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