The Risk Of Dangerous Blood Clots And Strokes.
A unusual anti-clotting treat to reduce the risk of dangerous blood clots and strokes in males and females with a type of heart rhythm disorder has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration. Savaysa (edoxaban) is approved to pay for people with atrial fibrillation that's not caused by a heart valve problem. Atrial fibrillation - the most average type of heart rhythm disorder - increases the jeopardy of developing blood clots that can travel to the brain and cause a stroke.
Savaysa pills are also approved to expound deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism in people already treated with an injected or infused anti-clotting cure for five to 10 days, according to the FDA. Deep vein thrombosis is a blood clot that forms in a involved vein, usually in the lower leg or thigh. Pulmonary embolism is a potentially wearisome condition that occurs when a deep vein blood clot breaks off and travels to an artery in the lungs, blocking blood flow.
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Monday 19 March 2018
Omega-3 Does Not Prevent Atrial Fibrillation
Omega-3 Does Not Prevent Atrial Fibrillation.
Omega-3 fatty acid supplements don't weaken back on recurrences of atrial fibrillation, a genre of irregular heartbeat that can cause stroke, young research suggests. "We now have definitive data that they don't work for most patients with AF atrial fibrillation ," said Dr Peter R Kowey, leadership architect of a study appearing in the Dec 1, 2010 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association that is also scheduled to be presented Monday at the American Heart Association's annual junction in Chicago. "Although we can't oust the possibility of efficacy in sicker AF patients, it would be hard to believe that it would manage in that population and not in healthier patients. So for practical purposes, yes, this is the end of the line in AF".
This study, the largest of its kind, looked at patients with AF who were otherwise healthy. "We cannot bid there is any convincing assertion of a role for omega-3 in the prevention of atrial fibrillation," added Dr Ranjit Suri, overseer of the Electrophysiology Service and Cardiac Arrhythmia Center at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City, who was not knotty with the trial. The study was funded by GlaxoSmithKline.
Omega-3 fatty acids, which are found in fatty fish such as salmon and albacore tuna, had showed some show signs of in preventing heart disease in earlier trials. Of the sum 663 outpatient participants, 542 had paroxysmal atrial fibrillation, which appears fleetingly and resolves on its own, and 121 had persistent atrial fibrillation, which needs treatment.
Omega-3 fatty acid supplements don't weaken back on recurrences of atrial fibrillation, a genre of irregular heartbeat that can cause stroke, young research suggests. "We now have definitive data that they don't work for most patients with AF atrial fibrillation ," said Dr Peter R Kowey, leadership architect of a study appearing in the Dec 1, 2010 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association that is also scheduled to be presented Monday at the American Heart Association's annual junction in Chicago. "Although we can't oust the possibility of efficacy in sicker AF patients, it would be hard to believe that it would manage in that population and not in healthier patients. So for practical purposes, yes, this is the end of the line in AF".
This study, the largest of its kind, looked at patients with AF who were otherwise healthy. "We cannot bid there is any convincing assertion of a role for omega-3 in the prevention of atrial fibrillation," added Dr Ranjit Suri, overseer of the Electrophysiology Service and Cardiac Arrhythmia Center at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City, who was not knotty with the trial. The study was funded by GlaxoSmithKline.
Omega-3 fatty acids, which are found in fatty fish such as salmon and albacore tuna, had showed some show signs of in preventing heart disease in earlier trials. Of the sum 663 outpatient participants, 542 had paroxysmal atrial fibrillation, which appears fleetingly and resolves on its own, and 121 had persistent atrial fibrillation, which needs treatment.
Saturday 20 January 2018
Weakening Of Control Heart Rhythm
Weakening Of Control Heart Rhythm.
Leading US cardiac experts have tranquil the recommendations for tyrannical heart rate control in patients with atrial fibrillation, an pitted heart rhythm that can lead to strokes. More lenient management of the condition is safe for many, according to an update of existing guidelines from the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association (AHA). Atrial fibrillation, stemming from bizarre beating of the heart's two upland chambers, affects about 2,2 million Americans, according to the AHA. Because blood can clot while pooled in the chambers, atrial fibrillation patients have a higher jeopardy of strokes and pity attacks.
And "These new recommendations further the many options we have available to treat the increasing number of people with atrial fibrillation," said Dr Ralph Sacco, AHA president and chairman of neurology at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. "Health-care providers and patients essential to be informed of the many more options we now have".
Under the budding recommendations, treatment will aim to keep a patient's heart rate at rest to fewer than 110 beats per least in those with stable function of the ventricles, the heart's lower chambers. Prior guidelines stated that rigid treatment was necessary to keep a patient's heart rate at fewer than 80 beats per one sec at rest and fewer than 110 beats per bantam during a six-minute walk.
So "It's really been a long-standing belief that having a lower heart gauge for atrial fibrillation patients was associated with less symptoms and with better long-term clinical outcomes and cardiac function," said Dr Gregg C Fonarow, a professor of cardiology at the University of California Los Angeles. "But that was not matter to a prospective, randomized trial".
Leading US cardiac experts have tranquil the recommendations for tyrannical heart rate control in patients with atrial fibrillation, an pitted heart rhythm that can lead to strokes. More lenient management of the condition is safe for many, according to an update of existing guidelines from the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association (AHA). Atrial fibrillation, stemming from bizarre beating of the heart's two upland chambers, affects about 2,2 million Americans, according to the AHA. Because blood can clot while pooled in the chambers, atrial fibrillation patients have a higher jeopardy of strokes and pity attacks.
