With so many new developments in the field of cardiovascular medicine happening every day, it is important for you and your family to keep abreast of the latest healthcare news.
Here, you will find the latest healthcare news and information as it relates to the many different types of heart disease, prevention, treatments, and research. For more information, always consult your physician.
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Mothers Likely to Pass Heart Disease to Children
Mothers pass on much that is good to their children, but a new study shows there is one gift most would rather not receive - heart disease.
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Multiple Lifestyle Changes Help Lower Blood Pressure
Persons offered intensive counseling made major lifestyle changes that helped them bring their high blood pressure down to healthy levels, says a report in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
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Lifesaving Advice for Stroke: Call 911
Dialing 911 for an ambulance is the best way of ensuring rapid, potentially lifesaving care in the event of a stroke, say two studies reported at the American Stroke Association annual meeting.
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Vessel Blockage in Women Different from Men
Standard diagnostic testing can miss the warning signs of heart disease in women, according to a report in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
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Sibling Heart Problems Linked To Risk for All
Having a sibling with a history of cardiovascular disease carries the same or greater risk as having a parent with a history of the disease, according to a report in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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Heart Attack Symptoms Differ for Women and Men
Everyone knows a classic sign of a heart attack - the searing pain in the chest, usually lasting several minutes. Right? Well, you would be half right because that is not necessarily the symptom felt by women, who make up 50 percent of America's heart attack victims.
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New DASH Diet Improves Heart Health
Federal health experts kick off the new year with words of widsom about healthy diet and reduction of long-term cardiovascular health risk.
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Gene Finding Lends Clues to Blood Pressure Problems
A new genetic discovery may help explain why some people develop high blood pressure and others do not, and why some people's blood pressure increases as they age, according to a report in the American Journal of Hypertension.
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Drug-Coated Stents Help Diabetics with Heart Repair
Diabetic patients who received drug-eluting stents had significantly less renarrowing of their treated arteries and fewer serious cardiac problems than those treated with standard stents, which do not release a drug, according to a report in the medical journal Circulation.
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Anemia Linked To Heart Failure Complications
Low hemoglobin levels are a predictor of increased risk of death and complications among heart failure patients, according to a report in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.
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New Hope for Those with High Blood Pressure
More than two-thirds of the 65 million Americans with high blood pressure require two or more anti-hypertensive medications to manage their condition, experts report. Many of these people also take medicines for high cholesterol and diabetes.
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Blood Test May Help Find Heart Disease
As cholesterol builds up on artery walls, it forms plaques which cause the inner lumen (opening) of the arteries to become smaller, and blood pressure goes up. Now, a new test may help predict dangerous plaque ruptures in those clogged arteries - ruptures that can lead to heart attack or stroke.
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