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Heart Diseases : Health & Medical
Drivers of Hospitalization for Patients With AF
Learn more about the frequency and predictors of hospitalization in patients with AF.
Cholesterol Reducing Foods - The Best Foods To Lower Your Cholesterol
Most of us absolutely love to eat, I'm one of them, and I'm sure you are too. It seems that the best tasting foods are the worst for our bodies, typical isn't it. But you have to ask yourself, what's more important; long lasting healthy life or a short heart aching life.
Appropriate Diet for High Cholesterol Levels
There are a lot of individuals who worry about their food intake, especially those who are looking for an appropriate diet for high cholesterol levels. However, there is no specific diet this purpose, but people can easily lower their cholesterol content in their foods to help them bring down their
Don't Settle for Acceptable Cholesterol Levels When You Deserve So Much More
We are constantly hearing from our medical professional and drug providers about how achieving acceptable cholesterol levels is a really good thing. But would you think acceptable was good enough if you were buying a new television. I can see you now...
An Overview of Carotid Artery Disease
WebMD explains carotid artery disease, including the symptoms, risk factors, diagnosis and treatment.
Risk of ACS in Elderly Users of Antipsychotic Drugs
Do antipsychotic agents have cardioprotective effects for elderly patients?
Unclog Arteries - The Way to Do It
Unclog arteries doesn't have to involve a surgery. You might want to consider this natural way for the first attempt.
Dieting and Exercise Tips For a Healthy Heart
With dieting and exercising many heart related diseases can be prevented. Deaths with heart attacks and cardiac related illness are increasing with the lifestyle changes. But following some easy tips or rules today can help us to have a healthy heart throughout our life.
How Do the Next Generation of DES Compare With the Taxus Stent?
TCT 2007: From zotarolimus to everolimus and from EPC-capturing stents to titanium-nitric-oxide-coated stents -- will the new-generation stents outmatch the paclitaxel-eluting stent?
Prescribing of Statins Following ACS in the UK
For patients with acute coronary syndromes, how do statin prescribing rates measure up to recommended guidelines?
Is synthetic HDL the plaquebuster we have been waiting for?
HDL mimetics, a synthetic form of the HDL lipoprotein, may be an effective way of raising HDL levels and reducing cardiac risk - if it pans out.
Eat to Lower Cholesterol - 5 Top Cholesterol Fighting Foods
You can lower your cholesterol with the right foods. Here's 5 good foods for lowering cholesterol. But you can do even better combining the right foods with some other approaches
Cholesterol Does Not Cause Atherosclerosis
It is hard to accept it, but Cholesterol is not the causing agent of Arteriosclerosis. Study after study, prove that the old model of Cholesterol and lipids does not fit into the Atherosclerosis picture anymore. 70 years of contradicting and misleading information have led us where we stand right no
Changes in CV Risk Factors by Hysterectomy Status
Does hysterectomy cause the cardiovascular risk clock to tick faster for women?
Ethanol Septal Reduction
There are 2 methods of reducing left ventricular outflow tract obstruction in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
Internal Defibrillators - Saving Lives From Inside the Body
Internal defibrillator's are an advanced form of defibrillator that keeps a check on the heart beat rhythms also known as arrhythmias. Placed insider in the chest wall, they work like normal pacemakers, administering the heartbeat rhythms and providing automated case they are needed to avert li
Younger Women Less Likely to Take Meds After Heart Attack
This, despite fact they have worse outcomes than men of a similar age, study authors say
The New Heart Tests: Which Ones Should You Have?
Experts explain the pros and cons of coronary calcium scores, carotid artery ultrasound, and CT heart scans.
Metabolic Syndrome and Risk of Incident Cardiovascular Events and Death
The authors sought to clarify the prognostic implications of how the metabolic syndrome is defined, in which settings it may be informative, and other issues related to its clinical use.
Fatty Acids and Development of Atrial Fibrillation
Consumption of fish and marine n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids may be associated with a lower risk of atrial fibrillation. Can the relationship be clarified by evaluating fatty acid deposits -- in body fat?