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Source: Livestrong
5 Exercises to help you manage the symptoms of peripheral arterial disease
If you have peripheral artery disease (PAD) and deal with leg pain and cramping, it’s understandable that you’d want to avoid anything that triggers discomfort, like walking. But (ironically enough) exercising your legs may actually help improve your PAD symptoms in the long run.
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Source: Healio
Large race disparities persist for black, hispanic adults with peripheral vascular disease
Compared with white patients, Black and Hispanic patients with peripheral vascular disease are younger, have more comorbidities, are less likely to undergo revascularization and more likely to undergo amputation, national data show.
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Source: Medical Device Network
FDA greenlights light-activated device for use in vascular disease trial
A drug-coated balloon that helps restore blood vessels via light activation has been approved for use in US clinical trials, following an investigational device exemption (IDE) by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
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Source: Medical News Today
What is the difference between arterial and venous ulcers?
Arterial ulcers and venous ulcers are chronic wounds with different causes and appearances. Arterial ulcers occur due to arterial disease, resulting in insufficient blood supply to the affected area. Venous ulcers develop as a consequence of chronic venous insufficiency.
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Source: Healio
FDA: No excess mortality risk with paclitaxel-coated devices for PAD
Warnings about excess mortality risk with paclitaxel-coated devices to treat peripheral artery disease are “no longer supported,” based on a updated review of relevant trial data, according to an FDA announcement. The announcement applies to all paclitaxel-coated devices, including all models, lots and unique device identifiers, according to the FDA.
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Source: News Medical Life Sciences
Study finds inverse correlation between dietary magnesium intake and peripheral arterial disease
In a recent article published in PLOS One, researchers conducted a cross-sectional study to investigate the association between dietary magnesium intake and peripheral arterial disease (PAD), a chronic atherosclerotic disease primarily affecting the lower extremities.
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Source: Medical Xpress
Study finds chronically disrupted sleep may increase the risk for heart disease
Sleep irregularity—chronically disrupted sleep and highly variable sleep durations night after night—may increase the risk for atherosclerosis, according to a study led by Kelsie Full, Ph.D., MPH, of Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
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Source: Medical Xpress
A1C: What is it, and what does it mean for your heart?
You might think about cholesterol when you consider your cardiovascular health.
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Source: Medical Xpress
Gaps in the quality of vascular care can worsen long-term health outcomes
According to a national registry, half of Medicare patients who underwent a procedure for symptom relief as it relates to lower extremity peripheral vascular disease did not receive the recommended medical therapy for long-term cardiovascular risk management.
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Source: Medical Xpress
Researchers identify biomarker for diagnosing vascular dementia
Measuring a key blood molecule may help doctors diagnose whether or how much impaired blood flow to a patient’s brain is contributing to dementia or cognitive problems, according to a new study led by a UCLA Health researcher.
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Source: News Medical Life Sciences
Moderate exercise plus cutting 250 calories daily may improve vascular health in older adults with obesity
Cutting just 250 calories a day with moderate exercise reaped bigger rewards than exercise alone for older, obese adults. Among older adults with obesity, combining aerobic exercise with a moderate reduction in daily calories resulted in greater improvements in aortic stiffness (a measure of vascular health, which impacts cardiovascular disease), compared to exercise only or to exercise plus a more restrictive diet, according to new research published today in theAmerican Heart Association’s flagship journal Circulation.
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Source: News Medical Life Sciences
Strength training for breathing muscles lowers blood pressure, improves vascular health
Working out just five minutes daily via a practice described as “strength training for your breathing muscles” lowers blood pressure and improves some measures of vascular health as well as, or even more than, aerobic exercise or medication, new CU Boulder research shows.
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Source: Medical Xpress
Vascular disease in women presents differently than it does in men
In April 2019, vascular surgeons in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University at Buffalo organized the first-ever Women’s Vascular Summit, with attendees from around the country. The purpose was to launch a discussion among vascular physicians of how vascular disease, which is disease of blood vessels, such as the arteries and veins, may be different in women than in men and what that means for diagnosis and treatment.
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Source: News Medical Life Sciences
Review: Endovascular therapy is the safest, most effective treatment for superior vena cava syndrome
Like a blocked water line, obstructions in blood vessels in the human circulatory system can cause serious problems. This is especially the case in superior vena cava syndrome (SVCS), in which oxygen-depleted blood returning from the head, upper chest, and arms is partially or completely prevented from reaching the heart. The result, however, is far more serious than the inconvenience of low water pressure from a clogged pipe – SVCS requires immediate attention.
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Source: Medical Xpress
Assessing risk of vascular inflammation for diabetes patients
A team of international scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore), Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH) in Singapore, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has developed a simple method of extracting tiny biological particles from a person’s blood and use them as biomarkers to assess the health of their blood vessels.
