الاثنين، 11 مارس 2013

ScienceDaily: Health & Medicine News

ScienceDaily: Health & Medicine News


Length of DNA strands can predict life expectancy

Posted: 10 Mar 2013 01:42 PM PDT

Can the length of strands of DNA in patients with heart disease predict their life expectancy? Researchers who studied the DNA of more that 3,500 patients with heart disease, say yes it can.

Mortality for acute aortic dissection near one percent per hour during initial onset

Posted: 10 Mar 2013 01:42 PM PDT

The belief among medical professionals in the 1950s that the mortality rate for type A acute aortic dissection during the initial 24 hours was one to two percent per hour appears to hold true in the contemporary era of treatment, based on a review of the large-scale IRAD registry.

New tool to eliminate 30-day hospital readmissions in heart failure patients

Posted: 10 Mar 2013 01:42 PM PDT

Researchers have developed an innovative tool designed to eliminate 30-day hospital readmissions for heart failure patients and improve the quality of medical care a patient receives in the hospital.

Store donated blood for more than 3 weeks? Say NO (nitric oxide)

Posted: 10 Mar 2013 01:42 PM PDT

Transfusion of donated blood more than three weeks old results in impaired blood vessel function, a new study of hospital patients shows. Blood banks now consider six weeks to be the maximum permitted storage time of blood for use in transfusion, but recent studies have suggested transfusing blood stored for more than a few weeks has adverse effects in patients undergoing cardiac surgery or critical care.

Coronary artery disease: Hybrid revascularization has similar rate of adverse events as stenting, study suggests

Posted: 10 Mar 2013 01:42 PM PDT

The first multicenter study of hybrid revascularization shows that the emerging procedure for treating coronary artery disease has a similar rate of major adverse events in the first year, compared with percutaneous intervention (stenting).

ECG screening for competitive athletes would not prevent sudden death, experts say

Posted: 10 Mar 2013 01:42 PM PDT

The risk of cardiovascular sudden death was very small and only about 30 percent of the incidence were due to diseases that could be reliably detected by pre-participation screening, even with 12-lead ECGs, according to new research in a US high school athlete population.

Coronary intervention procedures: Validated pre-procedure risk score reduces bleeding complications and can shorten stays

Posted: 10 Mar 2013 01:41 PM PDT

A clinical decision support tool helped physicians identify patients at high risk of bleeding complications prior to undergoing a coronary intervention procedure and helped guide the use of bleeding avoidance strategies, leading to less complications and a shorter hospital stay, according to a new study.

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