Sentences with phrase «fibrillation study»

At the 2016 IWCA National Specialty show at Purina Farms in Eureka, MO, the IWF presented talks on the conclusions drawn from several IWF - funded studies, including the Echo / EKG comparison study, the Atrial Fibrillation study, and the Lifetime Cardiac Study.

At the 2016 IWCA National Specialty show at Purina Farms in Eureka, MO, both William Tyrrell, DVM, DACVIM and Mariellen Dentino, MD, gave talks on the conclusions drawn from several IWF - funded studies, including the Echo / EKG comparison study, the Atrial Fibrillation study, and the Lifetime Cardiac Study.

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Using data from a large - scale study that tracked participants» diet and health information for more than a decade, researchers found an association between moderate chocolate consumption and a lowered risk for atrial fibrillation.

One key limitation of the recent Fitbit study, says Dr. Vincent Thijs, an expert on stroke at the University of Melbourne's Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, is that it demonstrates only that the tracker and algorithm can detect persistent or permanent atrial fibrillation, rather than paroxysmal AFib (or short, sudden spasms).

Dr. Saxon, who spoke with me after her SWSW panel Biometrics and Identity: Beyond Wearable, said that her institution soon will launch a ResearchKit app for an existing study that tracks patients after atrial fibrillation repair surgery.

For the study, designed to identify the best predictors, the researchers used data from 208 atrial fibrillation or «Afib» patients admitted to The Johns Hopkins Hospital to undergo ablation between June 2010 and December 2015.

According to a recent Framingham Heart Study, people who experience the heart arrhythmia atrial fibrillation (AF), may also suffer from a smaller brain, specifically reduced frontal lobe volume.

«Our study suggests that in patients with heart failure and atrial fibrillation, catheter ablation is an effective alternative treatment that can help patients avoid or discontinue this drug to reduce the risk of these long - term side effects.»

In the new study, 71 percent of patients treated with a surgical procedure called catheter ablation were free of atrial fibrillation, the study's primary endpoint, after two years of follow - up, while only 34 percent of patients who took the antiarrhythmic drug Amiodarone were free of symptoms at that point.

In addition, many patients in the study required more than one ablation procedure to achieve freedom from atrial fibrillation.

Atrial fibrillation, long considered the most common condition leading to an irregular heartbeat, is a growing and serious global health problem, according to the first study ever to estimate the condition's worldwide prevalence, death rates and societal costs.

The study is titled «New Onset Postoperative Atrial Fibrillation Predicts Long - Term Cardiovascular Events Following Radical Cystectomy.»

«For the first time in a randomized study, the strategy of catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation may be better than the current approach for these patients.

«Based on our study findings, physicians and patients need to be educated that atrial flutter can be readily cured through catheter ablation, and the procedure may reduce the risk for atrial fibrillation.»

The joint research project of the University of Turku and the Heart Centre of the Turku University Hospital studied three hundred patients with heart problems, half of whom had atrial fibrillation.

Among patients with untreated paroxysmal (intermittent) atrial fibrillation (AF), treatment with electrical energy (radiofrequency ablation) resulted in a lower rate of abnormal atrial rhythms and episodes of AF, according to a study in the February 19 issue of JAMA.

Although some research has suggested that the use of the anticoagulant warfarin for atrial fibrillation among patients with chronic kidney disease would increase the risk of death or stroke, a study that included more than 24,000 patients found a lower l - year risk of the combined outcomes of death, heart attack or stroke without a higher risk of bleeding, according to a study in the March 5 issue of JAMA.

The new study sought to shed light on the mechanisms underlying the atrial fibrillation - heart attack link by examining the association between a-fib and the two types of heart attack.

Refining the results of a 2013 study, researchers have found that atrial fibrillation, or irregular heartbeat, is associated with only one type of heart attack — the more common of the two types.

Using data from a Swedish registry, the study included survivors of a heart attack with atrial fibrillation and known measures of serum creatinine (n = 24,317; a substance used to measure kidney function), including 21.8 percent who were prescribed warfarin at discharge.

«Use of electrical energy studied for treating certain type of atrial fibrillation, in place of medications.»

«In conclusion, the study by Carrero et al in this issue of JAMA provides the best evidence to date that vitamin K antagonists [anticoagulants] are associated with improved clinical outcomes and no significant increased risk of bleeding in patients with myocardial infarction and atrial fibrillation with advanced CKD.»

The study found a statistically significant correlation between the fat layer and scarring in the left atrium that causes atrial fibrillation.

The study is titled «Epicardial adipose tissue volume predicts extent of left atrial fibrosis in patients with atrial fibrillation.»

