Sentences with phrase «heart infarction»

In her book Flax Oil as a True Aid Against Arthritis, Heart Infarction, Cancer and Other Diseases, on page 32, Dr. Budwig makes the following statement:

Over the years she has published a number of books including «Flax Oil as a True Aid Against Arthritis, Heart Infarction, Cancer, and other Diseases».

Their symptoms, including chest pain, fluid in the lungs, and shortness of breath, resembled those of a classic heart infarction, caused by a clogged blood vessel.

Not exact matches

Researchers at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm and their colleagues looked at myocardial infarction rates in Sweden since 1987 and found that the number of heart attacks rose about 5 percent during the first week of daylight saving time (called summer time in Europe).

For those who might have wondered about my physical, condition, I did have open - heart surgery in July of 1989 followed by a myocardial infarction and a second surgery all on the same day — they cleaned out the old pipes and replaced a few — but within a month of that ordeal I was walking ten miles a day, and now, in the best physical shape I have been in for years, I am running 12 miles a week, so no one need be overly concerned.

Both a heart attack (myocardial infarction or MI) and a sudden cardiac arrest have to do with the heart, but they are different problems.

A new study released in the Journal of the American Medical Association links reduced consumption of trans fats found in things like frying oils to reduced instances of myocardial infarctions (heart attacks) and strokes reported in New York counties that enacted bans.

He emboldens a passage that says «The US population in late middle age is less healthy than the equivalent British population for diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, myocardial infarction, stroke, lung disease, and cancer».

Multiple news sources are reporting the official cause of Scalia's death was myocardial infarction — a heart attack.

It is measuring both use of resources and survival for acute myocardial infarction, heart failure and pneumonia.

In the U.S., one in five Medicare patients is readmitted to a hospital each year at an estimated cost of $ 17.5 billion annually.i To reduce this impact, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has introduced hospital penalties based on readmissions conditions that commonly affect patients aged 65 and older — including acute myocardial infarction, congestive heart failure and pneumonia.i

Myocardial infarction — better known as a heart attack — strikes on average every 43 seconds in America.

Two weeks after the experimental myocardial infarctions, the Seattle researchers injected 1 billion heart muscle cells derived from human embryonic stem cells, called human embryonic stem cell - derived cardiomyocytes, into the infarcted muscle.

Secondary endpoints were total coronary heart disease, defined as fatal or non-fatal myocardial infarction, and total stroke, which included all fatal and non-fatal strokes.

He added: «An abnormal Q wave indicates the presence of previous myocardial infarction or serious myocardial injury responsible for low cardiac output, heart failure and / or potentially fatal arrhythmias.

The current study used prospectively collected electronic health records to investigate the contemporary incidence and risk factors for heart failure after a first myocardial infarction.

On the one hand, PCI has improved treatment for myocardial infarction so the risk of heart failure would be expected to decrease.

The researchers identified 24 745 patients aged 18 years or older who experienced a first myocardial infarction between 1 January 1998 and 25 March 2010 and had no prior history of heart failure.

A number of factors were associated with an increased risk of developing heart failure after a first myocardial infarction.

«A previous study in Paris during the 2003 heat wave found an increased risk of sudden cardiac death but no increase in myocardial infarction [heart attack],» De Sario and Michelozzi noted as an example.

Dr Gho said: «Previous research looking at all cause heart failure, not only after myocardial infarction, has found similar risk factors.

Dr Gho said: «Around one in four patients developed heart failure within four years of a first myocardial infarction in the current era.

«Linkage to a national audit of myocardial infarctions [heart attacks] allowed us to examine not only the rate of heart attacks, but uniquely whether the severity of heart attacks was different following biologic treatment.

Better control of inflammation with biologic therapy might reduce not only the rate of heart attacks, but potentially also affect the size of myocardial infarctions.»

In Remodeling of the Mononuclear Phagocyte Network Underlies Chronic Inflammation and Disease Progression in Heart Failure: Critical Importance of the Cardiosplenic Axis, Prabhu and colleagues showed that immune cells that are stored in the spleen were intricately involved in the heart failure that follows a heart attack, or infarction, in a mouse - model syHeart Failure: Critical Importance of the Cardiosplenic Axis, Prabhu and colleagues showed that immune cells that are stored in the spleen were intricately involved in the heart failure that follows a heart attack, or infarction, in a mouse - model syheart failure that follows a heart attack, or infarction, in a mouse - model syheart attack, or infarction, in a mouse - model system.

More than five missing teeth increased the risk for coronary heart disease events and myocardial infarctions as much as 140 %.

