Search Tag: risk of death
2017 07 May
Research presented at Heart Failure 2017 and the 4th World Congress on Acute Heart Failure reveals that unemployment is associated with a higher risk of death in patients with heart failure. See Also : Healthy Lifestyle - Key Factor in AF Prevention The study included more than 20,000 patients with heart failure. Risk of all-cause death and...Read more
2017 27 Mar
New research published in European Heart Journal indicates that cardiac lead extraction is safer in a high volume centre compared to a low volume centre – where patients who undergo the procedure have doubled risk of death while in hospital. The European Lead Extraction ConTRolled (ELECTRa) registry of transvenous lead extraction (TLE) outcomes was...Read more
2016 05 Jul
Patients with diabetes have a 50% increased risk of dying following an acute myocardial infarction (AMI) compared with those who've had a heart attack but don't have diabetes, the largest study of its kind ever conducted has revealed. Examining data on more than 700,000 AMI patients, UK researchers found that those with diabetes had a 65% increased...Read more
2016 09 Feb
Among older men with heart attack, heart failure or pneumonia, hospitalisation at Veterans Affairs (VA) hospitals was associated with lower 30-day all-cause mortality rates for heart attack and heart failure and higher 30-day all-cause readmission rates for these conditions as compared with hospitalisations at non-VA hospitals. Any absolute differences...Read more
2015 07 Jun
Researchers at Johns Hopkins report that while the overall risk of stroke and death is low in patients who undergo carotid stenting, the practice of ballooning the vessel after the wire mesh is inserted can double the risk of death and stroke during or shortly after the procedure. The findings have been published in the Journal of Vascular Surgery...Read more