Jan 27, 2021
TUESDAY, Jan. 26, 2021 (HealthDay News) Women are more likely than men to suffer sudden cardiac death (SCD) during nighttime hours, according to a study published online Jan. 19 in
Heart Rhythm.
Archana Ramireddy, M.D., from the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai Health System in Los Angeles, and colleagues characterized nighttime SCD (occurring from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m.) using data from the Oregon Sudden Unexpected Death Study.
The researchers identified 4,126 SCD cases (66.2 percent male), of which 22.3 percent occurred during nighttime hours. Women were more likely to suffer from nighttime SCD than men (25.4 versus 20.6 percent). Female sex (odds ratio, 1.3), medications associated with somnolence/respiratory depression (odds ratio, 1.2), and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease/asthma (odds ratio, 1.4) were independently associated with nighttime SCD.
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What is heart failure?
Heart failure doesn t mean the heart has stopped beating. Quite simply, heart failure happens when the heart muscle can t pump enough blood to supply the body s needs. And it can happen to anyone even if you have a healthy lifestyle or never had a heart attack.
An inherited heart condition, or a poorly managed disease such as diabetes which can damage the heart, could nudge you into a higher risk status. What s not as easy to comprehend is that heart failure is multifaceted. It can be mild, with no symptoms, or it can be quite severe in which a patient needs a heart transplant to survive.
What Is Acute Heart Failure? Here’s What You Need to Know Lisa Marie Conklin
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What is heart failure?
If ever there were a prize awarded for most misleading name given to a medical condition, heart failure would win hands down. Heart failure (also called congestive heart failure) is a terrible name which suggests the heart has stopped working completely, says Anthony Steimle, MD, a cardiologist and assistant physician in chief of cardiovascular services at Kaiser Permanente in Santa Clara, California. In fact, the heart has
not stopped working. The heart muscle, however, is damaged.
Specifically, the heart can become weak and unable to pump blood (systolic heart failure), or the heart can become stiff and unable to fill with blood adequately (diastolic heart failure).
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Does chest pain on the left side mean a heart attack?
Who hasn t seen an actor on TV or in a movie fall to their knees clutching the left side of their chest, clearly in pain and in distress? The character was clearly having a heart attack, as far as we could tell.
Chest pain is one of the symptoms of a heart attack. But it doesn t automatically mean you re having one. It could be a symptom of a less serious condition such as heartburn or pain from excessive coughing when you have a chest infection.