Sentences with phrase «caused by heart attacks»

Thanks to new technological advances, the test is now widely used to diagnose numerous cardiovascular conditions, including congestive heart failure, coronary heart disease, and the extent of heart muscle damage caused by heart attacks (some of which may go unrecognized with less sensitive technology).

In addition, alcohol and drug abuse, as well as deaths caused by heart attacks and other stress - related ailments, mount during times when many are out of work.

Once inside, they could begin to repair the damage caused by a heart attack.

«Our findings uncover the direct coupling of these two important pathways and raise the prospect of therapeutic manipulation of the UPR to lessen the damage caused by heart attack and stroke,» said Dr. Joseph A. Hill, Professor of Internal Medicine and Molecular Biology, and senior author of the study published in the March 13 issue of Cell.

Cell therapy has been shown to be effective in reducing the infarct (scarring) caused by a heart attack as well as improving heart function when certain cell types are used — particularly cells from a person's own fat (adipose tissue).

Okyanos cardiac cell therapy targets the restoration of blood flow to the heart and repairs damaged heart tissue caused by heart attack or ischemic and non-ischemic heart disease.

Researchers and clinicians imagined using stem cells to undo the damage caused by a heart attack.

But the damage caused by a heart attack can result in heart failure — and patients diagnosed with heart failure have an average life expectancy of less than five years, according to Dr. Chuck Murry, director of the Center for Cardiovascular Biology at the University of Washington in Seattle.

Not exact matches

Another study reported by The New York Times in 2008 found that men who did not take a vacation at least once a year had a «21 percent higher risk of death from all causes and were 32 percent more likely to die of a heart attack».

Are not the «root causes» of the attacks by radical Islam and our lethal response found in the «deceitful and desperately wicked» heart we all share?

By the way I did not post some of your comments that would have caused you heart attack.

If I die of a heart attack caused by stress in having to read the awful name of Walcott, my family will hold YOU responsible.

It wasn't a heart attack, but a severe arrhythmia caused by hypertension.

I am pretty sure I will die due to a heart attack caused by some goal we concede in the future, in stoppage time.

Like coffee was gonna cause heart attacks by age 40, except until we learned that it doesn't.

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SEATTLE — Some people who have a particular form of a gene that, when mutated, causes Werner's syndrome — a rare disorder characterized by rapid aging in youth — appear to have a relatively low risk of suffering a heart attack.

The clear result of this clinical study — that the combination reduced strokes, heart attacks and cardiovascular death by practically 25 per cent compared to either drug alone in both patients with stable coronary or peripheral artery disease — caused the clinical trial to be stopped early, after 23 months, in February 2017.

Oxygen deprivation followed by reoxygenation causes pathological responses in many disorders, including ischemic stroke, heart attacks, and reperfusion injury.

By the time she was 55, she had suffered three more heart attacks, and despite 13 stents to prop open her arteries, the damage has caused her left ventricle to balloon in size.

Overall, nearly 20 percent of the men and 12 percent of the women who participated in the study developed or died from heart disease, a suite of conditions that includes stroke, coronary heart disease caused by the buildup of plaque in the heart's arteries, acute coronary syndromes such as heart attack, and other diseases.

They also published findings from an animal study showing that the effect of stem cell therapy following heart attack is indirect — the stem cells themselves do not survive long after being placed in the heart, but they cause enduring effects by stimulating the rapid growth of surviving heart tissue and attracting stem cells already in the heart, which mature into functional heart cells.

He wants to see «direct experimental testing» that CRP doesn't cause atherosclerosis by altering levels and then determining a person's chance of a heart attack.

«Our findings help us to understand how it is that exposures to air pollution may cause the increases in heart attacks and strokes observed by other studies,» Adar said.

In the study, researchers from Kansas City VA Medical Centre in Kansas City, USA, examined the effect of TRT on cardiovascular outcomes by comparing incidents of heart attack, stroke, and all - cause mortality among different sub-populations of treated and untreated patients.

Soliman said the finding that atrial fibrillation was associated only with NSTEMI heart attacks suggests that factors contributing to partial blockage of the coronary arteries or increased oxygen demand, such as sudden increase in heart rate, are more likely to explain the association between a-fib and heart attack than those factors linked to total blockage caused by the migration of a blood clot to a coronary artery from the site of its formation.

