Sentences with phrase «heart attack patients»

Analysis revealed that trans fats from both animal and vegetable sources were significantly more abundant in the fat tissues of heart attack patients than in the healthy volunteers.

Indeed, international guidelines now encourage this type of «aggressive» intervention for heart attack patients across the board, he noted.

This updated study confirms that heart attack patients with diabetes, whether previously or newly diagnosed, face a greater risk of future heart problems.

It's also commonly performed on heart attack patients.

The analysis found that the six - month survival rate of British heart attack patients improved by about 3.2 percent, year by year, throughout the study period.

The right treatment gives many heart attack patients their first opportunity to think that they just might survive.

The scientists are urging doctors to provide intensive support to female heart attack patients, above all in the first 365 days after the event.

In surprising numbers that could lessen the amount of life insurance claims and save lives, hospitals are treating almost all major heart attack patients within the recommended 90 minutes of arrival.

Surprisingly, however, a control group comprising heart attack patients had largely the same level of problems.

A clinical trial of more than 10,000 heart attack patients reported today supports a novel way to protect them from a stroke or a second attack: with drugs that stop inflammation.

No results from trials involving stem cells and multiple heart attack patients had yet been published.

Now, a new study has found that ensuring heart attack patients are promptly diagnosed and treated for diabetes makes a significant difference in improving their cardiac outcomes.

This award will further test a drug previously shown to be safe in humans that could be a critical step to eventually testing heart attack patients in the future.

It appears to lower blood pressure and heart attack patients with pets survive longer than those without pets.

Their results were compared with a control group made up of heart attack patients.

Sexual activity can be a concern for many heart attack patients who worry about exertion triggering another heart event, but data on the harms and benefits of sexual activity in heart disease patients is limited.

Armed with the success of their experiment that has already been published in advance of the Biomaterials May 2017 issue, researchers hope that their findings will aid in treating heart attack patients by layering their damaged tissue with healthy heart muscles cultured from plant leaves.

«Race a factor in mortality in heart attack patients on anti-clotting drug.»

By identifying the benefits of using this specific sub-set of human mesenchymal stem cells this research may enhance safety for heart attack patients receiving stem cell therapy.

For this single - center study, investigators examined 150 records for heart attack patients admitted to Tulane Medical Center in the two years before Katrina, and 2,341 records in the 10 years afterwards.

Transdifferentiation studies spawned a number of clinical trials, including several in which heart attack patients received an injection of blood - forming stem cells in their hearts in hopes of replacing dead cardiac muscle.

The analysis also reveals a lot of opportunity to improve the care heart attack patients get in the first six months, and the value that the nation gets from the dollars spent on it.

Researchers at the Mayo Clinic, studying medical records of heart attack patients from its home base of Olmsted County, Minn., report that those with lower incomes and less education were more likely to die after the attack than their more affluent, educated counterparts.

«Low dose beta - blockers as effective as high dose after a heart attack: Surprisingly, heart attack patients live as long — or even longer — on one - fourth the suggested dose.»

The researchers enrolled 11,001 heart attack patients between June 2015 and June 2016 at hundreds of sites across the country in a study known as ARTEMIS.

And in a 2003 review, researchers concluded that adding tai chi to standard care may help enhance heart health and quality of life among heart attack patients.

Heart attack patients prescribed antidepressants have lower one - year survival rates, according to research presented today at Acute Cardiovascular Care 2018, a European Society of Cardiology congress.

Hospitals that focused on getting heart attack patients diagnosed and onto the angioplasty table within the first 24 hours after their first symptoms achieved the biggest gains in survival.

Among congestive heart failure patients, 14 percent; and among coronary artery disease after heart attack patients, 16 percent.

But the new British study might convince cardiologists to help more heart attack patients, sooner, with invasive procedures.

4/5/2007 Cooler Heads Prevail in Cardiac Arrest Heart Attack Patient Benefits from Innovative Technology at UCSD Medical Center UCSD Medical Center cardiology and neurology specialists are using a novel method to save the lives of patients in cardiac arrest.

The results of another clinical trial published in the journal found that high - dose vitamins and minerals did not protect heart attack patients 50 and older from experiencing additional cardiovascular events, though the research was marred by a high dropout rate.

By then, a few European papers were also revealing clues that stem cells derived from bone marrow and shot into the bloodstream of recent heart attack patients produced positive results.

«What we can see is a favorable trend,» says Viola Vaccarino, a professor of medicine at Emory University School of Medicine who analyzed 916,380 heart attack patients over 12 years from the National Registry of Myocardial Infarction, a database of treatment information on some of the country's cardiac patients.

«Better treatment, not more spending, saves heart attack patients, study finds: Increases in early stenting have paid off in lives and dollars, but overall costs have grown without accompanying reductions in mortality.»

He launched the study when he discovered heart attack patients were being treated with much lower doses of beta - blockers than were used in clinical trials.

Since this is medicine we use in every single heart attack patient, we ought to figure out how to use it properly.»

«Our study suggests that in the emergency room, stress testing and CT scans are unnecessary for evaluating chest pain in possible heart attack patients,» said cardiologist and senior author David L. Brown, MD, a professor of medicine.

- Primary PCI is now the preferred treatment for heart attack patients instead of traditional «clot busting» drugs.

The clinical trial named METOCARD - CNIC is the first to test metoprolol therapy, at a cost less than three dollars (or less than two euros), in heart attack patients undergoing standard angioplasty treatment procedures.

Potentially, the promising treatment could be rapidly administered to heart attack patients arriving at the emergency room (or even while in the ambulance), and could preserve heart muscle before patients receive invasive interventions to open blocked arteries.

Working in collaboration with doctors in the United Kingdom, the deCODE team analyzed genotypic data from a total of 1500 British heart attack patients and controls and found a similar risk associated with variations in the gene encoding FLAP, but with a different four - SNP haplotype.

Beta blockers have become a prescription drug staple for recovering heart attack patients.

When you picture the typical heart attack patient, it's probably an older man clutching his arm and grimacing in pain.

For instance, 12 percent of heart attack patients suffered from intermittent chest pain (angina); 11 percent had high blood pressure; 7 percent were diabetic, and almost 5 percent were obese.

In a review of 72 studies researchers found that most heart attack patients» cholesterol levels did not indicate cardiac risk; in fact, 75 percent of them had normal, not high LDL («bad») cholesterol.