Sentences with phrase «term stroke risks»

This large study contributes to the understanding of longer - term stroke risks in cardiac surgery patients.

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Prolonged exposure to oxytocin has long - term positive effects of reduced risk of stroke and many other illnesses.

Cesarean surgery increases your short - term risk of blood clots, stroke, surgical injury, infection, pain, separation from your baby, psychological trauma, longer hospital stay, emergency hysterectomy, and death in the short term.

Ensuring people diagnosed with diabetes are able to manage their diabetes effectively in order to reduce their risk of developing long term complications such as heart disease, stroke, kidney failure, blindness and amputation should also be the long term goal of the health service.

Badly managed blood glucose levels can increase the risk of long term complications, such as heart disease, stroke, kidney disease, blindness and amputation, and short term complications, such as diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) 3 and hypoglycaemia4 (hypo).

The findings suggest a link between long - term exposure to road traffic noise and deaths, as well as a greater risk of stroke, particularly in the elderly.

Being overweight raises the risk of diseases like heart attacks, strokes and cancer, and takes a financial toll in terms of healthcare costs and lost work days.

Many patients also have health conditions such as high blood pressure, diabetes and atrial fibrillation (irregular heartbeat) that can increase the long - term risk of stroke.

The U.S. study testing the long - term benefits and risks of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) was halted after an interim analysis found that the drugs — a combination of estrogen and progestin — increased the risk of breast cancer, stroke, and heart disease, and that those risks outweighed reduced risks of colorectal cancer and bone fractures (ScienceNOW, 9 July).

A large study of 108,711 patients who had cardiac surgery in Ontario, Canada, sought to identify risk factors for long - term stroke after surgery to improve outcomes for patients.

Long - term, this means a significantly greater risk of heart attack and stroke.

More recent studies have linked heart attack and stroke risks to long - term pollution exposures as well, including PM 2.5 exposures.

Its long - term monitoring of a large group, or cohort, of people in a Massachusetts town has yielded landmark results on everything from the link between cholesterol and heart disease to the genetic risk of stroke.

Large observational studies report that in severely obese individuals, bariatric surgery is associated with long - term reductions in all major cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors, CVD events such as heart attacks and strokes, cancer and all - cause mortality, including a 92 % decrease in diabetes - related deaths.

Young women who survive a heart attack or stroke still face long - term risks of death and illness, according to an article published online by JAMA Internal Medicine.

«Some previous research has suggested that treating patients with statins after they suffer hemorrhagic stroke may increase their long - term risk of continued bleeding,» said lead author Alexander Flint, MD, PhD, of the Kaiser Permanente Department of Neuroscience in Redwood City, Calif. «Yet the findings of our study suggest that stopping statin treatments for these patients may carry substantial risks.»

Metabolic syndrome is the term for a group of factors that raise a person's risk for heart disease and other health problems, such as diabetes and stroke.

In a study that included 1.7 million patients undergoing inpatient surgery, experiencing atrial fibrillation while hospitalized was associated with an increased long - term risk of ischemic stroke, especially following noncardiac surgery, according to a study in the August 13 issue of JAMA.

Over the last two years, the Women's Health Initiative, a series of long - term studies funded by the National Institutes of Health, revealed that taking an estrogen - progestin combination slightly increases the risk of stroke and blood clots and may also increase the risk of heart disease, breast cancer, and dementia.

Our results suggest the need for future studies involving long - term ambulatory cardiac monitoring to better delineate the risk associated with transient vs persistent perioperative AF, as well as randomized clinical trials to determine optimal strategies for antithrombotic therapy in patients with perioperative AF and a significant burden of other risk factors for stroke,» the authors write.

Perioperative (around the time of surgery) atrial fibrillation may be viewed as a transient response to physiological stress, and the long - term risk of stroke after perioperative atrial fibrillation is unclear, according to background information in the article.

Gino Gialdini, M.D., of Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, and colleagues conducted a study to determine the long - term risk of ischemic stroke after perioperative AF of patients undergoing surgery, using administrative claims data from California acute care hospitals between 2007 and 2011.

Long term exposure to aircraft noise, particularly during the night, is linked to an increased risk of developing high blood pressure and possibly heart flutter and stroke as well, suggests research published online in Occupational & Environmental Medicine.

This in turn substantially increases the long term risk of stroke.

