Sentences with phrase «large heart and lungs»

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Johnson & Johnson has been jockeying to snap up Actelion, Europe's largest biotech and a maker of drugs for the deadly heart and lung condition pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH).

The study, «Prevalence of hypertension, awareness, treatment and control in the Hispanic Community,» led by Dr. Paul D. Sorlie of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), sampled 16,400 individuals, making it one of the largest and most rigorous health studies of the Hispanic community.

By cutting the budget of the famed Framingham Heart Study and suspending clinical exams its participants receive, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute may be signaling that the era of such large, costly long - term studies is drawing to a close.

Similar cohort studies sponsored by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute are confronting a similar fate and some observers suggest that the era of such large, costly long - termstudies is drawing to a close.

A new, 15 - year - long study, published online yesterday in PLoS Medicine, followed 6,441 men and women — both with and without the condition — in the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute's large Sleep Heart Health Study to see if there was any correlation between apnea and a higher risk of death.

For example, the ratio of the engine to aircraft size is analogous to the ratio of a large animal's total body size to its heart, lungs and muscles.»

The large carbon polluters have taken the playbook written by the tobacco industry, which responded to the scientific consensus linking cigarettes and lung and heart diseases by hiring actors, dressing them up as doctors and putting them in front of cameras to falsely reassure people that there were no consequences to smoking cigarettes.

When the team checked the DNA of a larger group of nearly 111,000 people, they found that about one in 200 carried one of the four APOC3 variants, reported Jacy Crosby of the University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, who represented a large consortium called the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Exome Sequencing Project.

RA can also affect larger joints, the skin, lungs, kidneys and the heart and blood vessels, among other parts of the body.

The NOURISH study * — one of the largest clinical nutrition studies of its kind — found that older adults hospitalized for a heart or lung condition who received a complete and balanced nutrition Ensure ® supplement, which had 20 grams protein, and HMB, or beta - hydroxy - beta - methylbutyrate, an ingredient that supports muscle health, twice a day for 90 days post discharge saw improvements in hand grip strength.

Excess consumption of polyunsaturated oils has been shown to contribute to a large number of disease conditions including increased cancer and heart disease; immune system dysfunction; damage to the liver, reproductive organs and lungs; digestive disorders; depressed learning ability; impaired growth; and weight gain.31

An additional portion is broken down for energy to fuel internal movements such as our heart beating and our lungs breathing, and to fuel the large movements that we think of as our physical activity.

Tennis not only burns a large amount of calories, it also greatly improves heart and lung function.

The skin is our body's largest organ, and thrives off the nutrients in our blood, much as the heart and lungs do.

The reason drugs and surgery has become the 6th largest killer next to breast and lung cancer and heart disease is that these therapies while generally effective, are extremely powerful with significant side effects.

Heartworm larvae mature in the pet's body and migrate to the right side of the heart and the large vessels of the lungs.

A radiograph of a dog with heartworms will usually show heart enlargement and swelling of the large artery leading to the lungs from the heart.

The presence of the parasites inside the heart and lungs causes a large degree of inflammation, and can severely interfere with blood flow.

He is lean, with a narrow body and a deep chest with room for the large lungs and big heart.

The immature worms migrate and mature in the dog and eventually become adult heartworms in the large blood vessels in the lungs or the right side of the heart.

The upper chambers of the heart, known as the right and left atria, receive blood in large vessels coming from the body and lungs.

As these worms increase in number and grow larger they soon begin to cause severe damage to the dog's heart, lungs and other major organs.

Most seriously, she has a large mass in one lung and a second, smaller mass in her other lung, along with a grade 5 (out of 6) heart murmur.

But what is worse is that the right side of the heart and pulmonary artery (pulmonary trunk) were not designed to handle the high - pressure blood arriving through the PDA from the infant's aorta, nor was the left side of the heart designed to accept the larger - than - normal volume of blood now coming back from the lungs.

The larvae then develop further, finally migrating to the heart and lungs where they become the large adults.

If unchecked by heartworm preventative, the larvae mature in the large blood vessels of the heart and lungs, leading to severe heart and lung compromise.

Radiographs (X-rays): A radiograph of a dog with heartworms will usually show heart enlargement and swelling of the large artery connecting to the lungs.

Although less common, a large number of heartworms can lead to a sudden obstruction of blood flow through the heart and lungs.

Heartworms spend their adult lives in the right side of the heart and the large blood vessels that connect the heart to the lungs.

Coal - fired power plants are the largest unregulated source of mercury, a potent neurotoxin, in the U.S.. They're also the major source of sulfur dioxide emissions in the U.S. which causes acid rain, haze in National Parks and Wilderness areas, and fine particulate matter which contributes to lung cancer, heart attacks, and even premature death.

Part of this clot can easily detach and flow with the blood stream up the inferior vena cava, through the right side of the heart and into the pulmonary artery causing a PE which, if large enough, may obstruct the circulation to the lung and strain the heart, causing almost instant death.

In many cases, small atrial septal defects will often «close» on their own during infancy or early childhood, however larger ADS's or long lasting ADS's can go on to damage ones» heart and lungs.

«One way to keep calories in check is to keep food portions no larger than the size of your fist,» Elizabeth G. Nabel, director of NIH's National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, writes.