Sentences with phrase «treats heart attacks»

The ambulance should take you to the nearest hospital that treats heart attacks.

Now other doctors are chiming in and the message is simple: It's time to stop treating heart attacks «backward.»

Our findings indicate that if harnessed properly, the gas could, among other benefits, help treat heart attack patients and keep trauma victims alive until they can undergo surgery or receive a blood transfusion.

Many groups around the world are investigating a wide range of other applications, including treating heart attacks, blindness, Parkinson's disease and cancer.

«Unfortunately, with the worry of treating the heart attack, we haven't directed our full attention to assessing the presence of diabetes in heart patients to make sure they receive treatment.»

But his team has gone a step further by identifying properties that would be useful in treating heart attack patients and then designing hydrogels with those properties.

PCI mechanically improves blood flow to the heart using stents and can be used to relieve the symptoms of angina, prevent and treat heart attacks.

When used to treat heart attack patients, the procedure is called primary PCI.

Stem cell researcher Jürgen Hescheler of the University of Cologne in Germany says that HES - derived heart muscle cells may be the only kind of tissue that could treat heart attacks.

Doctors have long treated heart attacks, improved asthma symptoms, and cured impotence by increasing levels of a single molecule in the body: nitric oxide.

As a result, Hausenloy said the results suggest the procedure may still be beneficial in other medical settings of acute ischemia / reperfusion injury, such as when treating heart attack patients or in organ transplantation.

In this study, doctors treated heart attack patients with their own bone marrow cells, selected for their healing potential and then reinjected into the heart, in an effort to improve the heart's recovery.

«We've now laid a solid foundation for developing a way to reverse the damage — something previously thought impossible — and changing the way that doctors may treat heart attacks in the future.»

It makes a lot of sense: better to start eating healthy foods now rather than gorge on cheeseburgers and fries and treat your heart attack when it finally comes.

Failing to treat a heart attack or stroke usually begins with a failure to diagnose the symptoms.

Not exact matches

A company that wants to regenerate the heart and brain could change the way we treat people who have had a heart attack or Parkinson's disease.

Care providers which manage to treat the entirety of a heart attack episode for less than the target price get to net the associated savings; the ones that don't have to pay the difference back to Medicare.

A mechanic doesn't complain about fixing your car because you didn't take care of it, a heart surgeon doesn't complain about your heart attack because you ate too many cheese burgers and a doctor treating lung cancer doesn't complain about all the cigarettes you smoked to get yourself some cancer.

It has anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties, which can potentially fight cancer and heart attacks, and it can help treat an upset stomach or heartburn.

«It's one thing to treat a person who's had a heart attack with a statin drug for five or 10 years, because their likelihood of a vascular event is very high.

U.S. doctors enrolled 42,418 patients from 623 offices and clinics, treated participants with one of four commonly prescribed drugs, and followed them for at least five years to see how well the medications controlled their blood pressure and reduced the risk of heart attack, stroke and other cardiovascular problems.

In the best - case scenario, 50 men at risk for a heart attack would have to be treated with statins like Lipitor for five years to prevent a single heart attack or stroke.

Now, researchers at the University Department of Internal Medicine II at the MedUni Vienna (Clinical Department of Cardiology), as part of an international cooperation, have successfully demonstrated the advantages of an implanted defibrillator (ICD) as a means of prevention in patients with moderately restricted cardiac function, and that patients with the condition must be treated as carefully as patients with ischaemic heart failure which has developed following a heart attack, for example.

The PET / CT test also has the potential to proactively reduce healthcare costs — since preventing a heart attack or similar event is the best, and least expensive, way to treat it.

Another company, Belgium - based TiGenix, hopes to attack scar tissue before it forms by treating patients with a mixture of heart stem cells within seven days of a heart attack.

«I've seen the port grow from being sort of an interesting place to an environmental nightmare,» said Dr. John G. Miller, an emergency room doctor and an environmental activist who has treated large numbers of harbor - area children suffering asthma attacks and adults suffering heart attacks.

Chip potential If the chip proves successful in larger and longer trials, it might also be adapted for treating more acute conditions, such as delivering drugs for a month or two after a heart attack.

