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‘Heart: A History’ Review: At the Bleeding Edge
The cardiologist Sandeep Jauhar has become a Dante of modern medicine, with his earlier memoirs, “Intern” (2008) and “Doctored” (2014), casting the progress from training to career as a path studded with suffering, indignity and ethical hazard. His latest book, “Heart: A History,” is something of a “Paradiso,” pointing to the field’s brightest and noblest stars while recognizing just how much darkness is still left in the firmament.
Contemporary cardiology, Dr. Jauhar notes, is coming off a perhaps unrepeatable century of success. Since 1950, deaths from cardiovascular disease have declined by 60% in the U.S.—meaning that, every year, more than a million Americans who would…
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Aspirin has long been prescribed to prevent heart attacks. Now experts say it shouldn’t
The side effects are not worth the potential benefits, especially for older adults.
Fewer people may need statins to prevent heart disease, new study suggests
Fewer people may need statins to prevent heart disease, new study suggests Heart doctors warned, however, that more information is needed and patients shouldn’t stop taking their medications.
Heart Disease Is Still A Killer. Here's How To Reverse It
A good first step is to get a baseline reading of three key factors: your blood pressure, average blood sugar and cholesterol levels. These numbers are sometimes the only clues we have to a patient's risk of heart disease, and that's because three of the most common culprits in heart attacks — high blood pressure, diabetes and abnormal cholesterol levels — are often present without any symptoms.
What Your ‘Heart Age’ Says About Your Health
Do you know how old your heart is? And does it even matter? More online calculators, wearable devices and medical tests are attempting to estimate your heart’s age. The companies and organizations behind the tools say that having insight into your heart health can prompt you to make lifestyle changes to help stave off cardiovascular disease down the road. It’s an extension of our newfound obsession with “biological age,” the concept that your body, or parts of it, can be physically aging faster or slower than your actual age. And that by knowing those ages, you can take control to live longer and healthier.
The bloody clever science behind the UK's online heart age test
Behind Public Health England's Heart Age Test is more than 70 years of data. And it all started in the small US city of Framingham, Massachusetts.
A Heart Risk Factor Even Doctors Know Little About
While doctors routinely test for other lipoproteins like HDL and LDL cholesterol, few test for lipoprotein(a), also known as lp(a), high levels of which triple the risk of having a heart attack or stroke at an early age. Dr. Lloyd-Jones at Northwestern said that testing for lp(a) should be considered for people with early-onset cardiovascular disease — which means younger than age 50 for men and age 60 for women — or a strong family history of it. Since high lp(a) is hereditary, those who have it often have a parent, sibling or grandparent who suffered a premature heart attack or stroke. When one person has it, it’s important to test other family members too.
A Heart Surgeon's Viral Confession
In the essay, Lundell describes his purportedly newfound understanding that a diet of natural, unprocessed food can prevent and reverse heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, and Alzheimer’s disease. He recalls two and a half misguided decades as a cardiac surgeon prescribing cholesterol-lowering medications and recommending a low-fat diet. He says that he recently realized the error of his ways, stopped practicing, and dedicated his career to heart disease prevention.
Broader Understanding of Heart Disease Risk
Studies of heart disease risk in various ethnic groups can also benefit people outside those groups, researchers say. “Differences across ethnicities tell us something important about biology that could be exploited in different ways,” says Dr. Herrington, of the Mesa study. “The subtleties and the differences between ethnicities can be very informative and can help us in ways that studying one ethnicity cannot.”
Certain Heartburn Drugs Linked to Increased Risk of Heart Attack
Proton pump inhibitor (PPI) therapy was associated with an increased risk of myocardial infarction in a data mining study.
Death Rates From Heart Disease And Stroke Could Be Significantly Less With These Drugs, Study Says
The study revealed that the benefits of statins lasted more than a decade after the clinical trial closed. This new information gives credence to physicians’ use of blood pressure and cholesterol lowering drugs to improve survival in patients with hypertension.
Is Vegetable Oil Really Better for Your Heart?
A new look at an old study raises some questions and reignites a debate about saturated fat.
New Cholesterol Drug Lowers Risk of Heart Attack and Stroke
It remains to be seen whether the treatment, which was effective in a large clinical trial, will live up to its promise.
Now I Know What Your Blood Pressure Should Be
Doctors have long wondered what the magic blood pressure number is for people at risk for heart attacks and strokes.
Panel Unveils Shake-up in Strategy to Cut Heart Risk
The current strategy of reducing a person's heart-attack risk by lowering cholesterol to specific targets is being jettisoned under new clinical guidelines unveiled Tuesday that mark the biggest shift in cardiovascular-disease prevention in nearly three decades.
The Lie About Happy Hour and Your Heart
"A beer every day could keep the doctor away," chirped one headline that made the rounds this week. Another boldly proclaimed that a pint-a-day habit could flat-out prevent stroke and heart disease. Yet another promised to explain "Why drinking beer could be good for your heart," and then backpedaled. "Positive effects were negated by heavy drinking," added the subhead. That's better, but let's back up even more.
