Heart attack survivors often experience dangerous heart
rhythm disturbances during treatment designed to restore blood flow to the injured heart muscle, a common and confounding complication of an otherwise lifesaving intervention.
Not exact matches
Professor Peter Weissberg, Medical Director at the BHF, which helped fund the research, said: «This exciting science explains how the carbon monoxide molecule, which is produced by our heart cells
during a heart attack, can protect hearts from potentially fatal
disturbances of heart
rhythm.
A recent study (Ajabnoor et al.) showed that
during the fasting month of Ramadan, practicing Saudis develop severe
disturbances in circadian
rhythm, impairing sleeping, elevating the stress hormone cortisol, with increased chronic inflammation and insulin resistance.