ALLMedicine™ Coronary Heart Disease Center

May 17th, 2021 - Patients with peripheral arterial disease (PAD) are generally less intensively managed than patients with coronary heart disease (CHD), despite that their risk of complications is believed to be equivalent. Identification of PAD patients at risk o...

May 16th, 2021 - For several decades, there has been a notion that dietary fat is made of different components (at least SAFA, MUFA, and PUFA) that exhibit different and sometimes contrasting effects when associated with health and diseases: coronary heart disease...

May 14th, 2021 - Noise pollution is increasingly recognised as a public health hazard, yet limited evidence is available from low- and middle-income countries (LMIC), particularly for specific sources. Here, we investigated the association between day-night averag...

May 14th, 2021 - Diabetes mellitus (DM) and depression are bidirectionally interrelated. We recently identified long-term trajectories of depression symptom severity in individuals with coronary heart disease (CHD), which were associated with the risk for subseque...

May 13th, 2021 - The utility of echocardiographic left ventricular (LV) geometry in the prediction of stroke/coronary heart disease (CHD) and all-cause mortality is not well characterized. This study aimed to evaluate the overall and sex-specific prognostic value ...

Jul 8th, 2019 - Background: The role of nutritional supplements and dietary interventions in preventing mortality and cardiovascular disease (CVD) outcomes is unclear. Purpose: To examine evidence about the effects of nutritional supplements and dietary interven...

Feb 28th, 2017 - The aim of this study was to identify the prevalence of metabolic syndrome (MetS) and degree of cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk in patients with psoriatic arthritis (PsA). Material and Methods We performed a cross-sectional study on 102 adult p...

Sep 28th, 2015 - As nutrition-related chronic diseases have become more and more frequent, the importance of dietary prevention has also increased. Dietary fat plays a major role in human nutrition, and modification of fat and/or fatty acid intake could have a pre...

Jul 25th, 2014 - A large body of empirical research shows that psychosocial risk factors (PSRFs) such as low socio-economic status, social isolation, stress, type-D personality, depression and anxiety increase the risk of incident coronary heart disease (CHD) and ...

Jul 31st, 2012 - Update of the 2004 U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommendation statement on screening for coronary heart disease (CHD). The USPSTF reviewed new evidence on the benefits of screening with electrocardiography (ECG) in asymptomatic ad...

May 17th, 2021 - Patients with peripheral arterial disease (PAD) are generally less intensively managed than patients with coronary heart disease (CHD), despite that their risk of complications is believed to be equivalent. Identification of PAD patients at risk o...

May 16th, 2021 - For several decades, there has been a notion that dietary fat is made of different components (at least SAFA, MUFA, and PUFA) that exhibit different and sometimes contrasting effects when associated with health and diseases: coronary heart disease...

May 14th, 2021 - Noise pollution is increasingly recognised as a public health hazard, yet limited evidence is available from low- and middle-income countries (LMIC), particularly for specific sources. Here, we investigated the association between day-night averag...

May 14th, 2021 - Diabetes mellitus (DM) and depression are bidirectionally interrelated. We recently identified long-term trajectories of depression symptom severity in individuals with coronary heart disease (CHD), which were associated with the risk for subseque...

May 14th, 2021 - There was no significant difference in cardiovascular events or major bleeding between patients with established coronary heart disease (CHD) assigned to a daily aspirin dose of 81 mg and those receiving a dose of 325 mg in the 15,000-patient ADAP...

May 14th, 2021 - There was no significant difference in cardiovascular events or major bleeding between patients with established coronary heart disease (CHD) assigned to a daily aspirin dose of 81 mg and those receiving a dose of 325 mg in the 15,000-patient ADAP...

May 4th, 2021 - NHS England is to introduce a pioneering technology called HeartFlow for quicker diagnosis and treatment of suspected heart disease. HeartFlow transforms a regular cardiac computerised tomography (CT) scan into a three-dimensional (3D) image, enab...

Apr 4th, 2021 - Patients who work upward of 55 hours per week after a myocardial infarction (MI) may increase their risk of having a recurrence, a new study suggests. Over a 6-year period, investigators studied close to 1000 patients younger than 60 years who ret...

Feb 1st, 2021 - Women with diabetes aged between 45 and 65 years have a 10-fold increased risk of coronary heart disease (CHD) compared with those of similar age without diabetes, according to a new analysis of the US-based Women's Health Study. Identifying indiv...

Oct 6th, 2020 - Women are known to lag 5 to 10 years behind men in experiencing coronary heart disease (CHD), but new research suggests the gap narrows substantially following a myocardial infarction (MI). "Women lose a considerable portion, but not all, of their...