Sentences with phrase «for kidney and heart»

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«The [death] rate increased 0.9 % for heart disease, 2.7 % for chronic lower respiratory diseases, 6.7 % for unintentional injuries, 3.0 % for stroke, 15.7 % for Alzheimer's disease, 1.9 % for diabetes, 1.5 % for kidney disease, and 2.3 % for suicide.

The only cause for concern was a small hole in the heart, which is so tiny it's almost disappeared and an enlarged kidney, which is now normal size and functioning well.

«To hear these senior Planned Parenthood doctors and executives coldly pricing baby body parts — liver, heart, lungs, kidneys, brains, and limbs — with such casual disregard for the unborn children killed to obtain those parts is reprehensible,» said Carol Tobias, National Right to Life president.

Generally speaking, the American public is well accustomed to the concept of tissue and organ transplantation, as stories of life - saving heart and kidney transplants, or American Red Cross blood drives collecting blood and platelets for transfusions have become commonplace.

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Cranberries are packed with antioxidants and are great for your brain, heart, kidneys, digestive system, colon, and your blood.

One board lists (in Spanish, I've translated for you): short loin, rib set, brisket, navel plate, rib plate, short ribs, eye round, outside flat, knuckle, rump cap, eye of rump, top sirloin, tri-tip, strip loin, tenderloin, skirt (thick and thin), flank steak, inside skirt, Spencer roll, rib eye roll, chuck roll, neck, shoulder clod, blade oyster, chuck tender, shin shank, heel muscle, thick skirt, tongue, cheek meat, tail, liver, kidney, heart, sweetbreads, brains, tripe, honey comb, spleen, tendons, head meat, lips, even those old favorites: intestines.

The bite is intensely flavorful, like a funkier hot pork sausage, but there's more besides pig: It's a fine grind of all the odds and ends of the lamb (kidneys, heart, etc.) not destined for barbacoa, mixed with tons of herbs and chiles.

The turquoise kidneys and the blue - green hearts form a kind of magnetic resonance image of Los Angeles: a many - chambered nautilus of pools in the prosperous precincts of Hollywood and Beverly Hills, while in South Central L.A. — where municipal pools must often close for lack of funds — the organs appear blackened and necrotic.

Your doctor will check baby's heart rate and look for abnormalities in the vital organs — the brain, heart, liver and kidneys.

Nutrition: Breast milk provides nutrition for premature infants, children with failure to thrive, people with severe allergies, those with heart disorders or kidney failure, and people with feeding issues.

Hindmilk may also be helpful for infants with heart, lung, kidney, and stomach problems.

Similarly, a premature baby will have an immature heart, gastrointestinal tract, kidneys, and so on, and may also require assistance in these areas for a time until he is more mature.

Of all grains, quinoa has the highest protein content and also contains phosphorus (important for a healthy heart, kidneys and brain), vitamins B and E and iron.

Beef, for what its worth, also includes cow brains, kidneys, intestines, stomach, eyeballs, tongue, veins, stomach, ear drums, penis's, testicles and hearts..

With such water, if you want to treat it for drinking, you must also take into consideration the removal of the algae because algae toxins can cause kidney, liver, nervous system and heart problems.

The release of energy in this state is only sufficient for the vital organs such as the heart, lungs, nervous system, and kidneys.

NEW ORLEANS — Popular heartburn drugs — already under investigation for possible links to dementia, kidney and heart problems (SN: 6/11/16, p. 8)-- have a new health concern to add to the list.

More than 2,000 U.S. children are on an organ transplant waiting list for kidneys, livers, hearts, lungs and other organs, according to the federal Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network.

People with conditions such as kidney disease and heart failure are advised to aim for even lower levels.

Richard J. McManus, F.R.C.G.P., of the University of Oxford, and colleagues randomly assigned 552 patients with hypertension and a history of stroke, coronary heart disease, diabetes, or chronic kidney disease to self - monitoring of blood pressure combined with an individualized self - titration algorithm or a control group (patients received usual care consisting of seeing their health care clinician for routine blood pressure measurement and adjustment of medication if necessary).

Because the conventional drugs used for treatment can seriously damage the kidneys and heart, doctors normally have to limit the dose that they give.

The light turned green, the dim bulb returned to his multitasking, and I thought of the desperate people waiting for a kidney, a liver, a heart and sundry other body parts whose prayers might soon be answered, all thanks to me.

A high dietary salt intake is linked to high blood pressure, which is a risk factor for stroke, heart attacks, heart failure and kidney disease.

In all, more than 100,000 Americans are waiting for transplants across the range of organs — heart, lung, kidney, intestine, pancreas, and liver; some 12 percent will die before their turn arrives.

Funded by the U.S. Army, tissue engineers have begun developing designs for replacement organs — kidneys, hearts, and lungs.

«If clinicians decide to prescribe spironolactone to their patients to reduce their risk of being hospitalized for heart failure, there is an associated responsibility to monitor for serum markers of kidney and electrolyte disorders which can be exacerbated by spironolactone.»

