Heart:
Heart Failure, Heart Disease, Heart Attack, Human Heart, Open Heart Surgery.
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Nov 18th, 2009
In a first ever study, researchers from Northwestern University found that using a patient's own stem cells can reduce angina and improve ability to walk. After twelve months, 167 study subjects experienced less daily chest pain from angina, were able to walk twice as long on a treamill, and experience relief of chest pain sooner with rest following injection of their own CD34+ stem cells.
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Nov 17th, 2009
Low levels of vitamin D may significantly increase a person’s risk of heart disease, stroke, and death, even among people who have no history of heart disease, according to researchers at the Heart Institute at Intermountain Medical Center in Salt Lake City.
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Nov 16th, 2009
An experimental anti-clotting drug being developed by AstraZeneca was shown to be more effective than Plavix® (clopidogrel) in treating heart patients who have the most serious type of acute coronary syndrome, those with ST segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). Patients with this condition have a completely obstructed coronary artery that requires emergency surgery.
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Nov 16th, 2009
Johns Hopkins researchers say that young athletes should be tested for hidden heart defects that can lead to cardiac arrest and sudden death using more than EKG (electrocardiogram). Recommendations include echocardiogram, also known as ultrasound of the heart, combined wth EKG to reduce risk death among ahtletes from hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and heart rhythm disturbance.
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Nov 13th, 2009
Walking slow not only takes you longer to reach your destination, it also raises your risk of cardiovascular death. French researchers found this to be true among well functioning adults who were age 65 or older.
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Nov 9th, 2009
Can an incompetent and abrasive boss cause you so much stress that you can actually run a risk of having a heart attack?
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Oct 28th, 2009
Just a few cigarettes can harm the health of young arteries, shown by testing. Researchers from Canada recently studied the effects of smoking to find increased arterial stiffness in young adults, age 18 to 30 year olds by twenty five percent.
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Oct 12th, 2009
Several years ago, the results of a 12-year study found that eating fish was associated with a reduced incidence of heart failure. That was in 2005. Today, results of a new study which also followed the participants for nearly 12 years found that fish consumption does not play a major role in preventing heart failure.
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Oct 11th, 2009
Duke researchers have found a way to potentially mend diseased hearts, using a patch developed from embryonic stem cells. The discovery of the “heart patch” is a first step toward repairing heart damage from diseased tissue.
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Oct 8th, 2009
Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA) is a leading cause of death in the United States. Each year, 350,000 Americans die suddenly and unexpectedly due to cardiac arrhythmias. Almost 4,000 of them are young people under the age of 35, and this has increased 10% in recent years. Deaths among young women from SCA have increased 30%, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.