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Source: Verywell Health
Arterial Disease Types: Risk Factors, Causes, and Symptoms
Arterial diseases affect the arteries of your body. When they develop, oxygenated blood doesn’t reach its destination.
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Source: Medical Xpress
Peripheral artery disease risk hinges on health factors and demographics, including race
The lifetime risk of lower-extremity peripheral artery disease (PAD), in which leg arteries narrow abnormally, is about 30 percent for black men and 28 percent for black women, with lower but still-substantial risks for Hispanics and whites, according to a study led by scientists at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
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Source: Medical Xpress
Eating cheese may offset blood vessel damage from salt
Cheese lovers, rejoice. Antioxidants naturally found in cheese may help protect blood vessels from damage from high levels of salt in the diet, according to a new Penn State study.
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Source: Medical Xpress
Scientists discover new way fat harms your arteries
Scientists may have found a way that obesity directly damages the arteries and contributes to heart disease—a discovery that they say could eventually lead to new treatments.
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Source: Medical News Today
Vitamins and supplements for increased blood flow
Good blood flow delivers oxygen and vital nutrients to cells, tissues, and organs throughout the body.
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Source: Medical Xpress
Atrial fibrillation: New marker for atrial damage discovered
Atrial fibrillation is a common abnormal heart rhythm. It is treated either with medications or by applying heat or extreme cold to destroy small specific tissue areas in the atrium. This inevitably causes small wounds.
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Source: Science Daily
Discovering how diabetes leads to vascular disease
A team scientists and physicians has identified a cellular connection between diabetes and one of its major complications — blood vessel narrowing that increases risks of several serious health conditions, including heart disease and stroke.
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Source: Medical Xpress
Study challenges 'no pain no gain' requirement for patients with clogged leg arteries
Patients with peripheral arterial disease should be given the option of pain-free exercise, according to a study published today in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, a journal of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC).
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Source: Medical Xpress
New technology gives unprecedented look inside capillaries
More than 40 billion capillaries—tiny, hair-like blood vessels—are tasked with carrying oxygen and nutrients to the far reaches of the human body. But despite their sheer number and monumental importance to basic functions and metabolism, not much is known about their inner workings.
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Source: Science Daily
Blood test for specific metabolites could reveal blocked arteries
A pilot project suggests that in the near future, a blood test could show whether arteries carrying blood to the heart are narrow or blocked, a risk factor for heart disease.
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Source: Medical Xpress
Cancer increases the risk of heart attacks, strokes and vascular occlusions
It is well known that pre-existing cancer is a significant risk factor for venous thrombosis. What was hitherto unclear was whether cancer also has a negative impact upon the risk of heart attacks, strokes or occlusions of peripheral arteries. A study conducted at MedUni Vienna’s Division of Hematology and Hemastasology within its Department of Medicine I and recently published in leading journal Haematologica, shows for the first time that the risk of these arterial thromboses and their consequences is also higher in patients with cancer.
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Source: Medical Xpress
Tobacco aside, e-cigarette flavorings may harm blood vessels
Flavor additives used in electronic cigarettes and related tobacco products could impair blood vessel function and may be an early indicator of heart damage, according to new laboratory research in Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology, an American Heart Association journal.
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Source: Medical Xpress
The influence of circadian rhythms on atherosclerosis
The internal clock controls all vital functions in the body. Body temperature as well as blood pressure or the release of certain enzymes are subject to oscillations throughout the day, the so-called circadian rhythm. For the first time, a team around Professor Oliver Söhnlein has now shown the influence of circadian rhythms on atherosclerosis—a vascular disease that ultimately can lead to heart attacks and strokes. His study, recently published in the scientific journal Cell Metabolism, could be crucial for the improvement of therapeutic approaches.
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Source: Eurekalert
Study suggests new strategy against vascular disease in diabetes
Recent findings suggest a novel approach for protecting people with diabetes from their higher risk of advanced blood vessel disease, which sets the stage for early heart attacks and strokes. Cardiovascular problems from atherosclerosis – plaque-like lesions forming in artery walls – are the major cause of death in people with type 2 diabetes and metabolic syndrome.
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Source: American City Business Journals
Stem cells show long-term success in treating severe peripheral arterial disease
A long-term study of patients who received stem cells to treat angiitis-induced critical limb ischemia (AICLI) shows the cells to be both safe and effective. The study, published in STEM CELLS Translational Medicine (SCTM), could lead to an option for those who suffer from this serious form of peripheral arterial disease (PAD).
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Source: Eurekalert
Vascular problems associated with symptoms of menopause and quality of life measures
A new study shows that more frequent and severe menopausal symptoms such as hot flashes, sleep disturbance, loss of sexual interest, weight gain and other quality of life measures, were associated with markers of vascular aging, according to researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.
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