Cardiology News
3 Feb 2012 at 7:33pm
Dr. Arshed Quyyumi, a cardiologist at Atlanta's Emory University, says emotional stress from disasters like earthquakes or floods can trigger heart attacks and even death.
3 Feb 2012 at 6:33pm
"It started just like any other typical day..." says the character in the short film.
3 Feb 2012 at 5:28pm
Richard Becker, a Westchester cardiologist and county legislator sent out an email to supporters crowing that he is now the front-runner in the Democratic primary for the right to take on Nan Hayworth for the Hudson Valley congressional seat.
3 Feb 2012 at 1:19pm
Dr Charlene Haley Prof Juhn Hurley Dr Mensud Hatunic Dr Paul Keelan Dr Niamh Murphy at the launch of the Mater Private Heart and Vascular centre at Cross lanes Drogheda PATIENTS in Co Louth who would normally travel to Dublin for cardiac and vascular services will now be able to access services closer to home.
3 Feb 2012 at 12:14pm
Lillian Krider, 71, thought the swelling in her ankles and her shortness of breath were signs of her age.
3 Feb 2012 at 7:54am
Newswise - Linda H. Cripe, MD, a distinguished pediatric cardiologist, has joined the Heart Center at Nationwide Children's Hospital.
3 Feb 2012 at 7:54am
MOBILE, Alabama -- Heart disease, research shows, kills more women than all cancers combined in the United States.
3 Feb 2012 at 5:44am
It's Heart Health Month and NorthBay Medical Center kicked off the month full of heart-centered activities by celebrating the first STEMI receiving center in Solano County.
3 Feb 2012 at 1:45am
But Thursday night they did, and it was all for the "Red Dress Dash" to raise awareness for heart disease.
2 Feb 2012 at 9:30pm
The South Shelby Chamber of Commerce will hold its February luncheon today at 11:30 a.m. at the Columbiana United Methodist Church.
2 Feb 2012 at 5:20pm
In honor of February being American Heart Month, WTOP will hold a live chat with Washington cardiologist, Dr.
2 Feb 2012 at 3:16pm
We've heard too many loud claims about heart healthy super foods, miracle diets and medical "breakthroughs." If there's evidence to back them up, it's often overstated.
2 Feb 2012 at 3:16pm
Since February is designated as American Heart month, Silver Cross is excited to offer heart patients a wide variety of cardiac services at the new Hospital opening Feb.
2 Feb 2012 at 12:06pm
With the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's recent approval of transcatheter aortic valve replacement for patients with aortic valvular stenosis, the American College of Cardiology Foundation , along with the American Association for Thoracic Surgery , the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions and the Society of Thoracic ... (more)
2 Feb 2012 at 8:01am
"We're talking instead about reducing their salt consumption to improve their blood pressure.
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Cardiovascular / Cardiology News From Medical News Today
2 Feb 2012 at 9:00am
According to a study in the February edition of Liver Transplantation, a journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, preoperative cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) is a specific predictor of 90-day survival after liver transplantation...
2 Feb 2012 at 3:00am
With the U.S...
2 Feb 2012 at 2:00am
Individuals who drink diet soft drinks on a daily basis may be at increased risk of suffering vascular events such as stroke, heart attack, and vascular death. This is according to a new study by Hannah Gardener and her colleagues from the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and at Columbia University Medical Center...
1 Feb 2012 at 3:00am
Australian researchers have found evidence that heart failure is associated with a decline in people's mental processes and a loss of grey matter in the brain. These changes can make it more difficult for heart failure (HF) patients to remember and carry out instructions such as taking the correct medication at the right times...
1 Feb 2012 at 2:00am
The European Society of Cardiology (ESC) welcomes an "intriguing" study, published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, featuring a completely novel approach for improving endothelial function in heart failure¹...
1 Feb 2012 at 2:00am
A meta-analysis done by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) into the relationship between alcohol consumption and heart disease provides new insight into the long-held belief that drinking a glass of red wine a day can help protect against heart disease. "It's complicated," says Dr. Juergen Rehm, director of social and epidemiological research at CAMH. Dr...
