It can be a downward spiral. For people living with peripheral artery disease(PAD), leg pain is among the most common symptoms. When that pain interferes with how much these individuals walk, the likelihood that they will experience depression symptoms rises. So concludes a study recently published in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes. The finding was […]

The RCT included the administration of Gnosis’ fermented vitamin K Menaquinone-7 (MK-7) supplement for a year-long intervention period in pre-, peri- and post-menopausal women aged 40-70 years, which observed significantly improved markers of vascular calcification and stiffness in all intervention groups. In post-menopausal women suffering from high vascular stiffness, this was found to be significantly […]

Study population China Hypertension Survey (CHS) is a nationally representative population-based study, which recruiting ~ 0.5 million participants from 31 provinces between October 2012 to December 2015 in mainland China. Design details were published previously [13,14,15]. This sub-study was based on CHS, and 16 cities and 17 counties were selected using a simple random sampling method from […]

Abstract We previously reported in the study of preventive effects of alogliptin on diabetic atherosclerosis (SPEAD-A) that alogliptin, a dipeptidyl peptidase-4 (DPP-4) inhibitor, attenuated the progression of carotid atherosclerosis in subjects with type 2 diabetes and no history of cardiovascular disease. This extension study of the SPEAD-A trial investigated whether early alogliptin initiation improved long-term […]