Jack Rubinstein
A heart attack occurs when blood flow is disrupted to the heart and is related to both the blockage and flow restoration (reperfusion injury). An occlusion during a heart attack can be cleared (mostly via stents), but there are no methods to decrease reperfusion injury even though animal studies have found that "preconditioning" has powerful protective effects. Through the observation of Jewish men wearing tefillin the investigators have discovered a method of bringing preconditioning to patients at risk for heart attacks. This study will focus on women as the majority of people who wear tefillin (and have been studied) are men.
Remote ischemic preconditioning (RIPC) is a process via which short bursts of ischemia result in dramatic subsequent protection in remote organs from a prolonged ischemic injury such as myocardial infarction from reperfusion injury. The translation of RIPC stimuli to clinically relevant therapies has not been successful as almost all prior research on RIPC (animal and human) involved the full blockage of blood flow to an organ or extremity (in humans commonly with full inflation cycles of a blood pressure cuff). Our laboratory's key translational insight involved the Jewish tradition of donnin…
Inclusion Criteria: * Females over 18 years of age Exclusion Criteria: * Current medication use for medical condition or active medical condition
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