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 Keeping The Heart Young A gene, P13K, appears to play a big role in cell generation and aging in the heart. Mice who had the gene suppressed had less thickening of heart tissue and better overall function. The findings likely apply to humans as well... more 11/06/09 Whole Grains Lower BP Risk Men who add more whole grains to their diet reduce their risk of hypertension or high blood pressure, a recent Harvard study has found. The study targeted men, but women see the same benefits... more 11/02/09 Doctor Visits: Race Matters African American patients tend to have less informative communication with their healthcare providers than do whites. The good news is that patients can help the process by... more 09/22/09 Weight Loss Renews Heart Your heart is more forgiving than you may think. The hearts of people who lost significant amounts of weight (45 pounds over a year) regained much of their ability to hold blood and... more 09/21/09 Come On and Get Happy! Postmenopausal women who had a positive, as opposed to pessimistic, outlook lived 16% longer. This new finding expands on work done with men. Attitude adjustment is possible... more 08/31/09 So Easy, A Child Can Do It Children as young as 9 years old can learn and apply CPR effectively, raising the possibility of in−school training and a new corps of kids who can save lives... more 08/28/09 Silent Strokes Still a Risk For those over 60, especially those with high blood pressure, the risk of having a silent or unnoticed stroke is greater than anyone expected. These strokes are likely to cause modest deficits... more 08/19/09 Protein Lowers Blood Pressure Eating a little more vegetable protein (think whole grains, beans and tofu) reduces systolic and diastolic blood pressure. Glutamic acid appears to be the source of the benefits...more 07/31/09 Red Yeast Rice, Natural Statin When red yeast is grown on rice, it produces an effective, natural statin that lowered cholesterol by 31 points without side effects. But is it an unregulated drug, or is it a dietary supplement?...more 07/21/09 Telehealth Aids Heart Patients Using the phone and Internet to provide follow-up services to patients, particularly heart patients, can greatly improve their health, reducing smoking, lowering blood pressure and...more 07/08/09 The Breakfast Of Arteries Eating a low-glycemic index breakfast, such as high-fiber cereal, can actually improve your arteries’ ability to dilate and may reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease...more 07/02/09 Exercises Ease Sleep Apnea Tongue and throat exercises can reduce the severity of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). The exercises helped increase oxygen intake...more 06/8/09 Hidden Salt – How to Find It What’s the first thing you should do to reduce the amount of salt in your diet? We’ll give you a hint: It does not involve putting away your saltshaker, but you do need to plan to...more 05/28/09 Walk Easy, Far, and Often After a heart attack, longer, slower, and more frequent exercise is better for your heart than the three-times-a-week program of vigorous exercise that is so often recommended...more 05/26/09 Brief Exposure, Big Response It doesn’t take long for air pollution or secondhand smoke to begin to affect your heart and cardiovascular system. Researchers saw risky changes after just ten minutes...more 05/12/09 Fructose Poses Risk to Heart Sweeteners might seem a simple subject, but unfortunately, the truth is fructose has a negative effect on cholesterol and triglyceride levels, while glucose does not...more 05/08/09 Lipoic Acid & Triglycerides A study of fat rats with high triglyceride levels has found that when they were given the coenzyme lipoic acid, their skyrocketing levels were cut in half...more 04/28/09 You Can Mend A Broken Heart? It has long been thought that heart cells cannot regenerate. Not true, according to a study that used a novel approach more common to archeology than to medicine...more 04/24/09 3 Grams Less Can Save Lives We’re talking about salt, of course. A computer model predicts that if Americans reduced their salt intake by just 3 to 6 grams a day, it would save up to 800,000 life-years over the next decade...more 04/16/09 Drug Ads Need To Offer More Direct-to-consumer advertising should do more to present the benefits of drugs, as well as side effects, so consumers can make better-informed decisions with their doctors. Drug fact boxes help... more 03/11/09 Exercise, How Much is Enough? Numbers may not lie, but they can confuse. There is a great deal of inconsistency among the various exercise guidelines out there today. What's a person to do?... more 03/09/09 Synthetic HDL, A New Weapon HDL is the good cholesterol. Now, scientists have produced a synthetic version of high density lipoprotein that may eventually help soak up the "bad" cholesterol that clogs arteries and causes cardiovascular disease...more 02/03/09 Leg Pain? Walk the Walk Peripheral artery disease (PAD) affects 1 out of 16 people over 40. It can cause leg pain, but many don’t even know they have it. The best treatment is to keep moving. ...more 01/30/09 Sleep More, Lower Your BP The more people sleep, the better the condition of their arteries. The effect seen was equivalent to a 17-point drop in systolic blood pressure. Women especially... more 1/27/09 A Song in Your Heart Like laughter, listening to music you like may actually help promote cardiovascular health by dilating arteries. But it has to be music you like... more 12/26/08 Metabolic Syndrome This cluster of factors that often leads to heart disease and diabetes and stroke appears to be influenced by poor dental health, lack of calcium and... more 12/23/08 Triglycerides Rising Our