Sentences with phrase «patients die of heart disease»

However, even with very low viral loads, approximately 20 percent of HIV - positive patients die of heart disease, and studies have shown that treatment with cART is associated with a higher risk of heart attack.

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«Sepsis is the leading cause of death in intensive care units in the United States, and patients with the diagnosis of sepsis have a minimum of a 30 percent chance of dying of their disease; if their vital organ systems — brain, heart, lungs, liver, kidneys — are affected, they have a 70 percent chance of dying.

Compared to married heart disease patients, being unmarried was associated with a higher risk of dying, according to new research in Journal of the American Heart Association, the Open Access Journal of the American Heart Association / American Stroke Associaheart disease patients, being unmarried was associated with a higher risk of dying, according to new research in Journal of the American Heart Association, the Open Access Journal of the American Heart Association / American Stroke AssociaHeart Association, the Open Access Journal of the American Heart Association / American Stroke AssociaHeart Association / American Stroke Association.

Professor Patrizio Lancellotti, chair of the ESC EACVI / HFA Cardiac Oncology Toxicity Registry, said: «Patients with some forms of breast cancer are at greater risk of dying from heart disease than from cancer.

Cardiovascular disease in these young patients develops as vulnerable cells lining the interior of major arteries (vessels that carry blood away from the heart) accumulate the toxic protein and die.

New research shows patients with a history of chest discomfort due to coronary artery disease — a build up of plaque in the heart's arteries — who are subsequently diagnosed with depression are much more likely to suffer a heart attack or die compared with those who are not depressed.

At the other end of the spectrum, heart patients who consumed very little sodium were also more likely than those with average intake to die of heart disease or be hospitalized for heart failure.

One study found that heart disease patients who exercised and had positive attitudes were 42 percent less likely to die of all causes during a five - year follow - up period, compared to patients who were negative and didn't exercise.

Also, in those patients with atherosclerotic plaque who died of heart disease, no... Read more»

Rarely, patients with advanced disease may die suddenly from rupture of a severely enlarged heart chamber or tearing of the supporting structures of the valve.

Previous studies have found hormone therapy given to prostate cancer patients with a history of heart disease increases their chances of dying.

Prostate cancer patients had a 28 percent higher relative chance of having a fatal heart attack and a 21 percent increased chance of dying from heart disease.