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asked: I’ve been in the hospital from major anxiety attacks and I was just wondering how high your heart rate would be before having a heart attack.
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Peripheral artery disease undertreated, understudied in women
Peripheral artery disease, or PAD, can increase the risk of heart attack or stroke, yet is often unrecognized and untreated in women. Healthcare providers should educate and test women at risk for PAD, which is characterized by narrowing blood vessels, usually in the legs, feet, and …
Wed, 15 Feb 2012 05:00:00 GMT
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Heart failure drug approved by EU - Halifax Evening Courier
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Halifax Evening Courier
A pill costing £1.40 a day “could save the lives of thousands of heart disease patients”, according to the Daily Mail. Several other newspapers have reported on the drug ivabradine, known by the brand name Procoralan, as European drug regulators have …
Heart failure treatment: 10k patients a year could be saved by newly-licensed pillDaily Mail
Ivabradine front-page UK news for heart failureTheHeart.Org
WONDER PILL BEATS HEART DISEASEExpress.co.uk
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Wed, 07 Mar 2012 06:32:11 GMT
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Renin Inhibitors and Cardiovascular and Renal Protection: An Endless Quest?
Cardiovasc Drugs Ther. 2012 Mar 6;
Azizi M, Ménard J
Renin-angiotensin system (RAS) blockade with angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors or angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs) has become a major therapeutic approach in medicine since the end of the 1970’s. Although these molecules were the first RAS blockers to be developed, it would have been physiologically and pharmacologically more pertinent to selectively inhibit renin itself. Indeed, the reaction between renin and its unique substrate, angiotensinogen, is the highly regulated and rate-limiting step of the RAS. The development of direct renin inhibitors (DRI) has been a slow and complex process and the synthesis of the first orally active DRI, aliskiren, was only achieved in the 2000’s. Its pharmacological profile in patients with hypertension, diabetic nephropathy or heart failure, in addition to experimental evidence, suggests that aliskiren may be of value for the management of cardiovascular and renal diseases. However, the long-term, randomized, placebo-controlled, morbidity/mortality trial, ALTITUDE, which included 8,600 patients with type 2 diabetes, proteinuria and a high cardiovascular risk already treated with ACE inhibitors or ARBs was terminated in December 2011 because of futility and an increased incidence of serious adverse events in the aliskiren 300 mg arm. Other long-term studies are still ongoing to demonstrate the safety and efficacy of aliskiren to reduce cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in patients with heart failure and in elderly individuals (≥65 years) with systolic blood pressure of 130 to 159 mmHg, no overt cardiovascular disease, and a high cardiovascular risk profile. In the meantime, according to the European Medicines Agency recommendations, aliskiren should not be prescribed to diabetic patients in combination with ACE inhibitors or ARBs.
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Stents vs. drugs for heart disease treatment - Marketplace.publicradio.org
A recent study on coronary artery disease claims that the process of inserting stents to repair a narrowed artery has no benefit over standard drug treatments. Dr. David Brown, the senior researcher on the study, said the moneymaking aspect of …
2012-03-07T04:01:40Z
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Mar
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i<3sa asked: My girlfriend called me in the middle of the night because she had a horrible nightmare and so we stayed on til she fell asleep. I called her multiple times could’ve I gaven or could I possibley startled her into a heart attack? she’s only 18 she’s healthy but has a history of relatives with heart problems. Would the cell phone ring be just as well as an alarm clock?
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Mar
5
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#15 Heart Disease is the biggest danger for both sexes
#15 Heart Disease is the biggest danger for both sexes
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Tue, 06 Mar 2012 09:44:47 +0000
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Dark meat of poultry cuts heart disease risk in women with high cholesterol - Newstrack India
Washington, March 2 (ANI): A nutrient found in the dark meat of poultry and some seafood may provide protection against coronary heart disease (CHD) in women with high cholesterol, say researchers. A study at NYU Langone Medical Center evaluated …
2012-03-02T07:28:01Z
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Whitaker Wellness Institute Announces Enhanced External Counterpulsation Available for Non-Invasive Treatment of Heart …
NEWPORT BEACH, CA– - A non-surgical, non-drug treatment for severe heart disease, developed at Harvard University and offered in heart treatment centers such as the Cleveland Clinic, is available to patients …
Mon, 05 Mar 2012 06:04:00 -0800
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Celladon Gets $43M For Heart Failure Treatments
left La Jolla-based Celladon Corporation, a developer of biopharmaceuticals targeting cardiovascular disease, said Wednesday afternoon that it has raised $43M in a financing round. The round was led by Pfizer Venture Investments, and also included Lundbeckfond Ventures, Novartis Venture Funds, …
Thu, 16 Feb 2012 13:08:00 GMT
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Mar
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Diet Doc Announces Newly Created, Diet Foods, Weight Loss Shakes and a New 30 Day Weight Loss Menu As Part of Their Medical, HCG Diet
Diet Doc announces new diet foods, weight loss shakes and a 30-day diet recipe menu incorporating specific diet foods as part of their medical, HCG diet weight loss program.
