Surprisingly, cigarette smoking was not significantly associated with atherosclerosis in this study.
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As might be expected, service members with atherosclerosis were older and more likely to have dyslipidemia, hypertension, or obesity than service members without atherosclerosis.
FORBES: Autopsy Studies Find Large And Dramatic Drop In Early Atherosclerosis Over 60 Years
Almost a decade ago a study demonstrating regression of atherosclerosis with apo A-1 Milano caused tremendous excitement, but the recombinant product has not yet undergone further research or commercial development.
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The researchers found that 6% of the patients had a mutation in the 5-lipoxygenase gene and experienced accelerated atherosclerosis compared with the other patients, according to results published in January in the New England Journal of Medicine.
But in January results from an artery-imaging study showed that adding Zetia to Zocor didn't slow heart-attack-causing atherosclerosis in patients with a genetic disorder that causes high cholesterol.
Although some of the deaths occurred in people with underlying diseases such as atherosclerosis (and therefore could have been coincidental), government researchers who examined otherwise healthy dieters who died of ventricular arrhythmias found that the pattern of deaths suggested "the effects of protein-calorie malnutrition on the heart, " including atrophy of the heart muscle.
Bryant Webber and colleagues analyzed autopsy reports and available health data from 3, 832 service members who died of combat or unintentional injuries in Afghanistan and Iraq and compared their findings to similar studies performed during the Korean and Vietnam wars. 8.5% of the newest group had evidence of coronary atherosclerosis, compared with 77% in the Korean War group and 45% in the Vietnam War group.
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Zannis, first discovered 17 years ago that there were three versions of apo E, they found that most people afflicted with a rare type of artery-clogging atherosclerosis had two copies of apo E-2.
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Atherosclerosis was found in a variety of vascular beds and was correlated with the age of the mummy at the time of death.
"This may well indicate that the FDA has raised the hurdle on safety aspects of cholesterol-lowering agents compared with what it was, " says Evan Stein, director of the Metabolic and Atherosclerosis Research Center in Cincinatti.
Another is that lowering cholesterol with Zetia in addition to Zocor didn't provide a benefit in terms of slowing atherosclerosis.
Heart disease due to atherosclerosis, also known as hardening of the arteries, is a critical problem for children with progeria.
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