People with heart failure often have a lower quality of life than arthritis, chronic lung disease or angina sufferers.
Each person had suffered angina (chest pain), had at least one heart attack, and had undergone by-pass surgery.
In both groups, patients said both the severity of their angina symptoms, and their quality of life had improved.
He had been looking peaky for a little while, and many people knew he had been suffering from angina.
The FDA approved Ranexa for use only when other anti-angina drugs have failed.
Millions of heart patients have gotten cardiac stents placed in their arteries to stave off chest pain from angina and open dangerously-clogged arteries.
The average number of angina attacks among participants dropped from 48 per week before gene therapy to two per week six months afterwards.
Patients on the drug showed a tendency towards a slightly lower rate of heart attacks and unstable angina, although this was not statistically significant.
Shortly afterwards, Philpott became unwell, the officer said, and suffered an angina attack for which his wife Mairead had to bring a medicated spray.
To fall into the group with cardiovascular disease you need to have symptoms such as angina (heart pain), and clogged arteries diagnosed following tests.
Every year, more than 1.4 million people in the UK suffer from angina, 300, 000 people have heart attacks and 110, 000 people die of heart problems.
These clinics will ensure that people suspected of suffering from angina can be assessed by a specialist within two weeks of referral by a GP.
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.
The chemical is used for drugs to treat angina patients.
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And patients who developed angina, a painful heart condition resulting from arteriosclerosis, had depression scores that were nearly twice as high (12.2) as diabetics whose hearts stayed healthy (6.6).
Weldon launched the first drug-coated stent, Cypher, for angina, a kind of heart pain, and then had so much trouble competing with Abbott and other rivals that it eventually closed the division.
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Then, in November 2008, another study of nearly 15, 000 participants indicated that taking vitamins C or E had no impact on the incidence of heart attack, stroke, congestive heart failure or angina.
The cardiologist falsely diagnosed a majority of his Medicare and Medicaid patients with coronary artery disease and debilitating and inoperable angina so he could treat them, unnecessarily, with enhanced external counterpulsation, or EECP, prosecutors said.
Aspirin can also be used as a long term treatment for those with a history of heart attack and stroke, or who have peripheral arterial disease, stable angina or atrial fibrillation - an irregular heart rhythm.
Now the debate over CVT should focus on whether the FDA will allow the company to market Ranexa as a first choice for angina patients, and whether doctors are going to buy the company's sales pitch.
The trial showed that patients randomized to chelation therapy had a lower risk of a combined endpoint of death, heart attack, stroke, percutaneous coronary intervention, bypass surgery or hospitalization for angina than those who received a placebo infusion.
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If the person later felt any chest pain, they could do a further test, and the machine would tell them if there was any sign of a heart attack or angina and direct them to seek medical attention.
In England, Scotland and Wales, patients with angina, valvular heart disease, a heart murmur or heart failure do not have to tell the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) and can continue to drive a car a month after an episode as long as their doctor says they are fit to.
In the 4, 162-person PROVEIT study, Harvard cardiologists found that patients hospitalized for heart attacks or unstable angina who took a 80-milligram dose of Lipitor were 16% less likely to suffer heart attacks or other cardiovascular "events" over two years than those who took a lower dose of Bristol-Myers Squibb 's (nyse: BMY - news - people ) Pravachol.
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