Serum Ferritin: A New Risk Factor for CHD?Clinical Nutrition Insight
Risk factors for CHD are modifiable or non-modifiable. Modifiable risk factor levels of CHD survivors were compared with those without such a history (non-CHD).: Participants were from a cross-sectional survey of 5,656 workers aged > or = 40. CHD survivors were 73 general practitioner (GP)...
Association of postprandial triglyceride and retinyl palmitate responses with asymptomatic carotid artery atherosclerosis in middle-aged men and women. The... Elevated postprandial TGs appear to be an independent risk factor for carotid intimal thickening in nonobese whites. The lack of such a relation...
Aetna considers any of the following tests / devices for assessing CHD risk experimental, investigational, or unproven because their clinical value has not been established: Acarix CADScor System Activated factor VII Adiponectin Algorithmically scored multi-protein biomarker panels (i.e., HART CADhs,...
Discusses the abstract of the study entitled `Low Risk-Factor Profile and Long-Term Cardiovascular and Noncardiovascular Mortality and Life Expectancy,' by J. Stamler, R. Stamler, et al published in the 1999 issue of the `Journal of the American Medical Association.' INSET: Comment, by ...
Cumulative risk of breast cancer to age 70 years according to risk factor status: data from the Nurses’ Health Study. Am J Epidemiol. 2000;152(10):950-964. doi:10.1093/aje/152.10.950PubMedGoogle ScholarCrossref 41. Rockhill B, Byrne C, Rosner B, Louie MM, Colditz G. Breast cancer...
Parental history of premature coronary heart disease: an independent risk factor of myocardial infarction. We assessed the role of parental history of premature coronary heart disease (CHD) in the risk of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and the extent to which... P Jousilahti,P Puska,E Vartia...
Smooth muscle cell proliferation is thought to be an important factor in restenosis; this leads to neointima formation and arterial lumen narrowing. Local therapy delivered perivascularly may have an effect on events in the neointima and reduce restenosis. The effect of delivering expression vector ...
It remains to be seen if patients in stage I merely require risk factor modification or specific preventive measures. Symptomatic patients assigned to an anatomic strategy in the Prospective Multicenter Imaging Study for Evaluation of Chest Pain (PROMISE) and Scottish Computed Tomography of the Heart ...
WHO reported that underweight was a risk factor of death in all age groups. Underweight was estimated to cause 3.7 million deaths in 2000. Overweight and obesity led to adverse metabolic effects on blood pressure, cholesterol, triglycerides and insulin resistance. Risks of CHD, ischemic stroke and...