ACC/AHA release revised UA/NSTEMI guidelines
...ry is partially blocked. Myocardial infarction, or heart attack, occurs when a coronary artery is completely blocked, cutting off blood flow to the heart resulting in death of heart muscle. The ability to detect and treat these conditions earlier has ...Annals of Internal Medicine tip sheet for Aug. 7, 2007, issue
... United States as Avandia) found that the risk for heart attack and death from cardiovascular disease is un...e as prevalent as common chronic diseases, such as heart disease and diabetes, and presence of geriatric conditions was strongly associated with disability. ...It's time to look at health risks in a new light, authors say
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...percent by age 50), and an increased risk of early heart attack, Hutten said. The disorder also interferes with normal artery functioning. Dilation is reduced in children with FH, which reflects an increased stiffness of the vessel wall. This is the first sign of atherosclerosis, said Dr. Hutten, an assi...Many heart attack patients still not getting emergency clot-busting treatment
ANN ARBOR, Mich. Far more of todays heart attack patients receive emergency angioplasty trea...ent or clot-busting drugs to re-open their clogged heart arteries than even a decade ago, a new study finds. But 10 percent of patients who could benefit ...Heat-related deaths in middle, high school football players spikes in 2006
...alamus loses its ability to regulate the heat. The heart beats faster to increase blood flow to the skin to aid in evaporation, leaving less blood in the heart and other muscles. Brain death begins around 106 degrees, but death from heat stroke can be gradual,...Study shows radiofrequency ablation highly effective in treating kidney tumors
...re, and a third for treatment of exacerbation of a heart condition. A total of eight patients experienced complications, including temporary air pockets in the chest cavity, mild to severe pain after the procedure, pneumonia, and problems with their ureters. Generally, the report says, this study s...W.M. Keck Foundation announces 2007 class of Distinguished Young Scholars in medical research
...ized protein complexes in excitable cells, such as heart muscle. His research has the potential to explain the underlying causes of certain types of heart failure and cardiomyopathy. Jennifer Zallen, Ph.D., Developmental Biology Program, Memorial Sloan...Takeda responds to the FDA advisory committee recommendation
...that ACTOS is associated with an increased risk of heart attack or stroke, said Mehmood Khan, M.D., TGRD president. Critical in this body of data is the PROactive (PROspective PioglitAzone Clinical Trial In MacroVascular Events) study, since the only scientific way to determine a medications safety is a pr...A Bluetooth heart monitor could text your local hospital if you are about to have a heart attack, according to research published today in Inderscience's International Journal of Electronic ...Stroke in nonvascular atrial fibrillation -- anti-coagulants better than anti-platelet therapy
...eople with atrial fibrillation (AF) have irregular heart beats and have a tendency to form blood clots in the upper chambers (atria) of their hearts. These clots can then travel to the brain, block vessels and cause a stroke. One way of reducing the risk of this occurring is to give drugs that limit the bl...Lower mortality rates associated with hospitals that rank highest on quality of care indicators
...from acute myocardial infarction (AMI), congestive heart failure (CHF) and pneumonia, three common medical conditions. The findings appear in the July/August 2007 issue of the journal Health Affairs. These findings show that these quality indicators, which are widely available on the web, are very helpfu...New heart disease risk score will help minimize health inequalities
A new score for predicting the risk of heart disease gives a more accurate measure of how many ...he age of 75 in Britain at high risk of developing heart disease. This is lower than previous scores have suggested, but the researchers believe that it is a...Wesley Research Institute study targets pharmacists to help diabetes sufferers
...sk of developing serious health problems including heart disease, stroke, kidney disease and blindness. Chief investigator of the project, Mr David Brand of The Wesley Pharmacy, said this study had the potential to benefit sufferers by enabling them to better understand and manage their own blood glucose...UT study reveals inaccuracies in cardiac PET-CT imaging, finds fixes
...mercial software designed to provide images of the heart are falsely indicating coronary artery disease in ...vasive tool for detecting or assessing severity of heart disease, said Gould, executive director of the Weatherhead P.E.T. Center. However, he said, an er...Studies show antidepressants not linked to birth defects
...tension of the newborn (PPHN), a rare, but serious heart and lung disorder; Low birthweight or preterm delivery. ...When minority patients have insurance and a medical home, their health care improves
... rates of routine screening for conditions such as heart disease and cancer. For example, eight of 10 adults who received a preventive reminder had their cholesterol checked in the past five years compared with half of adults who did not get a reminder. Two-thirds (65%) of adults who have a medical home r...Intensive-care patients with alcohol problems are more likely to require mechanical ventilation
...ple comorbidities such as diabetes, renal failure, heart failure, cirrhosis of the liver, and chronic obstructive lung disease. These comorbidities make it more difficult to recover from critical illness. Furthermore, said de Wit, certain critical illnesses such as acute respiratory distress syndrome car...Women's mortality rates for cardiovascular disease differ widely among hospitals
...erforming and poorest-performing hospitals were in heart failure and interventional cardiology procedures. ...had a 46 percent lower risk-adjusted mortality for heart failure and a 44 percent lower risk-adjusted mortality for interventional cardiology procedures. ...Diabetes professionals join forces to identify gaps in diabetes care and better self care
...hose with diabetes and conditions like depression, heart disease or retinopathy, self-care can be even more challenging," said Jane Jeffrie Seley, MPH, MSN, NP, CDE, co-editor of the AJN report and diabetes nurse practitioner at New York Presbyterian-Weill Cornell Medical Center, NYC. "Someone who is depre...