Missing link between inflammatory markers in the bloodstream and the increased risk of heart attacktext editorEmerging Infectious Diseases
scaled measure of total physical activity (the number of steps per day recorded by a wearable accelerometer) for NHANES participants. Phenoage29, calculated using explicit age and additional blood biochemistry parameters also demonstrated age-related decrease of the inverse variance in NHANES population....
The evaluation of NAFLD severity through liver elastography or non-invasive liver fibrosis biomarkers may contribute to guide risk factor modification to reduce cardiovascular risk in asymptomatic patients. Inversely, subclinical cardiovascular disease assessment, through Visual Scale for CAC scoring, may be...
A study published this week in the open access journalPLoS Medicineshows that for elderly people at risk of cardiovascular disease, the presence of inflammatory markers in the blood can identify that an individual is at a higher risk of a fatal rather than a non-fatal heart attack or stroke....
This blocks flow of blood to organs that may need it — and if this occurs in blood flow to the heart, the result can be CHD, sometimes in the form of a heart attack. Several risk factors have previously been identified for this disorder, including smoking, high blood cholesterol levels,...
Coronary heart disease risk (CHD risk) was calculated using the online NIH 10-year heart attack risk calculator, which uses age, gender, total cholesterol, HDL cholesterol, smoking status, and blood pressure status in its algorithm. Significance was determined using an alpha level of 0.05. ...
Blood sampling was performed in the morning after overnight fasting for all included subjects within three months from the baseline visit. The following hematological tests were considered for the current study: white blood cell (WBC) count (neutrophil, lymphocyte, monocyte, eosinophilia, and basophil...
Chronic diseases such as cancer, diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are the main health concerns in the 21st century, with CVD as the number one cause of mortality worldwide. Although CVD hard endpoints such as stroke or heart attack do not usually occur in children, evidence shows ...
condition. By measuring these biomarkers in blood, urine, other fluids, or on the tumor tissue, they may be used to monitor the progress of a cancer, check for recurrence, or sometimes to help screen for, diagnose, or stage cancer. They may also be used to help choose the right cancer...
The mechanisms of formation and the nature of the altered amino acid side chains formed on proteins subjected to oxidant attack are reviewed. The use of stable products of protein side chain oxidation as potential markers for assessing oxidative damage in vivo in humans is discussed. The methods ...