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  • Go Red Today! Be Aware if You Dare
    Tyler Woods Ph.D.
    Feb 5th, 2010

    Heart disease kills one woman every single minute of every single day. Today is the National Go Red Campaign so wear read if you dare!

  • Low Vitamin B6 May Increase Cardiovascular Disease Risk
    Deborah Mitchell
    Feb 3rd, 2010

    Vitamin B6 plays an important role in cardiovascular disease, the number one killer in the United States and around the world. A new study shows that low levels of vitamin B6 may increase the risk of inflammation and metabolic conditions, which subsequently raise the risk of cardiovascular disease.

  • Study shows how blood flow force prevents heart attack and stroke
    Kathleen Blanchard RN
    Jan 30th, 2010

    Exercise protects from heart attack and stroke, but the reasons that keeping blood flowing strongly through the arteries is so protective has not been completely understood. A new study shows how force of blood flow sets off a series of events that are essential for preventing clogged arteries that lead to heart attack and stroke.

  • Surgical Ablation Works When Drug Therapy Fails for Atrial Fibrillation
    Ramona Bates MD
    Jan 27th, 2010

    A new study published in the January 27 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association found surgical ablation works better than continued drug therapy when initial drug therapy fails to control paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (AF).

  • Medtronic Transcatheter Pulmonary Valve Approved by FDA
    Ramona Bates MD
    Jan 26th, 2010

    The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the Medtronic Melody Transcatheter Pulmonary Valve and Ensemble Delivery System. In the United States, an estimated 99,000 heart valve operations are performed each year. Most of these are done to repair or replace the mitral or aortic valves.

    Percutaneous valve therapy developed initially with aortic valve replacement in the early 1990s. Now it is available as an option for pulmonary valve replacement, delaying the need for open-heart surgery.

  • Passing Up the Salt Saves Lives
    Ramona Bates MD
    Jan 21st, 2010

    The American Heart Association has recommended “passing up the salt” for years. Last spring AHA’s news release stated that even a small reduction by just 1 gram of salt per day would result in 250,000 fewer new cases of heart disease and 200,000 fewer deaths over the coming decade. A reduction of salt intake by 3-gram per day would result in 6% fewer new cases of heart disease and 3% fewer deaths.

  • Enlarged heart in athletes not uncommon
    Kathleen Blanchard RN
    Jan 17th, 2010

    Enlarged heart is common in athletes and may pose no problems. Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy that enlarges the heart by making the muscles thicker can lead to sudden death and has been implicated for over half of deaths among athletes under age 35.

  • Cardiac Arrest Claims Chicago Bears Gaines Adams
    Deborah Mitchell
    Jan 17th, 2010

    The 26-year-old defensive end for the Chicago Bears, Gaines Adams, died on Sunday, January 17, of cardiac arrest resulting from an enlarged heart, according to Greenwood County, South Carolina chief deputy coroner Marcia Kelley-Clark, as reported in the Chicago Tribune. Drug use was not suspected to be a factor in Adams’ death, although toxicology tests are being conducted.

  • BPA Linked to Heart Disease
    Denise Reynolds RD
    Jan 13th, 2010

    Bisphenol-A (BPA), an industrial chemical used primarily in plastics and canned food linings, continues to be linked to multiple health conditions. A new study published online in the January 12 edition of PloS ONE confirms a previous link found between exposure to BPA and heart disease.

  • New Research Reveals Heart Rhythm in Our Genes
    Ramona Bates MD
    Jan 10th, 2010

    Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the world. Over half of the nearly seven million deaths per year are caused by serious heart rhythm disturbances such as ventricular fibrillation.

    Imperial College of London researchers have published the findings today in Nature Genetics – our heart rhythm is in our genes.

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