Coronary artery disease (CAD) occurring in less than 45 years of age is termed as young CAD. Recent studies show a prevalence of 1.2% of CAD cases in this age group. Ethnic wise south Asians especially Indians are more vulnerable to have CAD in young age group with a prevalence of 5% to 10%. Conventional risk factors such as smoking, diabetes, hypertension, obesity and family history seems to b...

BACKGROUND Cardiovascular screening may benefit middle-aged sportsmen, as coronary artery disease (CAD) is the main cause of exercise-related sudden cardiac death. Arterial stiffness, as measured by pulse wave velocity (PWV), may help identify sportsmen with subclinical CAD. We examined the additional value of PWV measurements to traditional CAD risk factors for identifying CAD. METHODS From ...

cardiovascular disease has become the main factor of death and birth defects in the world and also in iran. new clinical studies have shown that early diagnosis of patients with coronary artery disease (cad) can contribute to effective prevention or therapeutic structures, which reduce mortality or the next chance of cardiovascular events, and increase the quality of life. most studies on cad d...

Introduction Cardiovascular diseases are becoming the major cause of morbidity and mortality in most of the developing countries including India. Cardiometabolic risk factors play a vital role in causation of coronary artery disease. Present study was carried out to investigate the role of various risk factors in the occurrence of coronary artery disease (CAD) in population from Central India. ...

BACKGROUND We hypothesized that asymptomatic persons with a parent or sibling with coronary artery disease (CAD) have myocardial perfusion defects on positron emission tomography (PET) as markers of early CAD. METHODS AND RESULTS After medical and family histories were recorded, 90 subjects underwent rest-dipyridamole cardiac PET perfusion imaging, including 18 index cases (a subject with CAD...

OBJECTIVE Apelin is a novel endogenous peptide with inotropic and vasodilatory properties and is the ligand for the angiotensin receptor-like 1 (APJ) receptor. The aim of the study was to investigate the association of 2 single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the apelin gene with susceptibility to coronary artery disease (CAD) in the Turkish population. METHODS The present observational ca...

Recent studies provide increasing evidence that postnatal neovascularization involves bone marrow-derived circulating endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs). The regulation of EPCs in patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) is unclear at present. Therefore, we determined the number and functional activity of EPCs in 45 patients with CAD and 15 healthy volunteers. The numbers of isolated EPCs a...

The onset of coronary artery disease (CAD) is influenced by cardiovascular risk factors that often occur in clusters and may build on one another. The objective of this study is to examine the relationship between hypertension and CAD age of onset in the Lebanese population. This retrospective analysis was performed on data extracted from Lebanese patients (n = 3,753). Logistic regression exami...

background coronary artery disease (cad) is one of the major causes of death worldwide. there is a direct relationship between increased levels of blood cholesterol, triglycerides (tg), low density lipoproteins (ldl), high density lipoproteins (hdl), nitric oxide (no), and high sensitivity c-reactive protein (hs-crp) and the cad. walnut may reduce these factors and consequently decrease the ris...

OBJECTIVE To identify the risk factors for Coronary Artery Diseases (CAD), such as hypertension, hyperlipidaemia, smoking, age, obesity, immobility and diabetes mellitus, in critical patients of Sistan-Baluchistan (SB), Iran. METHODS This cross-sectional research was performed in 2006. The sampling method was convenience, and involved 616 hospitalised patients in the CCUs of hospitals of Sist...