Sentences with phrase «heart failure lead»

If no treatment is initiated and the condition is allowed to progress, affected dogs develop heart failure lead to collapse and death.

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That feature led to one of the early failures of the iReport system in 2008, when a fake report about Apple CEO Steve Jobs having a heart attack hit the site and briefly influenced the share price of the company.
That's a conservative estimate that excludes the costs associated with complications from diabetes which include kidney failure, blindness, vascular disease (which can lead to limb amputation) and heart attack.
WASH chair and Queen Mary professor of cardiology Graham MacGregor said: «Eating too much salt puts up our blood pressure, the major cause of strokes, heart attacks and heart failure, the leading cause of death and disability worldwide.
Diabetes can lead to heart attacks, strokes, nerve damage, kidney failure, blindness, impotence, and infections.
«Prediabetes is often a pre-cursor to Type 2 diabetes which can lead to a shortened life expectancy and devastating complications such as heart disease, stroke, blindness, kidney failure and amputation.
Led in evidence by Mrs. Idowu Alakija, the State's Director of Public Prosecution (DPP), Obafunwa, who is a Consultant Pathologist to the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) and the former Vice-Chancellor of the Lagos State University (LASU), said the victims of the collapsed building died due to multiple injuries, traumatic asphyxia, severe blood loss, severe fracture and compression of the skull with the brain tissue, congested heart failure against the background of hypertension and accumulation of blood in the chest cavity.
These novel data from the RELAX - AHF trial were presented by lead author Professor Adriaan A. Voors at the Heart Failure Congress 2014, held 17 - 20 May in Athens, Greece.
Professor Voors concluded: «The major finding from this substudy of the RELAX - AHF trial is that diuretic resistance is a clinical problem that leads to worse in - hospital and early post-discharge clinical outcomes in patients with acute heart failure.
«At present, therapy for this large proportion of patients with heart failure is empiric, and there remains a huge unmet need,» said Scott Solomon, MD, director of BWH Noninvasive Cardiology, who also led the core echocardiography lab for the study.
This advance could therefore lead to new clinical trials and future improvements in treatment of patients with heart failure.
Too little insulin, and blood - glucose levels spike high, which over the long term can lead to heart disease, kidney failure, blindness and amputation.
«We discovered that beta blockers largely reverse the pathological pattern of gene expression observed in heart failure,» said Faculty of Science Professor John McDermott, who led the research, along with York U collaborators Professor Gary Sweeney and Professor Jorg Grigull.
«Even mild heart failure can lead to sudden death.»
Our study shows that exposure to cold or high - pressure weather could trigger events leading to hospitalization or death in heart failure patients.»
Molecular scissors known as CRISPR / Cas9 corrected a gene defect that can lead to heart failure.
The new study, led by researchers at Université Laval and Université de Sherbrooke in Quebec, Canada, reveals the impact of changes in temperature and air pressure on heart failure patients.
«We know that doctors rarely take the weather forecast into account when treating or making recommendations to heart failure patients,» said Prof. Pierre Gosselin, lead author of the study from Universitié Laval in Canada.
Additional studies will follow to validate the value of stem cell - based regenerative solutions in addressing abnormal cardiac motion in heart failure, ultimately leading to improved patient care.
At these sites the heartworm, which is about 20 - 30 cm long, leads to heart failure, dyspnea, and general deterioration.
«Although the link between traffic - related air pollution and left ventricular hypertrophy, heart failure, and cardiovascular death is established, the effects of traffic - related air pollution on the right ventricle have not been well studied,» said lead author Peter Leary, MD, MS, of the University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle.
Treating the mice with antibodies against CD4 + T - cells four weeks after experimental heart attacks — to deplete that subset of T - cells — prevented the progressive abnormal enlargement of the left ventricle that leads to heart failure, as compared with untreated mice.
There is both scar tissue and weak heart muscle that remain, and eventually this leads to heart failure as tissue continues to die.
