Sentences with phrase «ischemic events»

In rats, protection against ischemic injury and improved survival has been demonstrated in both myocardial and cerebral ischemic events.

Although it was believed estrogen conferred cardiac protection and reduced the incidence of myocardial ischemic events and cerebrovascular accidents, the more recent literature indicates that this is not true and that HRT users have a higher risk of cardiac and cerebral events.»

Second, rates of ischemic events were decreased among patients who restarted OAC without increased rates of bleeding complications,» the authors write.

The dysfunction of endothelium is a common denominator of several cardiovascular diseases, particularly those associated with ischemic events.

Use of the novel anticoagulant otamixaban did not reduce ischemic events compared with unfractionated heparin plus eptifibatide but increased bleeding among patients with non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes undergoing a percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI; procedures such as balloon angioplasty or stent placement used to open narrowed coronary arteries), according to a study published by JAMA.

«Otamixaban did not reduce ischemic events compared with UFH plus eptifibatide but increased bleeding among patients with NSTE - ACS and a planned invasive strategy.

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).

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The team identified more than one million stroke events from 1988 to 2008, of which 87.3 % were ischemic and 12.7 % hemorrhagic strokes.

In women who had an ischemic stroke, the risk of cerebral events was 11.1 per 1,000 person - years and the risk of cardiac events was 2.7 per 1,000 person - years.

When both fatal and nonfatal cardiovascular events were counted, the incidence rate was highest in women who had an ischemic stroke (14.1 per 1,000 person - years) compared with the control group.

The Chinese trial, called CHANCE (Clopidogrel in High - risk Patients with Acute Non-disabling Cerebrovascular Events), is nearly identical to a National Institutes of Health - sponsored trial that is already enrolling patients in the United States, including at UCSF, called POINT (Platelet - Oriented Inhibition in New TIA and Minor Ischemic Stroke).

The trial involved 5,170 people who were hospitalized after suffering minor ischemic strokes or stroke - like events known as transient ischemic attacks, or TIAs, in which blood flow to the brain is briefly blocked.

This included ischemic stroke, in which blood clots block the extra - or intracranial vessels and which accounts for 80 - 90 % of all stroke; hemorrhagic stroke, or rupture of intracranial vessels; and generally less serious clotting events known as transient ischemic attacks.

These changes are very concerning as they show that a transient ischemic attack is likely not a transient event.