A new article indicates that an increased intake in minerals such as potassium, and possibly magnesium and calcium by dietary means may reduce the risk of high blood pressure and decrease blood pressure in people with hypertension. A high intake of these minerals in the diet may also reduce the risk of coronary heart disease [...]
The County of Lambton Community Health Services Department has released a Health Status Report on Mortality and Chronic Disease. This report provides an overview of mortality rates in Lambton County and looks specifically at chronic disease prevalence, hospitalization and emergency room visit rates. It is the third in a series of reports that will provide [...]
Better treatments have improved survival in people with coronary heart disease, but the quality of those extra years may be less than ideal, according to research reported in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association. Compared with adults without coronary heart disease (CHD), adults with CHD scored up to 9 percent lower on four scales [...]
Barbara Ganschow of Palatine, IL, became the first person in the world to be successfully treated with a new device designed to make it safer and easier for heart specialists to create a hole in the cardiac atrial septum. The hole, created by the NRGTM Transseptal Needle, allows cardiac catheters to cross from the right [...]
Medical researchers need to undertake large-scale studies to determine the exact relationship between heart disease and the different forms of sleep apnea, according to a joint statement from the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology, published online in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association and the Journal of the American College [...]
A new study from Duke University Medical Center finds that patients treated solely with medications after suffering from chest pain, heart attack, or coronary artery disease are more likely to die during the first year following their initial hospitalization. “Patients managed medically without stenting or bypass surgery tend to be elderly and frail, and in [...]
Men are more prone to – and likely to die of – heart disease compared with women of a similar age – and sex hormones are to blame, according to a new University of Leicester led study. The findings of a study by Dr Maciej Tomaszewski, New Blood Lecturer in Cardiovascular Medicine in the Department [...]
Lifestyle and risk factor results clearly demonstrate a challenging gap between what is recommended in scientific guidelines and what is achieved in daily practice in high risk individuals in primary prevention of CVD. Primary prevention of heart disease needs a comprehensive, multidisciplinary approach involving the high-risk population, their GP’s and other health professionals, a health [...]
The many faces of heart disease will appear on televisions across the country in “Go Red For Women presents – Untold Stories of the Heart.” The TV special features stories from Marie Osmond and women who are living with heart disease. The women selected from our February casting call hit the media spotlight when they [...]
Gender bias could explain delay in assessment of women with heart disease. Research presented at the 20th annual Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) scientific symposium, sponsored by the Cardiovascular Research Foundation (CRF), found that coronary heart disease (CHD) symptoms presented in the context of a stressful life event were identified as psychogenic in origin when presented [...]
