224 results about "Cardiovascular event" patented technology

Sympathetic nerves run through the adventitia surrounding renal arteries and are critical in the modulation of systemic hypertension. Hyperactivity of these nerves can cause renal hypertension, a disease prevalent in 30-40% of the adult population. Hypertension can be treated with neuromodulating agents (such as angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors, angiotensin II inhibitors, or aldosterone receptor blockers), but requires adherence to strict medication regimens and often does not reach target blood pressure threshold to reduce risk of major cardiovascular events. A minimally invasive solution is presented here to reduce the activity of the sympathetic nerves surrounding the renal artery by locally delivering neurotoxic or nerve-blocking agents into the adventitia. Extended elution of these agents may also be accomplished in order to tailor the therapy to the patient.

Omega-3 fatty acid compositions comprising eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) are provided, where the compositions are useful for treating, reducing the occurrence of, or preventing major adverse cardiovascular events or major coronary events in patients who have established cardiovascular disease without prior myocardial infarction, preventing their further progression, and treating underlying risk factors for CVD such as hypertension, dyslipidemia, obesity and / or diabetes.

Provided are composition and / or methods useful in preventing onset and / or recurrence of cardiovascular events, especially in patients who have escaped the unstable period after cardiovascular angioplasty or in hyperlipidemia patients who have been treated with HMG-CoA RI.

A system including an implantable trigger event detector and an implantable ischemia detector. The implantable trigger event detector is adapted to detect at least one first condition and to output a responsive trigger signal including information about whether the first condition has been detected. The implantable ischemia detector is adapted to detect a second condition indicative of one or more physiologic cardiovascular events in a subject that are indicative of ischemia. The ischemia detector is coupled to the trigger event detector to receive the trigger signal, and the ischemia detector is enabled upon the trigger signal indicating that the first condition has been detected.

Sympathetic nerves run through the adventitia surrounding renal arteries and are critical in the modulation of systemic hypertension. Hyperactivity of these nerves can cause renal hypertension, a disease prevalent in 30-40% of the adult population. Hypertension can be treated with neuromodulating agents (such as angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors, angiotensin II inhibitors, or aldosterone receptor blockers), but requires adherence to strict regimens and often does not reach target blood pressure threshold to reduce risk of major cardiovascular events. A minimally invasive solution is presented here to reduce the activity of the sympathetic nerves surrounding the renal artery by locally delivering neurotoxic or sympathetic nerve-blocking agents into the adventitia. Extended elution of these agents may also be accomplished in order to tailor the therapy to the patient.

The present invention identifies two circulating proteins that have been newly identified as being differentially expressed in atherosclerosis. Circulating levels of these two proteins, particularly as a panel of proteins, can discriminate patients with acute myocardial infarction from those with stable exertional angina and from those with no history of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. Such levels can also predict cardiovascular events, determine the effectiveness of therapy, stage disease, and the like. For example, these markers are useful as surrogate biomarkers of clinical events needed for development of vascular specific pharmaceutical agents.

Disclosed is a composition which is useful for preventing the occurrence of a cardiovascular event, particularly a composition which is expected to show a prophylactic effect on a cardiovascular event occurring in a hypercholesterolemia patient despite providing the patient with a treatment with HMG-CoA RI or a cardiovascular event occurring in a multiple risk patient.

Disclosed is a composition which is useful for preventing the occurrence of a cardiovascular event, particularly a composition which is expected to show a prophylactic effect on a cardiovascular event occurring in a hypercholesterolemia patient despite providing the patient with a treatment with HMG-CoA RI or a cardiovascular event occurring in a multiple risk patient.

The present invention identifies circulating proteins that are differentially expressed in atherosclerosis. Circulating levels of these proteins, particularly as a panel of proteins, can discriminate patients with acute myocardial infarction from those with stable exertional angina and from those with no history of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. Such levels can also predict cardiovascular events, determine the effectiveness of therapy, stage disease, and the like. For example, these markers are useful as surrogate biomarkers of clinical events needed for development of vascular specific pharmaceutical agents.

Methods and apparatus are provided for assessing the risk of an acute cardiovascular event that includes providing an endothelial or vascular function test to identify higher risk from lower risk individuals in a population of symptomatic individuals presenting with chest pain that have inconclusive results in ECG and cardiovascular marker tests, such as a tropinin test, and are administered for triage in hospital and additional tests such as ECG exercise and nuclear stress tests. The invention further provides methods and apparatus for assessing the vascular status and response of patients in clinical trials for cardiovascular therapies.

The present invention provides pharmacological interventions for the treatment of dyslipidemia, and to the reduction of residual risk of cardiovascular disease and adverse cardiovascular events in patients on intense statin use or with well-controlled LDL-C concentrations. In particular, the invention relates to the use of pemafibrate to prevent cardiovascular events in populations at-risk due to risk factors such as type 2 diabetes mellitus with dyslipidemia in spite of intense statin use or well-controlled LDL-C.

