Montelukast Use Decreases Cardiovascular Events in Asthmatics

Montelukast and bambuterol combination in the management of asthmatics

1 allergic diseases and cysteinyl leukotriene (lt) antagonists Allergic diseases include a variety of different illnesses (rhinitis, conjunctivitis, asthma, urticaria, and dermatitis) in which the physiological and pathological basis is the release of chemical mediators such as histamine; platelet-activating factor; metabolites of arachidonic acid; and chemotactic factors from mastocytes, basop...

Marijuana Use Impacts Midlife Cardiovascular Events in HIV-Infected Men

Background Marijuana use is prevalent among persons infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), but its long-term effects on HIV disease progression and comorbidities are unknown. Methods In this prospective study of 558 HIV-infected men enrolled in the Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study between 1990 and 2010, there were 182 HIV seroconverters and 376 with viral suppression on combination an...

Aspirin use and cardiovascular events in social networks.

We tested whether friends' and family members' cardiovascular health events and also their own aspirin use are associated with the likelihood that an individual takes aspirin regularly. Analyses were based on longitudinal data on 2724 members of the Framingham Heart Study (based in Massachusetts, U.S.A.) who were linked to friends and family members who were also participants in the same study....

RAMADAN AND CARDIOVASCULAR DRUG USE

Cardiovascular Events in Japan

uring the rapid development of imaging modalities in cardiology, nuclear cardiology has played an important role in direct visualization of myocardial ischemia. Its contribution to prognostic evaluation in the USA and Europe has been established and major predictors of cardiovascular events have been assembled in nuclear cardiology guidelines.1 The value of prognostic evaluation and risk strati...