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Crestor May Not Cut Heart Failure Death
Crestor, a statin drug that lowers LDL ("bad") cholesterol, may not reduce heart deaths in heart failure patients, a new study shows.
Natural Ways to Prevent Heart Disease
An Imperial College London team has potentially found new ways to prevent heart disease, by using a chemical that's in green vegetables (the ones Mom always insisted you finish) works to boost a natural defense mechanism our bodies use to protect arteries from disease. The details of the work s
Using Cardiac Catheterization to Diagnose Heart Disease
WebMD explains how a cardiac catheterization works and how it can help determine whether you have heart disease.
Sex After a Heart Attack
Sex after a heart attack isn’t nearly as risky as many patients believe.
Back to Basics: Latest European Guidelines on CVD Prevention
Medscape interviewed Joep Perk, MD, about 2012 clinical guidelines prepared by the Fifth Joint Task Force on Cardiovascular Disease Prevention. He gives us a refreshing inside story to reduce guideline lethargy.
A Good Lecithin Supplement Can Help Lower Your Cholesterol
Many people are now recommending a lecithin supplement as a way to help lower your LDL cholesterol levels when they go over acceptable levels. This natural substance was first discovered in 1850 and is found in several foods including soybeans, egg yolks and whole grains. As a nutrition supplement i
Cardiohepatic Interactions in Heart Failure an Overview
A spotlight is placed on the intricate mechanisms underlying liver injury in the setting of HF and how these affect response to therapy -- across the spectrum of clinical HF.
Can Eating Fish Lower Your Cholesterol and Help Heart Disease? 5 Ways That Really Work
Are you fed up with the fish diet to reduce cholesterol and decrease your risk of heart disease?Most people are. It can be pretty dull yet the alternative is drugs with side effects ranging from sexual dysfunction to liver disease. Is it time you looked for a better answer than a drug or just eating
Heart Disease Feels Different to Women
Coronary artery disease is the number one cause of death in women. According to the Women's Heart Foundation, more than twice as many women die from cardiovascular disease as from all forms of cancer combined.
Clopidogrel Resistance: Significance and Management
This important discussion among experts who are engaged with clopidrogrel resistance cover personalized medicine and what to do until we get there.
Heart-Healthy Exercises
Find WebMD's comprehensive coverage of heart-healthy exercises including medical reference, news, pictures, videos, and more.
Targeting Reperfusion Injury in the Era of Primary PCI
Learn more about the clinical evidence of potential therapeutic cardioprotective methods as adjuvant to primary PCI.
Everolimus-Eluting Stents vs BMS in Octogenarians
Are drug-eluting stents superior to bare-metal stents in 80-plus-year-old patients with angina?
Long-term Mortality Following Interhospital Transfer for AMI
How much impact does a transfer have on patient outcomes for AMI?
Have CAD? You Need The Fighting Attitude Of A Cancer Patient
A patient with newly diagnosed coronary artery disease has many decisions to make about lifestyle choices, surgery, stenting or medical therapy
Diastolic Dysfunction Among Hospitalized Older Heart Failure
Heart failure is a clinical diagnosis and in the absence of objective diagnostic criteria, its diagnosis remains subjective.
Cardiac Rehabilitation in the Home Setting
Is home-based cardiac rehabilitation as effective as on-site programs for patients with coronary heart disease?
Heart Disease in Hispanic Women
Heart disease remains the leading cause of death among women in the United States.Previously it was thought that Hispanic women had a lower risk of heart disease, but recent studies have shown that Hispanic women develop heart disease risk factors ten years earlier than Caucasian women.
Nature's Statin - Vitamin C and Lysine!
Unified Theory of Heart Disease. Vitamin C in larger doses very helpful in avoiding heart disease. Discussion of Nobel Prize Winning chemist Linus Paulings' work on heart disease.Did you know there were "other" theories of heart disease besides (lipid) cholesterol theory? If you were