Sentences with phrase «infarction risk»
With this study cerebral infarction risk was reduced but other forms of stroke were not.
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In March, the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) adopted a positive opinion to include a new indication for adults with established atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (myocardial infarction, stroke or peripheral arterial disease) to reduce cardiovascular risk by lowering LDL - C levels.
Cornelis MC, El - Sohemy A, Campos H. GSTT1 genotype modifies the association between cruciferous vegetable intake and the risk of myocardial infarction.
Too few patients with retinal infarction, or loss of blood flow in the eye, are evaluated for stroke risk or seen by a neurologist, putting them at increased risk for another stroke, according to preliminary research presented at the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference 2018, a world premier meeting dedicated to the science and treatment of cerebrovascular disease for researchers and clinicians.
The association between the two conditions remained significant even when researchers adjusted for other risk factors, including age, gender, race, body mass index, physical activity, history of alcohol use and smoking, and history of other conditions like myocardial infarction, stroke and diabetes mellitus.
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.
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.
More than five missing teeth increased the risk for coronary heart disease events and myocardial infarctions as much as 140 %.
Many patients face delayed diagnosis and treatment, meaning the disease progresses and causes further ill health and risk of complications, for example myocardial infarction, blindness, and stroke, which are difficult and expensive to treat.
«In conclusion, the study by Carrero et al in this issue of JAMA provides the best evidence to date that vitamin K antagonists [anticoagulants] are associated with improved clinical outcomes and no significant increased risk of bleeding in patients with myocardial infarction and atrial fibrillation with advanced CKD.»
Some examples of the scholars» projects are: effects of estrogen on cardiac fibrosis after myocardial infarction, depression and the growth - hormone axis, substance abuse, stress and nicotine, cardiovascular risk in spinal cord injury, and pharmacogenomics and the treatment of breast cancer in elderly women.
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.
Dr. Ray said it's also thought that CP and stillbirths share many common risk factors, including placental vascular disease in the mother — such things as preeclampsia, gestational hypertension, placental abruption and placental infarction.
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.
For example aspirin reduces the risk of stroke but does not affect the occurrence of myocardial infarction in women, while in men aspirin reduces the risk of myocardial infarction with a non-significant increase in the risk of stroke.
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.
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.
Second - hand smoke increases the risk of coronary artery disease and acute myocardial infarction.
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.
People who survive a stroke or a mini-stroke without early complications have an increased risk of death, another stroke or heart attack (myocardial infarction) for at least 5 years following the initial stroke, found a new study published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal)
Obesity in humans is an independent risk factor for myocardial infarction, stroke, type 2 diabetes mellitus, and certain cancers (7 — 9).
Analysis of a linkage peak on chromosome 13 with a dense set of SNPs (single nucleotide polymorphisms) revealed a four - SNP haplotype spanning the gene encoding FLAP (ALOX5AP) that confers an approximately twofold increased risk of myocardial infarction, or heart attack.
The paper, entitled «The gene encoding 5 - lipoxygenase activating protein confers risk of myocardial infarction and stroke,» presents the results of a major population study of heart attack linking a version of the gene encoding FLAP with a nearly twofold increased risk of heart attack.
Initially applied to polygenic myocardial infarction and coronary heart disease risks, the methodology can now be applied to a range of high - impact disorders such as schizophrenia, Type 2 diabetes, autism, and cancer.
In addition, a recent metaanalysis showed that the relative risk of myocardial infarction (MI), an important and frequent complication in diabetic subjects, conferred by smoking appears to be 25 % higher in women than in men (138).
Because high body iron stores have been suggested as a risk factor for acute myocardial infarction, donation of blood could theoretically reduce the risk by lowering body iron stores.
For this reason, the authors tested the hypothesis that voluntary blood donation is associated with reduced risk of acute myocardial infarction in a prospective epidemiologic follow - up study in men from eastern Finland.
In a Cox proportional hazards model adjusting for age, examination years and all other predictive coronary disease risk factors, blood donors had a 88 % reduced risk (relative hazard = 0.12, 95 % confidence interval 0.02 - 0.86, p = 0.035) of acute myocardial infarction, compared with non-blood donors.
Although medical and surgical treatments available today for the ischemic heart disease patients diminish the risk of acute myocardial infarction and reduce to some extent the incidence of recurrent heart attack, one of the unsolved challenges is to affect myocardium remodeling occurring during ischemic heart failure.
These findings suggest that frequent blood loss through voluntary blood donations may be associated with a reduced risk of acute myocardial infarction in middle - aged men.
In addition, women have greater increases of cardiovascular risk, myocardial infarction, and stroke mortality than men, compared with nondiabetic subjects.
A Common variant on chromosome 9p21 affects the risk of myocardial infarction.
In 2009, a Nature Genetics study spearheaded by the Myocardial Infarction Genetics Consortium detected a common DNA alteration among individuals who had a higher risk for suffering heart attacks.
Long - term use of proton pump inhibitors, dose — response relationship, and associated risk of ischemic stroke and myocardial infarction.
Scientists at deCODE genetics (Nasdaq: DCGN) and academic colleagues from the United States today report the discovery of a common genetic variant that confers increased risk of myocardial infarction (MI), or heart attack.
deCODE genetics (Nasdaq: DCGN) today announced the launch of deCODE MI ™, a reference laboratory test for variations in the genome (called SNPs) that the company has associated with increased risk of myocardial infarction, or heart attack.
A Common Variant on Chromosome 9p21 Affects the Risk of Myocardial Infarction.
Effects of a 5 - Lipoxygenase - Activating Protein Inhibitor on Biomarkers Associated With Risk of Myocardial Infarction JAMA — Vol.
Are sleep complaints an independent risk factor for myocardial infarction?
[10] Moreover, patients had a significantly elevated relative risk of mortality from myocardial infarction, ranging between 7.3 and 8.1, depending on the length of time since radiation exposure.
Here we sequence the protein - coding regions of 10,503 adult participants in the Pakistan Risk of Myocardial Infarction Study (PROMIS), designed to understand the determinants of cardiometabolic diseases in individuals from South Asia.
Methods: In this mendelian randomisation study, we measured lipoprotein (a) concentration and determined apolipoprotein (a) isoform size with a genetic method (kringle IV type 2 [KIV2] repeats in the LPA gene) and a serum - based electrophoretic assay in patients and controls (frequency matched for age and sex) from the Pakistan Risk of Myocardial Infarction Study (PROMIS).
Objectives: The study goal was to leverage 3 distinct lines of evidence - a family that included individuals with complete (compound heterozygote) ANGPTL3 deficiency, a population based - study of humans with partial (heterozygote) ANGPTL3 deficiency, and biomarker levels in patients with myocardial infarction (MI)- to test whether ANGPTL3 deficiency is associated with lower risk for CAD.
In 1996, Stephens published his study in Lancet which showed that tocopherol (vitamin E) given to patients with advanced coronary artery disease reduced the risk of non-fatal Myocardial Infarction (MI) by 77 %, (but did not decrease total mortality in this study).
After making adjustments for lifestyle, dietary and clinical factors, results revealed that trans fat intake was linked to a greater risk of lacunar infarction.
Effect of calcium supplements on risk of myocardial infarction and cardiovascular events: meta - analysis.