Sentences with phrase «of heart attacks»
However, a pre-specified examination of the study's secondary endpoints, which included the rate of heart attacks, revealed that patients who received the methylprednisolone faced a 15 percent greater risk of death or heart attack and a 21 percent greater risk of heart attack alone, a pattern that was consistent across all subgroups.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/
Those with a «slow» metabolizing version who drink a few cups of coffee a day are at a higher risk of heart attacks.
A popular drug for treating type 2 diabetes was suspended in Europe and restricted in the US last week because of fears that it raises the risk of heart attacks and strokes.
Coal plants are one of the largest contributors to atmospheric particulate matter and ozone — which are linked to worsened asthma and increased rates of heart attacks and premature death — as well as greenhouse gases and toxic substances, including mercury.
Patients in the stent group got about 1.5 times the number of heart attacks long - term, compared to the bypass group, but for those patients whose stents successfully opened all of their diseased arteries, there was no significant increase in heart attacks.
Patients were monitored for occurrence of heart attacks, strokes or transient ischaemic attacks, and arrhythmia (an irregular heartbeat), and followed up until 2012.
Absolute risks of heart attacks were six per 10,000 for selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors over one year, and four per 10,000 for fluoxetine compared with 10 per 10,000 for non-use.»
The Mayo task force debunks the concept that all diabetics have the same risk as people with history of heart attacks.
The findings could help prioritize stroke patients at risk of heart attacks for protective therapy.
Individual cities started enforcing smoking bans in restaurants, Willems Van Dijk notes, after studies showed that secondhand smoke increased the number of heart attacks and cases of asthma in nonsmokers.
Further, testosterone users with a higher probability of cardiovascular problems had a lower rate of heart attacks in comparison to equivalent patients who did not receive testosterone therapy.
«Patients and their physicians should discuss the risk of heart attacks when considering testosterone therapy.»
Yoga, an ancient mind - body practice which originated in India and incorporates physical, mental, and spiritual elements, has been shown in several studies to be effective in improving cardiovascular risk factors, with reduction in the risk of heart attacks and strokes.
The scientists estimated, based on earlier studies, that this group should have about a 30 % higher chance of heart attacks.
However, the severity of the heart attacks between the two groups was statistically similar.
The researchers concluded that the RA patients using biologic agents to manage their inflammation had a lower risk of heart attacks than those who used traditional DMARDs.
«Using tumor necrosis factor inhibitors decreases risk of heart attacks in rheumatoid arthritis patients.»
The researchers analyzed data regarding the rate of heart attacks in a total of 14,258 RA patients from 2001 to 2008.
Researchers recently investigated whether or not anti-TNFs, which help to control RA inflammation, would lower the risk and severity of heart attacks in these patients compared to traditional, non-biologic disease - modifying antirheumatic drugs, or DMARDs.
The rate of heart attacks was lower in the biologic group, generating an adjusted hazard ratio of heart attacks of 0.61 in the tumor necrosis factor group compared to the DMARD group.
Better control of inflammation with biologic therapy might reduce not only the rate of heart attacks, but potentially also affect the size of myocardial infarctions.»
«Linkage to a national audit of myocardial infarctions [heart attacks] allowed us to examine not only the rate of heart attacks, but uniquely whether the severity of heart attacks was different following biologic treatment.
Such responses, known as reperfusion injury, contribute to the deadly effects of heart attacks and strokes in humans.
The researchers then reviewed the outcomes and discovered the reduced risk of heart attacks, strokes and death among the group that had filled prescriptions for the blood pressure medications.
Associate Professor Thomas Buckley, study investigator from Sydney Nursing School said: «The incidence of heart attacks is highest during winter in Australia.»
Following additional scrutiny after Vioxx's withdrawal, and the addition of cardiovascular experts to the trial's data safety monitoring board, the DSMB concluded that patients taking a high dose of Celebrex had a 3.4-fold increase in the risk of heart attacks or strokes compared to those on placebo; those on a moderate dose had a 2.5-fold increase in risk.
A targeted anti-inflammatory drug can reduce the risk of heart attacks or strokes, often brought on by narrowed coronary arteries (pictured), in high - risk patients.
A slight daily mean temperature decline can increase the number of heart attacks for up to a month, new research shows
After 4.6 years, no difference was seen between the two groups in their subsequent rate of heart attacks or strokes.
«A rising tide of heart attacks followed Hurricane Katrina.»
In it, critical care specialist Charles Natanson of the Clinical Center at the U.S. National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, argued that blood substitutes, no matter how they're designed, raise the risk of death by almost 30 % and nearly triple the rate of heart attacks in the people who receive them in clinical trials, mainly surgery and trauma patients.
He noted these findings are of greatest concern for people who have obesity and prediabetes or diabetes, since they are already at heightened risk of heart attacks and strokes.
«Eating breakfast is associated with a decreased risk of heart attacks.
In the Nunavik villages in northern Quebec, adults over 40 get almost half their calories from native foods, says Dewailly, and they don't die of heart attacks at nearly the same rates as other Canadians or Americans.
Using drugs to lower systolic blood pressure to less than 120 millimeters of mercury cut people's risk of heart attacks and other cardiovascular woes by 25 percent, researchers report November 9 in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Even demon alcohol, when taken in moderation, cuts the risk of heart attacks, osteoporosis, rheumatoid arthritis and a hodgepodge of other ailments.
The piece based its recommendation on a meta - analysis of 27 clinical trials published in the same issue that concluded statins significantly reduce the risk of heart attacks and other cardiovascular events in healthy people without posing substantial risks.
The new research promises to bring some clarity by modelling the daily intake across the entire English population that would maximise the benefits, in terms of heart attacks avoided, and minimise the downsides, in terms of cirrhosis and cancer.
The premise of beta - blocker therapy has been that giving the heart a rest will diminish the frequency of heart attacks.
One large clinical trial known as JUPITER reported in 2008 that rosuvastatin (Crestor) lowers the risk of heart attacks and other events by 44 percent in healthy subjects but experts have since raised questions about its methodology in part because the trial was stopped early, which might have created the effect of overestimating the drug's benefits.
Nearly a third of heart attacks are initially misdiagnosed in England and Wales.
The Russian alleged financial fraudster and previously a deputy of the State Duma who founded of the МММ series was reported to have died of heart attacks.
Both Keynes and White died of heart attacks within two years of the summit, Keynes through work, travel and stress, White through stress brought on by investigations into his long - term leaking of government documents and information to the Soviet Union.
He had in fact resigned as Prime Minister on 5 April 1908, after suffering a series of heart attacks, but remained in residence until he died on 22 April.
IOW, 84 % of heart attacks are not fatal.
It can also sharply reduce a man's risk of heart attacks or strokes, according to a ten - year study of men in a Welsh village who had sex three - four times weekly.
From 2007/8, there was no superstar, talk less of world class, in the squad, but it was never this bad, even with watching at risk of heart attacks of those days.
The first sign of cardiovascular disease is commonly a heart attack, and sadly, over one - third of heart attacks are fatal.
Discover some of the best natural foods to naturally lower cholesterol and reduce the risk of heart attacks and stroke.
Made with cholesterol - lowering properties, OLEO aims to help reduce the risk of heart attacks and inflammation, and help fortify the body against osteoarthritis and Alzheimer disease (Greece).