"long term heart" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this phrase to refer to conditions, effects, or feelings that persist for an extended period of time, such as: "The long term heartache from the breakup was more difficult to bear than the initial shock."
"Both of these," says Ludwig, "are tightly linked to long term-heart risk and mortality".
The cause was complications of a long-term heart ailment, her son, Joel Raphaelson, said.
Their subjects were participants in a long-term heart study of students from the University of North Carolina who had entered that institution in the 1960s.
Long-term heart transplant survivor Amy Silverstein writes about the choices she has made, and the complex emotions that inform those decisions, in her memoir "Sick Girl" (Grove Press, 2007).
Dr. Bruce M. Psaty, a professor of medicine and epidemiology at the University of Washington, said yesterday that Merck should follow the patients until it knew for certain whether Vioxx caused long-term heart damage.
Over all, the research showed that a person's fitness level at midlife is a strong predictor of long-term heart health, proving just as reliable as traditional risk factors like cholesterol level or high blood pressure.
But in analyzing the data, the researchers suggested that the treadmill results could be translated to average mile times, offering a simple formula for doctors and individuals to rate their fitness level at midlife and predict long-term heart risk.
People with other health conditions, including cancer, long-term heart, lung and kidney diseases and diabetes are also at increased risk, as are those whose immune system has been weakened through chemotherapy or certain medications or because they have HIV/Aids.
