They diagnosed his diabetes combined with kidney and heart failure because he had ignored his symptoms for so long.
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And general atherosclerosis, or hardening of the arteries, is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease, heart attack, and heart failure.
The person was rescued after a landslide, but died on the way to the hospital from injuries and heart failure, he said.
Wolfe, in contrast, grouped together a smorgasbord of heart problems that are harder to diagnose, such as angina, arrhythmia and heart failure, a weakening of the heart muscle.
Only by understanding the subtle genetic variations among hundreds of thousands of people--by sifting out the molecular misnomers that predispose someone to a particular malady--will scientists learn how to better predict, diagnose and ultimately cure difficult diseases like diabetes, schizophrenia and heart failure.
Only by understanding the subtle genetic variations in hundreds of thousands of people--by sifting out the molecular misnomers that predispose someone to a specific malady--will scientists learn how to better predict, diagnose and ultimately cure such difficult diseases as diabetes, schizophrenia and heart failure.
As just one example of many, half of all heart attack survivors have a damaged heart and suffer from heart failure, a condition my father had and died from some decades ago.
The misshapen heart is at a mechanical disadvantage, and the heart failure gets worse.
After years of struggling with Parkinson's disease and congestive heart failure, Nancy Williamson's mother became seriously ill last August and slipped into a coma from which doctors said she would never recover.
Vibha has long had poor health, with diabetes, obesity, and congestive heart failure, but things got much worse in the summer of 2009.
His diabetes and congestive heart failure are under much better control.
That puts the body into starvation mode, which can result in serious medical conditions like osteoporosis, severe dehydration and even heart failure, according to the National Eating Disorders Association.
He argues that because of the potential for heart attacks and other risks, including cases of heart failure and broken bones, Avandia should be yanked.
The study, performed in Argentina, followed more than 1, 500 patients with congestive heart failure for approximately 15 months to determine whether phone intervention reduced mortality and hospitalizations from heart failure.
The two deaths that appear to be the greater source of concern in the study were one patient with acute heart failure and another with respiratory failure.
My mother, with Alzheimer's, heart failure, and kidney failure, was not going to live long.
The conclusion: Take HRT for 10 years from soon after menopause (i.e. your last period, typically late 40s-late 50s) and you significantly REDUCE your risk of heart failure and heart attack.
But Professor Peter Sever, of the National Heart and Lung Institute at Imperial College London, said there were already effective drugs for heart failure and that Viagra's action was not unique.
Brown was hospitalized with pneumonia at Emory Crawford Long Hospital on Sunday and died of heart failure around 1:45 a.m.
His wife, Margaret Marshall, the former chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, confirmed his death from complications from heart and renal failure.
The septic shock had left her with heart and respiratory failure as well as dry gangrene of her foot, which would have to be amputated.
Wild success and heart-breaking failure are the order of the day.
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Mr Clarke was told by his GP to go on holiday but the day after he arrived he collapsed in his hotel room in front of his wife and died of heart failure.
Initially, Medtronic and Genzyme will work to complete an ongoing 300-patient trial in Europe testing whether injecting skeletal myoblasts into damaged areas of the heart during cardiac bypass surgery helps improve symptoms and reduces hospitalizations in heart failure patients.
For instance, a package of home care services and help with diet and transportation could greatly improve the quality of life for a senior with congestive heart failure and help her avoid the kind of health crisis that would result in a hospitalization.
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These and other data captured the interest of Servier, a global pharmaceutical company committed to heart failure and cardiovascular disease.
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Dr Noble and Dr Winslow, for instance, have been studying how the cellular changes that lead to congestive heart failure and ischaemia (two common heart complaints) can cause arrhythmia.
Pneumonia, heart failure, kidney failure and cancer each accounted for between five and seven percent of conditions doctors initially diagnosed as something else, according to a report in Reuters Health.
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Pneumonia, congestive heart failure and heart attack accounted for the bulk of the reduction in deaths.
But the 63-year-old's condition deteriorated and she died of heart failure on 4 December.
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