Quitting smoking drops heart attack risk to levels of never smokers
Studies have
identified that quitting smoking can reduce heart attacks and death
but have not examined
the relationship of this salutary effect on the presence and
severity of coronary
artery disease (CAD).
Our study aimed to
find out what impact
stopping smoking had
on the risk of cardiovascular events,
death and the
severity of CAD.
Listening to favourite music improves endothelial function in CAD
The study evaluated
the effects of listening to favourite music
on endothelial
function
through changes of
circulating blood markers of endothelial function:
the stable end
products of nitric oxide (NOx),
asymmetric
dimethylarginine (ADMA),
symmetric
dimethylarginine (SDMA) and
xanthine oxidase (XO) in 74 patients with
stable CAD.
Cold weather produces more heart attacks
The study evaluated
the independent environmental triggers of AMI
in a multifactorial
nationwide environmental model.
Weekly counts of AMI
patients that
underwent primary
percutaneous coronary intervention (pPCI)
during 2006-2009 in
32 Belgian PCI centres
were extracted from
the national PCI database.