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Articles about Heart Disease Factors (0-50 of 1739)
- Rheumatic Heart Disease "€" What It Is And How It Can Be Prevented
By: AlenCaller | - Rheumatic heart disease is a specific cardiac condition that is caused when bacterial infections damage the heart valves. Genus Streptococcus is the bacterium responsible for such infections. It is the same bacterium that causes tonsillitis (commonly known as strep throat). When the condition of tonsillitis is left untreated, it may result in bacterial spread, which may have very serious consequences. The bacteria may travel to the heart and cause inflammation, eventually damaging the tissues in ...
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- Prevent Heart Disease Naturally "€" Some Natural Ways To Keep Your Heart In Prime Condition
By: AlenCaller | - Over 50% of the deaths in the United States of America are caused by cardiac disease. Therefore, make sure that your heart health is the top priority in your life. Even if you are not experiencing any symptoms, you had better practice a lifestyle that should keep your heart in prime condition. Following is a brief rundown on how to prevent heart disease naturally.
Fiber
High cholesterol level is one of the major risk factors of this type of disease. Therefore, you must know ...
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- Remedies To Prevent Coronary Heart Disease And Stroke
By: Dr. Mital John | - Coronary heart disease and heart attack and stroke can be avoided to a large extent by lifestyle measures. The direct causes of coronary heart disease and stroke are factors like these:
- Restriction of blood vessels in the heart and the rest of the body by arteriosclerosis.
- High blood cholesterol level.
- High blood pressure.
- Excess weight.
- Diabetes.
- High level of the amino acid homocysteine in the blood.
- High content of low density lipo ...
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- How To Prevent Heart Problems And Stroke
By: Dr. Mital John | - Coronary heart disease and heart attack and stroke can be avoided to a large extent by lifestyle measures.
The direct causes of coronary heart disease and stroke are factors like these:
- Restriction of blood vessels in the heart and the rest of the body by arteriosclerosis.
- High blood cholesterol level.
- High blood pressure.
- Excess weight.
- Diabetes.
- High level of the amino acid homocysteine in the blood.
- High content of low densi ...
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- Heart-healthy Diet - What Does This Entail?
By: Shanae Ferne | - Heart disease kills millions of people annually. There are factors that we cannot control, but put us at increased risk for heart disease. These factors include increasing age, being male, and having a family history of heart disease. Fortunately, one of the things that we can control when it comes to heart disease is eating a heart-healthy diet. This diet is good for everyone, not only people who have heart disease.
Just as important as it is to watch how much we eat, we need to ...
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- Heart Disease - What Are The Risk Factors?
By: Shanae Ferne | - Heart disease is a widely-used term that covers many different diseases of the heart and the blood vessels. Some forms of heart disease develop when the heart is attacked by viruses or are due to congenital deformities. However, in a lot of cases, heart disease is related to the lifestyle and choices you make on a daily basis. It is therefore important to be able to understand that there are risk factors that contribute to heart disease. Some of them are under your control, but some of them ...
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- Coronary Heart Disease Recipe
By: Dr. Mital John | - There are many ways to keep away from heart diseases and some of the most excellent ways for avoiding the coronary heart diseases include following the recipes, which help in preventing them. Basically these are health recipes, which are ideal for reducing the stress caused to the heart due to heavy foods, and thus reduce the risks of the coronary heart diseases. There is no doubt that heart diseases can lead to various kinds of consequence on your health and the side effects that can be fatal a ...
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- Causes Of Coronary Heart Disease
By: Garey Simmons | - Numerous extensive research and studies have uncovered a number of factors responsible for increasing the risk of coronary heart disease. According to those researchers, these risk factors are highly associated with coronary heart disease, but the degree of their prevalence is not yet accurately determined, therefore these factors are just deemed contributing causes of coronary heart disease.
These contributing causes are to some degree controllable, modifiable and treatable. ...
