Sentences with phrase «percent of heart failure»

However, despite widespread use of these therapies, a staggering 40 percent of heart failure patients will die within 5 years of diagnosis.

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In fact, the link was so strong that for every additional cup of coffee people drank, their risk of suffering heart failure or stroke went down 8 percent, compared to non-coffee drinkers.

The number of patients treated with nitroglycerin, a drug used for chest pain and heart failure, increased by 89 percent.

«After adjusting for confounding factors, they found that men who consumed a daily bowl of whole grain (but not refined) cereal had a 29 percent lower risk of heart failure.»

It was ruled that Woolmer was strangled, but last week a spokesman for the Jamaica Constabulary Force said police are «99 percent sure» Woolmer died of heart failure.

At the end of the study, 206 out of 1722 patients on spironolactone (12 percent) had been hospitalized for heart failure, compared to 245 of 1723 patients (14 percent) given placebo.

During the follow - up period, 21,157 heart failure events occurred, representing 18.7 percent of the people studied.

In other words, a drop of 10 °C in the average temperature over seven days, which is common in several countries because of seasonal variations, is associated with an increased risk in being hospitalized or dying of heart failure of about 7 percent in people aged over 65 diagnosed with the disease..

During an average follow - up of 13.1 years, 5.2 percent of women were hospitalized for heart failure.

Overall, patients with heart failure have a 50 percent chance of survival in five years.

A weakening of the heart muscle that prevents the organ's efficient operation, heart failure affects around 5.7 million adults in the U.S., and about 40 percent of those hospitalized for heart failure exacerbation are obese, the authors note.

Using the scale as a benchmark, patients without a history of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, congestive heart failure, coronary artery disease, or cirrhosis have only a 3.1 percent probability of developing late, serious complications following joint replacement surgery.

After an average of 4.9 years of follow up, 228 patients, or 21 percent, were diagnosed with heart failure and 28 of those patients, or 12.3 percent, developed cancer.

These findings also support the earlier study that showed a 70 percent increased risk of cancer among heart failure patients.

In comparison, 8.2 percent of patients without heart failure were diagnosed with cancer.

This group of researchers previously looked at increased risk of cancer among heart failure patients and showed a 70 percent increase in risk.

Iron deficiency is present in approximately 50 percent of patients with heart failure with reduced left ventricular ejection fraction (HFrEF; ejection fraction: a measure of how well the left ventricle of the heart pumps with each contraction) and is associated with reduced functional capacity, poorer quality of life, and increased mortality.

Perhaps even more troubling, the researchers noted, is that nearly 30 percent of those admitted to the hospital with heart failure, AMI or pneumonia were diagnosed in the previous year as having a mental health condition.

People with type 2 diabetes admitted to the hospital for heart failure faced a 24 to 28 percent chance of death during the remainder of the trial, on aloglipin or placebo respectively.

Outside of work, men who spent five or more hours a day sitting were 34 percent more likely to develop heart failure than men who spent no more than two hours a day sitting, regardless of how much they exercised.

Looking at the components of the primary outcome separately, only hospitalizations, specifically for heart failure, had a significantly lower incidence for those taking spironolactone compared to placebo, with 206 patients (12.0 percent) in the spironolactone group undergoing hospitalization versus 245 patients (14.2 percent) in the placebo group.

«There currently are no existing therapies to address the prognoses of the approximately 40 percent of patients with heart failure and a preserved ejection fraction,» said Eldrin Lewis, MD, advanced heart failure specialist, Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, study co-author.

Participants with symptomatic heart failure and a left ventricular ejection fraction of 45 percent or more (normal or near normal contractions) were randomized to receive either spironolactone (15 to 45 milligrams daily) or matching placebo, and were followed for an average of nearly 3.3 years.

We get heavily hyped drugs like Avastin, which shrank tumors without adding significant time to cancer patients» lives (and increased the incidence of heart failure and blood clots to boot); Avandia, which lowered blood sugar in diabetics but raised the average risk of heart attack by 43 percent; torcetrapib, which raised both good cholesterol and death rates; and Flurizan, which reduced brain plaque but failed to slow the cognitive ravages of Alzheimer's disease before trials were finally halted in 2008.

It is difficult to diagnose and, without treatment, 25 percent of children with KD develop coronary artery aneurysms — balloon - like bulges of heart vessels — that may eventually result in heart attacks, congestive heart failure or sudden death.