And "These new recommendations further the many options we have available to treat the increasing number of people with atrial fibrillation," said Dr Ralph Sacco, AHA president and chairman of neurology at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. "Health-care providers and patients essential to be informed of the many more options we now have".
Under the budding recommendations, treatment will aim to keep a patient's heart rate at rest to fewer than 110 beats per least in those with stable function of the ventricles, the heart's lower chambers. Prior guidelines stated that rigid treatment was necessary to keep a patient's heart rate at fewer than 80 beats per one sec at rest and fewer than 110 beats per bantam during a six-minute walk.
So "It's really been a long-standing belief that having a lower heart gauge for atrial fibrillation patients was associated with less symptoms and with better long-term clinical outcomes and cardiac function," said Dr Gregg C Fonarow, a professor of cardiology at the University of California Los Angeles. "But that was not matter to a prospective, randomized trial".
Sunday 6 March 2016
Pathological Heart Rhythm Is Related To Alzheimer's Disease
Pathological Heart Rhythm Is Related To Alzheimer's Disease.
People with atrial fibrillation, a manner of odd heart rhythm, are more likely than others to develop dementia, including Alzheimer's disease, a changed study finds. The presence of atrial fibrillation also predicted higher annihilation rates in dementia patients, especially among younger patients in the collect studied, meaning under the age of 70.
So "This leaves us with the finding that atrial fibrillation, unconnected of everything else, is a risk factor for dementia," said Dr Gary Kennedy, president of geriatric psychiatry at Montefiore Medical Center in New York City. "This is adding one more chum in the road toward understanding that cardiovascular disease is a major risk factor for dementia".
Now "Alzheimer's disease, in particular, is one where we don't rather understand the risk factors and what causes it, so studies adore this that try to investigate the causative effect will help us understand that and ultimately design therapies and approaches to avert or minimize disease," added Dr Jared Bunch. Who are suggestion author of a study appearing in the April edition of the HeartRhythm Journal and a cardiologist or electrophysiologist with Intermountain Medical Center in Murray, Utah.
This study, however, was not specifically set up to introduce a direct cause-and-effect relationship. The authors looked at 37025 patients without atrial fibrillation or dementia, grey 60 to 90, over a five-year period. Individuals who developed atrial fibrillation had a higher jeopardy of all types of dementia, even when other endanger factors were taken into account. Alzheimer's disease is by far the most common attitude of dementia.
People with atrial fibrillation, a manner of odd heart rhythm, are more likely than others to develop dementia, including Alzheimer's disease, a changed study finds. The presence of atrial fibrillation also predicted higher annihilation rates in dementia patients, especially among younger patients in the collect studied, meaning under the age of 70.
So "This leaves us with the finding that atrial fibrillation, unconnected of everything else, is a risk factor for dementia," said Dr Gary Kennedy, president of geriatric psychiatry at Montefiore Medical Center in New York City. "This is adding one more chum in the road toward understanding that cardiovascular disease is a major risk factor for dementia".
Now "Alzheimer's disease, in particular, is one where we don't rather understand the risk factors and what causes it, so studies adore this that try to investigate the causative effect will help us understand that and ultimately design therapies and approaches to avert or minimize disease," added Dr Jared Bunch. Who are suggestion author of a study appearing in the April edition of the HeartRhythm Journal and a cardiologist or electrophysiologist with Intermountain Medical Center in Murray, Utah.
This study, however, was not specifically set up to introduce a direct cause-and-effect relationship. The authors looked at 37025 patients without atrial fibrillation or dementia, grey 60 to 90, over a five-year period. Individuals who developed atrial fibrillation had a higher jeopardy of all types of dementia, even when other endanger factors were taken into account. Alzheimer's disease is by far the most common attitude of dementia.
Wednesday 13 August 2014
Cardiologists Recommend The Use Of Heart Rate Monitors
Cardiologists Recommend The Use Of Heart Rate Monitors.
A everywhere employed type of heart monitor may provide a simple way to predict a person's gamble for a common heart rhythm disorder called atrial fibrillation, according to a new look at Dec 2013. Researchers found that people who have a greater number of heart contractions called inopportune atrial contractions have a substantially higher risk for atrial fibrillation. These types of contractions can be detected by a 24-hour Holter monitor.
Premature atrial contractions are impulsive heartbeats that occur in the two higher chambers of the heart. A Holter monitor is a portable device that continuously monitors the electrical interest of a person's heart. The study included 1260 people, old 65 and older, who had not been diagnosed with atrial fibrillation and underwent 24-hour Holter monitoring.
A everywhere employed type of heart monitor may provide a simple way to predict a person's gamble for a common heart rhythm disorder called atrial fibrillation, according to a new look at Dec 2013. Researchers found that people who have a greater number of heart contractions called inopportune atrial contractions have a substantially higher risk for atrial fibrillation. These types of contractions can be detected by a 24-hour Holter monitor.
Premature atrial contractions are impulsive heartbeats that occur in the two higher chambers of the heart. A Holter monitor is a portable device that continuously monitors the electrical interest of a person's heart. The study included 1260 people, old 65 and older, who had not been diagnosed with atrial fibrillation and underwent 24-hour Holter monitoring.
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