Value of Blood Test To Diagnose Heart Failure
A large international study has demonstrated the usefulness of a blood test to confirm or exclude the diagnosis of acute heart failure in emergency room patients.
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Blood Test Can Accurately Diagnose Heart Failure in Patients with Kidney Dysfunction
A blood test previously found useful in diagnosing or ruling out heart failure in emergency room patients remains effective in patients with chronic kidney disease.
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Blood Test Can Predict Long-term Risk of Death in Patients with Shortness of Breath
A blood test found useful for diagnosing heart failure can also predict the risk of death among patients coming to hospital emergency departments with shortness of breath.
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Study May Change Rules for Treating Heart Failure
A Johns Hopkins study has raised doubts about a long accepted notion of what's going on in many cases of heart failure, suggesting that nearly half of patients with the disorder may be getting the wrong treatment.
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Getting Adult Stem Cells on The Move May not Significantly Repair Heart
Noninvasive injections of the stem cell mobilization factor granulocyte colony stimulating factor is no better than placebo at repairing heart muscle damaged by a heart attack.
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Scientists Exploit Novel Route To Reverse Enlarged Hearts in Obese Mice
Researchers used a nerve protection and growth factor on the heart to mimic the activity of the brain hormone leptin, dramatically reducing the size of the heart muscle.
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Heart Health Indicators Help Explain Poverty-Related Health Disparities
Researchers found that impaired functional capacity and abnormal heart rate recovery correlated strongly with lower socioeconomic status.
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Results of Exercise Test May Predict Death in Patients with Coronary Artery Disease
Physicians should strongly consider looking at VO2max for heart patients, not just those with heart failure, and help them preserve their exercise capacity.
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Women Less Likely to Receive Heart Device Therapy But Survive With it Longer
Gender referral bias needs to be addressed by further studies, since women with congestive heart failure who qualify for CRT may have equal or greater benefit than men.
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Redefining How Heart Functions
Findings can lead to prevention and treatment options for heart failure.
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Anti-Depressant Use Associated With Increased Risk for Heart Patients
The researchers found that heart patients taking antidepressant medications had a 55 percent higher risk of dying.
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Infection and Risk of Death after Coronary Bypass Surgery
Higher rates of infection may explain why women have higher risk of death after coronary aftery bypass surgery.
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Overactive Thyroid and Abnormal Heart Rhythm
Overactive Thyroid is associated with development of abnormal heart rhythm, but not other cardiovascular problems.
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Help for Irregular Heartbeats
People with the most common type of irregular heartbeat can get long lasting relief from their condition through a minimally invasive procedure that takes less than two hours.
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High Death Rate for Women After Heart Surgery May Be Due To Infection
Mystery of why women die more often than men after bypass operations may be rooted in preventable or treatable causes.
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Evidence Lacking for Inflatable-Pants Heart Failure Therapy
The evidence supporting the role of ECP as an effective treatment for heart failure is lacking in both quantity and quality.
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Heart Failure on The Rise in The Elderly
The increase in heart failure among the older population has resulted from not only increased incidence but also improved survival with both effects being greater in men
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Chocolate Good for The Heart
Over the last few years, medical studies have shown chocolate can lower blood pressure and reduce atherosclerosis.
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Technique for Performing Heart Catheterizations Without X-Ray
Physician at Arkansas Children's Hospital develops technique for performing heart catheterizations without the need for X Ray.
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Diuretics Reduce Risk of Death From Congestive Heart Failure
Diuretics reduce the risk of death, delay heart deterioration and improve exercise capacity in patients with congestive heart failure.
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Angioplasty Study Finds Much Room for Improvement
Angioplasty has become a common heart treatment, but a new study shows wide variation between hospitals in the quality and risks of the procedure.
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Death Risk Higher for Heart Patients with Impaired Kidneys
Impaired kidney function raises the risk of death, cardiovascular death and hospitalization in people with worsening chronic heart failure.
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Awareness of Cardiovascular Disease Increasing Among Women
More women are winning the battle against cardiovascular disease (CVD) and are aware that it's their main health threat.
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Heart Injury Due To Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
Heart injury due to carbon monoxide poisoning increases long term risk of death.
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Medication Plus Beta-Blocker Helps Prevent Shocks From Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator
The Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator shocks are painful and patients may receive multiple ICD shocks.
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Use of Proven Heart Medicines Improves, But Not Enough
The challenge is to understand how consistently heart patients will continue to take their medicines for heart improvement.
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Having a Sibling with Cardiovascular Disease Associated with Higher CVD Risk
The risk of cardiovascular disease is higher compared to other common risk factors of CVD.
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Medication Reduces Risk of Heart Irregularities After Cardiac Surgery
Use of the medication amiodarone is associated with one-half the incidence of atrial tachyarrhythmias (rapid, abnormal heart beat) following cardiac surgery.
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Cardiac Patients Uninformed About Dangerous Food and Drug Interactions
Cardiac medications mixed with certain foods and herbal supplements can endanger patients' health.
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Dramatic Changes in New CPR Guidelines will Simplify Lifesaving Measures
New emergency care guidelines include dramatic changes to CPR and emphasis on chest compressions, according to the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada.
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Preventing Sudden Death: EBCT Scans Trump Angiography at Detecting Killer Heart Defect
Electron beam computed tomography is more accurate than conventional catheter angiography for detecting a dangerous congenital heart abnormality that could cause sudden death.
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Engineered Blood Vessels May be an Option in Cardiac Bypass
The first human use of completely biologically engineered blood vessels grown from a person's own cells could be an option for people who have vessels too damaged for heart bypass.
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Dogs Ease Anxiety, Improve Health Status of Hospitalized Heart Failure Patients
12 min. visit with a dog helped heart and lung function by lowering pressures, diminishing release of harmful hormones and decreasing anxiety among hospitalized heart failure patients.
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New Therapy for Heart Failure Shows Early Benefit
The trial of a new drug showed early benefit in reducing deaths and lowering an important heart disease marker in the sickest heart failure patients.
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Effort to Regenerate Heart Tissue Apparently Fails
Injecting a patient's own progenitor bone marrow cells into coronary tissue a few days after a heart attack didn't improve function or reduce damage.
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Success and Less Risk in Treating Kids with Heart Rhythm Problems
Once inside the heart, the catheter can be steered to pinpoint the source or sources of the child's heart rhythm problem.
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Mechanism of New "Sudden-Death" Arrhythmia Detailed
While calcium is important for increasing the heart muscle cell's ability to contract, too much can cause damage to the heart muscle cell.
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Wide Racial Disparities Found in Heart Device Implantation
African Americans with heart failure suffer the highest rates of sudden cardiac death.
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U.S. Heart Patients Receive More Transfusions Than International Patients
Americans rushed to the hospital with heart attack symptoms have significantly higher rates of bleeding and transfusions after treatment.
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Physical Activity Improves Life Expectancy and Cardiovascular Health
There is a large amount of evidence to support the beneficial effect of physical activity in the prevention of cardiovascular disease.
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