Science news articles about 'new york heart association'

  • Exercise plus psychological counseling may benefit depressed heart failure patients

    ... Care and Outcomes Research in Cardiovascular Disease and Stroke. In a new study, researchers divided 74 ... Scale for Depression. The participants were either New York Heart Association class II or class ...
  • Patients with heart failure often overestimate life expectancy

    ... African American; 42 percent New York Heart Association [NYHA] class III ... sex alone, without regard for the presence of heart failure. Patient characteristics that were predictive of overestimation ...
  • Artificial pump effectively backs up failing hearts

    ... patients were rated class four on the New York Heart Association scale — they were short of breath ... shape, making them better candidates for heart transplantation." The VentrAssist device pumps blood ...
  • New therapy found to prevent heart failure

    ... are approved for use in patients with severe heart failure (New York Heart Association class III/IV), where they have been shown to reduce heart failure symptoms. The findings from the current study ...
  • Stuy in NEJM: New therapy prevents heart failure

    ... lived longer and were subsequently at increased risk for heart failure. This created an urgent need to better ... patients with symptoms of severe heart failure (New York Heart Association [NYHA] class ...
  • The GISSI-HF trial

    ... and mortality in a large population of patients with symptomatic heart failure of any cause. The GISSI researchers ... 6 975 patients with chronic heart failure of New York Heart Association class II-IV ...

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