Latest Cardiovascular diseases Stories

Powerheart G3 AED Won by Quality Bioresources Inc. Through LinkedIn Group Sweepstakes

2012-07-31 23:00:23

In an AED giveaway sweepstakes hosted by the LinkedIn Group, Medical Devices Group, Quality Bioresources received a Cardiac Science Powerheart G3 AED. Brentwood, Tn (PRWEB) July 31, 2012 Medical Devices Group, a 126,000+ member LinkedIn group, gave away a Powerheart AED G3 through their latest sweepstakes to Quality Bioresources Inc., which provides custom lyophilization and manufacturing services to clients worldwide. AED.com donated a total of 10 AEDs to the LinkedIn Group for the...

MinuteClinic Joins with American Heart Association to Help Americans Reduce High Blood Pressure

2012-07-31 02:27:38

WOONSOCKET, R.I., July 31, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- As part of an ongoing effort to help Americans reduce high blood pressure, MinuteClinic, the retail health care division of CVS Caremark (NYSE: CVS), is joining with the American Heart Association in a nationwide effort to improve the identification, treatment and management of high blood pressure. According to the American Heart Association, one in three American adults has high blood pressure, or hypertension. Uncontrolled high blood...

Endovascular Therapy May Result In Significantly Better Outcomes Than Current Standard Treatment For Deadliest Strokes

2012-07-27 10:22:13

Results Announced at Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery (SNIS) 9th Annual Meeting SAN DIEGO, July 27, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Endovascular therapy (EVT) is associated with significantly better treatment outcomes over traditional intravenous tPA (IVT) for patients suffering acute ischemic stroke resulting from blockages in the large vessels, or major "highways" of the brain, according to a study presented at the SNIS 9(th) Annual Meeting in San Diego. Statistics from...

Increased Risk Of Heart Attack, Stroke Associated With Shift Work

2012-07-27 12:30:21

Screening programs could help identify and treat risk factors, say authors Shift work is associated with an increased risk of major vascular problems, such as heart attacks and strokes, concludes a study published on bmj.com today. This is the largest analysis of shift work and vascular risk to date and has implications for public policy and occupational medicine, say the authors. Shift work has long been known to disrupt the body clock (circadian rhythm) and is associated with an...

Night Shift Workers At Increased Risk Of Heart Attack, Stroke

2012-07-27 08:04:40

Lawrence LeBlond for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online People who regularly do shift work are slightly more at risk of having a heart attack or stroke than their day-only working counterparts, according to research published in the British Medical Journal. According to researchers from Norway and Canada, heart attack and stroke can be added to the list of previously known risks of shift work, risks that include high blood pressure, diabetes and obesity. The researchers defined shift...

Study Results Show Strong Correlation Between Cerebral Aneurysms And Early Onset Menopause

2012-07-26 10:26:21

Results Announced at Society of Neurointerventional Surgery (SNIS) 9th Annual Meeting SAN DIEGO, July 26, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A correlation between brain aneurysms, bulges or balloons in vessel walls, and early onset menopause has been identified, according to recent study results presented at the SNIS 9(th) Annual Meeting in San Diego, CA, thereby suggesting that the premature loss of estrogen could be a risk factor for aneurysm formation and development. As it is...

ER Patients With Chest Pain Could Get Faster Service With Heart CT Scans

2012-07-26 13:15:49

Adding computed tomography (CT) scans to standard screening procedures may help emergency room staff more rapidly determine which patients complaining of chest pain are having a heart attack or may soon have a heart attack, and which patients can be safely discharged, according to a study funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), part of the National Institutes of Health. Researchers in the study focused on a condition known as acute coronary syndrome, which includes...

Speedy Heart Diganosis In Low Risk Patients With CT Angiography

2012-07-26 10:34:19

Patients released from hospital much faster without increased costs or risk of missed diagnosis Incorporating coronary CT angiography (CCTA) into the initial evaluation of low-risk patients coming to hospital emergency departments (EDs) with chest pain appears to reduce the time patients spend in the hospital without incurring additional costs or exposing patients to significant risks. The report of a study conducted at nine U.S. hospitals appears in the July 26 New England Journal of...

Published Findings In Human Gene Therapy Methods Journal Demonstrate Cardium's New Catheter-Based Method Significantly Boosts Gene Delivery To The Heart

2012-07-26 02:30:06

SAN DIEGO, July 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Cardium Therapeutics (NYSE MKT: CXM) today announced the publication of preclinical findings demonstrating that cardiac ischemia plays an important role in adenovector gene delivery (transfection) in mammalian hearts. The new findings were published in the peer-reviewed journal Human Gene Therapy Methods in an article entitled "Ischemia-Reperfusion Increases Transfection Efficiency of Intracoronary Adenovirus type 5 in Pig Heart in Situ," which...

Physicians Urged To Ask Young Men About Erectile Dysfunction Troubles

2012-07-26 00:58:27

Erectile dysfunction can be a red flag for heart disease in younger and middle-aged men, men with diabetes Although erectile dysfunction (ED) has been shown to be an early warning sign for heart disease, some physicians – and patients – still think of it as just as a natural part of "old age." But now an international team of researchers, led by physicians at The Miriam Hospital, say it's time to expand ED symptom screening to include younger and middle-aged men. In an article...