Researchers assigned each type of physical activity an intensity score and determined walking or bicycling just 20 minutes per day was associated with a 21 percent lower risk of heart failure and accounted for the largest difference in heart failure free survival.

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.

According to a recent study of Framingham Study participants, nearly 60 percent of people have prevalent preclinical heart failure (HF) stages A and B. Heart failure occurs when the heart muscle is weakened and can not pump enough blood to meet the body's needs for blood and oxheart failure (HF) stages A and B. Heart failure occurs when the heart muscle is weakened and can not pump enough blood to meet the body's needs for blood and oxHeart failure occurs when the heart muscle is weakened and can not pump enough blood to meet the body's needs for blood and oxheart muscle is weakened and can not pump enough blood to meet the body's needs for blood and oxygen.

«Up to 40 percent of Americans take aspirin, and in heart failure patients, this number may be even higher,» says co-author Susan Graham, a cardiologist and professor of Medicine at the University of Buffalo.

An analysis of the clinical trials suggests that ACEIs reduce the risk of death from all causes by 13 percent, cut the risk CV deaths by 17 percent and lower the risk of major CV events by 14 percent, including myocardial infarction (heart attack) by 21 percent and heart failure by 19 percent.

There were also nine hospitalizations for hypertensive emergency (1.0 percent), eight for atrial fibrillation (0.9 percent), eight strokes (0.9 percent), six hospitalizations for new onset heart failure (0.7 percent), five heart attacks (0.6 percent), four deaths (0.4 percent) and two cases of new onset end stage kidney disease (0.2 percent) that were considered unrelated to the procedure.

More than 1 million hospitalizations for heart failure (HF) occur annually in the United States alone, and more than 80 percent of these hospitalized patients have worsening chronic HF.

For heart failure, the Medicare model showed readmissions ranged from 14.5 percent to 28.5 percent, while the other model showed a range of 17.6 percent to 25 percent.

EF, the amount of blood pumped out of the ventricles with each contraction, can be an early indicator of heart failure if the score is 35 percent or below.

Fibrotic diseases, such as chronic kidney disease and failure, lung disease, heart failure and cirrhosis of the liver, are estimated to be responsible for up to 45 percent of deaths in the developed world.

The study found that health effects of wildfire pollution are significantly associated with poverty and income inequality.18 The study first finds that per 100µg / m3 of PM2.5 exposure, there was a 66 percent increase for hospital visits related to asthma on the day of exposure, and a 42 percent increase in visits related to congestive heart failure (CHF) the day after exposure.

The approximate 30 percent of the population that is sensitive to salt will have a higher incidence of strokes, heart attacks, kidney failure and blindness because of the inability to eliminate sufficient sodium.

In MESA, researchers found a reverse relationship, with African Americans having the lowest rates of heart failure due to myocardial infarct (at 25 percent), while other races had a much higher proportion: Caucasians (40 percent), Hispanics (42 percent), and Chinese Americans (100 percent.)

Residents of wet Texas counties, for instance, have a 9 percent lower risk of heart attack and 13 percent lower risk of congestive heart failure, according to the study.

Also, 8 percent of patients taking beta blockers were readmitted to the hospital due to heart failure, compared to 6.1 percent of patients not on the medication.

«In everyday terms our findings suggest that consistently participating in the recommended 150 minutes of moderate to vigorous activity each week, such as brisk walking or biking, in middle age may be enough to reduce your heart failure risk by 31 percent,» study senior author Dr. Chiadi Ndumele said in a university news release.

Those who got the recommended amount of physical activity throughout the study were 31 percent less likely to develop heart failure than those who consistently got no exercise, the researchers found.

Sodium restriction was associated with a significantly higher risk of death or heart failure hospitalization (42.3 percent versus 26.2 percent, hazard ratio 1.85).15

«After adjusting for confounding factors, they found that men who consumed a daily bowl of whole grain (but not refined) cereal had a 29 percent lower risk of heart failure.»

A ten - year study found that just one serving of chocolate per week eaten by women over age 70 made them 35 percent less likely to die from heart disease, and a whopping 60 percent less likely to die from heart failure.

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two - thirds of a cup of concentrated beet juice almost instantaneously enhanced muscle capacity in congestive heart failure subjects by an average of 13 percent

Investigators found that a 45 - year - old without those three key risk factors has as much as an 86 percent lower risk for heart failure compared with someone with poor control of weight, blood pressure and blood sugar.

Fifty percent of people diagnosed with congestive heart failure have an average life expectancy of less than five years.

About 30 percent of this breed develop the said condition and lead to heart failure.