Sentences with phrase «patients after a heart attack»

His hope is that additional research would provide more definitive conclusions to help physicians choose the best medications for patients after a heart attack and, ultimately, «to reduce the too - high rate of death and disability for patients after a heart attack,» Bach said.

Complementing the work of my colleagues in the Roddenberry Center for Stem Cell Biology and Medicine at Gladstone, our efforts to learn more about how the heart forms can improve methods for creating heart cells from stem cells, either in a petri dish or inside a patient after a heart attack.

Not exact matches

Patients can use the app to keep track of medication regimens and follow - up appointments, as well as receive guidance with lifestyle changes needed after a heart attack.

Later, at his own practice in the Twin Cities, he began injecting stem cells into patients» hearts to regrow muscle after a heart attack.

ORLANDO, Fla. — The first large study to examine cumulative radiation exposure from medical imaging after a heart attack has found that the average patient receives the equivalent of about 725 chest X-rays before leaving the hospital.

In the days after a heart attack, surviving patients and their loved ones can breathe a sigh of relief that the immediate danger is over — but the scar tissue that forms during the long healing process can inflict lasting damage.

As for COX - 2, in late September, drug giant Merck pulled its COX - 2 inhibitor Vioxx off the market after a study found that patients on Vioxx suffered more heart attacks.

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.

Charging that thousands of patients are being misled and may be unnecessarily placed at increased risk of death, a U.S. watchdog group last week demanded that federal regulators suspend a major clinical trial exploring when to offer blood transfusions after a heart attack.

After a heart attack, cells from the patient's bone marrow can help improve heart function.

The study used clinical measurements for maximum reliability in identifying heart attacks, because symptoms are masked by pain - killing drugs in more than 50 percent of patients who have heart attacks after surgery.

On the other hand, because treatment has improved, more patients are alive after a heart attack to subsequently get heart failure.»

The clear result of this clinical study — that the combination reduced strokes, heart attacks and cardiovascular death by practically 25 per cent compared to either drug alone in both patients with stable coronary or peripheral artery disease — caused the clinical trial to be stopped early, after 23 months, in February 2017.

Since then, other researchers have made headlines after reporting the genetic fingerprints of C. pneumonia, as well as several kinds of common mouth bacteria, in the arterial plaque of heart attack patients.

In the past few years alone, researchers have had to backtrack on the health benefits of low - fat, high - fiber diets and the value and safety of hormone replacement therapy as well as the arthritis drug Vioxx, which was pulled from the market after being found to cause heart attacks and strokes in high - risk patients.

We put patients on Heparin, a blood - thinning medication, after a heart attack.

After adjusting for baseline characteristics the researchers found that the rates of stroke and subsequent heart attacks were similar between the two groups, but patients prescribed antidepressants had significantly worse survival.

She concluded: «Our study showed that many patients are treated with antidepressants after a heart attack.

In addition, when patients are started on conservative, low doses in the hospital after a heart attack, they return home so quickly, there is little time to adjust the dosage, Goldberger said.

Overall, the percentage of heart attack patients who survive the first six months after their attack has gone up since 1999 — from 73 percent to 78.5 percent.

The observational study of nearly 9,000 patients found that those prescribed antidepressants at discharge from hospital after a heart attack had a 66 % greater risk of mortality one year later than patients not prescribed the drugs, although they noted the cause is not necessarily related directly to the antidepressants.

In this new study, they looked at cancer risk in patients who developed heart failure after their first heart attack.

OBTAIN (Outcomes of Beta - Blocker Therapy After Myocardial Infarction) is an observational multicenter registry in which beta - blocker dosing information was collected in patients with an acute heart attack at participating centers to assess the effect of dose on survival.

After a heart attack, healthcare providers routinely focus on preventing complications, such as recurrent heart attacks, heart failure and whether a patient returns to work.

Despite a high number of heart attack patients returning to their jobs shortly after the event, the new findings reveal a surprisingly high degree of unemployment within a year after a heart attack patient returns to work.

Researchers chose to compare those with and without heart failure after heart attack because these patient groups have a lot in common, including atherosclerosis, risk factors, treatments received and follow - up routines.

