Sentences with phrase «fibrillation at»

Caffeine intake reduces incident atrial fibrillation at a population level, European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, published online.

During a maximum follow up of 33.6 years (16 years on average) 7,001 women were hospitalised with atrial fibrillation at an average age of 49 years.

«Older Patients with atrial fibrillation at greater risk for post-op tricuspid regurgitation after mitral valve repair: Cardiothoracic surgeons identify risk factors.»

Not exact matches

One key limitation of the recent Fitbit study, says Dr. Vincent Thijs, an expert on stroke at the University of Melbourne's Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, is that it demonstrates only that the tracker and algorithm can detect persistent or permanent atrial fibrillation, rather than paroxysmal AFib (or short, sudden spasms).

In 1985 his resting pulse was measured at more than 150 beats per minute, his electrocardiogram showed signs of atrial fibrillation, and his steroid usewas out of control.

Doctors at the Stony Brook Heart Institute Electrophysiology Lab are using a new nonsurgical technique called the LARIAT Suture Delivery Device to treat patients with atrial fibrillation, or A-Fib, who can not tolerate blood thinning medication.

«Patients who develop TR after MV repair for degenerative diseases are older, have chronic atrial fibrillation, more advanced functional class, and impaired left ventricular function at the time of the initial surgery.

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has developed a mobile app and thumb - size device that help to prevent cerebral infarctions at an early stage, during asymptomatic atrial fibrillation.

In the new study, 71 percent of patients treated with a surgical procedure called catheter ablation were free of atrial fibrillation, the study's primary endpoint, after two years of follow - up, while only 34 percent of patients who took the antiarrhythmic drug Amiodarone were free of symptoms at that point.

«Atrial fibrillation patients who couldn't take blood thinning medications used to have very few options and were faced with a very real possibility of having a stroke,» said Dr. Christopher Stanton, electrophysiologist at Sanford Heart Hospital in Sioux Falls.

A team of researchers at the University of Buffalo discovered a peptide (a protein building block), GSMtx - 4, in the tarantula's venom that prevents fibrillation by blocking the activity of certain gate - like structures of neurons in the heart.

Next I was a European female.This time I was at risk for age - related macular degeneration, atrial fibrillation, rheumatoid arthritis, and Crohn's disease.

• In 1990, the number of new cases of atrial fibrillation in men was estimated at 61 per 100,000 population.

Patients who have atrial fibrillation after surgery are at risk of stroke in the postoperative period.

As well, patients who score higher on the CHADS2 score, a rule used by physicians to determine a patient's risk of stroke, are at increased risk of stroke with or without atrial fibrillation.

When technology researchers at the University of Turku were designing new solutions together with cardiologists of Turku University Hospital back in 2011, they decided to try whether it is possible to reliably detect atrial fibrillation from the micromovements in the chest with small accelerometers.

The mobile application that was developed at the Department of Future Technologies of the University of Turku detected which patients had atrial fibrillation even with a 96 - percent accuracy.

A new application developed at the University of Turku, Finland, can detect atrial fibrillation that causes strokes.

Using data from a Swedish registry, the study included survivors of a heart attack with atrial fibrillation and known measures of serum creatinine (n = 24,317; a substance used to measure kidney function), including 21.8 percent who were prescribed warfarin at discharge.

«Women, African - Americans at higher risk of heart attack from atrial fibrillation.»

Restoring blood flow to the heart following a heart attack can leave patients with ventricular fibrillation, a dangerous heart rhythm which puts people at greater risk of sudden cardiac death.

When they looked at the different types of arrhythmia, the researchers found that the most frequent was atrial fibrillation, which occurred in 681 skiers.

The observational study was conducted in more than 25,000 non-valvular atrial fibrillation patients at low risk of stroke.

They looked at several factors that might influence atrial fibrillation risk.

In a small proof - of - concept study, researchers at Johns Hopkins report a complex mathematical method to measure electrical communications within the heart can successfully predict the effectiveness of catheter ablation, the standard of care treatment for atrial fibrillation, the most common irregular heartbeat disorder.

Hiroshi Ashikaga, assistant professor of medicine and biomedical engineering at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, says that the success rate for atrial fibrillation patients twelve months after the procedure is 60 to 80 percent for ideal candidates with intermittent irregular heartbeats.

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.

A team of scientists at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, the Hospital Materno - Infantil Vall d'Hebron in Barcelona, Spain, and the University of Barcelona studied three families in Spain with a high incidence of atrial fibrillation.

Smartphones can be used to detect atrial fibrillation with existing hardware, according to research presented at ESC Congress 2016 today.

«Our research has previously shown that a large body size at age 20, and weight gain from age 20 to midlife, both independently increase the risk of atrial fibrillation in men,» said author Professor Annika Rosengren, professor of internal medicine at the Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

«It's crucial to better understand modifiable risk factors of atrial fibrillation,» said study author Christina Magnussen, M.D., a medical specialist in Internal Medicine and Cardiology at the University Heart Center in Hamburg, Germany.

