Sentences with phrase «after heart attacks»

After their heart attacks, the participants were given a questionnaire that asked if they'd engaged in heavy physical exertion, and if they had been angry or emotionally upset, in the hour before their symptoms began.

In the DART study, 2033 men were randomized to various diets after a heart attacks to see if any particular diet would reduce the risk of a second heart attack.

«A substantial number of younger men and women will experience sex - related problems after their heart attacks.

Dr. Gregg Fonarow, a professor of cardiology at the University of California, Los Angeles, said prior studies where lower doses of omega - 3 fatty acids were given after heart attacks had yielded «mixed results.»

For example, it may be possible to initiate tissue regeneration after heart attacks without having a patient undergo difficult, invasive surgery, but a great deal of additional research is required.

An international team is now attempting to clarify the role of the receptors in survival after heart attacks.

Exploiting that power, researchers are now using microRNAs to convert the scar tissue of damaged hearts into healthy muscle cells, opening the door for a better therapy after heart attacks and heart failure.

An inhalable drug is designed to move straight from the lungs to the heart, where it is hoped it will prevent the organ from deteriorating after heart attacks

BlueRock's first two programs are treatments that could regenerate heart muscle cells after heart attacks and help replace certain neurons in the brain as they decline in people with Parkinson's disease.

Patients can use the app to keep track of medication regimens and follow - up appointments, as well as receive guidance with lifestyle changes needed after a heart attack.

Later, at his own practice in the Twin Cities, he began injecting stem cells into patients» hearts to regrow muscle after a heart attack.

After a heart attack nearly carried him off the entertainment circuit permanently, comedian George Carlin returned to his routine with these words: «God gave me a good heart — but my arteries suck.»

In 2003, months after a heart attack, three - day coma and double bypass, Ranulph Fiennes (with Mike Stroud) achieved the first 7x7x7 (seven marathons in seven consecutive days on all seven continents)

Luckily, after the heart attack we learned who was really there for us and we were able to lean on them again.

My husband, who has embraced the plant - based lifestyle for 1.5 years now after a heart attack at 42 years old, would still not eat sweet potatoes.....

The former youth player collapsed only six minutes into his first game for the Spurs youngsters after a heart attack back in 2006, only nine days after signing a professional contract at White Hart Lane.

After a heart attack seven years later he was allowed to go to America for surgery.

The widow and her attorney, Charles F. Burkwit, have told The Buffalo News and other local and national media outlets of how Perry declared Michael Cleveland dead after a heart attack.

ORLANDO, Fla. — The first large study to examine cumulative radiation exposure from medical imaging after a heart attack has found that the average patient receives the equivalent of about 725 chest X-rays before leaving the hospital.

Finally, the ideal candidate arrived: a 187 - pound man in his seventies, dead after a heart attack.

In the days after a heart attack, surviving patients and their loved ones can breathe a sigh of relief that the immediate danger is over — but the scar tissue that forms during the long healing process can inflict lasting damage.

Charging that thousands of patients are being misled and may be unnecessarily placed at increased risk of death, a U.S. watchdog group last week demanded that federal regulators suspend a major clinical trial exploring when to offer blood transfusions after a heart attack.

«The time is coming when we'll repair heart tissue after a heart attack and restore blood flow to limbs that would otherwise be amputated,» says stem cell researcher Robert Lanza of Advanced Cell Technology in Massachusetts.

Chip potential If the chip proves successful in larger and longer trials, it might also be adapted for treating more acute conditions, such as delivering drugs for a month or two after a heart attack.

After a heart attack, cells from the patient's bone marrow can help improve heart function.

On the other hand, because treatment has improved, more patients are alive after a heart attack to subsequently get heart failure.»

The clots can be deadly if they travel to the lungs (pulmonary embolism), and are the third most common cardiovascular cause of death after heart attack and stroke.

That is why CPR has to be done so soon after a heart attack or drowning — because if the brain is starved of oxygen - rich blood, the neurons die, along with the memories stored therein.

So the UAB researchers began to look for changes in subsets of T - cells over an eight - week period after heart attack.

We put patients on Heparin, a blood - thinning medication, after a heart attack.

Investigators at the Cedars - Sinai Heart Institute — whose previous research showed that cardiac stem cell therapy reduces scarring and regenerates healthy tissue after a heart attack in humans — have identified components of those stem cells responsible for the beneficial effects.

Our findings suggest that cardiac rehabilitation after a heart attack should also focus on helping people maintain their ability to work in the long term for those who return to work,» Smedegaard said.

«One in four people leave work a year after a heart attack.»

She concluded: «Our study showed that many patients are treated with antidepressants after a heart attack.

For example, a diseased heart after a heart attack exhibits a less pronounced left ventricular twist due to local damage that extends through the heart wall.

In addition, when patients are started on conservative, low doses in the hospital after a heart attack, they return home so quickly, there is little time to adjust the dosage, Goldberger said.

The observational study of nearly 9,000 patients found that those prescribed antidepressants at discharge from hospital after a heart attack had a 66 % greater risk of mortality one year later than patients not prescribed the drugs, although they noted the cause is not necessarily related directly to the antidepressants.

After a heart attack, healthcare providers routinely focus on preventing complications, such as recurrent heart attacks, heart failure and whether a patient returns to work.

However, little is known about the impact of depression on outcome after a heart attack.»

Despite a high number of heart attack patients returning to their jobs shortly after the event, the new findings reveal a surprisingly high degree of unemployment within a year after a heart attack patient returns to work.

Researchers chose to compare those with and without heart failure after heart attack because these patient groups have a lot in common, including atherosclerosis, risk factors, treatments received and follow - up routines.

Patients who developed heart failure after heart attack were prescribed the same medications at discharge as those who were not, so researchers concluded treatment for heart attack was not likely responsible for the higher rate of cancer in heart failure patients.

«Low dose beta - blockers as effective as high dose after a heart attack: Surprisingly, heart attack patients live as long — or even longer — on one - fourth the suggested dose.»

The findings come out just a month after the federal government announced the cancellation of a «bundled payment» program that was supposed to incentivize better and more cost - effective care across all settings for the first three months after a heart attack.

This power failure, the team found, is caused by disruption to the cells» mitochondria — the tiny powerhouses that fuel all cell life — when they become destabilized during the «resuscitation» period after a heart attack and trigger chaotic cell - to - cell signaling that interferes with the heart's entire electrical network.

The UNC researchers showed that increasing the level of p53 in scar - forming cells significantly reduced scarring and improved heart function after heart attack.

«Boosting heart's natural ability to recover after heart attack.»

Researchers from the UNC School of Medicine have discovered that cells called fibroblasts, which normally give rise to scar tissue after a heart attack, can be turned into endothelial cells, which generate blood vessels to supply oxygen and nutrients to the injured regions of the heart, thus greatly reducing the damage done following heart attack.

«After the heart attack: Injectable gels could prevent future heart failure.»

Functional IMR affects 1.6 million to 2.8 million patients in the U.S. and is associated with a doubling in mortality among patients with mild or greater degrees of mitral regurgitation after a heart attack.