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- The Relationship Between Smoking And Heart Disease
By: Cindy Heller | - There are many risk factors for heart disease. The two main high risk factors are a diet that is high in fatty food and smoking. Indulging in fatty food will result in the build up of fat in your blood stream. This will then manifests itself in two ways, as high blood pressure or high cholesterol level. Both will means that your heart is working harder to pump the blood, increasing the risk of heart attack. Smoking is a high risk factor for heart disease because the carcinogens in the cigarettes ...
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- Heart Disease - The Leading Cause Of Fatalities In Women
By: Cindy Heller | - Although women are less prone to heart disease as compared with men, it must be known that heart disease is the leading cause of death for women today. The risk is in fact higher for women for certain profile of the population. For example, women smokers are several times more prone to heart disease than male smokers.
Heart diseases are caused by many different factors. For example old age, obesity, smoking, high blood pressure, diabetic and a sedentary lifestyle can cause heart d ...
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- 5 Leading Causes Of Heart Disease That You Need To Avoid
By: Cindy Heller | - There are many factors that can cause heart disease and this article gives top five leading causes of heart disease. It is very important for you to know so you can avoid them and reduce the risk of suffering from heart disease.
#1 High cholesterol
High cholesterol can be extremely dangerous, and particularly it can cause atherosclerosis, or a hardening of the arteries, which sequentially can lead to blocked coronary arteries, marked by chest pain, or a heart attack ...
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- How To Prevent And Treat Heart Disease
By: Cindy Heller | - Heart disease is a general term for a number of different diseases, all of which influence the heart in some way. Heart disease is in fact considered as being the leading reason of death nowadays in the United States. Heart disease indeed possesses serious threat to many people. Therefore, it is important to understand the methods to prevent and treat heart disease.
Prevention methods
There is reason to be hopeful because according to experts, heart disease preventi ...
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- Obesity And Heart Disease Are Related
By: David Cowley | - For years medical professionals believed that obesity and heart disease were only related indirectly. Major risk factors for heart disease such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol, hardening of the arteries and type 2 diabetes are attributed to how obese a person is. Obesity was believed to be a contributing factor to heart disease, new studies now show a direct link between obesity and heart related diseases.
Body Mass Index (BMI) is calculated by using a person's height a ...
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- How To Live With Heart Disease
By: Cindy Heller | - The agony of finding out that you may be suffering from some form of heart disease is usually traumatic. Your doctor has just received the laboratory test results for the battery of tests that you have completed during your recent checkup. From what the results indicate, if you do not stop eating all those fatty foods that you love so much, you are going to require bypass surgery very soon. Do not worry that your quality of life will get worse since there are modern treatment plans that get you ...
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- The Treatment Of Heart Disease
By: Cindy Heller | - Heart disease has become the number one cause of premature death in the United States and many other parts of the world. It is also a debilitating malady that disables many people. Heart diseases treatment methods are thus vital for improving the quality of life of people suffering from these illnesses. The most common form of heart diseases is the narrowing or blockages in the coronary arteries - blood vessels that supply the heart itself with blood. Fortunately various forms of treatment are a ...
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- An Overview Of Heart Disease
By: Cindy Heller | - One of the most widely recognized causes of premature death worldwide today is heart disease. Although this may sound very depressing, the reality is that the incidence of premature deaths caused by heart diseases has significantly declined in recent years. Although progress has been made in the treatment of heart related disease, additional effort needs to be made to prevent this illness as much as possible. Heart disease often takes a toll on the sufferer's and his family's lives. Treating hea ...
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- Work Environment, A Mistreated Cause Of Heart Disease.
By: Abdulmajeed Alkatheeri | - A new study showed that job may increase the risk of developing some heart diseases such as coronary heart disease. This study was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
As Dr. Chantal Brisson from Universite Laval in Quebec noted that (This research is the first time that the result of stressful job has been considered in a large number of men and women of different ages who have returned to work after a first heart attack). Many early studies for heart di ...
