Sentences with phrase «effects of heart failure»

In my lab, we decided to pursue using a heart's own cells to reverse the effects of heart failure — we wanted to help a broken heart fix itself.

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Harvard researchers studying the effects of whole grain cereal consumption on heart failure risk followed 21,376 participants in the Physicians Health Study over nineteen years.

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.

A 2012 meta - analysis concluded that people who drank moderate amounts of Kona had a lower rate of heart failure, with the best effect found for those who drank more than four cups of Kona coffee a day.

A 2012 meta - analysis concluded that people who drank moderate amounts of Kona had a lower rate of heart failure, with the biggest effect found for those who drank more than four cups a day.

Onondaga County Health Commissioner Dr. Indu Gupta said some of the side effects include increased heart rate, respiratory failure, paranoia and bizarre behavior.

The TOPCAT trial is the first randomized, double - blind trial to assess the effect of spironolactone on clinical outcomes in these patients with heart failure and preserved ejection fraction.

«Our study suggests that in patients with heart failure and atrial fibrillation, catheter ablation is an effective alternative treatment that can help patients avoid or discontinue this drug to reduce the risk of these long - term side effects.»

«Although the link between traffic - related air pollution and left ventricular hypertrophy, heart failure, and cardiovascular death is established, the effects of traffic - related air pollution on the right ventricle have not been well studied,» said lead author Peter Leary, MD, MS, of the University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle.

Beta - blockers block the effects of adrenaline on the heart, reduce irregular heartbeat (arrhythmia) and help prevent heart failure.

RELAX - AHF was a randomised, double blind controlled trial that evaluated the effects of a 48 - hour infusion of the intravenous drug, serelaxin, on clinical outcomes in 1 161 patients admitted to hospital for acute heart failure.

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.»

«The co-existence of COPD and heart failure, which share common symptoms, may pose diagnostic and therapeutic challenges,» said study corresponding author Marilyn G. Foreman, M.D., M.S. «The long - term effect of both diagnoses over time remains to be determined.»

Over time, the condition has an adverse effect on the rate of survival free of heart failure.

· evidence indicates that low sodium intake may lead to risk of adverse health effects among those with mid - to late - stage heart failure who are receiving aggressive treatment for their disease;

The researchers also analyzed the effects of methylnaltrexone on another 135 patients from the same trials who had advanced illnesses other than cancer, such as congestive heart failure, advanced chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or neurologic diseases.

Removal of the spleen protected mice from the effects of inflammation in heart failure.

«Obesity - related illnesses, particularly obesity hypoventilation syndrome and sleep apnea, may play a role in the development of pulmonary hypertension, and so we examined whether the protective effects of obesity seen in patients with heart failure were also seen in these patients,» said researcher Jose Caceres, MD, of Jacobi Medical Center / Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, NY.

The study found that health effects of wildfire pollution are significantly associated with poverty and income inequality.18 The study first finds that per 100µg / m3 of PM2.5 exposure, there was a 66 percent increase for hospital visits related to asthma on the day of exposure, and a 42 percent increase in visits related to congestive heart failure (CHF) the day after exposure.

«A major concern with TZD drugs is that there are multiple side - effects including fluid retention and a risk of heart failure,» Kajimura explained.

Caffeoylxanthiazonoside exerts cardioprotective effects during chronic heart failure via inhibition of inflammatory responses in cardiac cells.

«Basically,» explained MDI President, Kevin Strange, Ph.D., «the current standard of treatment for a heart attack, assuming you survive it, is you in effect spend the rest of your life being treated with drugs and other sorts of approaches to try and prevent a secondary heart attack and to try and prevent heart failure.

In particular, the commonly prescribed diabetes drug metformin had positive effects on heart function in women but not in men, who experienced a shift in metabolism thought to increase the risk of heart failure.

Haldar had a hunch that BRD4 might also control genes that cause heart failure, and that the new cancer drug might stop or even reverse the damaging effects of stress on the heart.

Symposia VI: Cardiovascular Benefits of Exercise: Insights from Human Studies The session will cover improving exercise tolerance in heart failure, reversal of impaired cardiac function in obese adolescents, the effect of exercise on left ventricular compliance and diastolic function in the elderly and attenuating premature cardiovascular aging in Type 2 diabetes through exercise.

