MIBHS

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

This condition, called atherosclerosis, narrows the arteries, restricting blood flow and increasing the risk of heart attacks and strokes. This condition reduces blood flow to the heart, increasing the risk of angina (chest pain) and heart attacks.

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DAIC

MARCH 6, 2024

The CAD Staging System is a noninvasive imaging-based investigational software device that analyzes important and actionable features of coronary atherosclerosis, stenosis and ischemia.

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Coronary Atherosclerosis There are multiple ways of describing coronary plaque: The degree of obstruction The composition of the plaque The thickness of the plaque wall (Cap) that separates the plaque from the inside of the blood vessel. All of these components influence the risk of future heart attacks. REVERSAL Investigators.

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

DECEMBER 13, 2024

ApoB Atherosclerosis, by definition, is caused by the retention of an ApoB lipid particle in the artery wall. This retained particle then sets off an inflammatory cascade, which ultimately results in the formation of atherosclerosis 1. Mechanism of atherosclerosis formation. Atherosclerosis. 2021 , 22 , 5770.

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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

APRIL 24, 2024

The early detection of plaques by circulating biomarkers is highly clinically relevant to prevent the occurrence of major complications such as stroke or heart attacks. BackgroundAtherosclerosis is a widespread disorder of the cardiovascular system. EVs were isolated from serum by precipitation.

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MIBHS

JULY 31, 2024

Sustained inflammation can damage your blood vessels, leading to atherosclerosis (plaque buildup) and increasing your risk of heart attack and stroke. Reduced Blood Flow Stress can cause your blood vessels to constrict, reducing blood flow and oxygen delivery to your heart and other organs.

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Physiologically Speaking

JANUARY 5, 2024

Is HIIT too dangerous for individuals after heart surgery or who’ve suffered a heart attack? LDL and ApoB — which play an obligate and causal role in the development of atherosclerosis — weren’t affected by exercise. Does intense exercise adversely affect coronary plaque?

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AMS Cardiology

JANUARY 21, 2023

We all want to be heart-healthy and ensuring our cholesterol levels are in the normal range is one of the most critical steps. High cholesterol can increase your risk of severe conditions like heart disease and heart attacks. Simple protein switches can go a long way in improving your heart health.

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GEMMS

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Maintaining cardiovascular health reduces the risk of developing various heart diseases, including heart attack, stroke, and high blood pressure. Moreover, a healthy heart contributes to improved overall fitness, endurance, and quality of life.

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

“Cholesterol does not cause heart disease.“ “ “Statins do not prevent heart attacks.” In the middle of this hurricane of noise are people who just want to know what to do so they don’t have a heart attack at a young age. “Statins do not prevent heart attacks.”

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DAIC

DECEMBER 13, 2023

MILLER, PHD, LED THE DEVELOPMENT OF A NEW "ATHEROSCLEROSIS ATLAS" THAT DETAILS, AT THE LEVEL OF INDIVIDUAL CELLS, CRITICAL PROCESSES RESPONSIBLE FOR FORMING THE HARMFUL PLAQUE BUILDUP THAT CAUSES HEART ATTACKS, STROKES AND CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE. When they break loose, they can be deadly, triggering strokes and heart attacks.

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

A therapy that has been proven repeatedly to reduce the probability of heart attacks and strokes in multiple double-blind randomised controlled studies 1. Atherosclerosis. I do apologise for being direct, but this issue is one of the most frequent barriers I encounter to initiating cholesterol-lowering therapy. N Engl J Med.

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

APRIL 5, 2024

This refers to all the steps necessary to reduce the odds of a subsequent event, such as a second heart attack or stroke. So, let’s cover seven things that reduce the risk of a subsequent heart attack. Just because you have heart disease or have had a heart attack does not mean there is a lot that can be done.

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

When we say heart disease, what we really mean is plaque in the artery wall. This Is Known As Atherosclerosis. The fundamental cause of atherosclerosis is when a cholesterol particle crosses into the artery wall from the bloodstream, gets stuck, and sets off an inflammatory process 1. No atherosclerosis. No heart attacks.

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Science Daily - Heart Disease

MARCH 13, 2024

Blockage of arterial blood vessels caused by atherosclerosis is largely responsible for heart attacks and strokes, which are the most common causes of death worldwide. The complex mechanisms that lead to pathological changes in the arteries are not yet fully understood.

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DAIC

MARCH 31, 2025

The study, Effect of Colchicine on Progression of Known Coronary Atherosclerosis in Patients With Stable Coronary Artery Disease Compared To Placebo: The Ekstrom Trial, was presented at the American College of Cardiology 74th Annual Scientific Session and Expo ( ACC.25 mg on atherosclerotic plaque.

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DAIC

JANUARY 23, 2024

3 Patients with ASCVD are at a higher risk for major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) including heart attack or myocardial infarction (MI), stroke, and cardiovascular (CV) death.4 1,6 Until recently atherosclerosis has been thought of as the result of passive lipid accumulation in the vessel wall. 4 In the U.S.

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Medical Xpress - Cardiology

DECEMBER 9, 2024

People with type 2 diabetes have a higher risk of suffering a stroke, a heart attack and premature death due to atherosclerosis, but it has been unclear what the underlying mechanisms are.