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- A Contributing Factor Of Coronary Heart Disease
By: Carolyn Bell Smith | - Cholesterol is one of the leading health issues for women. More than fifty percent of women over age fifty-five cholesterol levels should be lowered and more than a fourth of American women are at coronary heart disease (CHD) risk because of high cholesterol levels.
It is projected that one hundred five million American cholesterol levels are two hundred milligrams per deciliter (mg/dl); this is the border-line. Forty-two million people have levels of two hundred forty mg/dl, the ...
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- Preventing Heart Disease Naturally
By: Albert Milligan | - According to the Center for Disease Control (the CDC), over 910,000 people die from heart disease every year. This makes heart disease the number one killer in America. While almost one million individuals die of heart disease annually, many more millions are stricken with the disease and some of them unknowingly. As a result, doctors and physicians alike encourage anyone, and especially those at risk, to understand the warning signs of heart disease and take measures to prevent the onslaught ...
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- New Method To Identify Heart Disease Risk In Women
By: Chris Marshall | - Researchers in America say they have developed a more accurate method of predicting if a woman is at risk of heart disease. Current methods to predict heart disease are now over 40 years old and these often failed to identify women who are at risk.
The new Reynolds Risk Score considers more than just traditional risk factors such as age, blood pressure, cholesterol level and smoking. It also considers parental history of heart attack before the age of 60, and levels of C-reactive ...
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- Heart Disease In Women Is The Number One Killer
By: David Cowley | - According to recent studies, it's found that more than 8 million American women are currently living with some form of heart related disease.and it is the leading cause of death of American women.
Prevention is the key to staying healthy. Heart disease in women can be diagnosed and treated but once a woman finds out that she has the disease, it may already be too late. It is very common that the first symptom is due to a stroke or heart attack.
Woman that have eng ...
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- Heart Disease
By: Dr. April Davall | - Human body is a complex machine. There are many organs in the body and the most important organ is the heart. This helps the person to breathe and live. Heart disease is a commonly used term for a number of different diseases affecting the heart. These may range from coronary, ischemic and inflammatory heart diseases which are diseases of the heart itself; to hypertensive heart disease (caused by high blood pressure) and cardiovascular heart diseases (a general term used for a number of diseases ...
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- Women And Heart Disease
By: David Cowley | - Five hundred thousand American women die each year from heart diseases and the risks increases with age. Heart disease includes the narrowing of the arteries, heart failure, diseases of the heart muscles, inborn defects, hardening of the arties, and other conditions.
We tend to think of men as the ones who commonly have heart diseases but heart diseases is the leading killer of both men and women in the United States. Scientists who are studying the cause of the rise in cardiac ...
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- Second Hand Smokers And Heart Disease Risk
By: Abdulmajeed Alkatheeri | - A new study found that secondhand smokers develop higher signs and symptoms of heart disease, attacks and strokes, adding to the link between "passive smoke" and heart disease. This study was published in Journal of the American Heart Association and calculated the level of cotinine in the blood of participants.
Dr. Andrea Venn from University of Nottingham in Britain is the lead author of this new study. Dr Andrea said the study provides additional proof to suggest low-level exp ...
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- Heart Disease, Risk Factors, And Treatments
By: William Walters | - William Walters
Heart-Condition-Guide
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Today we are going to talk about Heart Disease, Risk Factors, and Treatments.
Heart disease, is the number one killer of both men and women in the United States. Heart disease is a variety of conditions that affect the performance of the heart. The basics of heart disease, how heart disease is diagnosed, heart disease screening tests, heart disease risk factors, and heart disease prevention.
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- Symptoms Of Coronary Heart Disease
By: Dr. Beth Paxton | - All of our muscles need a continuous supply of oxygen carried by the blood and the heart is no exception. However, due to diet, age, and other factors such as high blood cholesterol, high blood pressure and smoking, our coronary arteries may become smaller or clogged. When the blood flow to the heart is restricted, it results in coronary heart disease, sometimes known as CHD. Angina occurs when not enough blood carrying oxygen can get through to the heart. This often causes a pain in the lef ...
