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Gender Aspects on Heart Failure
… differences between men and women with heart failure (HF). These differences may be so profound that they warrant differences in management and treatment. Furthermore women have been greatly underrepresented in clinical HF treatment trials. The major aim of the studies in the present …
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Women's Experiences With Chronic Heart Failure
… 4.1 million Americans suffer from chronic heart failure accounting for estimated direct and indirect costs of over $21 billion spent annually for health care. The incidence of heart failure has doubled each decade since the 1940's and slightly more men were inflicted with the illness. This …
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Treatment approaches to chronic decompensated heart failure
Heart failure remains, to this day, a clinical challenge for both patients and clinicians. For stage A and B patients, lifestyle changes, healthier diets, risk factors control, and comorbidities management are recommended. In stage C, aside from the general management in stages A and B are …
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Long Term Therapy of Chronic Heart Failure
Chronic Heart Failure (CHF), also known as Congestive Heart Failure, remains a major global health burden, requiring a thorough understanding of its complex pathophysiology and treatment. This thesis provides an in-depth review of the long-term management of CHF, beginning with its etiology and …
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Heart failure: Its impact on women's lives
Research has shown women are affected by heart failure differently than men, having different risk factors for heart failure (HF), a higher increase in mortality per decade, and longer survival after diagnosis. Women have also been greatly under-represented in studies of HF. A search of the …
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The Morbidity & Mortality of Prevalent Heart Failure
… unselected consecutive patients from the LLUMC heart failure clinic who were enrolled in the study from January to July 2006 and were followed up through the end of December 2010. The treatment policy at the clinic was to uptitrate dosages of beta-adrenergic blockade (β-blockers), …
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Biomechanics of Cardiac Remodelling in Heart Failure
Heart failure (HF) occurs when cardiac output does not meet the requirements of the body. HF is the result of maladaptive cardiac remodelling that alters myocardial structure and ventricular function. Current HF treatments were developed targeting patients with systolic dysfunction, but these …
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Dynamic treatment regimens for congestive heart failure
… are hospitalized with a diagnosis of congestive heart failure (CHF). This condition is characterized by inadequate tissue perfusion resulting from an inability of the heart to provide enough blood to meet the body's metabolic demands. Patients with CHF remain at a greater risk for mortality and …
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ROLE OF CIRCULAR PVT1 IN ISCHEMIC HEART FAILURE
… cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), including heart failure (HF). circRNAs can bind microRNAs (miRNAs), acting as competing endogenous RNAs (ceRNA), thus regulating the expression levels of miRNA target mRNAs. However, these interactions and their respective functions in ischemic HF (IHF) …
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Resistance training for patients with chronic heart failure
Chronic heart failure (CHF) patients are limited in functional capacity by muscle fatigue and breathlessness. The effects of resistance training on muscle strength and endurance and functional aerobic capacity were evaluated in 9 men (63 ± 11 years; mean ± s.d) with CHF (LVEF 26 ± 6%). Training …
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The Role of Metabolic Inflexibility in Heart Failure
Heart failure (HF) is a syndrome defined by the inability of the heart to supply adequate nutrients and oxygen to peripheral tissues. One of the most common causes of HF is chronic pressure overload due to hypertension, which leads to hypertrophic remodeling, accompanied by metabolic alterations. …
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Incidence of heart failure in an urban population
The overall aim of the thesis was to study heart failure (HF) in an urban population, with reference to immigrant status, biological, life style and socioeconomic risk factors. The thesis is based on four papers. Paper I included inhabitants (N=114,917; aged 40-89 years) in the city of Malmö, …
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ASSOCIATION BETWEEN HEART FAILURE AND HAND SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION
Heart failure (HF) is a complex syndrome characterized by structural or functional defects of ventricular filling or ejection fractions of the heart that do not meet metabolic requirements. While dyspnea, fatigue, and fluid retention are symptoms commonly reported by persons with HF (PwHF), …
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Insulin resistance, chronic heart failure and potential treatment
… resistant (IR) are highly prevalent among heart failure (HF) patients. There is now increasing evidence to suggest a bidirectional relationship between IR and HF. DM and IR not only lead to heart failure, but heart failure can also lead to the development of DM or IR.<br/><br/>The degree of …
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DIL - A CONVERSATIONAL AGENT FOR HEART FAILURE PATIENTS
… suffering from chronic diseases especially Heart Failure. Best efforts to address this alarming problem from the Care giver community have fallen short due to a number of factors most notably resource constraints like shortage of trained clinical staff, and money. Using a Design Science …
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Evaluating case-based reasoning for heart failure diagnosis
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1990.
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Clinical characteristics, causes, adherence to heart failure treatment guidelines and mortality of patients with acute heart failure: the Groote Schuur Hospital experience
Background: There is limited information on acute heart failure (AHF) and the treatment thereof in sub-Saharan Africa. Therefore, the aim of this study was to describe the clinical characteristics, causes, adherence to heart failure (HF) treatment guidelines and mortality of patients presenting to …
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Investigations Related to Dietary Sodium in Chronic Heart Failure
… the primary dietary therapy for individuals with heart failure (HF); however, there is little information available to support or refute the use of sodium restriction to manage HF. The overall goal of this work was to generate data related to dietary sodium in patients with chronic HF that would …
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Skeletal muscle structure and metabolism in chronic heart failure
Chronic heart failure (CHF) patients have poor exercise tolerance, which does not correlate with impaired central function. Consequently factors other than impaired cardiac function must contribute to the exercise intolerance. Maladaptations in skeletal muscle appear to be a likely reason for the …
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Mechanisms and Management of Breathlessness in Chronic Heart Failure
… options limited. This is particularly true for heart failure in which dyspnoea is a cardinal symptom, even when the heart failure is optimally managed. This thesis aims to untangle mechanisms and utilise this knowledge to optimise heart failure management. It focuses on the potential of …
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