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JHUSON Associate Professor Miyong T. Kim, PhD, RN and colleagues have found there is a steeply increasing incidence of coronary heart disease (CHD) in developing countries undergoing rapid westernization, including South Korea.
In a community-based study led by Allen?nurse researchers explored the beneficial effects of soy. The array of results garnered from the multi-year study focused on cholesterol reduction, metabolic syndrome, and recruitment for clinical trials.
JHUSON researcher Jerilyn K. Allen, ScD, RN is heading a five-year $2.5 million study of a team- and community-based health care delivery system designed to manage the total cardiovascular health of 500 high-risk patients.
Anthony Koleske, associate professor of molecular biophysics and biochemistry and neurobiology at Yale School of Medicine, has been awarded the $500,000 Established Investigator Award from the American Heart Association (AHA).
Tests on volunteers showed that black tea significantly improves the ability of the arteries to relax and expand, but adding milk completely blunts the effect. Supporting tests on rat aortas (aortic rings) and endothelial (lining) cells showed that tea relaxed the aortic rings by producing nitric oxide, which promotes dilation of blood vessels. But, again, adding milk blocked the effect.
New research suggests that the pharmacological effects of taking medications such as statins and beta-blockers as prescribed following a heart attack is associated with living longer, according to a study in the Jan_10 issue of JAMA.
A blood test for patients with coronary heart disease could help predict their risk for subsequent cardiovascular events or death, according to a study in the Jan_10 issue of JAMA.
A simple blood test for the protein NT-proBNP accurately predicts the risk of heart attack, heart failure, stroke and death in patients with known cardiovascular disease, according to a study led by a researcher at the San Francisco VA Medical Center.
UCLA researchers report that for patients hospitalized with acute heart failure, a higher body mass index (BMI) was associated with a substantially lower in-hospital mortality rate. The finding offers more insight into an observed phenomenon in chronic heart failure called the “obesity paradox.”