A system including an implantable trigger event detector and an implantable ischemia detector. The implantable trigger event detector is adapted to detect at least one first condition and to output a responsive trigger signal including information about whether the first condition has been detected. The implantable ischemia detector is adapted to detect a second condition indicative of one or more physiologic cardiovascular events in a subject that are indicative of ischemia. The ischemia detector is coupled to the trigger event detector to receive the trigger signal, and the ischemia detector is enabled upon the trigger signal indicating that the first condition has been detected.

The present invention relates to a method of reducing C-reactive protein in a subject in need of treatment thereof, wherein the subject is at risk of having or the subject has already had a vascular event or suffering from an inflammatory disease or disorder. In one embodiment, the vascular event is a cardiovascular event (e.g., myocardial infarction). In another embodiment, the vascular event is a cerebrovascular event (e.g., stroke (such as transient ischemic attacks (TIAs)). In yet another embodiment the vascular event is a peripheral vascular event (e.g., intermittent claudication). The method comprises administering a therapeutically effective amount of at least one growth hormone secretagogue compound or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, hydrate or solvate thereof. The growth hormone secretagogue can be coadministered with a second growth hormone secretagogue, HMG CoA reductase inhibitor, an ACAT inhibitor, a CETP inhibitor, an anti-inflammatory agent, an ACE inhibitor, a Beta blocker, a cholesterol absorption inhibitor, a nicotonic acid, a fibric acid derivative, a bile acid sequestering agent or a combination thereof.

The invention encompasses novel compounds of Formula I, which are nitric oxide-releasing prodrugs of diaryl-2-(5H) furanones useful in the treatment of cyclooxygenase-2 mediated diseases.The invention also encompasses certain pharmaceutical compositions and methods for treating cyclooxygenase-2 mediated diseases comprising the use of compounds of Formula I. The above compounds may be used as a combination therapy with low-dose aspirin to treat chronic cyclooxygenase-2 mediated diseases or conditions while also reducing the risk of thrombotic cardiovascular events.

The present invention relates to a method of identifying a subject being susceptible to a cardiac intervention based on the determination of GDF-15 in a sample of a subject in need of a cardiac intervention. Moreover, the present invention pertains to a method for predicting the risk of mortality or a further acute cardiovascular event for a subject suffering from a cardiovascular complication based on the determination of GDF-15 and a natriuretic peptide and / or a cardiac troponin in a sample the said subject. Also encompassed by the present invention are devices and kits for carrying out the aforementioned methods.

The present invention relates to certain SGLT-2 inhibitors for treating and / or preventing oxidative stress, for example in patients with type 1 or type 2 diabetes, as well as to the use of such SGLT-2 inhibitors in treatment and / or prevention of cardiovascular diseases in patients, for example type 1 or type 2 diabetes patients. The present invention further relates to certain SGLT-2 inhibitors for treating and / or preventing a metabolic disorder and preventing, reducing the risk of or delaying the occurrence of a cardiovascular event in patients, for example patients with type 1 or type 2 diabetes.

The present invention is a non-invasive apparatus, system, and method for performing irradiation light therapy upon blood circulating within the nostrils of a living mammalian subject. The merit and medical value of the invention resides in its ability to achieve a reversal of red blood cell aggregation in-vivo without invading the tissues or organs of the living subject—a clinical result which leads to lower blood viscosity and improved blood circulation. In this manner, the invention provides the living mammalian subject with an enhanced immunity from diseases, a reduced vulnerability to hypertension, and a reduced risk of a cardiovascular incident. Furthermore, by altering the wavelengths transmitted by the light generating unit(s) and controlling the light energy dosage, the method and system can also fine-tuned further as intervention for various diseases.

The invention provides methods and dosing regimens for safely and effectively treating androgen-dependent prostate cancer with a gonadotrophin releasing hormone (GnRH) antagonist without causing a testosterone spike and / or other side effect of GnRH agonist therapy such as a urinary tract infection, or an arthralgia-related or cardiovascular side effect. The present disclosure also provides for methods for treating prostate cancer in a patient with a history of at least one cardiovascular event, wherein administration of degarelix to the subject decreases the likelihood of developing or experiencing an additional cardiovascular event compared to treatment with a gonadotrophin releasing hormone (GnRH) agonist.

The present invention relates to certain SGLT-2 inhibitors for treating and / or preventing oxidative stress, for example in patients with type 1 or type 2 diabetes, as well as to the use of such SGLT-2 inhibitors in treatment and / or prevention of cardiovascular diseases in patients, for example type 1 or type 2 diabetes patients. The present invention further relates to certain SGLT-2 inhibitors for treating and / or preventing a metabolic disorder and preventing, reducing the risk of or delaying the occurrence of a cardiovascular event in patients, for example patients with type 1 or type 2 diabetes.

