Category Archives: Heart Diseases

The growing death rate in pregnant and post-partum women is caused in part by pre-existing conditions such as high blood pressure and diabetes, the Heart Association said in a statement. Another problem is the increasing rate of pregnancies among older women which can be "associated with pre-term birth, preeclampsia and chronic hypertension." "During the first trimester of a normal pregnancy, the heart rate increases and blood pressure decreases. In the second and third trimesters, the heart rate and blood pressure increase and don't decrease until after birth. Continue reading →

Being overweight as a child has long been associated with an increased chance of developing heart disease later in life, but early intervention may reverse some of the risk. In a new study, study, published in May 2020 in the British Medical Journal, researchers at the University of Bristol used genetic data from nearly half a million people in the United Kingdom (UK) to determine how a person's body size during childhood and early adulthood influenced the risk of developing heart disease and type 2 diabetes later in life. To do this, the researchers asked participants to recall what their body size was at age 10, and then compared that with their current body mass index (BMI) as an adult; the average age of the participants was 57 Continue reading →

TORONTO -- For two weeks in April, Terry McGinnis ignored his chest pain and shortness of breath out of fear that a trip to the hospital could lead him to contracting COVID-19. It wasnt until the 76-year-old retiree from Vancouver began experiencing chest pain even while resting that he decided it was time to visit a doctor. They suggested that I take a stress test, so I went down and took a stress test and I couldn't pass the walking part, he told CTV News from his hospital room Continue reading →

By: Lifestyle Desk | Updated: May 9, 2020 5:47:40 pm Keep your blood pressure under control during the pandemic. (Source: getty images) Early studies surveying people with the novel coronavirus disease found that up to 30 per cent of them had hypertension, according to a report by The Lancet. So, how are hypertension and the risk of coronavirus related? Continue reading →

May 10, 2020, 9:27 AM 6 min read 6 min read Even as the global death toll from COVID-19 continues to rise, the impact of the virus may actually be understated, according to a new study from the University of Glasgow. Using a statistical measure called "years of life lost," researchers found that COVID-19 strips more than a decade away from a person's life, on average. Continue reading →

You live in a routine from syringe to infusion and you hope you make it, Peter Piot says about his time in a London hospital. By Dirk DraulansMay Continue reading →

A detail from Pieter Bruegel the Elders The Triumph of Death (c1562): Epidemics have never stopped being a fact of life and death for hundreds of millions of people. Photograph: Granger Historical Picture Archive/Alamy Twenty years ago, the US Department of Defense set out a clear warning: Historians in the next millennium may find that the 20th centurys greatest fallacy was the belief that infectious diseases were nearing elimination. Continue reading →

Darrell Little is a critical care nurse in Maryland who has seen his fair share of tragedy and deadly diseases during his 39-year career in the medical field. From dealing with tuberculosis, the HIV/Aids epidemic and anthrax to training and preparing for the Ebola virus, Little has faced a lot during his career. But the Stanly County native, 61, hasnt seen anything quite like COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. Continue reading →

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