The American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association today released a new clinical practice guideline for the treatment of blood cholesterol in people at high risk for cardiovascular diseases caused by atherosclerosis, or hardening and narrowing of the arteries, that can lead to heart attack, stroke or dHeart Association today released a new clinical practice guideline for the treatment of blood cholesterol in people at high risk for cardiovascular diseases caused by atherosclerosis, or hardening and narrowing of the arteries, that can lead to heart attack, stroke or dheart attack, stroke or death.

A STEMI (ST segment elevation myocardial infarction) heart attack happens when an artery is completely blocked by the blood clot, which causes damage to virtually all of the heart muscle supplied by that artery.

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.

A recent study by researchers at the University of Missouri School of Medicine has shown that a protein inhibitor drug prevents these blockages, and could be a new therapeutic approach to prevent heart attack, stroke and other diseases caused by blocked blood vessels.

Lloyd - Jones's editorial is based on a large new study published in the journal that looked at adults, ages 50 to 80, with cardiovascular disease who took extended - release niacin (vitamin B3) and laropiprant (a drug that reduces face flushing caused by high doses of niacin) to see if it reduced heart attack and stroke compared to a placebo over four years.

When they do die, the cause is often an attack — hit by acar or mauled by a raccoon — or one of a number of infectious diseasesthat kill these turtles at all ages in seemingly equal proportions.While certain ailments, such as cancer and heart disease, strike olderhumans more often than they do younger ones, Congdon's animals don'tseem to become more vulnerable to disease as they grow older.

Most importantly, these studies show that treatment with vitamin D3 can significantly restore the damage to the cardiovascular system caused by several diseases, including hypertension, atherosclerosis, and diabetes, while also reducing the risk of heart attack.

The study focused on search trends and hospitalization data related to coronary heart disease, the most common type of heart disease and the leading cause of death in the U.S. Caused by the buildup of plaque in the arteries that supply blood to the heart, coronary heart disease can lead to chronic chest pain, heart attacks and other heart problems.

Unlike heart attacks (myocardial infarctions), which are typically caused by clogged coronary arteries reducing blood flow to the heart muscle, sudden cardiac arrest is the result of defective electrical activity of the heart.

Whether caused by an undetected birth defect or by a heart attack (myocardial infarction), when a heart sustains damage, it can be difficult to repair.

Now, a new study suggests that «broken heart syndrome,» whose symptoms resemble those of a heart attack, may be the result of a massive surge of stress hormones caused by a traumatic experience.

The big shocker: The drug boosted the odds of cardiac damage by 29 percent, causing seven additional heart attacks per 10,000 participants annually.

STEMI is a severe form of heart attack caused by prolonged blockage of blood supply in the heart.

Most of these deaths in young women are caused by myocardial infarction [heart attack] which is largely preventable through modification of risk factors,» he points out.

An analysis of the clinical trials suggests that ACEIs reduce the risk of death from all causes by 13 percent, cut the risk CV deaths by 17 percent and lower the risk of major CV events by 14 percent, including myocardial infarction (heart attack) by 21 percent and heart failure by 19 percent.

Yet this same fungus holds the promise of developing a new class of drugs which can control the way the body absorbs cholesterol, and so minimise the risk of heart attacks caused by a narrowing of the arteries.

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However, an analysis of how they are portrayed in the Star Trek series illustrates a significant shift in the cause from general medical to traumatological, i.e. death caused by severe physical injury, injury caused by «energy weapons» and poisoning, rather than by heart attacks or cardiac arrhythmias, which are the most common causes of present - day cardiac arrests.

The story then goes on to discuss how the government should make the cost of winter fuel economically bearable and how the majority of deaths are caused by strokes and heart attacks.

Their work could pave the way for more effective prevention of heart attack and stroke in humans caused by atherosclerosis.

Their work could pave the way for more effective prevention of heart attack and stroke in humans caused by atherosclerosis, in which artery walls thicken and suffer reduced plasticity due to an accumulation of white blood cells.

Mipomersen (Kynamro) reduces low - density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol by silencing a gene that produces apolipoprotein B - 100, a building block of LDL; the drug can treat familial hypercholesterolemia, an inherited disease that may cause heart attacks at an early age.

BUFFALO, N.Y. — A specific protein isolated from the venom of a Chilean tarantula by University at Buffalo biophysicists shows promise as the basis for new drugs for preventing atrial fibrillation, the chaotic beating of the heart that is a major cause of death following a heart attack.

This can be caused by an irregular heartbeat (called an arrhythmia), a heart attack, or coronary artery disease.