Drinking water may help reduce cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk, while excessive coffee and tea intake (≥6 cups/day) ...

The key point here is that many of the problems triggered by CAD — including heart failure, arrhythmia and heart attack ... Aim for an eating pattern that includes whole foods, lots of fruits and ...

Additionally, individuals with an average of three consecutive measurements of systolic blood pressure ≥140 mmHg or diastolic blood ... of angina and congestive heart failure in individuals who have ...

Thus, while all episodes of AHF are accompanied by an increase in LV end-diastolic pressure (LVEDP), there ... Hypertensive AHF is a common phenotype with a distinct pattern of cardiac dysfunction ...

—Previous echocardiography studies have suggested that diastolic dysfunction may precede systolic dysfunction and chamber dilation in DMD, which suggests that identifying diastolic indices and ...

The severity of left ventricular diastolic dysfunction affects risk for incident stroke and transient ischemic attack, as well as major bleeding.

Community-based studies revealed a higher prevalence of LV systolic and diastolic dysfunction using the new echocardiographic imaging techniques. Future prospective studies will clarify the ...

Diastolic dysfunction increasingly is recognized as an important cause of congestive heart failure (CHF). In this study, Mayo Clinic researchers surveyed a random sample of 2042 adults (age ...

Researchers have found that adding just the right amount of disorder to the structure of certain materials can make them more than twice as resistant to cracking.