Sentences with phrase «for ischaemic»

Hospitalisation for ischaemic heart disease for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander males was double the rate, and for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander females four times the rate, than for the general population.

«We measured the strongest fibrinogen - erythrocyte interactions for ischaemic chronic heart failure patients.

In the last few years, several studies have shown that iron deficiency, which affects around two billion people worldwide, may be a risk factor for ischaemic stroke in adults and in children.

The researchers found that compared to people who never ate fruit, those who ate fruit daily cut their CVD risks by 25 - 40 % (around 15 % for IHD, around 25 % for ischaemic stroke and 40 % for haemorrhagic stroke).

Cardiac function assessment for heart failure, coronary angiography for ischaemic heart disease and Holter ECG monitoring for lethal arrhythmias can identify the type of myocardial injury and help physicians select a prophylactic therapeutic strategy against sudden cardiac death in hemodialysis patients.»

Not exact matches

The results for breast cancer are in line with previous research, but the true effect of alcohol on risk of ischaemic heart disease remains uncertain, say the editorial authors.

The two major types of stroke include ischaemic stroke caused by blood clots, which accounts for 85 % of strokes, and haemorrhagic stroke or bleeding into the brain, which accounts for 15 % of strokes.

Now, researchers at the University Department of Internal Medicine II at the MedUni Vienna (Clinical Department of Cardiology), as part of an international cooperation, have successfully demonstrated the advantages of an implanted defibrillator (ICD) as a means of prevention in patients with moderately restricted cardiac function, and that patients with the condition must be treated as carefully as patients with ischaemic heart failure which has developed following a heart attack, for example.

In a third study, investigators uncovered the importance of reducing cold ischaemic time for donor organs after circulatory death to preserve the energy status of the organs.

The findings show just how important it is for people with acute ischaemic stroke (in which blood flow to an area of the brain is blocked or reduced) to be identified quickly and treated by specialist staff in order to reduce the subsequent degree of disability.

All the participants were part of the Long Term Intervention with Pravastatin in Ischaemic Disease Trial and had had a heart attack or been admitted to hospital for unstable angina in the preceding three to 36 months.

Patients were monitored for occurrence of heart attacks, strokes or transient ischaemic attacks, and arrhythmia (an irregular heartbeat), and followed up until 2012.

This compares with complete recovery for one in five people and death in one in five after an ischaemic stroke.

We also performed subgroup meta - analyses by type of prevention (primary v secondary: in this study, trials involving healthy populations or patients with any specific disease except for cardiovascular disease were classified as primary prevention trials, and trials involving patients with cardiovascular disease were classified as secondary prevention trials), type of supplement by quality and dose (each supplement, vitamins only, antioxidants only, or antioxidants excluding vitamins), type of outcome (cardiovascular death, angina, fatal or non-fatal myocardial infarction, stroke, or transient ischaemic attack), type of outcome in each supplement, type of study design (randomised, double blind, placebo controlled trial v open label, randomised controlled trial), methodological quality (high v low), duration of treatment (< 5 years v ≥ 5 years), funding source (pharmaceutical industry v independent organisation), provider of supplements (pharmaceutical industry v not pharmaceutical industry), type of control (placebo v no placebo), number of participants (≥ 10000 v < 10000), and supplements given singly or in combination with other vitamin or antioxidant supplements by quality.

In transplantation, improved usage of borderline donor organs and of understanding for the causes and potential treatment of ischaemic reperfusion phenomena.

This has lead to the belief that coconut fats are «bad for health», particularly in relation to ischaemic heart disease.

Properly planned vegetarian diets have been found to satisfy the nutritional needs for all stages of life, and large - scale studies have shown vegetarianism to significantly lower risks of cancer, ischaemic heart disease, and other diseases.

The impact on health is immense: Air pollution was responsible in 2015 for 19 % of all cardiovascular deaths worldwide, 24 % of ischaemic heart disease deaths, 21 % of stroke deaths, and 23 % of lung cancer deaths.

Approximately 11 % of all deaths due to ischaemic heart disease, accounting for over a million premature deaths annually, can be attributed to exposure to household air pollution.

Risks for future ill - health were common, with high rates of smoking, and emerging type 2 diabetes and ischaemic heart disease (conditions more typical of adulthood).

Derrick Lopez, from the University of WA, presented a study on disparities in ischaemic heart disease care for rural Aboriginal people.