Researchers at the Intermountain Medical Center Heart Institute initially set out to discover if catheter ablation reduces the long - term risk of atrial fibrillation and whether the patients» age at the time of the procedure affected their risk.

The study by researchers at the Intermountain Medical Center Heart Institute in Salt Lake City also found that Wolff - Parkinson - White syndrome is a long - term cause of atrial fibrillation in addition to traditional risk factors such as obesity, high blood pressure, sedentary lifestyles, and sleep apnea.

The authors also note that atrial fibrillation might have been underdiagnosed at the study's start and later records may not reflect all cases.

This slowing down of electrical activity put these hearts at greater risk of dangerous abnormal heart rhythms, such as atrial fibrillation.

Study participation was restricted to patients with either ventricular fibrillation or ventricular tachycardia who did not achieve a stable heart rhythm after at least one defibrillator shock and, therefore, represent the typical group of those who receive such medications for cardiac arrest in clinical practice.

Big women have a nearly threefold greater risk of atrial fibrillation than small women, according to research presented at EuroPrevent 2017.

The researchers found that no matter at which age an ablation is performed, adult patients with Wolff - Parkinson - White continue to have a life - long, significant risk of atrial fibrillation.

March 17, 2016 Roderick Tung, MD, named director of cardiac electrophysiology program at the University of Chicago Medicine Roderick Tung, MD, an authority on the management of heart rhythm disorders, with a particular focus on advanced therapies for atrial fibrillation and ventricular arrhythmias, has been appointed associate professor of medicine and medical director of the cardiac electrophysiology program at the Center for Arrhythmia Care at the University of Chicago Medicine.

Orlando, Florida, November 4 - 7, 2007 — At this year's Scientific Sessions of the American Heart Association, deCODE genetics (Nasdaq: DCGN) is presenting its newly launched DNA - based risk diagnostic tests deCODE MI ™ and deCODEAF ™ - which measure common genetic variants associated with clinically relevant increases in risk of heart attack and atrial fibrillation / stroke, respectively.

Researchers specifically investigated the genetic profiles for those at highest risk for coronary heart disease and a heart rhythm disorder called atrial fibrillation, or AFib.

The study — which examined insurance claims data for more than 3,000 patients who were at risk for stroke due to atrial fibrillation, treated with anticoagulants, and later admitted to a hospital for bleeding — calls into question the current medical belief that the older drug is safer.

Basic research presentations at 2016 American Heart Association Scientific Sessions: cell therapy for heart attack (mesenchymal stem cells) in animal models and role of CD73, gradual release drug for atrial fibrillation, how particles from stored blood affects blood vessels.

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.

The other research presented at the symposium showed that a pure maple syrup extract prevented the fibrillation (tangling) of beta amyloid proteins and exerted neuroprotective effects in rodent's microglial brain cells.

Atrial fibrillation increases odds of stroke, but because these patients had few additional risk factors, they were considered at low risk for ischemic stroke (blocked blood flow to the brain).

At the 2016 IWCA National Specialty show at Purina Farms in Eureka, MO, both William Tyrrell, DVM, DACVIM and Mariellen Dentino, MD, gave talks on the conclusions drawn from several IWF - funded studies, including the Echo / EKG comparison study, the Atrial Fibrillation study, and the Lifetime Cardiac StudAt the 2016 IWCA National Specialty show at Purina Farms in Eureka, MO, both William Tyrrell, DVM, DACVIM and Mariellen Dentino, MD, gave talks on the conclusions drawn from several IWF - funded studies, including the Echo / EKG comparison study, the Atrial Fibrillation study, and the Lifetime Cardiac Studat Purina Farms in Eureka, MO, both William Tyrrell, DVM, DACVIM and Mariellen Dentino, MD, gave talks on the conclusions drawn from several IWF - funded studies, including the Echo / EKG comparison study, the Atrial Fibrillation study, and the Lifetime Cardiac Study.

At the 2016 IWCA National Specialty show at Purina Farms in Eureka, MO, the IWF presented talks on the conclusions drawn from several IWF - funded studies, including the Echo / EKG comparison study, the Atrial Fibrillation study, and the Lifetime Cardiac StudAt the 2016 IWCA National Specialty show at Purina Farms in Eureka, MO, the IWF presented talks on the conclusions drawn from several IWF - funded studies, including the Echo / EKG comparison study, the Atrial Fibrillation study, and the Lifetime Cardiac Studat Purina Farms in Eureka, MO, the IWF presented talks on the conclusions drawn from several IWF - funded studies, including the Echo / EKG comparison study, the Atrial Fibrillation study, and the Lifetime Cardiac Study.

People with lone atrial fibrillation usually require treatment to re-establish a normal heart rhythm, because they usually have exercise intolerance or shortness of breath, symptoms of palpitations, and are at an increased risk of having a stroke.

Treatment of atrial fibrillation in people is aimed at re-establishing and maintaining a normal rhythm, because this greatly reduces the risk of strokes.