Sentences with phrase «for ischemic heart disease»

In the Iowa Women's Health Study the protected quintile for ischemic heart disease was an average of 3.2 whole - grain servings per day (Jacobs et al., 1998).

During the years 1970 — 1973, all 50 - y - old men living in the municipality of Uppsala, Sweden, were invited to participate in a prospective survey regarding risk factors for ischemic heart disease.

Although medical and surgical treatments available today for the ischemic heart disease patients diminish the risk of acute myocardial infarction and reduce to some extent the incidence of recurrent heart attack, one of the unsolved challenges is to affect myocardium remodeling occurring during ischemic heart failure.

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Through shortened patient examination times, higher patient throughput, and lower cost per MRI examination, EPI may become a powerful tool for early diagnosis of some common and potentially treatable diseases such as ischemic heart disease, stroke, and cancer.

The Cardiothoracic Surgical Trials Network (CTSN) is reporting results for the first time from a clinical trial of patients who have a complication of coronary heart disease known as moderate ischemic mitral regurgitation (IMR).

Additional work recently presented at the 2014 American Society for Radiation Oncology in San Francisco carried the work further in order to determine whether protection from the additional radiation dose in fact translated to a reduction in ischemic heart disease.

Dr. Srivastava has co-founded a biotechnology company to help find new cures for many human diseases and one of the developmental genes whose role he discovered, Thymosin β4, is currently in clinical trials for patients suffering ischemic damage to the heart.

Dr. Semenza's research interests include the molecular mechanisms of oxygen homeostasis; gene and stem cell therapy for ischemic cardiovascular disease; the role of HIF - 1 in cancer; and protection of the heart against ischemia - reperfusion injury.

Even when the researchers controlled for established cardiovascular disease risk factors, they found about a 70 % increased risk of ischemic heart disease in the years of followup.

Has the Proposed Insured ever been treated for (including office visits, medication or surgery): diabetes requiring insulin injections combined with a medical history of stroke, transient ischemic attack (TIA) or heart disease?

According to Jesse Slome, executive director of the American Association for Critical Illness Insurance, people with ischemic heart disease have reduced blood flow to the heart, which can cause angina, chest pain and heart attack.

The risk of a fatal ischemic heart disease for someone eating five portions of fruit and vegetables a day would be 4 percent lower compared to someone consuming four portions a day, and so on up to eight portions or more.

Prevalence and Adjusted Odds Ratios for Traditional and Psychological Risk Factors of Ischemic Heart Disease

For example, in a study of adults enrolled in Kaiser Permanente, a large California health maintenance organization, questionnaire responses to items assessing abuse and dysfunction in the early family environment predicted multiple health disorders in adulthood in dose — response fashion, including ischemic heart disease, any cancer, depression, and stroke (14).