rising triglyceride levels are not a good sign. As they go up, so does the risk of stroke. Diet is the key to controlling them...more 12/11/08 My Boss Is Killing Me A new study has found what you may have suspected if you have ever had trouble with a boss: The stress of a bad boss can put you at risk for heart disease...more 12/09/08 Young Kids, Old Arteries Obese children have arteries that are similar to those of middle-aged adults. Researchers were surprised to see signs of atherosclerosis in children whose average age was 13...more 12/08/08 Clot-Busting Ultrasound Using ultrasound in conjunction with clot-dissolving drugs can help prevent deep vein thrombosis and ultimately, heart attacks and strokes. Clots form because...more 12/05/08 Aspirin -- A Mixed Picture Aspirin does not appear to prevent heart attacks, at least not in people who have never had one. And the risks remain...more 10/28/08 Surviving A Heart Attack When it comes to cardiac arrest, it is not just what you do, but also where you live that can make a difference. Communities need to check... more 10/18/08 Statins, Not For Women ? Cholesterol-lowering statins like Lipitor® may not work for women, according to a new study. For men, the picture is different... more 10/14/08 Killer Salt: Another Look A high-salt diet remains a sure way to develop hypertension, the high blood pressure that increases the likelihood of heart disease and stroke. And genes won’t... more 10/02/08 Life, Death and Coffee Coffee drinkers have a lower mortality rate, even from cardiovascular disease, according to a new long-term study medication as they should...more 9/2/08 Treatment Twofer: Depression, Hypertension Respond to Integrated Therapy People with depression also have hypertension, and their depression can mean they do not take their blood pressure medication as they should...more 8/1/08 Optimism Pays Off for Heart Patients Men who feel they are at low risk for heart disease are probably right - a case of positive thinking paying off perhaps? more 7/31/08 How to Increase "Good" Cholesterol High-density lipoprotein (HDL) -- "good" cholesterol -- is associated with lower risk of heart attack or stroke...more 6/12/08 Treating Heart Risk in the Obese -- Pills Are Not Enough Overweight people with hypertension, diabetes and high cholesterol may think that the medication they take will protect them from heart disease...more 6/3/08 Aspirin and Hypertension According to a new study, people with pre-hypertension who are treated with aspirin may experience significant reductions in blood pressure...more 5/28/08 Using Breakfast to Stabilize Blood Sugar What you eat for breakfast can reduce the insulin rollercoaster and your risk for heart attack, stroke, type 2 diabetes and heart failure...more 5/6/08 CHD Patients: Exercising the Least and Needing It Most People with coronary heart disease (CHD) are less likely than those without the disease to exercise regularly...more 4/1/08 Seeing It Coming Knowing all the warning signs of heart attack and what to do about them, can greatly improve outcomes...more 3/17/08 U.S. Leads Europe in Strokes American's are up to twice as likely to suffer a stroke as their European counterparts...more 3/13/08 Triglycerides: the New Cholesterol? A new study of triglicerides shows they need to be monitored just like cholesterol...more 2/22/08 Eat Less Or Exercise More? A Little of Either Will Help Your Heart Even a minor weight loss improves the elasticity of heart tissue...more 1/23/08 Calcium & Heart Attack in Older Women Calcium helps our bones, but may raise the risk of heart problems in women over 55...more 1/18/08 Men, Women and Aspirin An aspirin a day is a) good for you; b) bad for you; c) both of the above...more â12/4/07 Vitamin E: Yes and No Vitamin E is good for some, but not for all...more 9/18/07 Smoke Cigarettes and Heal Slower Smoking actually interferes with the healing process...more 6/21/07 "Good" Fat Protein May Protect Blood Vessels Good fat protein battles inflammation...more 6/6/07 What Do You Know About Stroke? Clot-busting drug can help decrease long-term effects of stroke...more 5/9/07 Belly Fat and Disease Excess belly fat contributes to increased inflammation? more 3/15/07 St. Valentine's Gift from Medicare Medicare patients can receive screening for aneurysms...more 2/5/07 USA #1 -- in Treating Hypertension US docs better at treating hypertension than Western European counterparts...more 1/23/07 Heart Failure: Fatter Is Better? Higher BMI = lower death rate? more 1/9/07 All or Nothing at All Only reducing smoking is not enough to avoid health consequences...more 11/28/06 Pregnant Smokers May "Program" Their Kids to Smoke Smoking pregnant women = smoking kids? more 11/28/06 Folic Acid Cuts Heart Disease Risk Using folic acid as a cheap and simple way of combatting heart disease and strokes... more 11/28/06 Does Prostate Cancer Treatment Cause Diabetes and Heart Disease? A common treatment increases risk for diabetes and cardiovascular disease... more 9/22/06 It Is the Humidity High humidity increases risk of heart attack...more 7/18/06 The Eyes Have It A quick way to identify potential stroke victims...more 4/19/05 Briefer Is Better Researchers find that 10 minutes of intense exercise may be more effective...more 9/30/04 Infected Hearts Researchers wonder whether heart attacks may result from an infection...more 3/28/02 CV Roto Rooter Keeping clogged arteries open may not always, even with surgery, be easy...more 12/6/01 Young Blood, Old Bodies A new study shows that exercise can slow down the aging process for our blood vessels...more 7/24/00 Low Cholesterol and Heart Problems Low cholesterol may not necessarily mean a healthy heart...more 5/18/00 | |
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