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Heart attack rates fall following national smoking bans
2008-02-27 05:34:00 French scientists announced a striking 15% decrease in admissions of patients with myocardial infarction to emergency wards since the public ban on smoking came into effect in restaurants, hotels and casinos in France last January. The announcement was made on 23 February by the National Sanitary Institute. Similar results were published in Italy on 12 February by the Environmental Health Authority: scientists in Rome found an 11.2 percent reduction of acute coronary events since the January 2005 smoking ban took effect in Italy........ More About: Heart , Smoking , Rates , Fall
After heart attack most patients stop taking life-saving drugs
2007-11-07 11:57:00 Recovery from heart attacks is best served by continuing to take prescribed medications. Yet more than half of patients who have had a heart attack stop taking these lifesaving medications within three years, as per results from a Mayo Clinic study presented today at the American Heart Associations Scientific Sessions 2007 in Orlando, Fla........ More About: Life , Drugs , Stop , Patients
Risk factor for heart attack patients
2007-11-07 11:57:00 If you go to the hospital within one to two hours of the onset of symptoms of a heart attack, your chances of getting proper therapy are nearly 70 percent greater than those who wait 11 to 12 hours before seeking therapy, as per results presented today at the American Heart Associations Scientific Sessions 2007 in Orlando, Fla........ More About: Risk , Patients , Factor , Heart Attack
CPR guidelines Improve cardiac arrest outcome
2007-11-07 11:57:00 A new seven-city study on the impact of new CPR techniques supports the widespread use of the American Heart Associations new 2005 CPR guidelines, as per the study authors in a presentation at the AHAs Scientific Sessions November 4 in Orlando. Lead author, Tom P. Aufderheide, MD, Professor of Emergency Medicine, and Director of the Resuscitation Research Center in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, presented the data showing a doubling of hospital discharge rates when the AHAs new CPR guidelines were consistently and effectively applied to 893 patients........ More About: Arrest , Improve , Guidelines , Deli , Improv
Breast cancer awareness andcardiovascular awareness
2007-10-12 06:35:00 Women who overcome breast cancer have every reason to celebrate. But a heart filled with joy may also be a heart damaged by life-saving cancer therapies, a growing body of research shows. Most breast cancer therapies today including new treatments still under development increase long-term risk of cardiovascular disease, said Lee W. Jones, Ph.D., an exercise physiologist and assistant professor in the Department of Surgery at Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC. We dont know exactly how large the added risk is, but we believe its substantial. Recent gains in breast-cancer-specific survival could be markedly diminished by an increase in the long-term risk of cardiovascular death........ More About: Cancer , Awareness , Breast Cancer , Breast , Cardiovascular
Climate may increase heat-related deaths
2007-09-28 05:49:00 While some uncertainty does exist in climate projections and future health vulnerability, overall increases in heat-related premature mortality are likely by the 2050s, as per a recent study by Columbia Universitys Mailman School of Public Health and soon would be reported in the November 2007 issue of the American Journal of Public Health. In metropolitan New York, scientists estimate a 47 percent to 95 percent increase in summer heat-related deaths when in comparison to the 1990s........ More About: Climate , Heat , Deaths , Related
Tissue-engineered Heart Structures For Children
2007-09-13 04:12:00 Infants and children receiving artificial heart-valve replacements face several repeat operations as they grow, since the replacements become too small and must be traded for bigger ones. Scientists at Children 's Hospital Boston have now developed a solution: living, growing valves created in the lab from a patient's own cells........ More About: Heart , Structures , Issue
FDA approves aliskiren for hypertension
2007-09-11 05:14:00 The FDA approved aliskiren, the first hypertension treatment that inhibits renin. Aliskiren (Tekturna, Novartis) is also the first, new type of hypertension drug approved by the FDA in more than a decade, according to company officials. Aliskiren is a once-daily tablet (150 mg and 300 mg) indicated as monotherapy or in combination with other hypertension medications........ More About: Hypertension , Hyper , Prove , Pert
Young Women And Heart Attack Warning Signs
