Sentences with phrase «less heart damage»

Although the study found an association between having sleep apnea and experiencing less heart damage during a nonfatal attack, it did not prove a cause - and - effect relationship.

WEDNESDAY, Oct. 24 (HealthDay News)-- In a surprising finding, people with sleep apnea appear to suffer less heart damage during a nonfatal heart attack than those without the condition, researchers report.

Not exact matches

I never lost consciousness, was never short of breath, and suffered less damage to my heart than might have been expected (although I do have some degree of permanent damage.)

Two weeks later, the extent of the damage was much less in mice that were injected with the microRNAs, and the strength of contraction and other measures of heart performance were better preserved.

Now, with new kinds of technologies that are coming up, new types of tissue engineering and, you know, some of the hopes that people have for stem cells and [the] like, it may be interesting to see if there are other ways, alternatives to dealing with really badly damaged hearts that would involve growing a new heart or replacing or repairing the damage d to a badly damaged heart that might make artificial hearts less important in the somewhat more distant future.

For example, a diseased heart after a heart attack exhibits a less pronounced left ventricular twist due to local damage that extends through the heart wall.

NSTEMI (non-ST segment elevation myocardial infarction) is the less severe type, occurring when a blood clot partly clogs a coronary artery and only a portion of the heart muscle supplied by that artery is damaged.

Researchers found that there was less damage to the heart if its blood supply was briefly lowered beforehand.

According to Steven Tsui, who is director of mechanical assist heart services at Papworth Hospital in Cambridge, and will run the UK trials, the VentrAssist is less likely to damage red blood cells because it moves the blood more slowly with a bigger impeller.

This implies that the dystrophin breakdown damaged the cell membranes, says Knowlton; this weakening of cell membranes allows the virus to spread, but damages the heart, because it makes the cells less resilient and less able to contract efficiently.

At the same time, when mice that lacked the RGS6 protein were treated chronically with alcohol, they experienced less damage to heart and liver as well as the lining of the gut compared to mice with the protein.

This resulted in less self - digestion and damage to the intestine, heart and lungs.

But the damage caused by a heart attack can result in heart failure — and patients diagnosed with heart failure have an average life expectancy of less than five years, according to Dr. Chuck Murry, director of the Center for Cardiovascular Biology at the University of Washington in Seattle.

«Sleep apnea may potentially result in more frequent, but less damaging, heart attacks,» he said.

Thanks to new technological advances, the test is now widely used to diagnose numerous cardiovascular conditions, including congestive heart failure, coronary heart disease, and the extent of heart muscle damage caused by heart attacks (some of which may go unrecognized with less sensitive technology).

While less serious than reducing your chances of getting lung cancer or heart disease, smoking also damages your looks.

«If you have too much sodium and too little potassium, it's worse than either one on its own,» said Dr. Thomas Farley, New York City's health commissioner, who has led efforts to get the public to eat less salt... «Potassium may neutralize the heart - damaging effects of salt,» said Dr. Elena Kuklina, one of the study's authors at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention... The research found people who eat a lot of salt and very little potassium were more than twice as likely to die from a heart attack as those who ate about equal amounts of both nutrients.

Less free radical damage means a decreased risk of heart disease, Alzheimer's, diabetes and cancer.

Not to mention having a lot more free time, less pain and, quicker recovery, and no long term scarring / damage to the heart.

I also hike a bit and do the occasional 5 - 10 mile run (used to be a cross-country runner — now I err on the side of less is more considering emerging evidence on endurance training and heart damage).

Our meal plans provide less than 7 percent of total calories from cholesterol - raising saturated fat and are free from heart - damaging artificial trans fats and partially hydrogenated oils.

Also, the damaged heart will have much less work to do, so the dog may be able to function pretty well when the worms are gone.

Hypertension (high blood pressure) is another potential complication of hyperthyroidism, although seen less commonly, and this can cause damage to several organs including the eyes, kidneys, heart and brain.

If it has been less than four hours, there is a chance to stop any damage from being done to your dog's central nervous system, heart, liver, kidneys, and brain.