Category Archives: Heart Disease
Dark Chocolate and the Heart’s ‘Repairing Cells’ (EPCs)
Along the lines of finding out red wine can provide heart health benefits, the European Society [...]
Oct
Study: Chronic Conditions and Stem Cell Support
According to the Stanford University of Medicine: “Currently available treatments for chronic wounds are inadequate. [...]
Mar
Endothelial Dysfunction: Questions & Answers
What are EPCs? EPCs are endothelial progenitor cells, a term that applies to several different [...]
Jan
Exercise to help correct endothelial dysfunction in patients with chronic heart failure.
The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of systemic exercise training on [...]
Circulating endothelial progenitor cells and the risk factors for coronary artery disease.
This article discusses the relationship between coronary artery disease and circulating endothelial progenitor cells. Infusions of [...]
Circulating endothelial progenitor cells increase in patients with coronary artery disease after exercise.
The aim of this study was to analyze whether a maximal stress test in patients [...]
Levels of endothelial progenitor cells predict coronary artery disease severity.
This study demonstrates an inverse relationship between circulating endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs) and coronary artery [...]
Endothelial progenitor cells inversely correlate with risk factors for coronary artery disease.
In an investigation to find out the relationship between bone marrow–derived circulating endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs) [...]
Childhood obesity, endothelial activation, and cardiovascular risk.
In a study of 30 obese and 28 healthy prepubertal children in Turkey, scientists have [...]
Exercise training, endothelial function, and coronary artery disease.
This study of 19 patients with coronary endothelial dysfunction tested whether exercise training had an effect [...]