Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Medical News

Medical News


High air pollution brings forward time of heart attack

Posted: 28 Sep 2011 05:00 PM PDT

High levels of air pollution may cause an impending myocardial infarction to occur sooner than it would have otherwise, suggest UK researchers.

MI ‘mechanism’ identified in women without angiographically obstructive CAD

Posted: 28 Sep 2011 05:00 PM PDT

Study results show that plaque rupture and ulceration are the mechanisms behind myocardial infarction in some women with no angiographically obstructive coronary artery disease.

Survival improved with normalized heart rate recovery after cardiac rehabilitation

Posted: 28 Sep 2011 05:00 PM PDT

Patients with abnormal heart rate recovery that is normalized after cardiac rehabilitation have an improved chance of long-term survival, study findings show.

CAC improves CHD risk stratification metabolic syndrome, diabetic patients

Posted: 28 Sep 2011 05:00 PM PDT

Coronary artery calcium screening may improve coronary heart disease risk stratification in individuals with the metabolic syndrome and diabetes, suggests an analysis of the MESA cohort.

MI ‘mechanism’ identified in women without angiographically obstructive CAD

Posted: 28 Sep 2011 05:00 PM PDT

Study results show that plaque rupture and ulceration are the mechanisms behind myocardial infarction in some women with no angiographically obstructive coronary artery disease.

CAC improves CHD risk stratification metabolic syndrome, diabetic patients

Posted: 28 Sep 2011 05:00 PM PDT

Coronary artery calcium screening may improve coronary heart disease risk stratification in individuals with the metabolic syndrome and diabetes, suggests an analysis of the MESA cohort.

Everolimus provides new treatment option for advanced breast cancer

Posted: 28 Sep 2011 05:00 PM PDT

Adding everolimus to exemestane chemotherapy significantly prolongs progression-free survival among postmenopausal women with previously treated advanced breast cancer, results of the BOLERO-2 trial show.

Remitted BD patients have high levels of social anxiety

Posted: 28 Sep 2011 05:00 PM PDT

Patients with bipolar disorder who are in remission have high levels of social anxiety, which is associated with self-stigmatization and low self-esteem, say Turkish researchers.

Mortality rates increased among ATPD patients

Posted: 28 Sep 2011 05:00 PM PDT

Patients with acute and transient psychotic disorders have increased all-cause mortality rates compared with the general population, research shows.

CTEPH phenotype associated with existence, type of DVT

Posted: 28 Sep 2011 05:00 PM PDT

The clinical phenotype of chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension is associated with the existence and type of deep vein thrombosis, suggest study findings.

Physician advice vital to reducing diabetes risk behaviors in young adults

Posted: 27 Sep 2011 05:00 PM PDT

Physician advice is independently associated with the adoption of diabetes risk-reducing behaviors, suggest US researchers.

PPAR variant linked to severity of CAD in Type 2 diabetes

Posted: 27 Sep 2011 05:00 PM PDT

A novel peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor pathway gene variant, TLL1, is associated with the extent of coronary artery disease in White individuals with Type 2 diabetes, report researchers.

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