We also evaluated the presence of genes that should be expressed in the heart because their products are structural and functional components of the cardiac muscle or are involved in regulation of heart function.
Studies of heart function after longer term anabolic steroid use found damage, weakening and an increased risk of heart failure.
Even the normal mice, however, showed some improvement on measures of heart function and bone loss.
The amount of heart function lost after an attack, or a series of attacks, depends in part on how much heart muscle has been destroyed.
If the law required "irreversible" cessation of heart function, Boucek concluded, there was no reason to wait much longer than that.
The amount of heart function lost after an attack, or series of attacks, depends, in part, on how much heart muscle has been destroyed.
In other persons, blood vessel damage is early and severe, coupled with serious deterioration of heart function.
The tendencies toward heart failure and toward impairment of heart function are the same as in rheumatic valvular disease.
Doctors not connected with Mr. Cheney's case said the letters were unclear and omitted key information like his medications and a standard measure of heart function known as the ejection fraction.
A key monitor of heart function is the ejection fraction, a test that measures the proportion of blood ejected from the main chamber of the heart in each beat.
It remains to be seen whether a majority of people who need assist pumps -- older patients with chronic heart failure -- can also regain a useful amount of heart function from being on a pump.
