Category Archives: Heart Diseases

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Summer peaches are one of natures best inventions. Theyre soft and sweet, smell divine, taste good cooked or fresh, and theyre chock-full of vitamins, minerals and antioxidants. Cleveland Clinic is a non-profit academic medical center Continue reading →

When youre struggling to lose weight, it might be tempting to want to try every pill and potion on the internet that promises to blast, burn or melt the pounds away in a matter of weeks. The thing is, those concoctions could make things worse instead of better. So whats the skinny on herbal weight loss supplements Continue reading →

Newswise BOSTON Cutting 20% of sugar from packaged foods and 40% from beverages could prevent 2.48 million cardiovascular disease events (such as strokes, heart attacks, cardiac arrests), 490,000 cardiovascular deaths, and 750,000 diabetes cases in the U.S. over the lifetime of the adult population, reports a study published in Circulation. A team of researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), the Friedman School of Nutrition Science & Policy at Tufts University, Harvard T.H Continue reading →

Studies have shown that the prevalence of cardiovascular diseases is projected to conservatively account for 30% of all deaths in Nigeria. In the last decade, we have seen a rise of fried and fast food consumption especially in urban areas, proportionately contributing to increase in cholesterol levels. While many have chosen to lead an unhealthy lifestyle with their food choices, others cant be faulted as the increased poverty level in the country has forced many into a non-mutual relationship with malnutrition Continue reading →

Introduction Coronary artery disease (CAD) is the primary factor of death in most developing or developed countries;1 the prevalence of CAD has put enormous pressure on public health.2 To reduce the medical burden caused by CAD, simple and reliable signs for the identification of CAD are urgently needed. Androgenic alopecia (AGA) is of the highest prevalence in all types of hair loss. It affects both genders and different races with different patterns and prevalence of hair loss.3 Over the past several decades, a few researches have suggested that AGA may be correlated to CAD and established cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors such as diabetes, hypertension and dyslipidemia.49 Serum free androgens have been thought to play an important part in the etiopathogenesis of AGA, which can bind to androgen receptors on the scalp to micronize hair follicles leading to hair loss.10 It has been reported that serum-free androgens may stimulate vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMC) proliferation to promote atherosclerosis and cause vasoconstriction leading to hypertension.11 Insulin resistance, as a CAD risk factor, can aggravate AGA, which may explain the positive correlation between AGA and CAD.12,13 Chronic inflammation has been thought to play an important role in the occurrence and development of CAD and may also be involved in the association between AGA and CAD.12,14 Despite AGA affects different races with different patterns and prevalence of hair loss, most prior studies of the association between AGA and CAD were based on Caucasians. Continue reading →

How plaque on your teeth may be connected to plaque in your arteries. Image: Thomas_EyeDesign/Getty Images For decades, researchers have probed the link between gum disease and cardiovascular health. Gum disease begins when the sticky, bacteria-laden film dentists refer to as plaque builds up around teeth. Continue reading →

What is heart block? Electrical signals control the beating of your heart. They tell your heart muscle when to contract, a process known as conduction. Continue reading →

The human heart beats, on average, 75 times a minute. For a person with a 75-year lifespan, that amounts to nearly 3 billion heartbeats. Quite an impressive organ Continue reading →

CNN If you are living with heart disease, having a small amount of alcohol each day is linked to a lower risk of having another heart attack, stroke, angina (heart pain because of constricted arteries) or an early death, according to a new large study. This is not the general population the study applies to people who have already had something happen that relates to cardiovascular health, said alcohol researcher Emmanuela Gakidou, who is senior director of organizational development and training at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington. And what they find is that if you continue to drink after youve had a cardiac event, its not that bad for you, as long as you keep consumption low, said Gakidou, who was not involved with the study. Continue reading →