rare, it can occur when bacteria enter the bloodstream ...
Researchers have identified the new cause of cardiac damage after heart attack in patients with type 1 diabetes.
"The problem arises from autoimmunity, a condition that people with type 1 diabetes already have ," says Myra A. Lipes, M.D, investigator in the Section on Immunology at Joslin and principal investigator of a study published in the June 13 edition of the journal IScience Translational Medicine.
/IIn the current work, Lipes and her team identified the factor that triggers ...
Regular exposure to passive smoking increases risk of dying from various causes, finds a new study.
Researchers of the long-term study from China found that compared with adults who lived and worked in smoke-free environs, those exposed to secondhand smoke were more likely to die of heart disease or lung cancer over 17 years.
They were also more likely to die of stroke or the lung disease emphysema-two diseases that have had relatively weaker links to secondhand smoke.
The findings cannot ...
At a higher risk of suffering a further event or a death are patients with vascular disease. Although treatment goals are often not reached and it is costly and time-consuming, the treatment of vascular risk factors by nurse practitioners is proven to be very effective in reducing this risk. Though previous studies did not show clear beneficial effects but this study looks at one year effect in a relatively large group of patients.
Researchers from the University Medical Center Utrecht in The ...
A new study published in the journal Circulation reveals that rheumatic heart disease (RHD) can be more easily detected through routine screening with echocardiogram instead of clinical examinations.
The study, conducted by cardiologists from Children's National Medical Center, is the largest single-population study in Africa. The August issue of iNature Reviews - Cardiology/i features a summary of the article in its Public Health feature.
The study screened nearly 5,000 school-aged ...
2 teaspoons of olive oil could reduce heart disease risk, reports study. The equivalent of one tablespoon cuts the risk by around 28 per cent.
There have been numerous studies highlighting olive oil's benefits to the heart, but few have investigated the extent to which this translates into reduced death rates.
The results are based on the diets of nearly 41,000 adults in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition, which began 20 years ago.
While the research, published ...
Approximately one in seven American adults live alone as per the current data of the United States Census Bureau.
Social isolation and lack of social support have been linked to poor health outcomes. Now a new study at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) shows that living alone may be a risk factor for death, especially death due to cardiovascular problems, such as heart attack and stroke.
The study is the first to prospectively compare the cardiovascular risk of living alone in an international outpatient population....
A novel method developed by researchers generates cardiac cells from stem cells. The cells displayed activity similar to most people's resting heart rate. At 60 beats per minute, the rhythmic electrical impulse transmission of the engineered cells in the U-M study is 10 times faster than in most other reported stem cell studies.
An image of the electrically stimulated cardiac cells is displayed on the cover of the current issue of iCirculation Research/i, a publication of the American Heart Association....
Traffic noise exposure is associated with higher risk of heart attack, reveals study published in iPLoS ONE/i.
Previous work had investigated that combined effects of both noise and air pollution caused by traffic, but the results were inconsistent. The new study, led by Mette Sorensen on the Danish Cancer Society, showed a clear relationship between traffic noise and heart attack, with a 12% higher risk per 10 decibels of noise, based on 50,614 study participants. The exact reason ...