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- Bad Diet Cause Heart Disease, Good Diet Prevent It
By: Abdulmajeed Alkatheeri | - By the years passing medicine discovers many solutions for diseases in our food. Eating diet is considered as one of the main factors of heart disease. If people eat healthy diet, they shall cut a long way to prevent heart disease. However, there are some foods can resolve heart disease problems. This article is noting the advantages of chili and yogurt to control cardiovascular disease.
A new study done by U.S researches and was published in the Journal of Food Biochemistry sug ...
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- Coronary Heart Disease In The Elderly
By: Ng Peng Hock | - Coronary heart disease (CHD) is the most common cause of mortality and morbidity in the elderly. In western countries, it accounts for 80 85 percent of all cardiac deaths in older people.
When a person ages, his or her cardiovascular system will undergo some normal and expected changes. These can be age-associated changes in cardiac anatomy; age-associated changes in cardiovascular physiology; and age-associated changes in pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics.
The ...
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- How To Get Your Life Back After Heart Disease Strikes?
By: Ng Peng Hock | - Heart disease often destroys lives, particularly heart attack that can strike suddenly and without warning. It is estimated that half of all people who suffer a heart attack may die even without reaching hospital for treatment. People who survive from heart attacks are often disable both mentally and physically.
Being an essential program that helps such people rebuild their lives, cardiac rehabilitation can also assist people who have congestive heart failure, or who have undergo ...
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- Reversing Heart Disease In Six Steps
By: Eddie Lamb | - There are many different forms of heart disease that can afflict us. Some of these include coronary artery disease, heart failure, congestive heart failure, congenital heart disease, etc. Some of these diseases are genetically based and some evolve through lifestyle choices.
Obviously, when a patient hears that he or she has heart problem the news is very traumatic. However, depending upon the form of the disease and whether or not it is genetically or lifestyle created, there ...
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- Heart Disease. Are You At Risk?
By: Graeme Lanham | - A heart attack occurs when the blood supply carrying oxygen and other nutrients to the heart muscle is blocked.
Coronary heart disease is caused by the build-up of artherosclerosis, [fatty deposits] or plaque on the inside of artery walls. This narrows the channel inside the artery so there is less room for the blood to flow through.
The following 2 critical risk factors you should be aware of if you wish to avoid a heart attack or heart disease.
SMO ...
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- Blood Test To Predict Risk Of Heart Disease For Diabetics
By: Ng Peng Hock | - Diabetes has long been regarded as a risk factor of heart disease. The specific relationship between the two was unclear although diabetes is known to double the risk of heart disease. As a result, many people living with diabetes have to monitor their health for well-known risk factors for heart disease, such as obesity, cholesterol levels and blood pressure. Despite the fact that the role of blood sugar levels in managing their risk of developing cardiovascular disease remains as a big unknown ...
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- Heart Disease - The Number One Killer In Women
By: Charles Stubbs | - Heart disease has long been known as the biggest killer of men, but it often comes as a surprise to many people to learn that it's also the number one cause of death in women.
According to recent studies more than 8 million American women are currently living with some form of the condition and, in fact, more women than men die of heart disease each year, mainly because the retired population is predominantly women.
Heart disease in women can be diagnosed and treate ...
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- How To Prevent Heart Disease For Women After Menopause? Part I
By: Ng Peng Hock | - Coronary heart disease (CHD) is the leading cause of death for women in developed countries. For both men and women, CHD risk increases with age. It is known that the CHD risk is much lower for women than for men of comparable age. Women's risk, however, increases significantly and catches up with their male counterparts after menopause. This is because estrogen, the female sex hormone, has a protective effect on women's hearts. Unfortunately, the level of estrogen drops significantly after me ...
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- Do Not Overlook Stress That Can Raise Risk Of Heart Disease!