Effect of astragalus injection on immune function in patients with congestive heart failure

But when it comes to another type of heart condition, heart failure, the effect of physical activity isn't as clear.

Allow the indiscriminate use of over-the-counter painkillers that routinely cause liver and kidney failure, severe gastrointestinal side effects, and increase the risk of heart attacks and strokes?

And a growing body of research links ibuprofen to adverse health effects, including increased risk of heart attack and stroke, gastrointestinal complications including ulcer, acute kidney failure, anemia, DNA damage, hypertension, and miscarriage.

OTHER RECENT ARTICLES ON ADVERSE EFFECTS OF LOW SALT INTAKE A 2006 study showed that sodium restriction increases the risk of heart failure, death and hospitalizatioOF LOW SALT INTAKE A 2006 study showed that sodium restriction increases the risk of heart failure, death and hospitalizatioof heart failure, death and hospitalization.

More interestingly, the effects on infarction size, survival rates and cardiac function can be observed even if the dietary intervention is induced after the ischemic event, by increasing the expression of angiogenic factors and increased vascularization of the damaged myocardium, proposing a novel non-pharmacological therapy for subjects with chronic heart failure (43).

Some of the most debilitating symptoms in patients with chronic heart failure are related to the respiratory system, and improving the breathing pattern has potential favorable effects on patients with heart disease.

Of the three heart - failure risk factors cited, diabetes appeared to have the greatest effect.

In a 2012 report reviewing the effects of HIIT in patients with coronary artery disease and heart failure, researchers in Canada, France and Switzerland wrote that «HIIT appears safe and better tolerated by patients than moderate - intensity continuous exercise» and more effective at increasing patients» peak oxygen uptake, blood vessel flexibility and pumping ability of the heart.

The study also didn't look at long - term use of caffeine and its effect on abnormal heart rhythms among patients with heart failure, the researchers said.

This television documentary shows a technique aimed at countering the effects of a specific type of congestive heart failure, a condition where the patient's heart grows abnormally large and loses the ability to pump enough blood through the body.

My grandfather had just spent the last four months struggling for his life in a hospital room, and the effects of pneumonia, heart failure, and septic shock had transformed him into a person I barely recognized.

Effect of pimobendan or benazepril hydrochloride on survival times in dogs with congestive heart failure caused by naturally occurring myxomatous mitral valve disease: the QUEST Study.

All of these side effects are particularly relevant to heart failure patients.

CVCA has published a study to determine the effect of the partnership between primary care veterinarians (pcDVM) and in person boardcertified veterinary cardiologists (BCVC) on survival time of dogs after the onset of congestive heart failure (CHF) and associated revenue for the attending pcDVMs.

O'Grady MR, Minors SL, O'Sullivan ML, Horne R. Effect of pimobendan on case fatality rate in Doberman pinschers with congestive heart failure caused by dilated cardiomyopathy.

In dogs and cats with heart disease, loss of appetite can be due to heart failure, side effect of one or more medications, an abrupt change in diet, worsening kidney disease, or other diseases unrelated to the heart.

This may be the result of worsening heart disease, side effects of certain medications, or from hormone - like substances that are produced in high levels in animals with heart failure.

At one end of the severity spectrum, early chronic valvular disease, some forms of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and some mild congenital heart defects may have little effect on an animal's lifestyle or life expectancy; at the other end, severe heart failure can interfere with even simple activities and prove rapidly fatal.

Common side - effects of medication used to treat heart failure and / or abnormal heart beats due to DCM:

Serial blood work evaluation is recommended to detect the systemic side effects of heat stroke including abnormal heart rhythms, liver damage, kidney failure, neurologic derangements, and abnormal blood clotting ability.

One study failed to find evidence of decreased CoQ10 levels in dogs with congestive heart failure, but reported that although dramatic effects on blood dynamics were not observed, CoQ10 supplementation reduced the increase in organ size associated with chronic heart failure [3].

Short - term hemodynamic effects of endothelin receptor blockade in dogs with chronic heart failure

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