It is a good way forward for expanding the prevention of coronary heart disease.
Mortality rates from major killers such as coronary heart disease were down, said Mr Barber.
It is also associated with reductions in coronary heart disease ranging from 10% to 21%.
The PLAC test was already approved to predict an individual's risk of coronary heart disease.
If you deal with obesity you deal with problems like diabetes, coronary heart disease...
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Coronary heart disease, cancer, smoking and diet will all be targeted for improval.
Coronary heart disease (CHD) is still the single biggest killer in the UK, claiming nearly 125, 000 lives a year.
Using these markers, Celera plans to introduce a test next year called the coronary heart disease genetic risk score.
This in turn reduces the risk of patients with coronary heart disease dying.
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Up to 13% of patients were found to be at high risk of coronary heart disease using traditional assessment tools.
Coronary heart disease and stroke represent the No. 1 and No. 3 killers of women over age 25 in America.
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But only a tiny percentage of the arthritis patients in the Novartis study had pre-existing coronary heart disease, Novartis says.
People of Indian origin living in the UK may be genetically more prone to coronary heart disease, researchers have said.
Early deaths from coronary heart disease among Indians, Bangladeshis, Pakistanis and Sri Lankans are around 50% higher than the UK average.
Unlike some other diseases, however, clear genetic markers for coronary heart disease, which accounts for 1 in 6 U.S. deaths, remain elusive.
Recently they reported that in the first five years of the study, 199 men died, 70 of them from coronary heart disease.
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The poll, of more than 80, 000 coronary heart disease sufferers in England, found that the most dissatisfied patients were those under 55.
Death from coronary heart disease also seems to correlate with apo E.
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In an exploratory analysis, women smokers with coronary heart disease (CHD) had a much higher incidence of SCD than women without CHD.
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Dr. Kaul is an internationally recognized heart researcher renowned for developing microbubble-based myocardial contrast echocardiography for the early detection of coronary heart disease.
Astoundingly, the women who did not vacation annually were almost eight times more likely to develop coronary heart disease or have a heart attack.
The report said waiting times for operations have come down and significant progress has been made in preventing, diagnosing and treating coronary heart disease.
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The study, published in the journal Circulation, is the strongest evidence yet that psychological as well as physical changes can influence coronary heart disease.
The rate of coronary heart disease among this community - particularly in young men - is up to twice as high as that in whites.
Dr Chris Jones, a cardiologist and medical director of NHS Wales, said coronary heart disease was a largely preventable condition, which increased in risk with age.
They also had an 86% reduced risk of having coronary heart disease and a 46% reduction in the risk of developing cardiovascular disease, according to the researchers.
However, unlike smoking, sedentary lifestyles lead to more than 40 medically recognised chronic diseases, such as coronary heart disease, type 2 diabetes, obesity, mental illness, dementia, some cancers.
One study found that men at high risk for coronary heart disease, and who failed to take annual vacations, were 32% more susceptible to dying from a heart attack.
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Nissen says that to properly examine the cardiovascular risk issue, researchers need to specifically study arthritis patients who already have coronary heart disease, or are at a very high risk of getting it soon.
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