Smoking cessation in patients with coronary heart disease.
I declare that this thesis is entirely my own work and that it has been submitted only for the degree of PhD. Alexander Woods 13. Abstract Coronary heart disease is the leading cause of premature death in the UK. Chest pain, the most common symptoms associated with this disease, accounts for 1% of all primary care consultations, 5% of visits to emergency departments, and up to 40% of.
This thesis has demonstrated that, in Scotland, elderly patients account for an increasing number and proportion of diagnostic coronary angiograms and PCIs. However, the threshold for investigation and subsequent intervention appears to be higher among the elderly, even after adjusting for co-morbidities. While elderly patients have a higher.
Smoking is the most important modifiable risk factor for coronary heart disease, and a leading cause of death (De Hollander et al., 2007). Giving up smoking after developing coronary heart disease improves the prognosis more than any other treatment, and prevents future cardiovascular incidents (Critchley and Capewell, 2004, Mohiuddin et al.
Coronary heart disease (CHD) and depression are very common and often co-existing disorders. The prevalence of depression among patients with CHD is considerably higher as compared to the general population. Depression exacerbates adverse cardiac outcomes in CHD patients increasing the risk of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality, besides worsening the psychological and social morbidity.
However, the majority of these athletes had a pre-existing electromechanical or structural heart disease, most commonly associated with atherosclerotic coronary artery disease (CAD). In view of these serious outcomes, it can be inferred that moderate exercise may be the most desirable activity, because it is not necessary that physical activity be of high intensity to elicit the same health.
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) has become the most common cause of mortality worldwide, accounting for approximately 30% of all deaths. The primary pathological process that underlies it is atherosclerosis. Atherosclerosis leads to the development of flow-limiting lesions that accumulate over years to decades under the stimulus of genetic and environmental factors.
However, methylmercury exposure, mainly through certain fish species, attenuated these associations, according to a new PhD thesis from the University of Eastern Finland. Coronary heart disease is a major cause of mortality globally. Also in Finland, despite a sharp decline in the recent decades, coronary heart disease is still one of the main causes of death. It has been suggested that a.
This thesis presents a qualitative study of cardiac rehabilitation (CR) patients’ perspectives on Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) and its treatment (i.e. medicines and lifestyle modification). An overview of CHD and a description of the CR programme undertaken by the patients in this study are provided in section 1.2. After this, the study.
States accounting for 34.3% of all deaths in the U.S. in 2006 (American Heart Association, 2010; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2009). Atherosclerotic heart disease, otherwise known as coronary heart disease or coronary artery disease, is most often caused by atherosclerosis that occurs due to the deposition of cholesterol in.
Risk of Coronary Heart Disease PhD thesis Majken Karoline Jensen Faculty of Health Sciences University of Aarhus 2008 Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Aarhus University Hospital Department of Cardiology, Aalborg Hospital, Aarhus University Hospital, Aalborg Institute of Preventive Medicine, Center for Health and Society, Copenhagen. 1 This thesis is based on the following studies: Study I.
The coronary arteries divide into large and medium-sized arteries that run along the heart’s surface (epicardial coronary arteries) and subsequently send smaller arterioles into the myocardium. The left coronary artery begins as the left main artery and quickly divides into the left anterior descending (LAD), circumflex, and sometimes an intermediate artery (ramus intermedius).
Coronary artery disease results once your coronary arteries, the main veins that provide your heart with blood, and nutriments get ruined. Dietary fat comprising dregs (plaque) in your veins and irritation are usually causes coronary artery malady. As dregs expand, coronary arteries are taper, abating blood stream to your heart. Later, chest distress (angina) or another coronary artery malady.
This thesis investigates the association in Britain between education and coronary heart disease (CHD) in two birth cohort studies and repeated cross-sectional studies from which synthetic cohorts were constructed according to minimum school leaving age in adolescence, with a longitudinal element derived from death registration. The thesis aimed to examine the association between education and.
