Sentences with phrase «at risk of heart failure»

CKD patients in stage three to five are unable to manage potassium levels in the blood, putting them at risk of heart failure and death.

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Since consumption of whole grain products and dietary fiber has been shown to reduce the risk of high blood pressure and heart attack, Harvard researchers decided to look at the effects of cereal consumption on heart failure risk and followed 21,376 participants in the Physicians Health Study over a period of 19.6 years.
Breast cancer patients may be at an increased risk of cardiovascular diseases including heart failure and may benefit from a treatment approach that weighs the benefits of specific therapies against potential damage to the heart, according to a new scientific statement from the American Heart Association published in its journal Circulaheart failure and may benefit from a treatment approach that weighs the benefits of specific therapies against potential damage to the heart, according to a new scientific statement from the American Heart Association published in its journal Circulaheart, according to a new scientific statement from the American Heart Association published in its journal CirculaHeart Association published in its journal Circulation.
Studies have shown that when doxorubicin is administered slowly, rather than all at once, patients may have a lower risk of heart failure.
The current study has now shown that the tests that are currently commonly used, viewed over a period of ten years, allow only imprecise prognoses and that patients with non-ischaemic heart failure are at just as much risk and need to be treated accordingly.
Diabetic patients suffer from high blood glucose or sugar, putting them at risk of heart disease, stroke, kidney failure, nerve damage, blindness, and other complications.
Short total reproductive duration was associated with an increased risk of heart failure, which was found to be related to an earlier age at menopause and was more pronounced in women who experienced natural, rather than surgical, menopause.
Women who never gave birth were found to be at an increased risk for diastolic heart failure, a type of heart failure where the left side of the heart does not relax as well as it should.
Postmenopausal women who reached menopause at an earlier age or who never gave birth are at a higher risk for heart failure, according to research published today in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
One in four patients develop heart failure within four years of a first heart attack, according to a study in nearly 25,000 patients presented today at Heart Failure 2016 and the 3rd World Congress on Acute Heart Failure by Dr Johannes Gho, a cardiology resident at the University Medical Center Utrecht, in Utrecht, the Netherlands.1 Risk factors included older age, greater socioeconomic deprivation, and comorbidities such as diabheart failure within four years of a first heart attack, according to a study in nearly 25,000 patients presented today at Heart Failure 2016 and the 3rd World Congress on Acute Heart Failure by Dr Johannes Gho, a cardiology resident at the University Medical Center Utrecht, in Utrecht, the Netherlands.1 Risk factors included older age, greater socioeconomic deprivation, and comorbidities such as difailure within four years of a first heart attack, according to a study in nearly 25,000 patients presented today at Heart Failure 2016 and the 3rd World Congress on Acute Heart Failure by Dr Johannes Gho, a cardiology resident at the University Medical Center Utrecht, in Utrecht, the Netherlands.1 Risk factors included older age, greater socioeconomic deprivation, and comorbidities such as diabheart attack, according to a study in nearly 25,000 patients presented today at Heart Failure 2016 and the 3rd World Congress on Acute Heart Failure by Dr Johannes Gho, a cardiology resident at the University Medical Center Utrecht, in Utrecht, the Netherlands.1 Risk factors included older age, greater socioeconomic deprivation, and comorbidities such as diabHeart Failure 2016 and the 3rd World Congress on Acute Heart Failure by Dr Johannes Gho, a cardiology resident at the University Medical Center Utrecht, in Utrecht, the Netherlands.1 Risk factors included older age, greater socioeconomic deprivation, and comorbidities such as diFailure 2016 and the 3rd World Congress on Acute Heart Failure by Dr Johannes Gho, a cardiology resident at the University Medical Center Utrecht, in Utrecht, the Netherlands.1 Risk factors included older age, greater socioeconomic deprivation, and comorbidities such as diabHeart Failure by Dr Johannes Gho, a cardiology resident at the University Medical Center Utrecht, in Utrecht, the Netherlands.1 Risk factors included older age, greater socioeconomic deprivation, and comorbidities such as diFailure by Dr Johannes Gho, a cardiology resident at the University Medical Center Utrecht, in Utrecht, the Netherlands.1 Risk factors included older age, greater socioeconomic deprivation, and comorbidities such as diabetes.
In a related editorial comment, Paolo Boffetta, M.D., M.P.H., associate director for population sciences at The Tisch Cancer Institute and chief of the Division of Cancer Prevention and Control of the at Mount Sinai in New York, addressed whether the increased risk of cancer in this group of heart failure patients warranted additional screening beyond what was recommended for the general public.
Professor Marco Metra, director of the Institute of Cardiology at the University and Civil Hospital of Brescia, Italy and co-principal investigator of RELAX - AHF, said: «We have reported that all of these adverse effects of a worsening heart failure event are related to increased overall mortality and that a worsening heart failure event itself is related to a two-fold increased risk of dying in 180 days.»
This group of researchers previously looked at increased risk of cancer among heart failure patients and showed a 70 percent increase in risk.
«COPD patients at significantly higher risk of heart failure
Such patients are at very high risk of stroke, heart attack and kidney failure due to uncontrolled high blood pressure and the need to find alternative ways of getting these patients» blood pressure under control is urgent.
Our findings suggest that efficient IBD treatment aimed at reducing the length and number of disease activity episodes might lower the risk of heart failure
Compared with participants with the lowest levels of hsTnT at the start of the study, those with the highest hsTnT levels had a nearly 5-fold higher risk of developing heart failure.
Patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) are at increased risk of developing heart failure and other cardiovascular diseases.
«This research is important in that it may advance the application of widely available cardiac biomarkers to identify CKD patients at the highest risk of developing heart failure, the most common cardiovascular complication in this patient population,» said Dr. Bansal.
The study, «Hypertension, Obesity, Diabetes, and Heart Failure - Free Survival: The Cardiovascular Lifetime Risk Pooling Project,» will be presented on March 14 at the American College of Cardiology's 64th Annual Scientific Session in San Diego.
They identified nearly 1,500 cases of heart failure and compared the age at which patients were diagnosed with heart failure against their health status and risk factors at age 45.
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«The initial drop in available phosphate puts patients at risk of a lethal heart arrhythmia and failure, the most serious aspect of refeeding syndrome,» says senior author Angela Guarda, M.D., director of the Johns Hopkins Eating Disorders Program.
A team of researchers at Mayo Clinic found the elevated risk of heart failure occurred as early as one year after cancer diagnosis and persisted 20 years after patients completed cancer therapy.
«Morbidly obese patients are at high risk of heart attack, heart failure and diabetes.»
Researchers at Ohio State University and the University of North Carolina analyzed heart failure length of stay data from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities cohort from 1987 to 2005.
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.
Heart failure linked to temperature spikes Schneider and her collaborators published two studies this year, one in the journal Heart examining short - term temperature changes and heart health, and another paper published in Science of the Total Environment looking at how pollution and temperature influence health Heart failure linked to temperature spikes Schneider and her collaborators published two studies this year, one in the journal Heart examining short - term temperature changes and heart health, and another paper published in Science of the Total Environment looking at how pollution and temperature influence health Heart examining short - term temperature changes and heart health, and another paper published in Science of the Total Environment looking at how pollution and temperature influence health heart health, and another paper published in Science of the Total Environment looking at how pollution and temperature influence health risk.
For people living with both Type 2 diabetes and heart failure, taking an aspirin each day appears to lower the risk of dying or being hospitalized for heart failure, according to research being presented at the American College of Cardiology's 67th Annual Scientific Session.
High salt intake is associated with a doubled risk of heart failure, according to a 12 - year study in more than 4,000 people presented today at ESC Congress.
«Not only are African American women at twice the risk, but in this study we found they also took twice as long to recover, they were twice as likely to worsen before getting better after diagnosis, and they were twice as likely to fail to recover altogether, meaning their heart failure persisted for months following delivery,» said senior author Zoltan Arany, MD, PhD, an associate professor of Cardiovascular Medicine and director of the Cardiovascular Metabolism Program.
A study from the University of Illinois at Chicago has found that women are at the highest risk for heart failure within the six weeks after delivery, known as the postpartum period.
Most importantly, patients who received chest RT are at greater risk of cardiac complications, including coronary artery disease, valvular heart disease, congestive heart failure, and pericardial disease.
He points out that while African Americans are at much higher risk of heart failure, there is no similarly higher number for risk of suffering heart attack, which, like diabetes and hypertension, often leads to heart failure.
People with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy are at increased risk of heart failure and sudden heart death.
A number of large studies have found that people who eat fish at least once a week have moderately lower risks of heart attack, stroke, heart failure and sudden cardiac death, according to the new report.
«In my practice, I try to identify people who are at risk of developing heart failure and heart disease and try to highlight that these sorts of lifestyle measure are really very beneficial,» Dr. Tabtabai says.
Avoiding air pollution can reduce the risk of heart attack, heart failure, and other complications, especially in patients who are recovering after being hospitalized, according to Diane R. Gold, MD, the study's senior author and an associate professor of medicine and environmental health at Harvard.
In the latest study, Jarett Berry, associate professor of medicine and clinical sciences at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, and his colleagues studied how exercise can affect risk of heart failure.
Compared to people who were not active at all, those who followed the recommended 150 minutes of activity a week lowered their risk of heart failure by 10 %.
Dr. Tove Fall, lead study researcher at the Department of Medical Sciences and the Science for Life Laboratory at Uppsala University commented, «We knew already that obesity and cardiovascular disease often occur together... in this study we found that individuals with gene variants that lead to increased body - mass index also had an increased risk of heart failure and diabetes.»
A diet that contains too much sodium puts you at an increased risk of stroke, kidney disease, high blood pressure and congestive heart failure.
Researchers at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston discovered that eating too much sugar for many years markedly raises the risk of death from heart failure.
The Medical community will soon recommend liver transplant as a solution to this deadly epidemic: — RRB - Diabetes is a very serious disease — you are at high risk of heart attack, stroke, kidney failure, impotence, cancer, amputation, blindness, gastroparesis, dementia and painful polyneuropathy.
They are at risk of sudden death, developing heart failure (shortness of breath) or developing blood clots which can cause paralysis.
At the beginning of the game, it is noted that the Marachecks were initially hibernating on another ship for a space - vacation years before John was roused from his coma on the Groomlake (with broken ribs and a risk of heart failure).
«Doctors or other healthcare professionals can measure grip strength to identify patients with major illnesses such as heart failure or stroke who are at particularly high risk of dying from their illness.»
Patient 25: A man admitted to hospital with congestive heart failure and 12 other medical conditions is discharged home without the necessary home care follow up, placing him at a much higher risk of readmission.
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