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Heart Disease
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Definition of Heart Disease
Heart disease is an umbrella term for a number of different diseases which affect the heart and is the leading cause of death in the United States as of 2007.
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Tiny Wire Provides Big Answers to Heart Disease
A device as small as a human hair is helping some doctors in Northeastern Wisconsin determine who needs open heart surgery. Not knowing was the hardest part for 74-year-old Nancy McCrary. "What would they find?" Aurora BayCare doctors discovered Nancy had an artery blockage. They needed to put her under anesthesia for a minor procedure to check it out.
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Oranges, a Major Player in the Prevention of Heart Disease
Oranges have been from time immemorial a staple food in the Mediterranean countries. They have also been a major player in protecting the people of that region from heart disease. Thus, if you never thought of oranges as a “must” food for your heart, here are some good reasons to start doing so.
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Researchers find possible link between childhood sleep disorder, heart disease
Children who snore and breathe irregularly while they sleep may be at risk for developing cardiovascular disease, according to researchers at the University of Louisville in Circulation, Journal of the American Heart Association. A team under the direction of David Gozal, director of the Kosair Children’s Hospital Research Insitute and chief of pediatric sleep medicine at UofL, found that obstructive sleep apnea could harm blood vessels, but that treating OSA in a timely fashion could help prevent future heart disease in some children.
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Handwriting a window to your heart?
The early signs of heart disease may show up in your handwriting, says one researcher, an idea others have likened to palm reading. Findings of study carried out at the UK's Poole Hospital were presented at a recent International Graphonomics Society conference in Melbourne.
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Depression May Not Cause Heart Problems
New research suggests that depression does not cause heart attacks or related problems in patients with heart disease. Multiple studies have described strong associations between depression and heart problems in people with heart disease. However, lead author Dr. Ralph A. H. Stewart, at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, and colleagues suggest in their paper, published in a recent issue of the European Heart Journal, that many of these studies only looked at the period soon after a heart attack or other cardiac event.
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US Preventive Medicine（R） Says Study on Heart Disease-related Deaths Demonstrates Need for Preventive Medical Care
A new study that shows young women are dying of heart disease while the death rate for men has leveled off offers strong evidence that preventive medical care is the most effective solution to fighting the war on cardiovascular disease, said Christopher T. Fey, the chairman and CEO of U.S. Preventive Medicine.
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Walking Found to Lower Heart Disease Risk
While exercise is pretty much universally recommended as a disease-preventer and important contributor to good health, there's a surprising dearth of studies supporting this premise. Most recommendations for exercise have come from epidemiological studies, which may find associations between, say, activity and better health, but do not prove that it's the activity itself that's is causing improvement. Active individuals may, after all, smoke less or eat more healthily than less active individuals, and it may be these factors that are responsible for the apparent relationship between activity and enhanced health.
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Walking Found to Lower Heart Disease Risk
While exercise is pretty much universally recommended as a disease-preventer and important contributor to good health, there's a surprising dearth of studies supporting this premise. Most recommendations for exercise have come from epidemiological studies, which may find associations between, say, activity and better health, but do not prove that it's the activity itself that's is causing improvement. Active individuals may, after all, smoke less or eat more healthily than less active individuals, and it may be these factors that are responsible for the apparent relationship between activity and enhanced health.
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New Study Finds Lowering Cholesterol Can Be Harmful to Your Health
For years, well-meaning doctors, echoed by the media, have emphasized what they long believed is the intimate link between cholesterol and death by heart disease. However, you may be surprised to learn that lowering your cholesterol levels can actually be harmful to your health.
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Cellular Therapies for Treating Heart Disease to Make an Impact by the End of the Decade
In spite of decades of research and drug development, the field of cardiology has struggled to address the needs and problems of patients with compromised or diminished cardiovascular function – a population that represents the largest single treatable segment in healthcare. But new technology is laying the foundation for what may be a new paradigm in the way cardiac medicine is practiced.
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Heart disease is the top cause of death in county
Heart disease may no longer be the leading cause of death among North Carolinians, but it is still the top killer in Davidson County, according to recently released statistics. Mortality data for 2006 from the N.C. State Center for Health Statistics show that cancer is now the state's No. 1 cause of death. Heart disease dropped to second place for the first time in nearly 90 years.
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Doctors worrry that, once broken, a patient’s habit of taking daily statins can be hard to re-establish
Prince Albert brought the tradition of Christmas trees to Britain in the mid-19th century, and Coca-Cola popularized the red-clothed Santas ahead of the rather more obviously pagan, forest-green Father Christmas. Feasting at Christmas time has been traditional for thousands of years. Standard Christmas fare is not as bad for the arteries as might be supposed as its potentially dangerous components are balanced by nuts, carefully chosen cheeses, currants and raisins, cranberries, black chocolate and modest amounts of mulled red wine.
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Simple steps could have big health impact - studies
Widespread efforts to cut salt intake, curb smoking and to ensure those at risk of heart disease take needed drugs could prevent millions of deaths each year, international researchers said on Tuesday. Such simple measures would cost little, but save billions of dollars in lost productivity and health costs, researchers from the World Health Organization and others said in a special report in the Lancet medical journal.
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Study: Young Women Must Do More to Prevent Heart Disease
On Tuesday, U.S. Preventive Medicine, a privately owned company that organizes and commercializes the market for proactive preventive health services, announced that a new study showing young women are dying of heart disease even as the death rate for men has leveled off offers strong evidence that prevention is the best solution to fighting the war on cardiovascular disease. The study shows that more women under the age of 45 are dying of heart disease due to clogged arteries, while at once the death rate for men of that age range has leveled off.
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