It will enroll 10, 000 people who already have heart trouble, such as past heart attacks or chest pain.
The use of lovastatin also reduced the first incidence of heart attack or chest pain by 37 percent.
Elizabeth Shassere, from Herefordshire Council, said anyone with symptoms of coughing and wheezing, breathlessness, phlegm or chest pain should seek medical advice from their GP.
The highest doses of each drug available at the time of the study were used, and only the sickest patients--those who had just had heart attacks or chest pain--were used in the trial.
However, most kidney tumors these days are found not because they cause symptoms, but are spotted by accident when people are having an X-ray or other imaging test for something else, like back trouble or chest pain.
Patients with high BMIs or with chest pain or pressure at presentation were less likely to have a false-positive activation.
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If you develop difficulty breathing or shortness of breath, chest pain or abdominal pain, sudden dizziness, confusion or have persistent vomiting, you should seek medical attention immediately.
For instance, cholesterol drugs are so good at preventing second heart attacks that giving them to people who have had heart attacks or persistent chest pain might save money.
These include shortness of breath or wheezing, weakness, dizziness, lightheadedness, fainting or near fainting, and chest pain or discomfort.
Angioplasty was invented in the 1970s as a way to clear clogged arteries and relieve chest pain or treat heart attacks without opening a patients' chest.
Patients taking 80 milligrams of Lipitor were 16% less likely to die, have a heart attack, undergo bypass or angioplasty surgery, or develop worsening chest pain than those taking 40 milligrams of Pravachol.
Dr. GERBER: You're probably going to want to make that investment in a patient that truly has something to gain, and those would be the patients who already have signs or symptoms of heart (unintelligible) disease: Such as chest pain, or shortness of breath or exercise intolerance.
They were short of breath, had chest pain or diarrhea or influenza or all three.
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If you experience any chest pain or shortness of breath, stop immediately and call 911.
"Yet despite being the UK's single biggest killer, the first sign someone has heart disease is often severe chest pain or sudden death".
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In any study of people with cardiovascular disease, many more patients will have chest pain or stents than those who actually have heart attacks or strokes.
Of the patients who received chelation, 27% had one of the following: a death, a stroke, a heart attack, a stent procedure to open a heart artery, or a hospitalization for chest pain.
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If you have acute pericarditis, the most common symptom is sharp, stabbing chest pain behind the breastbone or in the left side of your chest.
Somewhere in the United States at this moment, a patient with chest pain, or a tumor, or a cough is seeing a doctor.
This is a medicine to prevent heart attacks and strokes in patients who suffer acute coronary syndrome, the condition that occurs after a heart attack or serious heart-related chest pain.
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"There might always be the occasion where we've got a child not breathing or someone in cardiac arrest or an elderly patient with chest pain that needs that response, " Mr Brown added.
Rarely, a mass in the mediastinum is diagnosed because it produces chest pain, cough or shortness of breath.
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Symptoms may start with a dull pain in the chest or disguise themselves as indigestion, nausea, shortness of breath or heartburn.
Participants completed a daily diary for the duration of their illness and rated the the severity of their symptoms including cough, shortness of breath, chest pain, and blocked or runny nose.
However, some people with acute pericarditis describe their chest pain as dull, achy or pressure-like instead, and of varying intensity.
The new treatment offers particular promise in patients who suffer from chest pain but for whom angioplasty or bypass surgery is no longer an option.
In heart disease studies, for example, subjective outcomes might include the duration and severity of chest pain, shortness of breath, or ability to exercise without pain.
One study found that chest-pain patients who were treated aggressively -- with, say, angioplasty, cardiac bypass or sophisticated clot-busting drugs -- did better than those whose doctors took a "wait and see" approach.
The drug is approved to treat chest pain due to heart problems, but a big study failed to prove Ranexa can prevent heart attacks or extend lives.
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