The findings could lead to more personalized approaches to controlling platelet
activity during heart attacks and other vascular emergencies and diseases.
Not exact matches
A damaged endothelial cell wall means low performance
during physical
activity as well as an increased risk in
heart attack since a healthy endothelial cell wall does not allow arterial blockages to form.
The release of epinephrine that occurs
during fear can be intense enough to cause undue stress such that if the
heart muscle were borderline «starved» of oxygen, the increased
heart activity due to the epinephrine could cause enough oxygen starvation to cause a
heart attack.