By: Ng Peng Hock | - Due to globalization, economic structure has changed and is very different from years ago. Royalty towards organizations are rare and likewise, security of jobs provided by organizations is scarce too. More and more people choose to become entrepreneurs or self-employed. Under such circumstances, people are constantly under stress irrespective of which categories they are in.
Do take note that a stressful life does seem to raise the odds of heart disease and stroke, according to a ...
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- Pcos And Infection Can Also Cause Heart Disease
By: Ng Peng Hock | - Heart disease can be caused by a number of risk factors, for example, high blood cholesterol, high blood pressure, diabetes, unhealthy diet and habits, laziness, obesity as well as some uncontrollable factors like family history of heart disease. Nevertheless, there are at least two other risk factors, namely PCOS and infection, that could also trigger heart disease or even heart attack.
PCOS (Polycystic ovary syndrome) is found to be a serious disorder that can eventually lead to ...
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- Workouts That Will Improve Your Heart Disease Condition
By: Joann Cheong | - There are several ways that you can do to avoid heart disease and exercise is one of them.
One of the major risk factors related to heart disease is physical inactivity. Exercise is important for all the right reasons! It is good to our body, and most importantly, it is required for our heart to function effectively and efficiently. Our heart is a muscle and when a muscle is not exercised, it can become weak and flabby. It is important for our heart to maintain its endurance, its ...
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- Things To Watch Out For Earlobe Creases And Heart Disease
By: Joann Cheong | - A study has been done suggesting that earlobe creases and heart disease are associated and that people with earlobe creases were likely to have such disease.
Another strange combination, of the two things, isn't it? What does earlobe has something to do with heart attack? These are the questions I once asked to myself when I first heard about it. I even look at a mirror to see if I got one and felt relieved when there was none. But how on earth the two become interrelated?
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- The Relationship Between Diet And Heart Disease
By: Joann Cheong | - 'You are what you eat' is something a lot of us say but a lot of us don't actually take seriously. Not until we suffer from certain heart conditions and the doctor starts saying "you can't eat this and you can't eat that", that we realize how diet and heart disease are related, that the food we eat is directly involve in many of the risk factors for coronary heart disease.
Cardiovascular disease is a leading cause of death for both men and women; obesity and overweight problems c ...
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- Causes Of Coronary Heart Disease
By: Joann Cheong | - Numerous extensive researches and studies have recognized a number of factors responsible for increasing the risk of coronary heart disease. According to those researches, these risk factors are highly associated with it, but the degree of their prevalence is not yet accurately determined, the reason that these factors are just deemed by many as "contributing" causes of the disease.
The contributing causes of are to some degree controllable, modifiable and treatable. However, th ...
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- True Facts On Arteriosclerotic Heart Disease
By: Joann Cheong | - Arteriosclerotic heart disease is related to coronary artery disease which is the narrowing of the small blood vessels that supply blood and oxygen to the heart.
Arteriosclerotic heart Disease is synonymous to coronary heart disease. Coronary heart disease, or coronary artery disease, is the narrowing of the small blood vessels that supply blood and oxygen to the heart. This condition results from the accumulation of fatty substance and plaque. As the coronary arteries narrow, the ...
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- The Connection Between Diabetes And Heart Disease
By: Joann Cheong | - Diabetes and heart disease go hand-in-hand. Diabetic persons are at much greater risk to having heart attacks, high blood pressure, and strokes. People who have diabetes have often much higher blood sugar level that can cause damage to many parts of the body including the blood vessels. Vascular problems due to diabetes may also include poor circulation to the legs and feet, unfortunately these problems can go undetected and can start early in life.
Risks of getting both can st ...
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- Information On Heart Disease: Preventing Better Than Curing
By: MoneyMadam | - Heart disease is the number one killer in America. It's estimated that more than 58 million Americans have some form of heart disease. The key to stopping such as a problematic illness like heart disease is to find out as much as we can about it and, more importantly, how to prevent it.
Information on heart disease is not hard to find; in fact, your doctor probably has several good reads on the subject in his office. If you don't have a doctor, then just open your local newspaper. ...
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