1 Feb 2012 at 2:00am
A drug used to treat multiple sclerosis may also be effective at preventing and reversing the leading cause of heart attack, a new study has found. Scientists found that Gilenya, a drug recently approved in the US for treating MS, was effective at reversing the symptoms of ventricular hypertrophy in mice...
31 Jan 2012 at 2:00pm
Statins given to female patients are as effective in preventing the occurrence of cardiovascular events as they are for men, researchers from Boston and New York reported in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. Cardiovascular events include stroke, heart attack, and angina. William J. Kostis, Ph.D., M.D...
31 Jan 2012 at 5:00am
Updated appropriate use criteria released recently offer detailed guidance on when to use an invasive procedure to improve blood flow to the heart and how to choose the best procedure for each patient. The clinical scenarios, written by a group of cardiologists and cardiac surgeons, affirm the role of revascularization for patients with acute coronary syndromes and significant symptoms...
30 Jan 2012 at 4:00am
A new study appears to support the idea that blood pressure checks should be done in both arms...
27 Jan 2012 at 4:00am
Heart failure is a leading cause of death in Canada...
27 Jan 2012 at 2:00am
More than 100,000 implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) are implanted in the United States annually, fully a quarter of those are generator replacements simply because the battery is depleted. But are all those replacements necessary and should they actually be performed? Writing in the Jan...
27 Jan 2012 at 2:00am
A comprehensive investigation of flavanol absorption and metabolism has provided a critical step forward in our understanding of how cocoa flavanols work in the body to exert their circulatory and cardiovascular benefits...
26 Jan 2012 at 4:00pm
Tea, the second most consumed drink after water, may help lower blood pressure. Scientists at The University Of Western Australia and Unilever, state in Archives of Internal Medicine, that drinking black tea three times a day may drastically lower a person's systolic and diastolic blood pressure...
26 Jan 2012 at 11:00am
Although it is believed that rapid improvement in socio-economic conditions are responsible for the high prevalence of heart disease in the Gulf states, cultural factors are also to blame according to researchers. Professor Hani Najm, Vice-President of the Saudi Heart Association, whose yearly conference starts on Friday 27 January, explained: "We're sitting on a time bomb...
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MedWorm: Heart Disease
by Health News: CBSNews.com
3 Feb 2012 at 2:42pm
American Heart Association spreads awareness for number one killer for women (Source: Health News: CBSNews.com)MedWorm Sponsor Message: Find the best January Sales in the UK.
by Health News from Medical News Today
3 Feb 2012 at 1:00am
The first study to check the effects of eating potatoes on blood pressure in humans has concluded that two small helpings of purple potatoes (Purple Majesty) a day decreases blood pressure by about 4 percent without causing weight gain. In a report in the ACS' Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, the researchers say that decrease, although seemingly small, is sufficient to potentially reduce the risk of several forms of heart disease. Joe Vinson and colleagues point out that people in the U.S. eat more potatoes than any other vegetable... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
by American Journal of Epidemiology
2 Feb 2012 at 10:00pm
Randomized clinical trials (RCTs) are usually the preferred strategy with which to generate evidence of comparative effectiveness, but conducting an RCT is not always feasible. Though observational studies and RCTs often provide comparable estimates, the questioning of observational analyses has recently intensified because of randomized-observational discrepancies regarding the effect of postmenopausal hormone replacement therapy on coronary heart disease. Reanalyses of observational data that excluded prevalent users of hormone replacement therapy led to attenuated discrepancies, which begs the question of whether exclusion of prevalent users should be generally recommended. In the current study, the authors evaluated the effect of excluding prevalent users of statins in a meta-analysis ...
by The Doctors Lounge - Health News
2 Feb 2012 at 6:58pm
Roughly 8 million women in the United States have heart disease, research shows (Source: The Doctors Lounge - Health News)
by European Journal of Internal Medicine
2 Feb 2012 at 5:26pm
CONCLUSIONS: The prescription of statins, alone or in combination with other drugs, may impact the survival and functional decline in polypathological patients. Further prospective blinded randomised assays are needed to confirm these observations.