A new study led by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators finds that heart failure patients who underwent bariatric surgery to treat morbid obesity had a significant reduction in the incidence of heart failure exacerbation — a dangerous, sudden worsening of symptoms — in the two years following surgery.
This growth is called pathological cardiac hypertrophy and eventually leads to heart failure and death.
But when hypertrophy is excessive, prolonged and unbalanced, it becomes pathological, leading to heart failure and arrhythmias.
«Protein's role revealed in preventing heart muscle growth leading to heart failure
The new finding contributes to a fuller understanding of the fundamental biology that underlies common metabolic diseases related to obesity, such as type 2 diabetes, fatty liver disease, and heart failure, and could lead to new insights on how to better treat such diseases.
«The relationship between COPD and coronary heart disease has been well studied, but substantially less information exists concerning the coexistence of COPD and heart failure,» said lead author Srinadh Annangi, MBBS.
The study is the first to examine the link between heart failure risk and sedentary time, said Deborah Rohm Young, Ph.D., lead researcher and a senior scientist at Kaiser Permanente in Pasadena, Calif..
The nerve tissue (cerebellum, spinal cord etc.) and heart tissue are particularly vulnerable to this shortage of energy, which can lead to fatal heart failure.
While researching the molecular causes of heart failure and new ways to treat it, a Charité - based working group, led by Prof. Dr. Ulrich Kintscher, found that changes in adipose (fat) tissue lipid metabolism affect disease development.
Professor Abraham said: «Patients with the remede ® system feel better, they are less symptomatic, their quality of life is improved, and the underlying mechanisms that lead to heart failure progression such as autonomic imbalance are improved.»
Eventually, this causes the heart to weaken and function poorly, which may lead to heart failure and increased risk for sudden cardiac death.
Mitochondrial diseases affect the batteries of the cell and can lead to muscular weakness, blindness, fatal heart failure, learning disability, liver failure, diabetes and can lead to death in early infancy.
The new study, led by Daniel Kelly, M.D., scientific director of SBP's Lake Nona campus, provides fresh molecular insight into heart failure and may eventually lead to new therapeutic targets to prevent or slow progression of the disease.
Future studies aimed at whether this is a productive versus a faulty adaptive fuel shift could lead to new therapeutic avenues for heart failure.
As a result, the heart may try to pump harder, and this may lead to congestive heart failure or it may worsen an existing heart failure.
Contrary to popular practice, a measure of the heart's pumping function known as «left ventricular ejection fraction» is not associated with the long - term outcomes of hospitalized heart failure patients, a UCLA - led study of Medicare patients has found.
Pulmonary hypertension involves an increase of blood pressure in the arteries of the lung that can lead to heart failure.
New research from scientists at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (SBP) published in the journal Circulation, may lead to a new approach to help treat heart failure early in the disease.
People with obesity are more likely to develop a rapid and irregular heart rate, called atrial fibrillation, which can lead to stroke, heart failure and other complications, according to Penn State researchers.
DCM is a disease characterized by progressive weakening and enlargement of the heart muscle, which can lead to heart failure and premature death.
Dr Kristensen said: «It will be interesting to see if these medications, which are increasingly used in IBD, lead to a reduction in the risk of heart failure and other cardiovascular diseases.
Salt intake has been been linked to high blood pressure, which is the the leading cause of heart attacks, stroke and kidney failure.
The disease can also lead to an enlarged esophagus, colon and heart, and even, heart failure.
Borja Ibáñez — joint lead investigator on the study with Valentín Fuster — explains that «the possibility to reduce so dramatically the number of cases of chronic heart failure (with all the associated treatments and hospital readmissions) with such a cheap procedure (the metoprolol treatment costs less than two euros per patient) could generate enormous savings for health services across Europe.»
Several studies over the past decade have shown that a strong emotional shock can lead to sudden heart failure in people with no known risk factors for heart disease.
The heart can compensate by pumping harder, but over time this can weaken the heart muscle and lead to right - sided heart failure.
· evidence indicates that low sodium intake may lead to risk of adverse health effects among those with mid - to late - stage heart failure who are receiving aggressive treatment for their disease;
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