Sentences with phrase «nonfatal heart»

Dr Dariush Mozaffarian (Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA), who was also not involved with the study, said that heart - disease death, rather than nonfatal heart disease or total cardiovascular disease, is the clinical end point most likely influenced by fish oil.

During that time, 4.1 % and 2.6 % of the people taking Meridia had a nonfatal heart attack or stroke, respectively, compared to 3.2 % and 1.9 % of the people taking a placebo pill.

The study found no significant difference between drug - eluting or bare - metal stents in either total patient deaths, nonfatal heart attacks, angina or even patient quality of life.

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.

But the data also reveal aspirin use may increase the risk of nonfatal heart attack or stroke, a somewhat contradictory finding that surprised researchers.

«Aspirin lowers risk of early death for patients with diabetes, heart failure: Paradoxically, aspirin also associated with increased risk of nonfatal heart attack, stroke.»

«We were surprised to see a paradoxical increase in nonfatal heart attacks and nonfatal stroke, parallel to the decrease in mortality,» said Charbel Abi Khalil, MD, PhD, assistant professor of medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine - Qatar and the study's lead author.

The condition called heart failure can develop after a nonfatal heart attack kills portions of the organ's muscle.

All - cause mortality, hospitalization for heart failure, major bleeding events and nonfatal heart attack or stroke were tracked separately as secondary outcomes.

The researchers studied 65,893 women, looking for a link between exposure to fine particulates and death from heart attack or stroke, or even nonfatal heart attacks or the need for artery - clearing procedures.

Even considering the seriousness of nonfatal heart disease, the ultimate test is not whether statins keep a person from an angioplasty or even heart attack, but whether the drugs save lives.

Two other multi-national trials randomized 27,438 patients to either bococizumab or placebo and were designed to evaluate the impact of the drug on cardiovascular outcomes, including nonfatal heart attack and stroke, hospitalization for unstable angina requiring urgent revascularization, or cardiovascular death.

Not exact matches

Study findings indicate that among older adults who had diabetes for a shorter duration (9 years or less), nonfatal cardiovascular complications had the highest incidence (coronary artery disease, congestive heart failure, and cerebrovascular disease), followed by diabetic eye disease and acute hypoglycemic events.

At least 21 and 37, respectively, have developed nonfatal inflammation of the heart, called myopericarditis; three other vaccine recipients suffered fatal heart attacks, which have not been definitively tied to vaccines.

The researchers recruited 5,380 patients with type 2 diabetes after the patient had a major but nonfatal acute coronary syndrome such as a heart attack, or hospitalization for unstable angina.

The Framingham score, she notes, determines how likely a person is to suffer fatal or nonfatal coronary heart disease within 10 years and calculates risk based on a summary score of such factors as age, sex, cholesterol levels, blood pressure, diabetes and smoking.

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.

A team of German researchers systematically reviewed all of the published yoga research up until October 2013 to ascertain yoga's effectiveness in reducing «mortality, nonfatal cardiac events, exercise capacity, health - related quality of life, and modifiable cardiac risk factors» for those with a prior diagnosis of coronary artery disease, heart failure, cardiac dysrhythmia, cardiomyopathy or valvular heart disease.

During the 10 year follow up, the study documented 761 cases of coronary heart disease, 208 of which were fatal and 553 nonfatal, and dietary glycemic load was directly associated with risk of cardiovascular heart disease even when adjustments for smoking status, age, and total caloric intake and other risk factors for heart disease were accounted for.

After 6 y of follow - up, there were no differences between the groups in incidence of fatal and nonfatal coronary heart disease (CHD) and total CVD, including stroke.