Consuming omega-3 fatty acids found in some vegetable cooking oils and fish was associated with reduced heart attack risk in a Costa Rican population study, and eating omega-6 fatty acids was linked to lower blood pressure for healthy people in an international study. The studies were separately published respectively in Circulation: Journal of the American [...]
Researchers at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia have manipulated cell activity that occurs during the interruption of blood flow to strongly protect heart tissue in animal studies. The finding has the potential to become an emergency treatment for heart attack patients, particularly since already existing drugs might be pressed into service to produce the protective [...]
The American Heart Association is making it easier for you to evaluate your 10-year risk of having a heart attack and keep track of medical information to reduce your risk and better manage your health by offering the heart attack risk assessment tool on Google Health. To use the American Heart Association heart attack risk [...]
Adiponectin, a protein produced by fat cells, may play a pivotal and counterintuitive role in cardiovascular health for older Americans according to a new study accepted for publication in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology %26amp; Metabolism (JCEM). As people lose weight, the concentration level of adiponectin in the bloodstream increases. In previous studies, high adiponectin [...]
When it comes to risk for a heart attack, having excess fat around the heart may be worse than having a high body mass index or a thick waist, according to researchers from Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center and colleagues reporting in the August issue of the journal Obesity. The study was among the [...]
An implanted patch that delivers cells to damaged heart muscle may prevent heart failure after a heart attack, according to research presented at the American Heart Association’s Basic Cardiovascular Sciences Conference 2008 – Heart Failure: Molecular Mechanisms and Therapeutic Targets. Many people develop heart failure after tissue is damaged by a heart attack. This study [...]
Lifesaving procedures to open blocked heart arteries could begin much sooner for heart attack patients if electrocardiograms (ECGs) were recorded before they arrive at the hospital and used to put treatment teams into action, according to a scientific statement in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association. Mission:Lifeline Each year, about 920,000 people in the [...]
Repeat exams using widely available and inexpensive ultrasound imaging could help identify patients at high risk for a heart attack or other adverse cardiovascular events, according to a study published in the September issue of the journal Radiology. Researchers performed ultrasound imaging on the carotid arteries of 1,268 patients who were asymptomatic but at high [...]
American Heart Association released an information about things we need to know and do when we have the warning signs of heart attack, and symptoms of cardiac arrest. The first thing that you need to do when you have the warning early signs and symptoms of heart attack is to dial 9-1-1 fast. The American [...]
In conjunction with clinical assessment and the ECG, simple and rapid blood tests have become the standard for the detection of myocardial infarction. Starting in the year 2000, recommendations by the European Society of Cardiology and other major cardiology societies worldwide have begun to state uniformly that a rise in cardiac troponins – sensitive and [...]