But a Loyola University Medical Center study has found that the layer of fat around the outside of the heart is more closely associated with atrial fibrillation than BMI.

According to the study, people with obesity are 40 percent more likely to develop atrial fibrillation, while they are 45 percent and 51 percent more likely to develop hypertension or diabetes, respectively.

The observational study was conducted in more than 25,000 non-valvular atrial fibrillation patients at low risk of stroke.

In a study that included 1.7 million patients undergoing inpatient surgery, experiencing atrial fibrillation while hospitalized was associated with an increased long - term risk of ischemic stroke, especially following noncardiac surgery, according to a study in the August 13 issue of JAMA.

In a study published online by JAMA Cardiology, Fredrik Björck, M.D., of Umea University, Umea, Sweden and colleagues evaluated the efficacy and safety of well - managed warfarin therapy in patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation.

In a small proof - of - concept study, researchers at Johns Hopkins report a complex mathematical method to measure electrical communications within the heart can successfully predict the effectiveness of catheter ablation, the standard of care treatment for atrial fibrillation, the most common irregular heartbeat disorder.

To determine whether scientific studies since 2002 found additional evidence on the usefulness of omega - 3 fish oil supplements, the authors focused on studies related to preventing a first heart attack in the general population, or in patients who were at high risk for heart disease, and preventing recurrent events and death in patients who had a prior heart attack, congestive heart failure, stroke, or atrial fibrillation.

The study included 16 patients with atrial fibrillation from the Turku Heart Centre.

A team of scientists at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, the Hospital Materno - Infantil Vall d'Hebron in Barcelona, Spain, and the University of Barcelona studied three families in Spain with a high incidence of atrial fibrillation.

The studies rigorously assessed the clinical impact of omega - 3 fish oil treatment on outcomes such as heart attacks, strokes, atrial fibrillation (a heart rhythm disorder) and others.

«It's crucial to better understand modifiable risk factors of atrial fibrillation,» said study author Christina Magnussen, M.D., a medical specialist in Internal Medicine and Cardiology at the University Heart Center in Hamburg, Germany.

The study by researchers at the Intermountain Medical Center Heart Institute in Salt Lake City also found that Wolff - Parkinson - White syndrome is a long - term cause of atrial fibrillation in addition to traditional risk factors such as obesity, high blood pressure, sedentary lifestyles, and sleep apnea.

The authors also note that atrial fibrillation might have been underdiagnosed at the study's start and later records may not reflect all cases.

«In this study we investigated the impact of body size on atrial fibrillation risk in women.»

Study participation was restricted to patients with either ventricular fibrillation or ventricular tachycardia who did not achieve a stable heart rhythm after at least one defibrillator shock and, therefore, represent the typical group of those who receive such medications for cardiac arrest in clinical practice.

Patients with Wolff - Parkinson - White syndrome who receive catheter ablation to cure their abnormal heart rhythms are just as likely as non-ablated patients to develop atrial fibrillation no matter what age they receive ablation, according to a new study.

«Study finds cardiac ablation doesn't reduce atrial fibrillation risk for patients with syndrome.»

Real world effectiveness of warfarin among ischemic stroke patients with atrial fibrillation: observational analysis from Patient - Centered Research into Outcomes Stroke Patients Prefer and Effectiveness Research (PROSPER) study.

The peer - reviewed study, which used an app specifically designed for the Apple Watch, is believed to be the first on utilizing a smartwatch to detect atrial fibrillation (AF) or any arrhythmia.

The study focused on the use of clot - preventing blood thinner drugs called anticoagulants in patients over age 65 who have a condition called atrial fibrillation that raises stroke risk greatly.

The study — which examined insurance claims data for more than 3,000 patients who were at risk for stroke due to atrial fibrillation, treated with anticoagulants, and later admitted to a hospital for bleeding — calls into question the current medical belief that the older drug is safer.

Women who get pregnant more than once have an increased risk of later developing atrial fibrillation, also known as a-fib, according to a study in the journal Circulation.

While doctors have traditionally said caffeine also causes atrial fibrillation, recent evidence from clinical studies shows that, in most people, it does not.

To date, research has not demonstrated an association between coffee consumption and risk of atrial fibrillation, although some studies have suggested that coffee consumption may have a protective effect20 - 23:

Some studies have found alcohol, caffeine, and fish consumption to be good, in terms of preventing or resolving atrial fibrillation, and other studies have shown them all to be bad.

Another study which was a meta - analysis of four other studies that looked for a link between coffee consumption and atrial fibrillation risk found that there was no association between coffee or caffeine consumption and increased risk of developing atrial fibrillation.