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Putting genome analysis to good use: Lessons from C-reactive protein and cardiovascular disease.
Cleve Clin J Med. 2012 Mar; 79(3): 182-91
Manace LC, Babyatsky MW
New methods of studying the human genome offer novel ways to examine the relationship between biomarkers and common, chronic human diseases. As an example, we will review a large genomics study (Elliott et al, JAMA 2009; 302:37-48) that concluded that C-reactive protein (CRP) is likely not a cause of coronary heart disease, although it is a marker for it.
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Heart Disease: Facts and Figures - YAHOO!
This story comes from the Yahoo! Contributor Network, where individuals publish their unique perspectives on some of the world’s most popular websites. * Every day more than 2200 Americans die from heart disease, which is one death every 39 seconds.
2012-03-01T20:07:59Z
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Market Wire - Getting to the Heart of a Healthy Diet
March 1, 2012 —
(Family Features) Healthy habits such as eating well, being physically active, and maintaining a healthy weight are key strategies for…
Thu, 01 Mar 2012 00:00:00 PST
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Postmenopausal Women-Physical Activities-Cardiac Arrest-Shoveling Snow-Heart Disease
Trans Fats May Raise Stroke Risk in Older Women THURSDAY, March 1 - Here’s one more reason to avoid trans fats in your diet, especially if you are an older woman: A new study found a 39 percent increased risk of stroke among postmenopausal women who ate the highest amount of this common… read more …
Mon, 5 Mar 2012 03:21:00 CST
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Mar
2
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On the Smugglers’ Radar
“ On The Smugglers’ Radar” is a new feature for books that have caught our eye: books we have heard of via other bloggers, directly from publishers, and/or from our regular incursions into the Amazon jungle. Thus, the Smugglers’ Radar was born. Because we want far more books than we can possibly buy …
Sat, 3 Mar 2012 01:01:00 CST
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Dark meat cuts heart disease risk in women - Times of India
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A nutrient found in the dark meat of poultry and some seafood may provide protection against coronary heart disease (CHD) in women with high cholesterol, say researchers. A study at NYU Langone Medical Center evaluated the effects of taurine, …
Taurine May Help Women's HeartsWebMD
Nutrient in dark meat 'could help heart problems'Spire Healthcare
Taurine may provide heart health benefits: StudyNutraIngredients.com
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Fri, 02 Mar 2012 08:41:18 GMT
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Circulatory Disorder Not Studied Enough in Women, Experts Say
WEDNESDAY, Feb. 15 (HealthDay News) — Even though it increases the risk of heart attack or stroke, peripheral artery disease is often unrecognized and untreated in women, according to an American Heart Association scientific statement released Wednesday.
Wed, 15 Feb 2012 21:00:00 GMT
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Market Wire - Saint Joseph Hospital Sponsors a Night of Dancing With Health Education, Screenings, Refreshments and More
February 23, 2012 —
Dancing is good for the heart! During American Heart Month in February, Saint Joseph Hospital is sponsoring Day of Dance — an event that…
Thu, 23 Feb 2012 00:00:00 PST
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Coffee And Health: Beverage Doesn’t Raise Risk Of Heart Disease Or Cancer, Study Finds - Huffington Post
Finding it impossible to kick your java habit? It might be just fine to keep your morning cup around. A new study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition shows that regularcoffee-drinkers don’t have an increased risk of diseases like heart …
2012-03-03T07:48:19Z
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Mar
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Oetzi the Iceman’s nuclear genome gives new insights
By Jason Palmer Science and technology reporter, BBC News New clues have emerged in what could be described as the world’s oldest murder case: that of Oetzi the “Iceman”, whose 5,300-year-old body was discovered frozen in the Italian Alps in 1991. Oetzi’s full genome has now been reported in Nature …
Fri, 2 Mar 2012 03:05:00 CST
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Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England) - Event for gran; In brief
February 25, 2012 —
A KIND-HEARTED schoolgirl moved by her grandma’s illness has raised money for the Alzheimer’s Society.
Sasha McLoughlin-Hughes, 12,…
Sat, 25 Feb 2012 00:00:00 PST
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Literature-Based Genetic Risk Scores for Coronary Heart Disease; The CAREMA Prospective-Cohort Study.
