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Lower Your High Cholesterol Through Diet Management and Make High Cholesterol a Thing of the Past
Honestly, one of the best ways to lower your high cholesterol is through diet management. When one mentions cholesterol these days it almost always is frowned upon but in fact maintaining a health cholesterol level is an essential part of good health. Without it our cells would...
How Needles Help A Stroke Patient To Recover
A stroke left the right side of Steve's body paralyzed. Even a few sessions before the 40 sessions prescribed for stroke patients, he has already begun to return to normal life.
Drug-Coated Heart Stents Work Better
Drug-coated heart stents work twice as well in preventing major heart problems, compared with bare-metal stents -- and for up to three years, a new study shows.
The Benefit of Cholesterol-Lowering Medications
Are the benefits of secondary cholesterol-lowering strategies principally involving post-MI patients also evident in an unselected cohort of recently revascularized elderly patients?
Cardiac Marker Testing: Where Should We Focus?
An early marker of plaque rupture that appears prior to myocardial damage might be helpful in making triage decisions.
Heart Disease is a Killer! - A Vegetarian Lifestyle Change - The Anxiety is Understandable!
Heart disease is a killer! - To make you feel at ease it's important to point out the benefits of the decision you have taken to eventually eliminate all meat and animal products from your diet. For example, you should know that a vegetarian person has a much less chance of contracting many for
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Risk for CHD
Learn more about PTSD as a risk factor for heart disease.
walking and diet
Walking 10,000 steps daily helps greatly with weight loss, according to a new study.
Prognostic Implications of Procedural vs Spontaneous MI
What's the difference in outcomes between patients who have procedure-related MI's vs spontaneous MI's?
Why Drugs To Lower Cholesterol Can Be Dangerous To Your Health
While Statin drugs are the most common way that our current medical establishment chooses to treat high cholesterol they do come with side effects that are not always fully explained to people. You need to find out about the problems they can create in order to make a well informed decision as to wh
Can Conjugated Linoleic Acid (CLA) Help You Lose Weight?
Conjugated linoleic acid - CLA - reduces weight and improves body composition
Changes in Mid-life Fitness and HF Risk at a Later Age
Is mid-life fitness enough to reduce HF hospitalization at a later age?
What Are the Main Symptoms of Congestive Heart Failure?
Congestive heart failure is a condition that when left untreated may continue to progress to a stage that requires transplant or other serious procedures to simply keep the patient alive. As a result, detecting the condition early on can be valuable. Confirmed diagnosis involves further and more exa
Anemia and Mortality in Acute Coronary Syndromes
How does anemia affect cardiovascular outcomes for patients with acute coronary syndromes?
Heart Disease and Cardiac Catheterization
Cardiac catheterization, also called cardiac cath or coronary angiogram, is an invasive imaging procedure that allows your doctor to diagnose heart disease.
Causes of Chest Pain - Coronary Artery Spasm
Coronary artery spasm, in which the coronary arteries become transiently narrowed, is a relatively uncommon cause of chest pain.
Seven Safe Steps to Avoid Heart Disease
You have already heard the term you are what you eat. It's been around forever. It's also common knowledge that eating certain foods increases your risk for heart disease. But despite that fact we continue to consume more and more foods that we know is bad for us. This is often because...
Cardiac Symptoms Before SCD Caused by CAD
What signals does the number one killer send to warn us of an impending attack?
Holistic Medicine Secrets - High Cholesterol - What Are The Alternatives?
Everyone is, or should be, concerned about heart disease. It's the #1 killer in America. What should you do if you have high cholesterol? Discover the untold side of the story of elevated cholesterol levels as well as the alternatives to statin drugs for heart disease prevention.
Deciphering the Role of Cardiac Computed Tomography
Cardiac CT provides accurate 3D assessment of the coronary arteries and cardiac structures, but what are the best clinical uses?