A study carried out at the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC) in Madrid, Spain provides crucial information about the effect of cardiometabolic risk factors and subclinical ...

Background: Coronary microvascular dysfunction (CMD) comprises a variety of pathogenic mechanisms that impair the microcirculation of the heart. Clinical studies have shown that 30–50% of ...

Discussion. The present study evaluated CMD in patients with CAAD and no significant stenosis. We demonstrated that coronary microcirculation resistance, as represented by the IMR value, is ...

With coronary artery spasm, most cases were found in the left coronary system, but one in five cases were isolated right coronary spasm. A little more than half (52.5%) had epicardial spasm, most with ...

Cardiometabolic risk factors in apparently healthy individuals are linked to altered coronary microcirculation Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III (F.S.P.) Journal ...

Left main coronary artery (LMCA) disease can lead to what's known as a "widowmaker" heart attack, so-called because of the ...

A small Chinese trial compared the effects of three oral antispastic medications for 24 weeks post-coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) in relation to spasm-induced radial artery graft failure ...

More men than women die from coronary artery disease. The rates for women go up after menopause, but they never catch up with men's. Heart disease is the No. 1 killer in women, just as in men.

We found that high-volume exercise (>3,000 MET-min/week) was associated with a greater burden of subclinical coronary atherosclerosis — measured by coronary artery calcium score and coronary CT ...

Coronary artery spasms are a medical condition where your artery temporarily either blocks off or decreases blood flow to your heart. Learn about what brings them on, how they're treated, and more.