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

JUNE 7, 2024

Heart disease does not kill people. Heart attacks do. Appreciating this distinction is critical to understanding heart disease. Heart disease is the presence of plaque or atherosclerosis in the coronary arteries. In this instance, a heart attack. But does this approach work?

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DAIC

JULY 18, 2024

Cardiovascular disease is the most common cause of death and disability globally, largely driven by myocardial infarction and ischemic stroke caused by atherosclerosis (plaque build-up in the arteries).

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MIBHS

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Arrhythmias: Genetic mutations can also predispose individuals to irregular heart rhythms, such as atrial fibrillation or long QT syndrome, which may increase the risk of stroke or sudden cardiac arrest. How Do Genetic Factors Work? Genes act as instruction manuals for your body’s cells, guiding their function and behavior.

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DAIC

JANUARY 19, 2024

This leaves a gap in the care of these patients and increases their risk for heart attack, stroke and heart failure progression. HTN accelerates the progression of atherosclerosis and leads to increased risk of major cardiac events like heart attack, heart failure, kidney disease and other end organ damage.

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Physiologically Speaking

APRIL 10, 2024

Exercise and Coronary Atherosclerosis | Circulation There are a few pieces of evidence, however, that can give endurance athletes some reassurance that they’re not headed to an early grave. Calcified plaques are known to be more stable and less prone to rupture and lead to a heart attack.

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Heart 2023 Conference

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Youngish women are having further heart attacks, says a recent study. Experimenters were surprised to find that while the heart attack rate has dropped among aged grown-ups, it's risen among those periods 35-54, especially women.

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DAIC

JANUARY 30, 2024

Clinicians currently use two separate risk models to assess patients’ chances of having heart attacks , strokes , and other major cardiovascular events. Using a dataset from a different study, the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis , the team validated the accuracy of their model and overall findings.

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DAIC

MAY 16, 2024

A new joint guideline from the American Heart Association (AHA), the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and nine other medical societies reports early diagnosis and treatment of peripheral artery disease is essential to improve outcomes and reduce amputation risk, heart attack, stroke and death for people with Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD).

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DAIC

MARCH 31, 2025

The study, Effect of Colchicine on Progression of Known Coronary Atherosclerosis in Patients With Stable Coronary Artery Disease Compared To Placebo: The Ekstrom Trial, was presented at the American College of Cardiology 74th Annual Scientific Session and Expo ( ACC.25 mg on atherosclerotic plaque.

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DAIC

OCTOBER 30, 2024

The opportunity is even greater in millions of lung CT scans,” said Dr. Morteza Naghavi, founder and president of HeartLung Technologies, and founder of nonprofit SHAPE (Society for Heart Attack Prevention and Eradication). We plan to add this AI to our lung cancer screening population who are high risk for cardiovascular events.

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

AUGUST 1, 2023

CT coronary angiography, in addition to a CT CAC, is arguably the best test for estimating whether someone has evidence of coronary artery disease and what that means for their near-term risk of a heart attack. A CT CAC scan can only identify if there is calcified atherosclerosis, where it is and to what extent. And it matters.

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Wellnest

DECEMBER 21, 2022

ECG tests can also show previous heart attacks. An ECG machine is able to detect other abnormalities of the heart as well, such as hypertrophic cardiomyopathy or overly thick heart muscles. Coronary artery disease Excessive cholesterol builds up plaque that blocks the arteries supplying blood to the heart.

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Share Let’s first state our goal when we are in the business of ‘Heart Disease Prevention’: To delay the onset of coronary artery disease (atherosclerosis/plaque) that might rupture and cause a heart attack. And the less plaque you have, the lower the risk of a heart attack.

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DAIC

OCTOBER 15, 2024

The most common cause of death and disability, CAD is largely driven by myocardial infarction and ischemic stroke caused by atherosclerosis," said Nehal Mehta, MD MSCE, cardiologist and professor of medicine at George Washington University School of Medicine. “In the United States, one person dies every 33 seconds from cardiovascular disease.

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Suddenly, a 43% chance of a heart attack or stroke becomes a 19% risk. Eur Heart J. 2 High prevalence of coronary atherosclerosis in asymptomatic teenagers and young adults: evidence from intravascular ultrasound. A MUCH bigger reduction in risk. That is a big reduction in risk. 2012 Dec;33(23):2955-62. Circulation.

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

JULY 12, 2024

A higher cumulative LDL cholesterol exposure equals a higher likelihood of plaque in the coronary arteries, known as atherosclerosis. But remember, heart disease or atherosclerosis does not kill people. Heart attacks kill people. But the more plaque you have, the higher the risk of a heart attack.

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

MAY 31, 2024

The mistake most people make when it comes to heart disease is thinking that when someone has a heart attack that, the condition of ‘heart disease’ just appeared. Heart attacks present suddenly. But heart disease presents slowly. Atherosclerosis in the proximal segment of the vessel.

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

OCTOBER 10, 2023

When they inevitably have a heart attack, the physician and the patient are often surprised, but if they had looked, they might have seen where that risk was coming from and what to have done about it. Blood Pressure Control For every 20 mmHg increase in systolic blood pressure, the risk of dying from heart attack or stroke doubles 3.

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Physiologically Speaking

APRIL 24, 2024

In a cohort of >3,000 people from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), sleeping <6 hours each night predicted a higher prevalence of stroke, heart attack, and chronic heart failure. 19 20 Mortality from CVD and coronary heart disease is also increased in women with short sleep, but not men.

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