The invention discloses a prediction device for cardiovascular adverse events of percutaneous coronary intervention based on machine learning. The prediction device is characterized in that a cardiovascular event prediction model is saved in a memory, the cardiovascular event prediction model comprises a trained XGboost model, a LightGBM model, an SVM model, an NN model and corresponding weights of each model. The operating process of the prediction device comprises the steps that to-be-detected clinical characteristic data is received, missing value filling is conducted on the to-be-detectedclinical characteristic data; correlation detection is conducted on the clinical characteristic data on which missing value filling is conducted, and the clinical characteristic value with a crossed relationship is removed; computation is conducted on the clinical characteristic data on which correlation detection is conducted using the trained XGboost model, the LightGBM model, the SVM model andthe NN model to obtain four prediction probabilities, and weighted summation is conducted on the four prediction probabilities to obtain the prediction probability predicted by using the cardiovascular adverse event prediction model.

The invention encompasses novel compounds of Formula (I) and Formula (II), which are nitric oxide-releasing prodrugs useful in the treatment of cyclooxygenase-2 mediated diseases. The invention also encompasses certain pharmaceutical compositions and methods for treatment of cyclooxygenase-2 mediated diseases comprising the use of compounds of Formula (I) or Formula (II). The above compounds may be used as a combination therapy with low-dose aspirin to treat chronic cyclooxygenase-2 mediated diseases or conditions while simultaneously reducing the risk of thrombotic cardiovascular events.

Methods of lowering the plasma LDL-C levels in a patient on a stable dose of statin where the patient has an LDL-C level above treatment goal. Methods of decreasing a patient's risk for developing coronary heart disease or having a recurrent cardiovascular event wherein the patient is on a stable dose of statin and the patient has an LDL-C level above treatment goal.

The invention relates to a method of treatment or prevention of acute coronary syndrome or related conditions or reducing the risk of cardiovascular events comprising the administration of a therapeutically or prophylactically effective amount of meloxicam in combination with a therapeutically or prophylactically effective amount of an antiplatelet agent to a patient in need of such treatment. The invention also provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising meloxicam and an antiplatelet agent as a combined preparation suitable for use in these indications. Furthermore, the invention provides the use of meloxicam for manufacture of a pharmaceutical composition for treatment or prevention of acute coronary syndrome and related conditions when used in combination with an antiplatelet agent.

The invention relates to a method of treatment or prevention of acute coronary syndrome or related conditions or reducing the risk of cardiovascular events comprising the administration of a therapeutically or prophylactically effective amount of meloxicam in combination with a therapeutically or prophylactically effective amount of an antiplatelet agent to a patient in need of such treatment. The invention also provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising meloxicam and an antiplatelet agent as a combined preparation suitable for use in these indications. Furthermore, the invention provides the use of meloxicam for manufacture of a pharmaceutical composition for treatment or prevention of acute coronary syndrome and related conditions when used in combination with an antiplatelet agent.

The invention relates to a method of treatment or prevention of acute coronary syndrome or related conditions or reducing the risk of cardiovascular events comprising the administration of a therapeutically or prophylactically effective amount of meloxicam in combination with a therapeutically or prophylactically effective amount of an antiplatelet agent to a patient in need of such treatment. The invention also provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising meloxicam and an antiplatelet agent as a combined preparation suitable for use in these indications. Furthermore, the invention provides the use of meloxicam for manufacture of a pharmaceutical composition for treatment or prevention of acute coronary syndrome and related conditions when used in combination with an antiplatelet agent.

The present invention is a non-invasive apparatus, system, and method for performing irradiation light therapy upon blood circulating within the nostrils of a living mammalian subject. The merit and medical value of the invention resides in its ability to achieve a reversal of red blood cell aggregation in-vivo without invading the tissues or organs of the living subject—a clinical result which leads to lower blood viscosity and improved blood circulation. In this manner, the invention provides the living mammalian subject with an enhanced immunity from diseases, a reduced vulnerability to hypertension, and a reduced risk of a cardiovascular incident. Furthermore, by altering the wavelengths transmitted by the light generating unit(s) and controlling the light energy dosage, the method and system can also fine-tuned further as intervention for various diseases.

The present invention provides a method of treating or reducing ischemia or incidence of cardiovascular events by administering progesterone. Progesterone, unlike synthetic progestins, has been demonstrated to supplement, rather than to decrease, the beneficial effects of estrogen therapy on myocardial ischemia in females.

A method for assessing aspirin resistance and relative risk of a cardiovascular event in a patient taking aspirin is provided. The concentration of 11-dehydro-thromboxane B2 in a urine sample is measured and compared to a set of standardized quartile concentrations. A concentration of urinary 11-dehydro-thromboxane B2 that falls within the second, third, or fourth quartile is indicative of aspirin resistance and an elevated risk of a recurrent cardiovascular event.