The excess insulin triggers the liver to produce an overabundance of triglycerides, which gum up already-narrow arteries.
She noticed that the arteries in which the drug-coated stents were implanted never seemed to heal.
So adding Zetia to Zocor in that study still should have resulted in thinner arteries.
If one of the plaques in your coronary arteries ruptures, it can cause a heart attack.
There's increasing evidence that left uncleared, clots can break off and block smaller arteries.
Thousands of years ago humans didn't live long enough to die of clogged arteries.
's good press has come from drug-coated stents, which are used to prop open clogged arteries.
By contrast, more plaque built up in the arteries of the patients taking Pravachol.
Arteries and veins grow knotted together until eventually some of them burst, causing a bleeding stroke.
In Coutinho's case, a neurosurgeon said the harpoon was millimeters away from vital arteries.
However, data using imaging technologies to look at plaque in the arteries will be available.
It is known that stiffening of the arteries can lead to heart disease and stroke.
Advocates say it is possible to see plaque on the arteries with CT angiography.
It involves inserting tiny ultrasound probes directly into the arteries that feed the heart.
Older drugs like Lipitor aim to prevent the cholesterol from ever getting to the arteries.
Both outfits make coronary stents, wire-mesh devices used to keep arteries open, and other medical devices.
He then used an ultrasound technique to examine the amount of plaque in their arteries.
These procedures treat blocked arteries, which are not the cause of broken heart syndrome.
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Metal mesh tubes called stents are used to keep the arteries from closing again.
Rudel's critics say it's a big leap from monkey arteries to deciding what humans should eat.
Nissen headed a multi-center trial to see if the drug could reduce cholesterol buildup in arteries.
AtheroGenics first rose to prominence by touting AGI-1067 as a treatment for inflammation of the arteries.
The plaque that bursts isn't necessarily the one that blocks arteries and causes symptoms.
It appears she had a condition called the Transposition of the Great Arteries (TGA).
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Others got the best medicines available, but did not undergo a procedure to open their arteries.
For instance, they were less likely to have had their clogged arteries propped open with stents.
"Bad" cholesterol - low density lipoproteins (LDL) - contribute to furring of the arteries.
The drug actually seems to reduce the amount of plaque building up on arteries.
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