Sentences with phrase «infarction rates»
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).
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RESULTS: If observed associations between breastfeeding duration and maternal health are causal, we estimate that current breastfeeding rates result in 4,981 excess cases of breast cancer, 53,847 cases of hypertension, and 13,946 cases of myocardial infarction compared with a cohort of 1.88 million U.S. women who optimally breastfed.
In patients undergoing transradial primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for ST elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), there was no significant difference in the rate of a composite of death, myocardial infarction and stroke whether they were anticoagulated with bivalirudin or unfractioned heparin, according to a study in JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions.
«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.»
«Rheumatologists can be reassured that treatment of active rheumatoid arthritis with anti-TNF therapy may lead not just to an improvement in joint symptoms, but also a reduction in the rate of myocardial infarctions in the medium term,» says Dr. Dixon
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.
J. Marc Simard, professor of neurosurgery at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, along with colleagues at Yale University and Massachusetts General Hospital, found that Cirara, an investigational drug, powerfully reduced brain swelling and death in patients who had suffered a type of large stroke called malignant infarction, which normally carries a high mortality rate.
Fibroblasts were activated and highly proliferative, reaching a maximum rate within 2 to 4 days after infarction injury, at which point they expanded 3.5-fold and were maintained long term.
One non-Q-wave myocardial infarction occurred, with a nine - month target lesion failure rate of 2.1 %.
Debre» writes, «A rate of high cholesterol is not the cause of myocardial infarction and stroke.»
The primary end point was the rate of major cardiovascular events (myocardial infarction, stroke, or death from cardiovascular causes).
More interestingly, the effects on infarction size, survival rates and cardiac function can be observed even if the dietary intervention is induced after the ischemic event, by increasing the expression of angiogenic factors and increased vascularization of the damaged myocardium, proposing a novel non-pharmacological therapy for subjects with chronic heart failure (43).
Life Extension's 81 mg Low Dose Aspirin significantly reduces various cardiovascular events such as myocardial infarction, stroke, and overall mortality rate.
Participation in any strength training was associated with a 30 % rate reduction of type 2 diabetes (HR = 0.70, 95 % CI = 0.61 — 0.80, P < 0.001) compared with no participation, adjusting for time spent in lower - intensity and aerobic activities and model 1 covariates (age, smoking status, alcohol consumption, vegetable and fruit intake, saturated fat intake, total caloric intake, parental history of myocardial infarction, postmenopausal status, hormone therapy, and randomization arm during the trial period).
Finally, sensitivity analyses were performed by excluding individuals who might have made dietary adjustments and / or lifestyle changes because of chronic disease at baseline (i.e., hypertension, hyperlipidemia, myocardial infarction, and / or stroke) and by excluding misreports of energy according to Goldberg criterion categories, defined as «under - reporters» with a ratio of energy intake to basal metabolic rate < 1.14 and «over-reporters» with a ratio of > 2.1 (29).