PMID: 22284251 [PubMed - in process] (Source: European Journal of Internal Medicine)
by ScienceDaily Headlines
2 Feb 2012 at 1:17pm
A new study suggests that hyperglycemia injures the heart, even in patients without a history of heart disease or diabetes. The high-sensitivity test they used detected levels of cTnT tenfold lower than those found in patients diagnosed with a heart attack. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)MedWorm Sponsor Message: Please support the Doctors In Chains campaign for the medics tortured and sentenced for up to 15 years in Bahrain. #FreeDoctors
by NHS News Feed
2 Feb 2012 at 11:00am
This article will be of interest to food scientists, health policy makers and the public alike, but the use of strategies to restrict the consumption of added sugar is complicated and, indeed controversial. The implications of such moves would need to be considered in both medical and societal terms. They would need both medical evidence to support their effectiveness and assurance that the public would accept drastic changes, such as age limits on buying sweets. For example, in recent years, Denmark has imposed taxes on fatty foods, a move that has divided opinions greatly.
It is generally accepted that added sugar or excessive sugar consumption is bad for health and dietitians advise restricting sugar intake to the occasional âtreatâ. However, to what extent sugar is directly to blam...
by Telegraph Health
2 Feb 2012 at 10:00am
A chemical found in red wine could be used in treatments for diabetes, dementia and heart disease after scientists discovered how it keeps us healthy. (Source: Telegraph Health)
by The American Journal of Cardiology
2 Feb 2012 at 7:05am
The United States Department of Health and Human Services recently launched the Million Hearts initiative to prevent 1 million heart attacks and strokes over the next 5 years by implementing proved, effective, and inexpensive interventions. But why stop at a million? We already have all the information we need to eradicate atherosclerotic disease, which is a food-borne illness. Coronary artery disease is virtually nonexistent in large populations of individuals who consume plant-based nutrition. Some of the most renowned cardiovascular pathologists in the world have stated that maintaining a total cholesterol level >150 mg/dl is the true cause of this disease. Plaque regression occurs in >80% of patients who adopt a low-fat vegetarian diet. Cardiac positron emission tomographic scans show ...
by Medical News (via PRIMEZONE)
2 Feb 2012 at 5:00am
DALLAS, Feb. 2, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Heart disease continues to be the No. 1 killer of Latinas in the U.S. In fact, more women die of heart disease than all forms of cancer combined. Unfortunately, the killer isn't as easy to see, and may be difficult to identify for Latinas and their families. This Friday, Feb. 3 2012, is National Wear Red Day, a day meant to motivate Hispanic women in our communities to make healthy life choices for themselves and the ones they love to help stop heart disease. (Source: Medical News (via PRIMEZONE))
by Medical News (via PRIMEZONE)
2 Feb 2012 at 5:00am
DALLAS, Feb. 2, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Emmy-nominated actress Elizabeth Banks and the American Heart Association's Go Red For Women(r) movement are teaming up to share the truth that heart disease is the No. 1 killer of women. More women die of heart disease than all forms of cancer combined. Unfortunately, heart disease is often silent, hidden and misunderstood. That's why Go Red For Women is asking women to participate in the 9th Annual National Wear Red Day(r) on Friday, February 3, 2012, to make ending heart disease a reality. (Source: Medical News (via PRIMEZONE))MedWorm Sponsor Message: Find the best January Sales in the UK.
by Future Medicine: Biomarkers in Medicine
2 Feb 2012 at 3:44am
Biomarkers in Medicine , February 2012, Vol. 6, No. 1, Pages 35-52. (Source: Future Medicine: Biomarkers in Medicine)
by Future Medicine: Biomarkers in Medicine
2 Feb 2012 at 3:44am
Biomarkers in Medicine , February 2012, Vol. 6, No. 1, Pages 5-8. (Source: Future Medicine: Biomarkers in Medicine)
by Future Medicine: Biomarkers in Medicine
2 Feb 2012 at 3:44am
Biomarkers in Medicine , February 2012, Vol. 6, No. 1, Pages 97-102. (Source: Future Medicine: Biomarkers in Medicine)
by Future Medicine: Biomarkers in Medicine
2 Feb 2012 at 3:44am
Biomarkers in Medicine , February 2012, Vol. 6, No. 1, Pages 19-34. (Source: Future Medicine: Biomarkers in Medicine)
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