Engineers are creating artificial replacements for failing hearts, kidneys, pancreases and livers

The new findings suggest that manipulation of NAD could lead to a future therapy for acute kidney injury and also raise the possibility that mitochondrial injury and deficiency in NAD might underlie other types of organ damage, including damage that can lead to stroke or heart attack.

The researchers — and may others at Penn and across the country — hope that this study will be the first step toward unearthing an entirely new pool of available organs — initially for kidneys, and down the line for hearts, lungs, and livers.

To investigate, Csaba Kovesdy, MD (Memphis VA Medical Center and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center) and his colleagues examined information from the national VA research database and looked for associations between blood pressure and various clinical outcomes — coronary heart disease, stroke, kidney failure, and death — in more than 300,000 patients with CKD.

Using the American Heart Association's Get - With - the - Guidelines quality improvement program, patients were reviewed for co-morbid conditions including kidney function, blood counts, and blood tests such as brain natriuretic peptide (BNP), a marker of heart faiHeart Association's Get - With - the - Guidelines quality improvement program, patients were reviewed for co-morbid conditions including kidney function, blood counts, and blood tests such as brain natriuretic peptide (BNP), a marker of heart faiheart failure.

«Controlling blood pressure is important for lowering risk of heart attack, stroke and kidney disease,» Dr. Murray said.

This compares with five - year organ survival rates of about 70 percent for heart, kidney and liver transplants.

There were also nine hospitalizations for hypertensive emergency (1.0 percent), eight for atrial fibrillation (0.9 percent), eight strokes (0.9 percent), six hospitalizations for new onset heart failure (0.7 percent), five heart attacks (0.6 percent), four deaths (0.4 percent) and two cases of new onset end stage kidney disease (0.2 percent) that were considered unrelated to the procedure.

Results of the study published in Hepatology, a journal of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, show that incidents of kidney disease, stroke, and heart attack were lower in patients treated with pegylated interferon and ribavirin compared to HCV patients not treated with antivirals or diabetic patients not infected with the virus.

He advocated widespread use of these immunosuppressants, and because of these drugs, the number of transplants has grown every year for the past several decades; in 2005 surgeons performed 28,107 transplants of the kidney, liver, pancreas, heart, lung and intestine, according to the United Network for Organ Sharing.

«Many patients who suffer from untreatable chronic diseases, including heart and kidney diseases, are in waiting lists for limited organ transplantation.

Resolvin D - 1 attenuated the signs of kidney inflammation that were seen in heart - attack mice not given the bioactive mediator — the non-resolvin D - 1 animals had distorted kidney morphology, enhanced levels of the kidney injury marker NGAL and diminished amounts of nephrin — a protein necessary for proper functioning of the kidney — in the podocytes of the kidney filtering structure.

The team also investigated the risk of infection while taking into account the duration of current or former statin use, 90 - day cumulative dose, and specific sub-groups of patients who were prescribed statins for different chronic conditions like previous myocardial infarction, peripheral arterial disease, chronic heart failure, chronic kidney disease, and diabetes.

We continuously evaluate new technologies for treating heart, liver, lung, and kidney disease in order to provide the highest level of care for patients who need transplants, and we're investigating novel ways to increase the number of healthy donor organs so that we can help more people.

Fibrotic diseases, such as chronic kidney disease and failure, lung disease, heart failure and cirrhosis of the liver, are estimated to be responsible for up to 45 percent of deaths in the developed world.

From an epidemiologic perspective, preeclampsia is growing at a rate more rapid than diabetes, heart disease, Alzheimer's disease, obesity, and chronic kidney disease — diseases for which substantial research and treatment funding have been allocated,» explained senior investigator Anupam B. Jena, MD, PhD, Ruth L. Newhouse Associate Professor, Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, and Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA.

If the marriage of stem cells and CRISPR follows a similar path, it might not be long before pigs have enough Homo sapiens in them not only to grow human hearts, lungs, livers, and kidneys for transplant but also to model human diseases more closely than current lab animals do and to test experimental drugs.

«This data allows classification of all human protein - coding genes into those coding for house - hold functions (present in all cells) and those that are tissue - specific genes with highly specialized expression in particular organs and tissues, such as kidney, liver, brain, heart, pancreas.

Funding for the research was led by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), the Iacocca Foundation, the Danish Medical Research Council and the Danish Heart Foundation.

Adult stem / progenitor cells are present in many organs and tissues, e.g., bone marrow, teeth, heart, gut, kidney and liver, and remain quiescent for long period of time until activated by a disease or injury trigger.

While you may not always drink to excess, frequently crossing the line still puts you at a greater risk for developing many of the health problems associated with excessive drinking, such as cardiovascular disease (heart disease, hypertension, peripheral vascular disease, stroke and arrhythmias), liver and kidney dysfunction, pancreatitis, and osteoporosis.

The famous powerlifter and bodybuilding icon C.T. Fletcher who suffered a major heart attack in June and was waiting for heart transplant heading back to the hospital for kidney tests and likely a transplant heart surgery.

In fact, theres now evidence that a prediabetic patients risks for eye, kidney, and nerve damage, as well as heart disease, are nearly as great as a diabetics, says Alan J. Garber, MD, chairman of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE) task force thats currently writing new guidelines for managing prediabetes.