Posts Tagged ‘Heart Attack’
LONDON – The risk of developing a possibly fatal blood clot is more than double among menopausal women who receive hormone-replacement therapy pills, French researchers notified on Friday.
The risk was particularly higher in the first year of treatment as suggested by the review of 17 studies. The reviews were reported in the British Medical Journal. One of the common causes of heart attacks and strokes are the blood clots in the arteries while vein clots may kill if move through the body of the lungs.
According to the meta- analysis the use oral estrogen increases blood clots risk by two to three- folds, Stated Pierre-Yves Scarabin and Marianne Canonico of the Paul Brousse Hospital, France.
In America it has been just recently found that Defibrillator works with its brilliance. It is such a significant modifier which supports the heart patients. People who are suffering from a heart attack. They can utilize this tool to save from a fatal at their homes.
The stratagem Defibrillator is functioning so nicely. Very few amounts of brutal heart cases are come to seen at residence of the sufferer. In this way CPR employed amongst the married couples. They would get able to use this technology to save from a fatal. At end they claim CPR as high rank than the Defibrillatoris.This study was conducted amongst the seven thousand patients of the heart, lungs, chest pain, breathing etc.
The “Thrombus Aspiration during Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in Acute Myocardial Infarction (TAPAS)” study has announced the results during the SCAI Annual Scientific Sessions in Partnership with ACC i2 Summit in Chicago. The study was conducted for a year and patients suffering from “ST-Elevation acute Myocardial Infarction (STEMI)” participated in the study. STEM1 is a type of heart attack.
The study talked about a special catheter which can be effectively used to vacuum out the loose scrap of plaque and blood clot that break loose during “Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI)”. This helps in increasing the blood flow in the heart muscle of the patients who are experiencing a heart attack. The TAPAS study has analyzed that the clinical outcomes which were clear at 30 days were still found to be good after one year due to deep myocardial perfusion.
“Weight control and exercise may protect pancreatic cancer” reported by the studies of cancer of the pancreas by ‘Johns Hopkins Health Alerts’.Pancreatic cancer is difficult to detect is the fourth leading cause of cancer related deaths in United States. Five years after the diagnosis of pancreatic cancer only 4% of people are still alive.
Risk Factors of Pancreatic Cancer
Only Known risk factor was cigarette smoking and it is controllable. Lifestyle changes proved to reduce the risks of heart attack, diabetes and breast, colon, prostrate and rectum cancers may also prevent pancreatic cancer according to recent research. These measures are important for the people with a family history of pancreatic cancer.
For a good many years now it has been found that the red wine helps keep arteries clean. Red wine made from the skins of red grapes is known to benefit the heart and blood vessels to some extent. There are many studies to support the specific beneficial effects of the red wine.A recent study done by the researchers at the ‘Peter Munk Cardiac Centre’ of the ‘Toronto General Hospital’ found that the positive effects of the wine disappeared with the intake of two drinks.
As a part of the protective drive initiated by the researchers in the previous studies, the recent study also advocates the moderate or light consumption of wine and other alcoholic drinks. The researchers tried to determine the differences between the effects of wine and the alcohol on the blood pressure, arteries and the heart. Thirteen volunteers participated in this real time study.