Normally, the inflammatory response to tissue damage after infarction — death of muscle tissue in a heart attack — has two stages.

Acute myocardial infarction, commonly known as a heart attack, can be classified according to the extent of damage to the heart muscle.

The authors measured the proportion of patients in each group who received cardiac catheterization, a coronary revascularization procedure or future noninvasive test, as well as those hospitalized for heart attack (acute myocardial infarction, MI).

A phase 2 trial showed a reduction in the combined outcome of death or myocardial infarction (heart attack) in patients treated with otamixaban compared with unfractionated heparin (UFH) plus eptifibatide (an antiplatelet drug) and showed similar bleeding rates with otamixaban at midrange doses.

This study assessed the association of antidepressant prescription at hospital discharge with the one - year outcomes of patients with acute myocardial infarction (heart attack).

Data from AMIS Plus, the Swiss nationwide registry for acute myocardial infarction, were used to analyse 8,911 heart attack patients admitted to hospitals in Switzerland between March 2005 and August 2016.

OBTAIN (Outcomes of Beta - Blocker Therapy After Myocardial Infarction) is an observational multicenter registry in which beta - blocker dosing information was collected in patients with an acute heart attack at participating centers to assess the effect of dose on survival.

A STEMI (ST segment elevation myocardial infarction) heart attack happens when an artery is completely blocked by the blood clot, which causes damage to virtually all of the heart muscle supplied by that artery.

NSTEMI (non-ST segment elevation myocardial infarction) is the less severe type, occurring when a blood clot partly clogs a coronary artery and only a portion of the heart muscle supplied by that artery is damaged.

Frits R. Rosendaal, M.D., Ph.D., of Leiden University Medical Center, the Netherlands, and coauthors determined long - term mortality and morbidity in young women who survived myocardial infarction (heart attack) or ischemic stroke compared with a control group.

Psychiatric illness was already known to be highly comorbid — existing at the same time as another medical condition — with heart failure, acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and pneumonia.

Furthermore, when the authors examined the outcomes individually, the OSA risk factors were associated with increased risk for all - cause mortality, hospitalization for congestive heart failure, and stroke, but not for acute myocardial infarction.

The patients were followed up through provincial health administrative data (Ontario, Canada) until May 2011 for CV disease (myocardial infarction, stroke, congestive heart failure, revascularization procedures) and death from any cause, analyzed as a composite outcome.

The researchers focused on specific cardiovascular disease diagnoses: myocardial infarction (heart attack), chronic heart failure, stroke, and ischemic heart disease.

The new study analyzed heart disease risk factors among more than 3,900 patients who were treated for ST - elevation myocardial infarction, or STEMI — the most severe and deadly type of heart attack — at Cleveland Clinic between 1995 and 2014.

Giving intravenous beta blockers before performing a coronary angioplasty in patients who had experienced the deadliest form of heart attack — ST - segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI)-- was safe but did not reduce heart attack severity or improve blood flow from the heart's main pumping chamber, according to research presented at the American College of Cardiology's 65th Annual Scientific Session.

A large randomized controlled trial of ischemic postconditioning in patients who had experienced the deadliest form of heart attack — ST - segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI)-- failed to show that this procedure significantly reduces death from any cause or hospitalization for heart failure, according to research presented at the American College of Cardiology's 65th Annual Scientific Session.

Unlike heart attacks (myocardial infarctions), which are typically caused by clogged coronary arteries reducing blood flow to the heart muscle, sudden cardiac arrest is the result of defective electrical activity of the heart.

Whether caused by an undetected birth defect or by a heart attack (myocardial infarction), when a heart sustains damage, it can be difficult to repair.

Delayed or deferred stent implantation in patients experiencing the deadliest form of heart attack — ST - segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI)-- failed to reduce death from any cause, hospitalization for heart failure, subsequent heart attacks or the need for a repeat procedure to restore blood flow to the heart, researchers reported at the American College of Cardiology's 65th Annual Scientific Session.

Taking into account such heart risk factors as obesity, high blood pressure and elevated cholesterol diminished the association between dairy fats and heart attacks, also known as myocardial infarctions.

Approximately 525,000 people suffer a first heart attack, or myocardial infarction, each year in the U.S., and there are an estimated 190,000 recurrent heart attacks each year.

Most of these deaths in young women are caused by myocardial infarction [heart attack] which is largely preventable through modification of risk factors,» he points out.

An analysis of the clinical trials suggests that ACEIs reduce the risk of death from all causes by 13 percent, cut the risk CV deaths by 17 percent and lower the risk of major CV events by 14 percent, including myocardial infarction (heart attack) by 21 percent and heart failure by 19 percent.