Circ Cardiovasc Genet. 2012 Feb 28;
Vaarhorst AA, Lu Y, Heijmans BT, Dollé ME, Böhringer S, Putter H, Imholz S, Merry AH, van Greevenbroek MM, Jukema JW, Gorgels AP, van den Brandt PA, Müller M, Schouten LJ, Feskens EJ, Boer JM, Slagboom PE
BACKGROUND: -Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified many single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) associated with coronary heart disease (CHD) or CHD risk factors (RF). Using a case-cohort study within the prospective CAREMA cohort, we tested if genetic risk scores (GRS) based on GWAS identified SNPs are associated with and predictive for future CHD. METHODS AND RESULTS: -742 incident cases, i.e. participants who developed CHD during a median follow up of 12.1 years (range 0.0-16.9 years) were compared with a randomly selected sub-cohort of 2221 participants selected from the total cohort (N=21,148). We genotyped 179 SNPs previously associated with CHD or CHD RF in GWAS as published up to May 2, 2011. The allele-count GRSs, composed of all SNPs, the 153 RF SNPs or the 29 CHD SNPs, were not associated with CHD independent of CHD RF. The weighted 29 CHD SNP GRS, with weights obtained from GWAS for every SNP, was associated with CHD independent of CHD RF (HR=1.12 per weighted risk allele; 95%-CI=1.04-1.21) and improved risk reclassification with 2.8% (P=0.031). As an exploratory approach to achieve weighting, we performed LASSO regression analysis on all SNPs and the CHD SNPs. The CHD LASSO GRS performed equal to the weighted CHD GRS, whereas the Overall LASSO GRS performed slightly better that the weighted CHD GRS. CONCLUSIONS: -A GRS composed of CHD SNPs improves risk prediction, when adjusted for the effect sizes of the SNPs. Alternatively LASSO regression analysis may be used to achieve weighting; however validation in independent populations is required.
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Best Vet Tips to Keep Your Cat Healthy in Sacramento
In addition to practicing traditional Western veterinary medicine. Stamm is a certified pet acupuncturist and an expert on nutrition, supplements and herbal medications for pets.
Fri, 02 Mar 2012 09:13:51 GMT
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Feb
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Take your dietary habits to heart before it’s too late - Pocono Record
Q: Heart disease runs in my family. What would you recommend as a heart-healthy diet? A: Your heart works hard and nonstop. It beats about 120,000 times a day — every day. Heart disease is the most common cause of death in America. Almost …
2012-03-01T06:46:16Z
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Rare heart disease sufferers get help from Mayo by joining forces on Social Media - KSBY San Luis Obispo News
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Rare heart disease sufferers get help from Mayo by joining forces on Social Media
KSBY San Luis Obispo News
Imagine feeling like you're suffering a heart attack, only to learn you have a rare heart condition that no one really knows about. You're told you're lucky to be alive, but doctors don't know why it happened or if it will happen again.
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Thu, 01 Mar 2012 00:32:17 GMT
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AL Amyloidosis - Bortezomib, Cyclophosphamide, And Dexamethasone Combo Shows Promise
Two studies have registered a preliminary success of an effective multiple myeloma (MM) regimen in patients with AL amyloidosis. The studies have been published in Blood, the Journal of the American Society of Hematology (ASH). AL amyloidosis, a rare and destructive blood disease, leads to …
Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:00:00 GMT
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Womens Health Matters And How They Are Addressed
by The Advocacy Project Womens Health Matters And How They Are Addressed Article by Dean There are several factors that affect womens health. They are grouped as biological, environmental and physical. Different organizations all over the world have joined hands together to shun a way the matters. I …
Thu, 1 Mar 2012 02:14:00 CST
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On the Agenda: Vest ‘can detect heart attacks’
Bradford Royal Infirmary has become the first hospital in Europe to introduce a cardiac vest that can diagnose heart attack victims up to 12 hours faster than normal.
Thu, 01 Mar 2012 08:00:00 GMT
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Feb
28
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Landscape designs On Your Spot – How To Choose The Correct Plants and flowers
Landscape designs On Your Spot – How To Choose The Correct Plants and flowers Very few men and women believe they have what must be done to possess a wonderful landscaped property. What lots of people fail to understand is you don’t have to have an elaborate style or lots of crops. A neat and manicu …
Tue, 28 Feb 2012 23:54:00 CST
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Denial and heart disease - Worcester Telegram
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Denial and heart disease
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I am a registered nurse with a great deal of experience in heart disease. I am that woman with a family history heavy with heart disease. I am that woman who said, “It cannot happen to me.” I am that woman who took care of others — at home and at work.
