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Showing 1 to 20 of 85 for “"Heart attack"”.
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Is Number of Pregnancies a Risk Factor for Heart Attack in Women?
… regarding number of pregnancies and coronary heart disease have shown inconsistent results. In the present study, we assessed the association between number of pregnancies and heart attack (HA) in women.Methods: Using data from NHANES III a cross sectional data analysis of 10634 women aged 17 …
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The embodied experience of women who suffered from heart attacks: an existential view
… embodied experience of women who suffered from heart attacks. The heart attack is primarily seen as a medical concern and is treated on that basis without giving significant attention to the person’s lived experience. Recently, researchers have attempted to bring the two monologues into a …
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Diabetes, diabetes complications, and their consequences in Mexican-American elders
… and depressive symptoms. Self-reported heart attack, self-reported stroke, mortality, and HbA1c measure were used as independent variables over the 11-year period. Results: 1) The estimated prevalence of diabetes was 22%. 2) The estimated prevalence of diabetic complications was 60% …
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Development and Analysis of a Minimally Invasive Post-Infarction Epicardial Patch Delivery Device
After a myocardial infarct (heart attack), the heart develops scar tissue that can impede normal function and eventually result in heart failure. There are a number of methods currently employed in the field to slow this degeneration, but none focus on explicitly returning the heart to pre-heart …
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The use of biomaterials for stem cell therapies to prevent myocardial damage post-infarct
… that are delivered to the surface of damaged heart tissue following a myocardial infarction. While current medical practices to address the immediate aftermath of a myocardial infarction (MI) have evolved tremendously, there are few, if any, techniques currently administered to slow, cease, or …
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Lifestyle self-management experiences of South Asians post myocardial infarction
Background: Coronary heart disease is the biggest killer in this country. South Asians carry the burden of increased incidence and prevalence and have poorer outcomes after a MI than the general UK population. Reviews have shown lifestyle modification including physical activity, healthy diet and …
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Psychosocial factors affecting adaptation of patients and spouses to myocardial infarction
Former heart attack patients and spouses in 140 Families completed a mailed self-report questionnaire containing the Family Inventory of Life Events and Changes, the Coping and Health Inventory For Parents, three scales developed For this study measuring family process variables and demographic …
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Design and Development of a Wearable Wireless Health Monitoring System: A Smart Watch Approach
… every year, about 610,000 people die because of heart disease in United States of America. (i.e. 1 in every 4 deaths.*) Heart disease is common for both men and women. Annually, about 370,000 people die because of coronary heart disease, which is the most common type of heart disease [1]. About …
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Molecular Regulation of Direct Cardiac Reprogramming
A heart attack (also known as myocardial infarction, MI) happens when the flow of blood to the heart is blocked. A massive heart attack can kill billions of cardiomyocytes. The heart has limited regenerative potential because adult mammalian cardiomyocytes cannot proliferate, therefore lost …
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TANGLED INFERENCES: AN INVESTIGATION OF INFERENCE WEBS IN METAPHYSICS, EPISTEMOLOGY, AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
… epistemic injustice. For example, women who have heart attacks are frequently misdiagnosed comparative to their male peers. I argue that this is, in part, due to the fact that someone’s being a woman blocks the inference to ‘this person is having an heart attack’ even when there is both i) a good …
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A Study Of Why Older People 65+ Do Or Do Not Exercise
… for exercising included necessity due to post-heart attack motivation, work-site exercise program or equipment availability, opportunity to habituate work-related tasks, spouse support, history of exercise experience, ability to exercise without injury, enjoyment of family outings, and an …
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Application-specific transfer learning over edge networks
… two case studies: mushroom sales prediction and heart attack detection system.
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Last Snow: An Analysis of an Original Electronic Music Suite
… convalescing in a hospital after a near fatal heart attack that was endured during the summer of 2009.
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Hypertension Prevalence Trends Among Mexican-Americans: NHANES 1999-2016
… to cardiovascular disease, including stroke, heart attack, and heart failure. Current National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 2015-2016 data reports that 29% of US adults above the age of 18 have hypertension. The objective of this project was to determine current and past …
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The Use of Hair Cortisol as a Biomarker of Chronic Stress in Patients with a recent Acute Myocardial Infarction
Background Acute Myocardial infarction (MI) or heart attack is a leading cause of death worldwide. Since an MI is a stressful life event, plasma cortisol levels are expected to increase significantly from the baseline. Cortisol and dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) as products of the …
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Exploring Factors Impacting Veterans' Hypertension Control
… common cardiovascular disease event of stroke, heart attack, chronic kidney disease and mortality. The purpose of this study was to describe multidimensional factors impacting veterans’ HTN control. Utilizing a descriptive, exploratory, cross-sectional, retrospective, convenience sampling …
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Role Of Substrate Stiffness In Driving Atherogenic Behavior In Macrophages.
… patients often remain asymptomatic until after a heart attack or stroke. Novel therapeutic approaches focus on tuning the body's own atheroprotective mechanisms to induce regression. My approach looks at macrophages, which is the most prominent immune cell type in atherosclerotic plaque due to its …
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Essays in health economics and productivity
… over 2% by always specifying a patient's type of heart failure. I find that hospitals only captured around half of this revenue. The key barrier to take-up is a principal agent problem, since doctors supply the valuable information but are not paid for it. Exploiting the fact that many doctors …
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The Mediating Role Of Self-Efficacy Beliefs, Perceptions Of Diabetes Responsibility, And Their Impact On Treatment Adherence Among Adolescents With Type 1 Diabetes
… problems such as blindness, renal failure, heart attack, lower limb amputations, and stroke are exacerbated if healthy monitoring of the condition is not adhered to consistently, and early after diagnosis. The present study sought to examine theoretical constructs which are important to …
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Emergency Medical Service EMR-Driven Concept Extraction From Narrative Text
… fatal to patients with situations like a stemi heart attack, a fatal accident injury, and so on, the importance of medical research to improve speed and efficiency in patient care, has increased. As researchers in the computer domain work hard to use automation in technology in assisting the …
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