2007-09-11 05:14:00 Most women 55 years and younger who have heart attacks don't recognize warning signs, scientists reported at the American Heart Association's 8th Scientific Forum on Quality of Care and Outcomes Research in Cardiovascular Disease and Stroke. Women younger than 55 years represent less than 5 percent of all hospitalized heart disease patients, but because so a number of heart attacks occur in the United States each year, even this small percentage affects a large number of people. Young women with heart disease account for about 40,000 hospitalizations each year. Diseases of the heart in young women account for about 16,000 deaths annually, ranking it among the leading causes of death in this group, as per authors........ More About: Signs , Warning Signs
Bacterial pneumonia patients at increased risk of major heart problems
2007-09-11 05:14:00 A new study suggests patients hospitalized with pneumonia may be at serious risk of new or worsening heart problems. The study is published in the July 15 issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases, currently available online. Researchers led by Daniel Musher, MD, studied the records of all 170 patients hospitalized with pneumococcal pneumonia at a Texas Veterans Affairs medical center from 2001 to 2005. They found that 19.4 percent of them had a heart attack or other major heart problem concurrently at the time of admission, and that the presence of the heart condition significantly increased mortality from pneumonia........ More About: Heart , Problems , Risk , Patients , Major
Methamphetamine Abuse And Cardiovascular Disease
2007-09-11 05:14:00 The study is being published the week of June 25 in an advanced online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. In recent years, the spread of methamphetamine abuse across the United States has been as rapid as it has been alarming. Until about six years ago, methamphetamine use was seen mostly in the western and rural United States. Today, methamphetamine abuse has expanded rapidly throughout the rest of the country and across different ethnic groups. As per the 2005 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), an estimated 10.4 million Americans ages 12 or older have used methamphetamine at least once in their lifetimes for non-medical reasons........ More About: Abuse , Disease , Seas , Cardiovascular , Vascular
Women's mortality rates for cardiovascular disease
2007-09-11 05:14:00 Women treated for cardiovascular disease at the nation's best- performing hospitals have a 39 percent lower risk-adjusted mortality rate when compared with women at the nation's poorest-performing hospitals, as per the fourth annual HealthGrades Womens Health Outcomes in U.S. Hospitals study, released recently........ More About: Disease , Rates , Rate , Seas , Cardiovascular
Reduced lung capacity linked to cardiovascular disease
2007-09-11 05:14:00 People who have a reduced lung capacity may have a greater risk of heart attack and stroke because they show evidence of inflammation, reveals a study published online ahead of print in Thorax. This association is not correlation to smoking, respiratory diseases or obesity. The New Zealand scientists took measurements of lung capacity and inflammation in 1,000 adults aged between 26 and 32 years. To measure inflammation, they looked at the amount of C-reactive protein (CRP), an inflammatory marker, circulating in the blood. Higher levels of CRP were found in the blood of those with smaller lung capacities........ More About: Disease , Seas , Cardiovascular , Vascular , Capa
Preventing 4 In 10 Premature Heart Attacks
2007-09-11 05:14:00 Screening and treating middle-aged adults with a family history of coronary heart disease could prevent more than 4 in 10 premature heart attacks, as per an article in this weeks BMJ. Scientists from the University of Glasgow looked at data from prior studies which show that immediate family members of patients with premature coronary heart disease (CHD) are at significantly increased risk of developing the disease........ More About: Heart , Attacks , Premature , Heart Attack , Tacks
Triage Guidelines For Emergency Heart Patients
2007-09-11 05:14:00 Two new studies led by scientists at the University of Iowa and the Department of Veterans Affairs Iowa City Health Care System provide reassuring findings for patients reviewed in the emergency room for possible acute coronary syndrome (ACS) and the physicians who treat them. ACS is a medical term for a group of potentially life-threatening heart conditions including unstable angina and heart attack. Chest pain, shortness of breath and nausea are symptoms of possible ACS, and almost five million Americans are seen each year in emergency rooms with these symptoms. In such cases, emergency room physicians must determine which patients should be admitted for more tests and observation and which patients can be discharged safely. Among those requiring hospitalization, physicians must also decide if the patient needs to be admitted to a specialty cardiology bed........ More About: Heart , Patients , Guidelines , Merge , Emergency
