Sentences with word «ischaemic»

«Furthermore, risk of ischaemic heart disease can be reduced substantially by other lifestyle changes, as well as by drugs such as statins shown to be effective in primary prevention.»

The two major types of stroke include ischaemic stroke caused by blood clots, which accounts for 85 % of strokes, and haemorrhagic stroke or bleeding into the brain, which accounts for 15 % of strokes.

The results for breast cancer are in line with previous research, but the true effect of alcohol on risk of ischaemic heart disease remains uncertain, say the editorial authors.

The effects of sauna bathing on the risk of Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia were studied in the Kuopio Ischaemic Heart Disease Risk Factor Study (KIHD), involving more than 2,000 middle - aged men living in the eastern part of Finland.

An irregular heart rhythm, or atrial fibrillation, was significantly associated with ischaemic stroke in all regions, but was of greater importance in Western Europe, North America and Australia, than in China or South Asia.

In the last few years, several studies have shown that iron deficiency, which affects around two billion people worldwide, may be a risk factor for ischaemic stroke in adults and in children.

Professor of Medical Statistics in Primary Care, Carol Coupland, said: «Our study found no evidence that selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors were associated with an increased risk of arrhythmia, heart attacks, or stroke / transient ischaemic attacks in people with depression over the five - year period.

Aspirin is already given to people who have had a stroke or transient ischaemic attack (TIA — often called a «mini-stroke») to prevent further strokes after they have been assessed in hospital and in the longer - term, reducing the subsequent stroke risk by about 15 %.

Temporal changes in the documentation of neurological findings among patients with acute ischaemic stroke in a single centre in Japan: a retrospective cross-sectional study

Relation of infant feeding to adult serum cholesterol concentration and death from ischaemic heart disease

Cardiac troponins are traditionally used to diagnose acute ischaemic injury and confirm that a patient had a heart attack.

Overall, the research found that the most common type of condition that contributed to brain injuries was damage caused by lack of oxygen to the brain, called hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy; this is seen mainly in full term babies.

Dr Du said: «Our data clearly shows that eating fresh fruit can reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease, including ischaemic heart disease and stroke (particularly haemorrhagic stroke).

In a third study, investigators uncovered the importance of reducing cold ischaemic time for donor organs after circulatory death to preserve the energy status of the organs.

Cold ischaemic time represents the time between the chilling of an organ after its blood supply has been cut off and the time it is warmed by having its blood supply restored.

Even so, a few hospitals in India and China are already using ischaemic conditioning before heart surgery or as a treatment for heart attacks.

This indicates impaired fatty acid metabolism by the heart which could be caused by latent ischaemic heart disease and may lead to fatal cardiac events.»

The effect relies on a phenomenon called ischaemic conditioning, first seen in animal experiments that temporarily cut off the heart's blood supply.

It is worth noting that malaria has dropped off the top 5 list, allowing ischaemic heart disease to move into this list.

Most ischaemic heart disease is caused by atherosclerosis, usually present even when the artery lumens appear normal by angiography.

The pumping defect does not arise in these patients in the same way as in patients whose ischaemic heart failure is caused by dead or scarred areas of muscle.

Previous studies have combined ischaemic and haemorrhagic stroke probably due to the limited number of stroke cases in their datasets.

According to Kennedy Lees, study co-author and Professor of Cerebrovascular Medicine at the University of Glasgow, UK, «What this shows is that we are up against the clock when treating ischaemic stroke.

The main cause of reduced cardiac functionality lies in the irreversible loss of cardiac muscle cells due to disease, especially ischaemic diseases such as cardiac infarction.

, Compartmental study of diffusion and relaxation measured in vivo in normal and ischaemic rat brain and trigeminal nerve.

Preconditioning with death ligands FasL and TNF - alpha protects the cirrhotic mouse liver against ischaemic injury.

In transplantation, improved usage of borderline donor organs and of understanding for the causes and potential treatment of ischaemic reperfusion phenomena.

Ischemic colitis (Ischaemic Colitis — British English) is a medical condition in which inflammation and injury of the large intestine result from inadequate blood supply.

Clinical details of all possible ischaemic heart disease events, including electrocardiogram (ECG) and appropriate enzyme levels were evaluated against standard diagnostic criteria, and details of possible stroke symptoms together with computerized tomography (CT) scans were evaluated by two expert observers against standard diagnostic criteria.

Our medical schools should teach students to measure ankle arterial pressure using inexpensive Doppler ultrasound rather than feeling foot pulses and to elevate the red foot (it will turn white if ischaemic).

The Kuopio Ischaemic Heart Disease Risk Factor Study (KIHD) involved 1,621 middle - aged men living in the eastern part of Finland.

Patients were monitored for occurrence of heart attacks, strokes or transient ischaemic attacks, and arrhythmia (an irregular heartbeat), and followed up until 2012.

Major cardiovascular events included cardiovascular death, fatal or non-fatal myocardial infarction, angina, sudden cardiac death, fatal or non-fatal stroke, and transient ischaemic attack.

The findings show just how important it is for people with acute ischaemic stroke (in which blood flow to an area of the brain is blocked or reduced) to be identified quickly and treated by specialist staff in order to reduce the subsequent degree of disability.

Now, researchers at the University Department of Internal Medicine II at the MedUni Vienna (Clinical Department of Cardiology), as part of an international cooperation, have successfully demonstrated the advantages of an implanted defibrillator (ICD) as a means of prevention in patients with moderately restricted cardiac function, and that patients with the condition must be treated as carefully as patients with ischaemic heart failure which has developed following a heart attack, for example.

Dr Hashimoto said: «Hemodialysis patients are at increased risk of sudden cardiac death because they often have latent ischaemic heart disease which reduces blood flow to the heart.

Alcohol related hospitalisation is associated with a doubled risk of ischaemic stroke risk in patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation, according to a study presented at ESC Congress 2016 today by Dr Faris Al - Khalili, cardiologist, Karolinska Institutet, Danderyd Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.

The objective of this study was to assess the incidence and predictors of ischaemic stroke among low risk patients with non-valvular AF.

Dr Du said: «CVD, including ischaemic heart disease (IHD) and stroke, is the leading cause of death worldwide.

«The use of DCD donors over the age of 60 is highly controversial, but we showed that excellent results could be expected if the cold ischaemic time is limited to less than 6 hours,» said Dr Detry.

Such studies suggest that ischaemic conditioning can lower death rates by as much as two - thirds.