ALLMedicine™ Coronary Heart Disease Center

Jul 30th, 2021 - Physical frailty is a commonly encountered geriatric syndrome among older adults without coronary heart disease (CHD). The impact of frailty on the incidence of long-term cardiovascular outcomes is not known. We aimed to evaluate the long-term ass...

Jul 28th, 2021 - Prevention guidelines have identified the management of obese patients as an important priority to reduce the burden of incident and recurrent cardiovascular disease. Still, studies have demonstrated that over 80% of patients with coronary heart d...

Jul 28th, 2021 - We examined the relationship between ratios of select biomarkers of kidney and liver function on all-cause and coronary heart disease (CHD) mortality, both in isolation, and in combination with metabolic syndrome (MetS), among adults (20 + years, ...

Jul 23rd, 2021 - Despite the high use of cardioprotective medications, the risk factor control in patients with coronary heart disease (CHD) is still inadequate. Guidelines identify healthy lifestyles as equally important in secondary prevention as pharmacotherapy...

Jul 22nd, 2021 - Patients with cardiovascular disease (CVD) and periodontitis (PT) show shared risk factors as result of the altered molecular mechanisms associated with pathological conditions. The aim of our study was to evaluate if the plasma biomarkers associa...

Oct 7th, 2009 - New recommendation from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) on the use of nontraditional, or novel, risk factors in assessing the coronary heart disease (CHD) risk of asymptomatic persons. Systematic reviews were conducted of literatu...

Mar 23rd, 2020 - A Randomized, Double-blind, Placebo-controlled, Parallel-designed Study to Evaluate the Safety, Pharmacokinetics, and Pharmacodynamic Effects of MEDI5884 in Participants with Stable Coronary Heart Disease.

Mar 12th, 2020 - Coronary heart disease (CHD) is the leading cause of death in the United States; more than 600,000 Americans suffer a fatal cardiac event each year. Traditional CHD risk factors such as high blood pressure, smoking, and elevated cholesterol do not...

Mar 4th, 2020 - BACKGROUND: Prevention of coronary heart disease (CHD) will be enhanced by controlling hypertension, reducing blood cholesterol, maintaining normal weight, increasing physical activity, reducing smoking, and having a healthy diet. Understanding ho...

Jan 3rd, 2020 - This 2 arm study will assess the long term safety and efficacy of RO4607381 in patients with coronary heart disease or a coronary heart disease (CHD) risk equivalent who have completed study NC19453. Patients eligible to participate in the extensi...

Nov 1st, 2019 - Patients with chronic, stable angina with documented coronary artery disease are eligible for the study.

May 15th, 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 5th, 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 5th, 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 2nd, 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 7th, 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...