Heart benefits from healthy dose of skepticismThe Tennessean
Heart Health Month: 'I'm Proof That Heart Disease Doesn't Have To End …Huffington Post (blog)
American Heart Association urges women to take chargeNewsNet5.com
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Tue, 28 Feb 2012 09:45:28 GMT
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Scientists Create First Genetically Engineered Monkeys
Download this story as a PDF CHRISTOPHER CRUISE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I’m Christopher Cruise. JUNE SIMMS: And I’m June Simms. Today, we tell about the creation of what are being called the world’s first genetically engineered monkeys. We also hear from American physicists. …
Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:46:00 GMT
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Heart Health Month: ‘I’m Proof That Heart Disease Doesn’t Have To End Someone’s Life’ - Huffington Post
My parents were heartbroken when they were told that I had heart disease. I was only three months old. Doctors diagnosed me with cardiomyopathy and didn’t expect me to live past my second birthday. My family did an incredible job taking care of me and …
2012-02-27T14:13:38Z
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The promise of computer-assisted auscultation in screening for structural heart disease and clinical teaching.
Cardiovasc J Afr. 2012 Feb 23; 23: 1-4
Zühlke L, Myer L, Mayosi BM
Cardiac auscultation has been the central clinical tool for the diagnosis of valvular and other structural heart diseases for over a century. Physicians acquire competence in this technique through considerable training and experience. In Africa, however, we face a shortage of physicians and have the lowest health personnel-to-population ratio in the world. One of the proposed solutions for tackling this crisis is the adoption of health technologies and product innovations to support different cadres of health workers as part of task shifting. Computer-assisted auscultation (CAA) uses a digital stethoscope combined with acoustic neural networking to provide a visual display of heart sounds and murmurs, and analyses the recordings to distinguish between innocent and pathological murmurs. In so doing, CAA may serve as an objective tool for the screening of structural heart disease and facilitate the teaching of cardiac auscultation. This article reviews potential clinical applications of CAA.
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Feb
27
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Wacky Salt-to-Potassium Ratio Doubles Heart Disease Deaths …
A diet too high in salt and too low in potassium doubles the risk of death from heart disease, according to a Center for Disease Control study led by researcher Elena V. Kuklina, M.D., Ph.D., a nutritional epidemiologist.
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Another Big Tomorrow
I feel like I’ve been absent from my bloggy family for awhile. Life has a way of keeping you running around trying to catch your breath, and I just kept pushing the keyboard and monitor to the bottom of my to-do list…even though I have had a ton to write about. Volleyball tournaments every weekend, …
Tue, 28 Feb 2012 01:32:00 CST
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Irregular Heart Rhythm Linked to Mental Problems - WebMD
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Irregular Heart Rhythm Linked to Mental Problems
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27, 2012 — Atrial fibrillation (AF), an irregular heart rhythm, is known to increase a person's risk of stroke. Now, new findings suggest that some people with AF who also have other heart disease risks may be more likely to develop memory problems …
Irregular heart rhythms are often stand-alone problemsSt. George Daily Spectrum
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Mon, 27 Feb 2012 18:17:29 GMT
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Gene therapy for ischemic heart disease: review of clinical trials.
Rev Bras Cir Cardiovasc. 2011 Dec; 26(4): 635-646
Eibel B, Rodrigues CG, Giusti II, Nesralla IA, Prates PR, Sant’anna RT, Nardi NB, Kalil RA
Severe ischemic heart disease with refractory angina, occurs in increasing incidence. Alternative forms of treatment, in an attempt to reduce myocardial ischemia and relief of symptoms has been studied. In this context, gene therapy is an option, for the possibility of inducing angiogenesis, establish collateral circulation and reperfuse ischemic myocardium. Several clinical trials have been conducted and, except for specific cases of adverse effects, there is indication of safety, feasibility and potential effectiveness of therapy. The clinical benefit, however, is not yet well established. In this article we review the clinical trials of gene therapy for patients with ischemic heart disease. The approach includes: (1) myocardial ischemia and angiogenesis on the pathophysiological aspects involved, (2) growth factors, dealing with specific aspects and justifying the use in cardiac patients with no option for conventional therapy, (3) controlled clinical trials, where a summary of the main studies involving gene therapy for severe ischemic heart disease is presented, (4) our experience, especially on preliminary results of the first gene therapy clinical trial in Brazil and (5) future prospects.
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Heart disease risk ‘inherited’
Scientists say a common heart disease which kills thousands each year is passed genetically from father to son.
Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:00:00 GMT
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