Topic: University of California-San Francisco
The jury is still out on whether drinking beer prevents or causes heart disease . It is popularly known that red wine can prevent heart disease , but studies suggest that beer may have more health benefits than red wine. On the ...
The adenosine A1-receptor antagonist rolofylline does not appear beneficial in treating acute heart failure patients with renal dysfunction, according to research published in the Oct. 7 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. Barry M. Massie, M.D., of the University of ...
Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco suggests that the likelihood heart failure before the age of 50 was 20 times higher in blacks than white Americans. A summary of current clinical articles from that pile on your desk Ethnic Populations ...
Perhaps it's in the nature of regenerative medicine news to multiply. Now, two studies have hit the wire this afternoon detailing two different ways to fix damaged hearts, one by turning structural cells into beating heart tissue, another by restoring mammals' long-lost ...
April 27, 2001, San Francisco, Calif.), helped link cardiovascular disease to the kind of aggressive, competitive behaviour exhibited by what he called "type A" personalities. In later years he founded and directed the Meyer Friedman Institute, a research centre at the University ...
Adherence to quality measures in coronary artery bypass follow-up care results in similar mortality rates whether the procedure is performed at a high-volume or low-volume cardiac care center, according to a study reported in the May 19 issue of the Annals of ...
In patients with acute heart failure, treatment with an intravenous infusion of relaxin -- a natural human peptide that affects multiple vascular control pathways -- may improve clinical outcomes, according to a report published online March 29 in the The Lancet to ...
In a cohort of young black and white adults followed for two decades, the likelihood of heart failure before the age of 50 was 20 times higher in blacks than whites, according to research published in the March 19 issue of the ...
Page Depression can sap the energy and motivation that people with heart disease need to get better. How mood blocks cardiac recovery A patient's ability to recover may have as much to do with his state of mind as the health of ...
The angiotensin-receptor blocker irbesartan does not improve outcomes over placebo in heart failure patients with a normal or near normal left ventricular ejection fraction, according to the results of a study published online Nov. 11 in the New England Journal of Medicine ...