«For survivors of stroke or TIA, the long - term risk of recurrent stroke was particularly high, indicating that stroke recurrence is the most important modifiable outcome,» the authors conclude.

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The new recommendations extend the current focus of preventive treatment from targeting only those at high short term (within the next 10 years) risk of a heart attack / stroke to those whose familial and lifestyle factors at a younger age indicate a low short term risk, but a high lifetime risk of developing CVD.

Additional options for long - term risk reduction could include tailoring existing cardiac rehabilitation programs for stroke survivors, following patients for years rather than months after their stroke or TIA, and embedding long - term management into primary care practices.

«These analyses indicate that survival after both stroke and TIA is a marker of long - term risk, which merits aggressive attention to risk reduction strategies,» write the authors.

Atrial fibrillation patients with a prior history of stroke who undergo catheter ablation to treat the abnormal heart rhythm lower their long - term risk of a recurrent stroke by 50 percent, according to new research from the Intermountain Medical Center Heart Institute.

To compare the long - term risks and benefits of mechanical versus biological heart valves, researchers examined rates of mortality, stroke, bleeding and reoperation in patients who underwent heart - valve surgery at 142 hospitals in California between 1996 and 2013.

Long - term use of proton pump inhibitors, dose — response relationship, and associated risk of ischemic stroke and myocardial infarction.

The study was done on 30 adult participants who had been diagnosed with metabolic syndrome, which is a group term for health conditions which increase the risk of developing stroke, heart disease and diabetes.

Hormone therapy (HT) can help in the short term, but long - term HT can increase a woman's risk of breast cancer, stroke, and heart attacks.

The long - term perks Within two to five years, there is a large drop in your risk of heart attack and stroke.

High blood pressure can lead to serious long - term health problems and greatly increases the risk of stroke and heart disease.

For instance, although none of the study participants had diabetes, people with higher pre-surgery levels of the hormone insulin had a lower long - term risk of heart attacks and strokes than people with lower insulin levels who also had surgery.

The study, published Friday in the journal Stroke, tried to determine if infections contribute to stroke risk during peripartum, a term meaning shortly before or after childStroke, tried to determine if infections contribute to stroke risk during peripartum, a term meaning shortly before or after childstroke risk during peripartum, a term meaning shortly before or after childbirth.

«When these compounds are absorbed by the body, they lessen the inflammation of cardiovascular tissue, reducing the long - term risk of stroke,» Dr. Finley said at the National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society last month.

The safety of hormone therapy has been questioned in recent years, following several studies that linked long - term treatment to an increased risk of breast cancer, stroke, and other health problems.

While acute, short - term inflammation is a good thing (it's your body's way of responding to things like injuries), having low - grade chronic inflammation (the kind that sticks around long - term) can increase your risk for disease, like heart disease, stroke, and metabolic syndrome.

And set yourself up for longer - term benefits like promoting less risk of heart attacks, strokes, diabetes, and even some forms of cancer...

Long - term repeated release of stress hormones or a chronic low - level stress state contributes to a host of maladies including raising the risk of heart attack or stroke.

The long - term use of these drugs increases stroke risk, but amazingly, the cherries reduced the risk of stroke when they were administered with the PPAR agonists.

Knowledgeable doctors will encourage their patients to stay on bioidentical hormones due to many long term benefits such as maintaining bone density, reduce incidence of breast and uterine cancers and lower the risk of heart disease, strokes and dementia.

Long - term complications of diabetes, which include an increased risk of cardiovascular problems such as heart disease and stroke, reduce the life expectancy of people with diabetes by about 10 years compared to people without diabetes.

Some of the risks associated with long term use of NSAIDs include gastrointestinal bleeding, kidney disease, heart attack, and stroke.

Long - term usage of BHRT has been shown to help maintain bone density, decrease incidence of breast and uterine cancer, reduce risk of heart disease and stroke, and help prevent dementia.

One of the best things that happened for women, in my opinion, in 2010, the American College of Oncologists, the cancer doctors, issued a position statement reassuring women that use of an estrogen cream on your pelvic floor, on your vaginal walls is not putting you at risk of systemic cancers and long - term risk of heart disease and stroke and things that we know that come from taking systemic hormones over the long term.

In addition, long - term stress can increase the risk for diabetes, ulcers, osteoporosis, certain cancers, heart attack, stroke and coronary artery disease.