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Heart Diseases : Health & Medical
Exercise for a Healthy Heart
Have heart disease? WebMD explains how adding exercise to your life can be very helpful to your heart.
Doing This for 5 Minutes a Day Can Protect Your Heart
A new study says even 5 minutes of daily running can substantially improve your cardiac risk. Can this really be true?
Meeting the Psychological Needs of Cardiac Patients
Depression and anxiety are commonly experienced by cardiac patients and are associated with reduced quality of life and mortality.
Belly Fat in Heart Patients Raises Death Risk
A new study shows that people with coronary artery disease who carry extra fat around their waists appear to have an increased risk of dying compared to people who store their body fat elsewhere.
Cell Help After Heart Attack?
Scientists report that tweaked, transplanted skeletal can help prevent a dangerous heart rhythm in mice that have had a heart attack.
Cardiac Rehabilitation: Weight and Resistance Training-Topic Overview
Resistance training with weights,elastic bands,or your own body weight may help you regain the physical strength and confidence to do the daily tasks you performed before your heart problem or surgery. Resistance training can help you get the most benefit from your cardiac rehab program. Talk with y
Certain Painkillers Ill-Advised After Heart Attack: Study
If you're taking anti-clotting drugs, you should avoid meds like ibuprofen and Celebrex, doctors say
Low Vitamin D Levels May Raise Heart Risk
Some men with low levels of vitamin D in their blood are at particularly high risk of developing heart disease and weakened bones that can lead to osteoporosis, researchers report.
Cholesterol: What Are The Risk Factors
If you think you might be at risk for developing cholesterol problems, how can you know for sure?What are the major risk factors of this serious disease?Read more about how to determine if you are at risk of developing cholesterol problems.
The OASIS-6 Trial: Description and Results
A description and interpretation of the results of the OASIS-6 trial which compared fondaparinux with unfractionated heparin in patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction.
How to Improve HDL Cholesterol
This is How to Improve your HDL Cholesterol faster and more effectively: 1. If you put in at least 30 minutes time every day to cardio and weight training, you will really begin to notice the positive effect. 2. Exercise essentially helps with all health issues. If you want to stay healthy and fit,
Hawthorn - Heart Disease Herbal Remedy
Many studies provide important evidence of the herb's benefits in treating heart disease, particularly congestive heart failure. An Irish doctor popularized the herb by using it to treat heart failure at the very end of the 19th century.
Mortality From Heart Disease
Mortality from heart disease is something that all of us should be concerned about regardless of age, gender, or geographic location. In some areas mortality from heart disease is still the number one killer of adults.
Acai Berry and Your Heart - Prevention For a Broken Heart
Acai Berry has been shown to have many benefits for your heart. And it's important for you to learn about what they are. Heart disease is the number one killer of men and woman today. And the instances of hear disease are increasing everyday.
Management of the Elderly Aortic Stenosis Patient
Read how AVR can be offered to elderly patients with low output once hemodynamic manipulation has been performed and it indicates that the stenosis is truly severe, provided comorbidity is minimal.
Heart Attack Prevention - What You Should Know About It
Heart attack prevention doesn't always have to be complicated. Your heart attack prevention plan may include emergency action and some basic things you may not realize.
What Kind and How Much Chocolate Should You Eat?
Chocolates have certainly won the hearts of many. Both young and old, men or women. We are always happy to hear that chocolates are good for health. But unfortunately the majority of chocolates available are low in cocoa content and have added amounts of sugar, milk solids and other flavourings, whi
Stem Cell Therapy Repairs Damaged Heart Muscle
Stem cell therapy using muscle cells taken from the leg can repair heart muscle cells damaged by heart attack.
Influential Articles in Pulmonary Hypertension, 2006
A number of important articles were published in 2006 on PH. Here is a review of a few that made original contributions worth noting, either from a unique clinical or research perspective.