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Pre-Existing Conditions: Your Own Health Care Reform
Health care reform means a lot of things to different people – from expanding care to the uninsured to increasing premiums, from impacting our deficit to eliminating the ramifications of pre-existing...
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Fasting May Reduce Heart Disease
MURRAY, UTAH (ABC 4 News) A study at Intermountain Medical Center shows a link between fasting and a lower rate of heart disease. Researchers are now conducting another study to determine why. The...
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(Very Interesting) Gender Differences in Heart Diesease
Men and women can have coronary artery disease in which those main, large arteries are plugged up by fatty, athlerosclerotic plaques. These blockages greatly increase the risk of a heart attack,...
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Medicine Slow to Recognize the Cardiology of Women
1970: Women’s experience and tolerance of cardiac surgery began to appear in medical literature [1] 1980: Increased focus on various health issues concerning women (abuse, breast cancer, menopause,...
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Cost of a Heart Attack > $1 Million Dollars
$1 Million Dollars" /> Heart disease is the leading cause of death among women in the United States, accounting for 32 percent of all deaths among women.1 Over 500,000 women die from heart disease...
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Physician Heals Thyself
Wall Street Journal April 10, 2010 Do you sometimes think you can’t be heart-healthy unless you’re a vegetarian marathon runner with minimal body fat, barely detectable cholesterol and a pact to avoid...
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Soda Consumption and Heart Disease
MedicineNet; March 5, 2010 Increasing consumption of sugary soft drinks contributed to 130,000 new cases of diabetes, 14,000 new cases of heart disease and 50,000 more life-years burdened with heart...
View ArticleHigh Testosterone Doubles Risk of Heart Attack
SUNDAY, June 20 HealthDay News – Among older men, having a high testosterone level is associated with a raised risk of heart disease or a heart attack, new research suggests. The finding, from a new...
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Saturated Fats Won’t Kill You
Andrew Weil Huffington Post July 2. 2010 Excerpt: The saturated fat lauded in this menu won’t kill you. It may even be the safest element of the meal. Saturated fat is made of fatty acid chains that...
View ArticleRisk Reduction for Heart Disease: Black Tea
American Heart Association Black tea tames artery disease A new study finds a strong link between drinking black tea and arterial health in people who have heart disease. “The study demonstrated that...
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Risk Reduction for Heart Disease 11%: Green Tea
Green tea Botanical evidence indicates that India and China were among the first countries to cultivate tea. Today, tea is the most widely consumed beverage in the world, second only to water....
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Risk Increase for Heart Disease 2x-4x: Diabetes
Data from the 2007 National Diabetes Fact Sheet (the most recent year for which data is available) Heart disease and stroke • In 2004, heart disease was noted on 68% of diabetes-related death...
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Heart Disease Risk Factors: Beware the Diagonal Earlobe Crease
It is hard to know what to believe these days. Medical research is frequently biased (often by drug money) and off the mark. Since the 1980′s, articles have been appearing about the “diagonal ear...
View ArticleNew Measure of HDL: Cholesterol Efflux
New Measure Trumps High-Density Lipoprotein (HDL) Levels in Protecting Against Heart Disease ScienceDaily Jan. 21, 2011 — The discovery that high levels of high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol...
View ArticleUric Acid in Heart Disease: A New C-Reactive Protein?
“The available evidence has established a link between hyperuricemia and cardiovascular disease and this may be causal. Without waiting for the resolution of causality arguments, one can start using...
View ArticleMindfulness Meditation and Reducing Heart Disease
It has been a continuing theme of this Heartcurrents blog that psychology is often left out treatment for heart disease and heart issues. “Mindfulness meditation” has been gaining traction in...
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Heart Disease and Circadian Rhythms: Japanese Night Taxi Drivers
Searching for preventive measures of cardiovascular events in aged Japanese taxi drivers–the daily rhythm of cardiovascular risk factors during a night duty day. J Hum Ergol (Tokyo). 2001...
View ArticleScientific Studies of Seasonal Variation in Coronary Artery Disease
Seasonal variations in coronary heart disease Oxford Journals Medicine QJM: An International Journal of Medicine Volume 92, Issue 12 Pp. 689-696. Abstract Coronary heart disease exhibits a winter peak...
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