Sentences with phrase «as ischemic heart»

Inadequate blood flow in the heart can develop over time, often caused by blockages in the coronary arteries — a condition known as ischemic heart disease.

The paper, published in The Lancet Global Health, also finds that chronic diseases, such as ischemic heart disease and diabetes, cause a greater burden to health in the region overall than communicable diseases like diarrheal diseases and tuberculosis.

Dr Andersen said the study was important because, although there have been other studies looking at the effects of endurance exercise on various cardiovascular problems such as ischemic heart disease and stroke, there have been only a few, smaller studies of its effect on heart rhythm disturbances, and they have tended to look at people who are less physically active, or compared very sedentary people with those who were very active.

Through shortened patient examination times, higher patient throughput, and lower cost per MRI examination, EPI may become a powerful tool for early diagnosis of some common and potentially treatable diseases such as ischemic heart disease, stroke, and cancer.

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As pharmacologists, our interest is primarily in the mechanisms and therapeutics of ischemic heart diseases, and we have been working on the cardiovascular effects of herbs according to modern scientific criteria.

Global life expectancy has risen by more than six years since 1990 as healthy life expectancy grows; ischemic heart disease, lower respiratory infections, and stroke cause the most health loss around the world.

The physical mechanism of platelet - driven clot contraction they observed is already informing new ways to think about diagnosing and treating conditions such as ischemic stroke, deep vein thrombosis, and heart attacks.

The Cardiothoracic Surgical Trials Network (CTSN) is reporting results for the first time from a clinical trial of patients who have a complication of coronary heart disease known as moderate ischemic mitral regurgitation (IMR).

The study found that women diagnosed with GDM were over 20 times more likely to be diagnosed with type 2 diabetes later in life, over two and a half times more likely to develop ischemic heart disease and almost twice as likely to develop hypertension.

The current study found that mice meant to serve as a model of ischemic human heart failure (weaker blood flow after a heart attack) had higher levels of activated, pro-inflammatory macrophages, monocytes, dendritic cells and T cells trafficking between their hearts and spleens than did control mice with healthy hearts.

However, the study did reveal a statistically significant 15 percent reduction in heart injury occurring within the first 72 hours after surgery in the remote ischemic preconditioning group as compared to the control.

He found 10 percent of the African - American patients suffered from atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease — defined as a heart attack, ischemic heart disease, angina, coronary artery disease or atherosclerotic disease of any artery.

The major outcome of ischemic damage is aggravation of the heart muscle function, known as cardiomyopathy.

While as little as a weekly serving of fish lowers risk of ischemic stroke, enjoying a daily serving omega -3-rich fish, such as scallops, provides significantly greater reduction in the risk of coronary heart disease than eating fish even as frequently as a couple of times a week, show the findings of a study published in the January 17, 2006 issue of Circulation, the journal of the American Heart Associaheart disease than eating fish even as frequently as a couple of times a week, show the findings of a study published in the January 17, 2006 issue of Circulation, the journal of the American Heart AssociaHeart Association.

In 1978, Sri Lankan's were consuming coconut oil as their main dietary fat and had the lowest death rate from ischemic heart disease in the world.26 «All available population studies show that dietary coconut oil does not lead to high serum cholesterol nor to high coronary heart disease mortality or morbidity rate,» concluded American and Filipino researchers in 1992.27