25 Jan 2012
| by Dr Rajiv Sankaranarayanan
Deanery, and British Heart Foundation Clinical Research Fellow....Section 1: Epidemiology and aetiology Heart failure (HF) occurs when abnormal cardiac ...
cardiomyopathy and end stage renal failure. Increased metabolic load on the heart may lead to high-output HF ...
of persons with a clinical diagnosis of heart failure in a general practice population of 696 ...
27 Feb 2012
| by Stephen Robinson
Heart failure patients have a high fracture risk and should be screened for osteoporosis...A team from the University of Alberta, Canada, found that patients with heart failure are at 30 ...
study demonstrates for the first time that heart failure and thinning of bones go hand in hand. Understanding the mechanism between heart failure and osteoporosis might lead to new treatments for both ...
in the heart that can lead to heart failure, a study has shown....Researchers hope the findings could lead to more heart-friendly diabetes treatments.
People ...
and spe ctroscopy to view the deposits in the heart for the first time.
It gave 18 healthy men ...
in the heart to spike by 34% within just six hours.
These elevated levels caused over exertion ...
as big a health priority as cancer, diabetes, and heart and lung diseases.
Professor Peter Piot ...
03 Jan 2012
patients.
They found that patients with psoriasis had a 63% greater risk of developing congestive heart failure, a 51% greater risk of heart disease and a 45% greater risk of renal failure. Patients ...
failures in the last flu season may have caused hundreds of preventable deaths....of the annual flu campaign and a failure to warn that the pandemic virus would circulate and affect younger ...
08 Feb 2012
| by Chris Lancelot
I am becoming increasingly disillusioned with the high-level organisation of the NHS. Clinicians do their best to help the patients while being obstructed by managers with their imposed, dysfunctional systems.
12 Mar 2012
| by Tom Moberly
Drugs to cut the impact of heart attacks could be developed after researchers found that altering a...and is especially critical for the correct functioning of heart tissue, the researchers said.
Previous studies have found that FAK is activated in the heart after an MI and could be linked to pathways involved in inflammation and permanent damage to heart tissue.
Dr Taylor and her team used genetically modified mice ...
25 Jan 2012
| by Dr Louise Newson
complications (new or worsening heart failure, new or worsening arrhythmias or MI) were diagnosed in 26 ...
associated with their diagnosis included older age, nursing home residence, history of heart failure, prior ...
11 Jan 2012
| by Dr Louise Newson
by progressive heart failure.
In this prospective study of 470 patients undergoing elective angiography ...
and mortality. This extended follow-up of the Heart Protection Study was performed to assess the long ...
(and weight).
HRV predicts obstructive coronary disease Heart doi:10.1136/heartjnl-2011 ...
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