Higher Trans Fat Levels In Blood Associated With Elevated Risk Of Heart Disease
High consumption of trans fat, found mainly in partially hydrogenated vegetable oils and widely used by the food industry, has been linked to an increased risk of coronary heart disease (CHD).
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Health Canada Reviewing Link Between Parkinson's Drug Permax And Heart Valve Conditions
Health Canada is informing Canadians that Permax, a drug used for the treatment of Parkinson's disease, has been withdrawn from the U.S. market amidst concerns about an association with cardiac valvulopathy, a condition involving inflammation or stiffening of the heart valves.
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Heart Attack Patients Benefit from Novel Stem Cell Therapy
Heart attack patients who received an new intravenous adult stem cell therapy experienced a lower number of adverse events, such as cardiac arrhythmias.
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Treatment of In-Hospital Cardiac Patients is Focus of Jefferson University Presentations
Although anemia is a common problem in heart failure patients, the medications the patients take to control their heart failure are not the cause of the anemia.
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Engineering the heart piece by piece
Heart attack survivors might have a patch of laboratory grown muscle placed in their heart, to replace areas that died during their attack.
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Clinical Trial Offers Minimally Invasive Procedure for Heart Valve Leak
Nationwide EVEREST II clinical trial for patients with a serious heart condition known as mitral regurgitation (MR), where blood leaks backward through the mitral valve with each heartbeat.
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Study shows safety, effectiveness of heart filter device in stroke prevention
A study involving Beaumont Hospital cardiologists shows the WATCHMAN left atrial appendage device to be as good or better than the standard blood thinning treatment in preventing stroke.
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Tolvaptan Provides Some Short-Term Symptom Relief in Heart Failure
Use of tolvaptan for heart failure treatment must be carefully considered, as evidence of long-term benefit is lacking.
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Heart failure medication provides some symptom relief, but also risk
Heart failure medication provides some symptom relief, but doesn't reduce the risk of re-hospitalization or death.
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Surgeons in Pennsylvania Implanted Jarvik 2000 Heart Assist System in Heart Failure Patient
On Monday morning, March 19, cardiac surgeons Scott Silvestry opened the chest of a 55-year-old man suffering from chronic heart failure and implanted a Jarvik 2000 Heart Assist System to save his life.
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Texas Heart Institute Selected for NIH Stem Cell Study Consortium
The Texas Heart Institute at St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital is one of five centers selected by the National Institutes of Health to study stem cell treatments for patients with cardiovascular disease.
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Do Specialty Heart Hospitals Drive up Heart Care Use?
States are embroiled in a debate over "specialty hospitals" that focus on a single disease process such as heart care or orthopedics.
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Hispanic Women's Hearts at High Risk
Hispanic women develop cardiac risk factors much earlier than white women, typically exhibiting the heart health of a white woman 10 years older.
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Regulation of heart procedures falls short of expectations
For cardiac (heart) procedures, Certificate of Need doesn't create the kind of savings and reductions in mortality rates that policymakers thought it would achieve.
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CT Heart Scans Accurate, Faster, Less Costly for Chest Pain Diagnosis at Beaumont
Coronary CT angiography is accurate, definitive, much faster and less costly than the standard diagnostic testing for emergency room chest pain patients.
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New Risk Assessment Tool More Accurately Predicts Women's Cardiovascular Risk
Using the new risk assessment tool, the researchers found that nearly 50 percent of women in the study who were estimated to be at "intermediate risk" for heart attack or stroke based on current guidelines were in fact at significantly higher or lower risk levels.
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Surgeons Develop Simpler Way to Cure Atrial Fibrillation
Physicians have an effective new option for treating atrial fibrillation, a common irregular heart rhythm that can cause stroke.
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Remote Device Allows Cardiologist to Monitor Patients Daily at Their Homes
Monitoring device for patients is changing the way doctors monitor the health of patients with implanted defibrillators.
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Pharmacist-driven outreach lowers metabolic syndrome rates
Adults who met with pharmacists or pharmacy students during a community outreach and screening project about metabolic syndrome, returned four months later with lower risk factors for heart disease.
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Irregular heartbeat linked to genetic mutation
Why certain patients develop atrial fibrillation while others do not, despite comparable environmental stress exposure, might ultimately depend on their genetic makeup.
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Estrogen gene affects risk of breast cancer, but not CVD
A large Danish study rebuts the accepted idea that differences in an estrogen gene (ESR1) affect the risk of heart attack and stroke in response to hormone replacement therapy.
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Multislice CT speeds the diagnosis of chest pain in the emergency room
Patients whose arteries are clear can go home hours sooner if they came to the hospital with crushing chest pain.
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Florida Recognizes National Women's Heart Day
National Women's Heart Day is a great opportunity to inform women in our state about the prevention of heart disease and heart attacks.
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Platelet-inhibiting drugs for treatment of patients with acute coronary syndromes
Researchers attempt to determine optimal timing for administration of platelet inhibiting drugs for treatment of patients with acute coronary syndromes.
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Midday Nap (Siesta) Linked To Reduced Risk of Heart Related Death
Among Greek adults, taking regular midday naps is associated with reduced risk of death from heart disease over a six year period.
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Simpler way to cure atrial fibrillation
Physicians have an effective new option for treating atrial fibrillation, a common irregular heart rhythm that can cause stroke.
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Learn CPR - You May Save a Life
Paramedics recognize the value and importance of Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) in saving lives.
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SCAI sets high standards for PCI without on-site cardiac surgical backup
A document recommending the adoption of stringent quality standards by those who perform percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in hospitals not equipped for cardiac surgery.
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February Is American Heart Month
American Heart Month serves as the perfect opportunity to talk about how to prevent heart disease.
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Recognizing American Heart Month
A great opportunity to reach out to women and men in the State of Florida and alert them about the dangers of heart disease.
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Potential for Adult Stem Cells to Repair Hearts Damaged by Severe Coronary Artery Disease
Trial Involves Injecting Patients' Own (Autologous) Stem Cells into Areas of Their Hearts with Poor Blood Flow.
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Emergency departments test chest pain patients differently
Chest pain patients are treated differently based on race, gender and insurance.
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Young people who died suddenly and inexplicably had genetic heart defects
More than one third died due to potentially heritable genetic defects that impair the heart's rhythm center.
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Cardiac Waiting Times to Fall in South Wales Valleys
Heart patients in the South Wales Valleys will be diagnosed and treated faster.
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Psychological Effects of Heart Surgery Examined
Perception of Illness and Conviction for Recovery Important for Patients Recovering from Heart Surgery.
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New York Cardiac Surgery Report Release
Summarizing risk factors and outcomes for pediatric patients undergoing surgery to correct congenital heart defects
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Releases of Death Rates for Cardiac Heart Surgeons
Patient death rates for 56 Massachusetts heart surgeons available online now
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2 out of 3 heart attacks and strokes in Asia
The role of hypertension (high blood pressure) in cardiovascular diseases in the Asia Pacific region shows the potential reduction in deaths from heart disease and stroke could have been achieved if high blood pressure were controlled in this region.
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Patients receiving drug-eluting stents should continue antiplatelet medications
Patients who have had drug eluting stents inserted to prop open blocked coronary arteries should continue to take medications to reduce the risk of blood clots.
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Heart rhythm genes possible factors in SIDS
Nearly 10 percent of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) victims have mutations or variations in genes associated with potentially lethal heart rhythms (arrhythmias).
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