New heart attack guidelines
2007-09-11 05:14:00 The American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association have jointly released revised Guidelines for the Management of Patients with Unstable Angina (UA)/Non-ST- Elevation Myocardial Infarction (NSTEMI). Major changes to the guidelines include: suggesting an initial non-invasive set of preliminary tests, such as a stress test, echocardiogram or radionuclide angiogram; recommending the use of anti-platelet treatment clopidogrel for at least one year after receiving a drug-eluting stent; highlighting the importance of more intense lipid and blood pressure control; and advising cessation of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDS) use for all UA/NSTEMI patients during hospitalization........ More About: Heart Attack , Deli , Attack
Shorter heart health programs just as effective
2007-09-11 05:14:00 Secondary prevention programs for coronary heart disease that contain less than 10 hours contact with health professionals and those provided by family doctors are just as effective in saving lives as more expensive, longer and more specialized hospital-based alternatives, as per cardiovascular scientists at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada........ More About: Health , Programs , Heart , Effective , Grams
Initiative to improve heart failure care
2007-09-11 05:14:00 A national initiative designed to improve heart-failure patient care in hospitals proved effective at increasing hospital adherence to key quality-of-care performance measures and reducing the length of hospital stays for patients. It also resulted in favorable trends for in-hospital and post-discharge mortality rates, as per a UCLA study reported in the July 23 edition of the journal Archives of Internal Medicine........ More About: Care , Heart , Failure , Improve , Initiative
Diet and regular soft drinks increase risk for heart disease
2007-09-11 05:14:00 Drinking more than one soft drink daily whether its regular or diet may be linked to an increase in the risk factors for heart disease, Framingham scientists reported in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association. We were struck by the fact that it didnt matter whether it was a diet or regular soda that participants consumed, the association with increased risk was present, said Ramachandran Vasan, M.D., senior author of the Framingham Heart Study and professor of medicine at Boston University School of Medicine. In those who drink one or more soft drinks daily, there was an association of an increased risk of developing the metabolic syndrome........ More About: Diet , Drinks , Disease , Soft
Exercise, exercise, rest, repeat
2007-09-11 05:14:00 Taking a break in the middle of your workout may metabolize more fat than exercising without stopping, according to a recent study in Japan. Researchers conducted the first known study to compare these two exercise methodsexercising continually in one long bout versus breaking up the same workout with a rest period. The findings could change the way we approach exercise. Who wouldnt want to take a breather for that"........ More About: Exercise , Rest
SMS your ECG to ER
2007-09-11 05:14:00 A Bluetooth heart monitor could text your local hospital if you are about to have a heart attack, as per research published recently in Inderscience's International Journal of Electronic Healthcare. The device measures electrical signals from the heart, analyses them to produce an electrocardiogram (ECG) and sends an alert together with the ECG by cell phone text message........
Cholesterol drug hits diabetes with one-two punch
2007-09-11 05:14:00 Patients with type 2 diabetes may soon be able to control their glucose and their cholesterol levels with a single drug, as per a research studyled by Vivian A. Fonseca, professor of medicine and pharmacology at Tulane University School of Medicine and chief of the Tulane University Health Sciences Center Diabetes Program........ More About: Drug , Hits , Cholesterol , Punch
Natural aorta grafts have few side effects
2007-09-11 05:14:00 A vascular surgery technique pioneered at UT Southwestern Medical Center, in which veins are removed from the thigh to repair the aorta does not create blood-flow problems and painful side effects in a majority of patients, scientists report. Vascular disease is a major contributor to life-threatening conditions such as aneurysms or blockages of the aorta. Inserting synthetic grafts to repair damaged aortas, the largest artery in the body, is typically the first line of therapy........ More About: Natural , Side , Side Effects , Effects , Natur |
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