Patients who developed heart failure after heart attack were prescribed the same medications at discharge as those who were not, so researchers concluded treatment for heart attack was not likely responsible for the higher rate of cancer in heart failure pPatients who developed heart failure after heart attack were prescribed the same medications at discharge as those who were not, so researchers concluded treatment for heart attack was not likely responsible for the higher rate of cancer in heart failure patientspatients.

«Low dose beta - blockers as effective as high dose after a heart attack: Surprisingly, heart attack patients live as long — or even longer — on one - fourth the suggested dose.»

Hospitals that focused on getting heart attack patients diagnosed and onto the angioplasty table within the first 24 hours after their first symptoms achieved the biggest gains in survival.

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.

After 50 years of being a mainstay cholesterol therapy, niacin should no longer be prescribed for most patients due to potential increased risk of death, dangerous side effects and no benefit in reducing heart attacks and strokes, writes Northwestern Medicine ® preventive cardiologist Donald Lloyd - Jones, M.D., in a New England Journal of Medicine editorial.

Functional IMR affects 1.6 million to 2.8 million patients in the U.S. and is associated with a doubling in mortality among patients with mild or greater degrees of mitral regurgitation after a heart attack.

Clinicians should be aware of this and also consider that patients who arrive in the emergency department with signs of heart attacks, such as chest pain and breathlessness, but after a happy event or emotion, could be suffering from TTS just as much as a similar patient presenting after a negative emotional event.

After an average follow - up time of 43 months, 105 patients or 17 percent in the DEFER group and 109 or 18 percent in the standard treatment group met the primary endpoint, a composite of death from any cause, hospitalization for heart failure, a second heart attack, and unplanned repeat angioplasty, a nonsignificant difference.

Sex is rarely the cause of a heart attack, and most heart disease patients are safe to resume sexual activity after a heart attack, according to a research letter published today in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

After a heart attack, standard practice calls for putting patients on a lifetime regimen of daily aspirin to prevent clotting and reduce the chance of another heart attack.

«Sex does not increase heart attack risk, study suggests: Patients should be encouraged to resume sexual activity after heart attack.»

After a heart attack or stroke, patients are often given a drug called heparin to prevent blood clots.

For example, it may be possible to initiate tissue regeneration after heart attacks without having a patient undergo difficult, invasive surgery, but a great deal of additional research is required.

The clinical trial differs from the pig trial in that it is testing whether ultrasound / microbubbles alone administered to heart attack patients both before and after balloon angioplasty and stenting results in better patient outcomes compared with balloon angioplasty and stenting alone.

But it has not been clear until now that the effects of these particular gene variations can vary by race in patients taking clopidogrel after a heart attack.

Eight of Strober's 12 trial patients have now been free of immunosuppressive treatment for up to three years, although one died after three years from a heart attack unrelated to the treatment.

In turn, the injury in the heart muscle after a heart attack develops a progressive signal that triggers structural pathology and complications in the kidneys, which can affect survival in heart attack patients.

The percutaneous heart pump (PHP) developed at Penn State, shown here with a model of the left ventricle of a human heart, can keep a patient's blood flowing smoothly after a heart attack.

The scientists are urging doctors to provide intensive support to female heart attack patients, above all in the first 365 days after the event.

In any case, he says, the spotlight now shifts to the doctors of women recovering from heart attacks: «Our study shows that it is important to pay close attention to female patients especially in the first year after the event.»

«Anxiety as a protective factor after a heart attack: Female patients with anxiety disorder react more quickly to a heart attack.»

The time difference between female heart attack patients with and without anxiety disorder was particularly marked: on average, the former reached a hospital 112 minutes after the onset of a heart attack, while their counterparts without anxiety disorder took around two hours longer.

A study published this month using the same group of patients found that the risk of dying in the month after a heart attack was 14 percent in the under -6-METs group but only 6 percent in the over-12-METs group.

Through the UCSD Clinical Cardiovascular Cell Therapy program, Dib and collaborating cardiology faculty plan to conduct clinical studies in a number of areas, including the effectiveness of adult stem cell transplant as a treatment for congestive heart failure; as a way to minimize heart damage after a heart attack; and in the formation of new blood vessels (angiogenesis) to increase blood flow to the heart for patients experiencing chest pain.