Coronary artery disease News

TUESDAY, Oct. 4 (HealthDay News) -- Obesity and alcohol consumption are among the leading causes of sudden cardiac death not caused by coronary artery disease, a new study finds. Researchers analyzed data from autopsies of almost 2,700 people in F...

FRIDAY, Sept. 23 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers have identified five new genes that play a role in people's risk for heart attack and coronary artery disease -- the most common cause of premature death and disability in the world, according to a ...

THURSDAY, Sept. 1 (HealthDay News) -- Patients with coronary artery disease are at increased risk for clotting and bleeding complications following orthopedic surgery, a new study finds. Researchers analyzed data from 3,082 patients who had orthop...

FRIDAY, July 16 (HealthDay News) -- Women with the most serious type of angina are three times as likely as men with the same condition to develop severe coronary artery disease (CAD), researchers have found. In the study, Canadian researchers ana...

TUESDAY, Feb. 2 (HealthDay News) --When a doctor wants to assess the condition of heart arteries without putting a gadget into those blood vessels, the X-ray technology called computed tomography -- more commonly called a CT scan -- is better than...

WEDNESDAY, Sept. 23 (HealthDay News) -- Blacks and Hispanics with a history of stroke or coronary artery disease have higher blood pressure than whites, while Hispanics are less likely to be prescribed medications to control it, a new U.S. study s...

WEDNESDAY, April 29 (HealthDay News) -- A urine test to detect coronary artery disease has worked well in a small trial, German researchers report. The test looks for fragments of the protein collagen, which plays a major role in blocking heart ar...