Preventing heart disease.

Preventing coronary heart-disease.

Preventing heart disease in women

Risk factors How common are risk factors for heart attack and stroke in midlife women? In an interesting twist, the American Heart Association (AHA) now includes a section on their website presenting CVD statistics specific to Baby Boomers, those persons born from 1946 to 1964, that specifically includes data stratified by gender. The AHA applies US government data which delineate risks for the...

Preventing coronary heart disease: B vitamins and homocysteine.

The list of preventable and reversible risk factors for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease continues to grow. Cigarette smoking, high blood pressure, physical inactivity, elevated cholesterol, underlying lipoprotein abnormalities, lipoprotein(a), diabetes, overweight, male gender, and age are well-established risk factors. During the 1990s, there have been many reports associating elevated ...

Diabetes: preventing coronary heart disease in a high risk group.

Cardiovascular disease is the major cause of morbidity and mortality in patients with type 2 diabetes. Numerous outcome trials have demonstrated clinical benefits from effective treatment of individual cardiovascular risk factors in patients with diabetes. These trials have provided the basis for current treatment guidelines and targets. More recently, multifactorial intervention strategies hav...

Darapladib for preventing ischemic events in stable coronary heart disease.

BACKGROUND Elevated lipoprotein-associated phospholipase A2 activity promotes the development of vulnerable atherosclerotic plaques, and elevated plasma levels of this enzyme are associated with an increased risk of coronary events. Darapladib is a selective oral inhibitor of lipoprotein-associated phospholipase A2. METHODS In a double-blind trial, we randomly assigned 15,828 patients with st...