{"id":359122,"date":"2015-05-31T07:51:34","date_gmt":"2015-05-31T12:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=359122"},"modified":"2015-06-01T11:42:48","modified_gmt":"2015-06-01T16:42:48","slug":"ut-tyler-professor-awarded-grant-from-american-heart-association","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=359122","title":{"rendered":"UT Tyler Professor Awarded Grant from American Heart Association"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"thumb_uttyler\"<\/a>TYLER — Dr. Benjamin Tseng has been awarded a $140,000 research grant from the American Heart Association to potentially revise stroke prevention guidelines by investigating risks in certain older adult populations, Dr. Michael Odell, vice president for research and technology transfer, announced. With the grant, Tseng will conduct a six-month randomized controlled trial consisting of an exercise and a control group in adults aged 55-75 years with clinically diagnosed paroxysmal atrial fibrillation, or AFib. A UT Tyler news release says UTT health and kinesiology graduate students Colby Craddock and Kasra Debeshlim, both of Tyler, will assist with the study. <\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The objective of this two-year clinical intervention study is to determine if moderate aerobic training reduces stroke risk by improving arterial stiffness, brain blood flow and decreasing cardiovascular burden in AFib patients,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Tseng, an assistant professor who directs the UT Tyler Laboratory of Brain Aging and Neuromotor Behavior. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153If effectiveness of our non-pharmacological approach is confirmed, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll apply this method on a large-scale clinical investigation and hopefully change the stroke prevention guidelines via AHA and the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

The UT Tyler team will assess the patients at baseline and after six months, according to the news release. Their assessment will involve heart rhythm monitoring, neuroimaging methods, and ultrasound – as well as what’s termed a cutting-edge method called applanation atonometry, in which the stiffness of blood vessels is measured without skin penetration. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Atherosclerosis \u00e2\u20ac\u201c or the stiffening of arteries \u00e2\u20ac\u201c is highly associated with AFib. In contrast, aerobic training has been shown to reduce arterial stiffness and improves brain blood flow in order adults,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Tseng said.<\/p>\n

According to Tseng, AFib is the most common type of irregular heartbeat among older adults, and the disease is the leading cause of fatal ischemic stroke \u00e2\u20ac\u201c in which blood clots obstruct blood flow in the brain. The current standard of care passively relies on blood thinning medication, and current therapy also fails to incorporate proactive strategies to modify underlying risk factors that contribute to ischemic stroke, Tseng added.<\/p>\n

The American Heart Association is the nation\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s leading non-profit organization in fighting cardiovascular diseases and stroke, according to the news release. For more information about the study, contact Tseng at btseng@uttyler.edu<\/a> or 903.566.7042. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TYLER — Dr. Benjamin Tseng has been awarded a $140,000 research grant from the American Heart Association to potentially revise stroke prevention guidelines by investigating risks in certain older adult populations, Dr. Michael Odell, vice president for research and technology transfer, announced. With the grant, Tseng will conduct a six-month randomized controlled trial consisting of … Continue reading UT Tyler Professor Awarded Grant from American Heart Association<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-359122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-15 18:35:18","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=359122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":359124,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359122\/revisions\/359124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=359122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=359122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=359122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}