High-protein diets are linked to heightened risk for heart disease, even for vegetarians
Despite the popularity of such diets, the research on how they impact heart health has been relatively scant. A new study, though, published this week by the American Heart Association, shows that eating a lot of protein—derived from both plants and animals—is linked to an elevated risk of cardiovascular failure.
Even a Little Weight Training May Cut the Risk of Heart Attack and Stroke
Despite the muscle-building, flab-trimming and, according to recent research, mood-boosting benefits of lifting weights, such resistance exercise has generally been thought not to contribute much to heart health, as endurance workouts like jogging and cycling do. But a study published in October in the journal Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise provides evidence for the first time that even a little weight training might reduce the risk of heart attack or stroke. People appear to gain this benefit whether or not they also engage in frequent aerobic exercise.
Heart disease risk is hidden in your genes. Scientists are getting better at finding it
Preventing heart disease is a huge public health challenge. And right now doctors have good, but limited, options for finding out who is at greatest risk for it. Doctors know that about half the risk for heart disease comes from lifestyle choices: how much, and what, a person is eating, how much alcohol they drink, if they smoke. The other half is related to genetics, and it’s much harder to assess.
How Much Fish You Should Eat To Reduce Heart Disease, Stroke Risk
The just-released American Heart Association (AHA) Science Advisory doesn't justify my eating sushi for breakfast, lunch, and dinner every day during a recent visit to Japan. However, it does re-affirm that eating one to two servings of fish a week may help reduce the risk of heart disease and stroke.
If your genes put you at risk of heart disease, exercise might be able to help
Regular endurance exercise is thought to help protect folks who carry genes that put them at risk for heart trouble, but just how much can it help them?
Start Early To Curb Heart Risks For A Lifetime
If you've got some of these risk factors, don't despair, though. You may not be able to get down to zero, but you can reduce the odds for cardiovascular trouble with exercise, a better diet and treatment for the conditions.
The Sneakiest Heart Risk
Yes, cholesterol is important, but there's another fat—triglycerides—you need to keep tabs on. Here's how to get it under control.
These foods will lower your risk of heart disease
Low-fat or low-carb? Butter or margarine? Avocado oil or coconut oil? Bombarded with contradictory media reports on the ever-changing landscape of nutrition research, it’s difficult for anyone to know which fats and other foods they should eat, and in what quantities.
To Slash Your Risk of Heart Disease, Keep Moving
Does heart disease run in your family? You could most likely slash your risk of developing or dying from heart disease if you are physically fit. Being strong helps too. Those are the findings of the largest study to date of the associations between exercise, fitness and cardiac genetics.
‘Heart: A History’ Review: At the Bleeding Edge
A cardiologist surveys his field and worries that we “might have reached the limits” of what we can do to prolong life.
Five foods to improve your heart health—and two to absolutely avoid
If it feels hard to keep up with nutritional advice, don't worry—cardiologists are here to help.
13 Tips for Preventing Heart Disease
Scientists now know a great deal about what you can do to reduce your risk of cardiovascular disease–the leading cause of death in the U.S. in both men and women. Follow these essential steps to protect your health. Although taking these measures doesn’t guarantee that you won’t ever have a heart attack, it should improve your odds.
Top 10 Steps to Lower Risk of Heart Disease
The heart is a muscle that pumps blood and its essential cargo of oxygen and nutrients around the body. Like all muscles, it needs oxygen to work properly. Its supply comes in via the two powerful coronary arteries that network deep into the heart muscle. When something goes wrong with this supply, the condition is life threatening.
Bayer Aspirin
Learn more about risk factors for heart attack (myocardial infarction) – and learn how you can work with your doctor to make more informed decisions.
Boston Heart Diagnostics
Boston Heart Diagnostics’ approach to cardiovascular disease risk assessment and treatment is different than any other laboratory. First, we’ve developed two unique tests–the Boston Heart HDL Map™ and the Boston Heart Cholesterol Balance™ test to uncover specific and important information about your cholesterol that offers more insight than a standard lipid panel.
Healthy Heart Guide
Why do you need to keep a healthy heart? Heart disease is the #1 cause of death in men and women, greater than the next five causes of death combined!
Heart Rhythm Society
Prevention falls into two main categories: preventing heart disorders in general and monitoring and treating any existing heart problems.
Mayo Clinic
You can prevent heart disease by following a heart-healthy lifestyle.
Texas Heart Institute
Cardiovascular disease is responsible for half of all deaths in the United States and other developed countries, and it is a main cause of death in many developing countries as well. Overall, it is the leading cause of death in adults.
UCI Health
The University of California, Irvine Heart Disease Prevention Program at the UCI College of Medicine strives for excellence in scholarly research, community education, and clinical care aimed at the prevention, early detection, and reversal of coronary heart disease in children, adults, and the elderly. Our team of specialists and well-trained staff at the UCI Heart Disease Prevention Program strive to do what we do best: "Keeping Your Heart Healthy."
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