Heart Health

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Your heart keeps your body running. And we keep you on top of everything you need to know about heart health so that you’re in the know.

Stroke

A Post-Hospital Risk for Stroke Patients

Jane Farrell

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Patients who suffer an ischemic stroke, the most common kind, face an additional risk after being released from the hospital. … Read More→

Exercise

Heart Health

A Short Way to Prolong Life

Jane Farrell

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It’s not a marathon runner’s workout time, but doctors are advising heart patients to move around every twenty minutes in … Read More→

High blood pressure / hypertension

Hypertension

Oral Health

Poor Oral Health Linked to Higher Blood Pressure and Worse Blood Pressure Control

Sondra Forsyth

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People with high blood pressure taking medication for their condition are more likely to benefit from the therapy if they … Read More→

Heart Health

High Cholesterol

10 Fascinating Facts About Cholesterol

Katherine Grames

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CHOLESTEROL MAY PROTECT YOUR SKIN. Skin treatment research, while still in early stages, indicates that cholesterol added as an ingredient … Read More→

Hypertension

Faith-Based Approach to Changing Lifestyle Lowers Blood Pressure

Jane Farrell

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A church-based program to encourage a healthy lifestyle lowered systolic blood pressure more than an educational program alone delivered in … Read More→

Atrial Fibrillation

Atrial Fibrillation Patients with Cancer Are Less LIkely to See Cardiologists

Jane Farrell

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Atrial fibrillation (AFib) patients with a history of cancer are less likely to see a cardiologist or fill anticoagulant prescriptions, … Read More→

Heart Health

Heart Disease and Stroke Deaths Hitting Middle-Aged Adults in Large Numbers

Jane Farrell

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Despite being largely preventable, heart attacks, strokes, heart failure and other related conditions caused 2.2 million hospitalizations in 2016, resulting … Read More→

Heart Health

Yo-Yo Dieting Raises Risk of Heart Attack and Stroke

Jane Farrell

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Fluctuations in weight, blood pressure, cholesterol and/or blood sugar levels in otherwise healthy people may be associated with a higher … Read More→

Heart Health

Heart Failure Patients with Mitral Regurgitation Benefit from Minimally Invasive Procedure

Sondra Forsyth

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A multicenter clinical trial has found that a minimally invasive procedure called transcatheter mitral valve repair significantly reduced hospitalizations and … Read More→

High blood pressure / hypertension

Diagnosing and Treating Resistant Hypertension

Sondra Forsyth

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Resistant hypertension affects 12 percent to15 percent of patients treated for high blood pressure according to a new scientific statement … Read More→

Hypertension

Dangerous High Blood Pressure Spikes among Blacks Happen Five Times More than Average

Jane Farrell

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Black adults experience dangerous spikes in high blood pressure, called a hypertensive crisis, at a rate that is five times … Read More→

Heart Health

Positive Well-Being and Optimism Can Improve Overall Heart Health

Jane Farrell

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Maintaining positive thoughts and feelings through intervention programs can help patients achieve better overall outcomes when it comes to their … Read More→

Sudden Cardiac Arrest

More Patients Survive Sudden Cardiac Arrest with New EMS Technique

Jane Farrell

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A change in the type of breathing tube paramedics use to resuscitate patients who have suffered sudden cardiac arrest can … Read More→

Heart Failure

Telemedicine Increases Life Expectancy for Some Heart Patients

Jane Farrell

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Telemedicine management of heart-failure patients reduces hospitalizations, prolongs life and works equally well in rural and urban settings, European investigators … Read More→