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Six-Day Clinical Trial Finds Integrative Medicine Program Alters Blood Serum

September 9, 2016

In a novel controlled clinical trial, participants in a six-day Ayurvedic-based well-being program that featured a vegetarian diet, meditation, yoga and massages experienced measurable decreases in a set of blood-based metabolites associated with inflammation, cardiovascular disease risk and cholesterol regulation.

Borderzone Breakthrough: A New Source of Cardiac Inflammation

August 28, 2024

…of Dr. Kevin King, associate professor of bioengineering and medicine, and a cardiologist at the Sulpizio Cardiovascular Center, report the discovery of a novel mechanism of cardiac inflammation that may expand therapeutic opportunities to prevent heart attacks from becoming heart failure.

UC San Diego Heart Transplant Program Boasts Nation’s Best Survival Rates

August 7, 2019

The heart transplant program at UC San Diego Health has demonstrated the best one-year survival rate for patients in the United States among health care providers with a volume of more than 50 heart transplants per year, according to the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients.

Diet Plays Critical Role in NASH Progressing to Liver Cancer in Mouse Model

June 1, 2021

Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine found in a mouse model that when fed a Western diet rich in calories, fat and cholesterol, the mice progressively became obese, diabetic and developed NASH, which progressed to HCC, chronic kidney and cardiovascular disease.

Even High-But-Normal Blood Pressure Elevates Stroke Risk

September 28, 2011

People with prehypertension have a 55 percent higher risk of experiencing a future stroke than people without prehypertension, report researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine in a new meta-analysis of scientific literature published in the September 28 online issue of the journal Neurology.

UC San Diego Health Physicians Top the List

October 2, 2023

More than 100 UC San Diego Health Physicians named “Top Docs” in annual survey.

UC San Diego Health Physicians Top the List in San Diego County

October 11, 2021

More than 100 UC San Diego Health physicians in 48 specialties have been named “Top Docs” in the 2021 San Diego Magazine “Physicians of Exceptional Excellence” survey.

UC San Diego Health Nationally Recognized for Stroke and Diabetes Care

August 16, 2023

American Heart Association honors UC San Diego Health with multiple awards for its commitment to treating patients with heart disease and stroke.

Study Demonstrates Need to Change Scoring System for Heart Disease

January 13, 2014

…San Diego School of Medicine shows that one of the most widely used systems for predicting risk of adverse heart events should be re-evaluated. A surprise finding was that coronary artery calcium (CAC) density may be protective against cardiovascular events. The study of CAC will be published in the January…

Topping the Charts

September 24, 2018

More than 100 UC San Diego Health physicians have been named as “Top Docs” in the 2018 San Diego Magazine “Physicians of Exceptional Excellence” survey, an annual opportunity for doctors across the region to vote for much-admired colleagues.

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