Heart Disease news
Environment and diet leave their prints on the heart
A University of Cambridge study, which set out to investigate DNA methylation in the human heart and the…
Heart patients prefer longevity over quality of life
When an elderly person’s chronic disease is impossible to cure, many doctors might assume that patient would chose…
Low vitamin D linked to heart disease, death
In people with low blood levels of vitamin D, boosting them with supplements more than halved a person’s…
Similar effects of beer and wine on the risk of cardiovascular disease
Research published in the European Journal of Epidemiology by Costanzo S, Di Castelnuovo de Gaetano G et al…
New Design for Mechanical Heart Valves
The heart’s valves, which guarantee the unidirectional flow of blood from one chamber to another, are asymmetrical.…
Device Sands Away Plaque, May Prevent Heart Attacks
Drilling through concrete to create an opening may sound more like construction than medicine, but the approach is…
FDA sees rare but serious issue with stents
Health regulators are investigating a rare but potentially serious problem with a newer class of heart stents that…
Broken heart syndrome becoming more common
Betty Winesburg, 69, was helping serve coffee at church over Labor Day weekend when she started having pressure…
Broken Heart Syndrome Affects Women The Most
It was the Japanese who first identified the problem in the 1990s, showing that a sudden shock or…
Heart rate recovery predicts clinical worsening in pulmonary hypertension
Heart rate recovery at one minute after a six-minute walking distance (6MWD) test is highly predictive of clinical…
Life-saving prescriptions lagging in heart patients
More than one in five people with heart disease aren’t getting life-saving statin drugs despite guidelines saying they…
UI study explains how heart attack can lead to heart rupture
For people who initially survive a heart attack, a significant cause of death in the next few days…
More “healthy” patients die after a heart attack
A new analysis of half a million heart attack patients found that people with the warning signs of…
New medication increases HDL cholesterol and decreases LDL cholesterol levels
Among patients with sub-optimal low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) or high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) levels, use of the drug…
2 statin drugs similarly effective in reversing coronary heart disease
Maximum doses of Crestor™ (rosuvastatin) or Lipitor™ (atorvastatin) are similarly effective in reversing the buildup of cholesterol plaques…
Better understanding of neurologic defects improves post-cardiac-arrest discharge
Delay in initiation of therapeutic hypothermia and delay in return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC), evidenced by a palpable…
Hypothermia remains effective in cardiac arrest patients with preexisting cardiomyopathy
Cardiomyopathy is common among cardiac arrest survivors. The survival and neuroprotective benefits of therapeutic hypothermia is similar in…
Sugar-sweetened beverages may increase cardiovascular risk in women
Drinking two or more sugar-sweetened beverages a day may expand a woman’s waistline and increase her risk of…
Professional dental cleanings may reduce risk of heart attack, stroke
Professional tooth scaling was associated with fewer heart attacks and strokes in a study (Abstract 17704) from Taiwan…
Patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy live into their 90s
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is consistent with survival to normal life expectancy, including particularly advanced age into the tenth…
