Sentence examples for elderly heart from inspiring English sources

The study, conducted at Yale, involved reviewing the records of 78,974 elderly heart patients.

Over the next three years, about 1,800 elderly heart patients, at a cost of $7,200 each, will follow the program, run out of at least 15 centers whose staffs are trained by Dr. Ornish, for one year.

I applaud Medicare for its plan to investigate preventive medicine by financing a study using Dr. Dean Ornish's diet plan with elderly heart patients ("Medicare to Run Diet Experiment for Critically Ill," April 11).

Giving blood transfusions to elderly heart attack patients who are anemic appears to reduce their death rates within the next month, according to a study published on Oct. 25 in The New England Journal of Medicine.

One study had to be stopped several years ago because too many doctors were unwilling to recommend that their elderly heart attack patients enter a study in which the choice of treatment -- a clot-busting drug or a placebo -- was made by a flip of the coin.

If you can catch problems early, such as a sudden weight gain in an elderly heart patient, in theory you can get them to the doctors' office and fix the issue long before it spirals out of control.

The country spends about $8 billion a year treating elderly heart-disease patients.

The participants in the Rotterdam Study are followed for a variety of diseases that are frequent in the elderly: coronary heart disease, heart failure and stroke, Parkinson disease, Alzheimer disease and other dementias, depression and anxiety disorders, macular degeneration and glaucoma, respiratory diseases, liver diseases, diabetes mellitus, osteoporosis, dermatological diseases and cancer.

A fatherly call to the elderly Texas heart surgeon Denton Cooley about Mr. Cheney's health was also made public.

Drug companies are feverishly developing drugs to prevent, treat or cure ailments of the elderly including heart disease, cancer and stroke, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's disease, osteoporosis and arthritis.

Humana plans to sign up 2,000 high-risk elderly congestive heart failure patients next year in a study using a monitoring device from Intel like the ones in the Mayo Clinic trial.