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The analysis had a 93 percent accuracy rate for forecasting the chance of survival in people with advanced cardiac disease.

The results “provide people with more information to make a judgment about the value of the ACA,” said Dr. Joseph Ladapo, the study’s lead author.

The researchers believe this to be the first national study comparing statin use in patients with and without HIV and the first extensive analysis using U.S. data.

By having more accurate information, these adults and their physicians can make an informed decision on whether to undergo surgery, UCLA researchers concluded.

Researchers in the UCLA-led study concluded that better treatments for heart failure and new ways of predicting patient outcomes are needed.

UCLA researchers say the study challenges the concept that inhaled nicotine is benign, or safe.

The finding that heart failure is linked to how DNA is packaged within heart cells represents a new way to think about the development of heart disease and its treatment.

The study suggests a new possible framework for treating people with familial hypercholesterolemia, an inherited condition characterized by extremely high levels of LDL, the so-called “bad cholesterol.”

UCLA-led study is the first to examine potential adverse health effects in users of vaginal estrogen compared with non-users.

Results of the UCLA study could lead to new types of drugs, targeting the intestinal cells, to reduce people’s risk of heart attacks and strokes, or to treat other conditions linked to inflammation, including cancer.

By showing that stress levels can be quantified by a simple urine test, and that this test helps predict disease, this work could lead to strategies for prevention of coronary heart disease and heart attacks.

The study evaluated both methods in people undergoing transcatheter aortic valve replacement, a procedure used to repair aortic stenosis.

Autoantibodies cause some cases of hypertriglyceridemia, which can increase risk of cardiovascular disease and pancreatitis.

Claude Bruni has 98 marathon races under his belt, including every Los Angeles Marathon since 1986. Nothing can keep Bruni, who’s 80, from running. Not even major surgery, as it turns out.

Findings by scientists from UCLA and the University of Western Australia could eventually identify mechanisms linking cholesterol to coronary artery disease.

The thoracic transplant program also ranks among the country’s best in terms of patient survival rates, according to the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients.

While boxes of decadent chocolate treats, celebratory champagne and romantic, high-calorie dinners may dance in your mind as a way to celebrate Valentine’s Day, your heart may be pining for something else.

Researchers at UCLA found the same types of abnormalities in the study’s e-cigarette users that are found in tobacco cigarette users. These abnormalities are associated with increased cardiac risk.

For generations, doctors told women who were born with complex congenital heart defects that the physical demands of pregnancy would be too difficult for them.

Researchers believe that modulating electrical signals in the autonomic nervous system holds promise for better ways to treat heart failure and other common cardiovascular problems.

UCLA scientists have found that calcification of heart muscle tissue is caused when a type of cell called cardiac fibroblasts go awry.

But a new UCLA-led study shows that people adopt these healthier habits at different rates depending on what type of test they undergo.

The discovery by UCLA researchers may help scientists develop effective therapies to prevent or reverse this common and often fatal disease.

UCLA placed highly in 15 of the 16 specialties evaluated by U.S. News and World Report. Only 3 percent of all hospitals were ranked nationally in even one specialty.

The “virtual heart” can simulate tiny, subtle changes in cells and tissues as well as the larger impact on the entire organ.