«While it is very well accepted that improving cardiovascular health can reduce the risk of stroke and heart attacks, we now believe that drugs aimed at improving cerebrovascular health may be an additional strategy to treating brain diseases in the future.»

The primary endpoint of death and non-fatal heart attack at 30 days was no different between the two groups (7 percent in the aspirin group and 7.1 percent in the placebo group); however, major bleeding was significantly higher in aspirin - treated patients than in the placebo group (4.6 percent vs. 3.7 percent).

Treating the mice with antibodies against CD4 + T - cells four weeks after experimental heart attacks — to deplete that subset of T - cells — prevented the progressive abnormal enlargement of the left ventricle that leads to heart failure, as compared with untreated mice.

Gladwin adds that NHLBI is now planning a clinical trial that would use similar levels of nitrite to treat heart - attack victims.

In the study, researchers from Kansas City VA Medical Centre in Kansas City, USA, examined the effect of TRT on cardiovascular outcomes by comparing incidents of heart attack, stroke, and all - cause mortality among different sub-populations of treated and untreated patients.

She concluded: «Our study showed that many patients are treated with antidepressants after a heart attack.

A phase 2 trial showed a reduction in the combined outcome of death or myocardial infarction (heart attack) in patients treated with otamixaban compared with unfractionated heparin (UFH) plus eptifibatide (an antiplatelet drug) and showed similar bleeding rates with otamixaban at midrange doses.

He launched the study when he discovered heart attack patients were being treated with much lower doses of beta - blockers than were used in clinical trials.

For the study, researchers at the Intermountain Medical Center Heart Institute in Salt Lake City evaluated nearly 6,000 patients who were treated for heart attacks between 2002 and 2013 by Intermountain Healthcare clinicHeart Institute in Salt Lake City evaluated nearly 6,000 patients who were treated for heart attacks between 2002 and 2013 by Intermountain Healthcare clinicheart attacks between 2002 and 2013 by Intermountain Healthcare clinicians.

«Diagnosing and treating diabetes in heart attack patients improves heart outcomes.»

The physical mechanism of platelet - driven clot contraction they observed is already informing new ways to think about diagnosing and treating conditions such as ischemic stroke, deep vein thrombosis, and heart attacks.

A popular drug for treating type 2 diabetes was suspended in Europe and restricted in the US last week because of fears that it raises the risk of heart attacks and strokes.

Researchers in Sweden sought to determine if use of tumor necrosis factor inhibitor drugs to treat RA would result in a reduced risk of acute coronary syndrome (commonly called ACS), defined as a diagnosis of a heart attack or unstable angina (the worsening or increasing cardiac symptoms)

The new study analyzed heart disease risk factors among more than 3,900 patients who were treated for ST - elevation myocardial infarction, or STEMI — the most severe and deadly type of heart attack — at Cleveland Clinic between 1995 and 2014.

But even among patients who were treated and released, 7.5 percent of patients who exhibited no heart attack symptoms were tested for cardiac markers.

«More heart attack patients being treated more quickly using PCI, British audit finds.»

The super-refractory status epilepticus recurred and was treated anew with the ketogenic diet, but the patient succumbed to a heart attack not likely related to the diet, according to an independent panel.

A researcher at the Cardiovascular Institute (CVI) at Rhode Island, The Miriam and Newport hospitals has found that a new class of drugs, originally developed to treat cancer, reduces sudden cardiac death risk after a heart attack.

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Results of the study published in Hepatology, a journal of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, show that incidents of kidney disease, stroke, and heart attack were lower in patients treated with pegylated interferon and ribavirin compared to HCV patients not treated with antivirals or diabetic patients not infected with the virus.

«Our observational study found that treating to low pressures doesn't provide any benefit to patients with regard to reducing risk of dangerous heart events like heart attack, heart failure and stroke.

Abramson, who with a colleague published his findings in the British medical journal The Lancet, says that even when statins are used for men at the highest risk, «you have to treat about 238 men for one year to prevent one heart attack.»

For the current study, first author Elna Nagasako, MD, PhD, and her colleagues looked at hospital readmissions for nearly 60,000 patients treated for heart attacks, heart failure or pneumonia at acute care hospitals in Missouri from 2009 to 2012.