Compared with placebo, treatment of depressed
systolic heart failure patients with escitalopram will result in a significant improvement in symptoms of depression at six months, when measured using the Cardiac Depression Scale.
Compared with placebo, treatment of depressed
systolic heart failure patients with escitalopram will result in a significant improvement in symptoms of depression at six months, when measured using the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale.
Related terms: enlarged heart in dogs,
systolic heart failure, Primary Idiopathic Myocardial Failure (PIMF), Dilative cardiomyopathy, Primary idiopathic myocardial failure.
Both phases of cardiac function are important: impaired contraction leads to
systolic heart failure, while impaired relaxation leads to diastolic heart failure.
A new study by researchers at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and Boston Medical Center (BMC) found comparable long - term outcomes between congestive heart failure patients with preserved ejection fraction commonly known as «diastolic heart failure» and congestive heart failure with reduced ejection fraction also known as «
systolic heart failure.»
Though the early readmission rate in the 30 days after discharge was initially lower in patients with diastolic heart failure, this soon increased such that it was similar to those with
systolic heart failure.
Diastolic heart failure patients have not been as well studied as patients with
systolic heart failure.
The findings showed that in comparison to those with
systolic heart failure, diastolic heart failure patients were older, more likely to be overweight, female and have hypertension.
The one - year outcome of in - hospital morbidity and mortality was similar between diastolic and
systolic heart failure patients.
Not exact matches
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Systolic blood pressure levels above 140 mmHg were linked with higher risks of coronary
heart disease, stroke, kidney
failure, and death in patients with CKD of all ages, but the magnitude of these associations diminished with more advanced age.
«Our results demonstrate that aortic arch pulse wave velocity is a highly significant independent predictor of subsequent white matter hyperintensity volume and provides a distinct contribution — along with
systolic blood pressure, hypertension treatment, congestive
heart failure and age — in predicting risk for cerebrovascular disease,» Dr. King said.
21 Tartiere JM, Logeart D, Beauvais F, Chavelas C, Kesri L, Tabet JY, Cohen - Solal A. Non-invasive radial pulse wave assessment for the evaluation of left ventricular
systolic performance in
heart failure.
Left ventricular
systolic function assessment in patients with dilated
heart failure using cardiovascular magnetic resonance