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Articles about coronary disease (0-50 of 1222)
- The Emotional Recovery From A Heart Attack
By: Stephen Lau | - A heart attack is one of the most devastating and traumatic experiences in life. At least 1.5 million Americans suffer a first or recurrent heart attack every year. Heart attacks are often an indication of advanced coronary heart disease, which is the Number One cause of death in the United States. Attacks occur when oxygen is unable to be delivered to some parts of the heart due to blockage in one or more of the coronary arteries.
Unfortunately, about half a million of those suffer ...
Tags: heart attack, heart-attack survivors, coronary disease, recovery from heart attacks, human mortality
- Fish Oil For Cardiovascular Health: Fishing For A Way To Prevent Coronary Disease
By: Francis Murphy | - With the abundance of food and the ease of living that modern conveniences afford us, it has become the main reason why many of us are much less active than our forefathers. Unfortunately, such widespread mellowness has a detrimental effect on the health of those who do not exercise regularly. Simply put, coronary disease is more common now; it is the most common disease to affect the heart and an important cause of premature death for both men and women in North America.
Coronary ...
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- Disease Management: A Significant Tool In Healthcare Reform And Health Promotion
By: call care | - For the past several years, the US government together with its people has been struggling to keep up with the continuous rise in the costs of healthcare. Last 2007, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Office of the Actuary, National Health Statistics Group the national healthcare expenditure reached an alarming amount of $2.4 Trillion with the hospitalization cost accounting for the largest percentage of all health expenditures of 31% followed by the cost of Physician ...
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- The Treating Coronary Artery Disease
By: Lawrence J. Reaves | - Coronary artery disease (CAD) is the most prevalent form of heart disease. It occurs when plaque accumulates along the inside of the arterial wall. Normally, your arteries provide oxygen-filled blood to your heart. When plaque builds, the passageway becomes constricted which limits the flow of blood. If your heart does not receive enough oxygen-rich blood, it can become damaged and lead to a myocardial infarction.
There are a number of strategies that physicians will use to treat ...
Tags: Health, Medical, Medicine, Disease, Coronary
- 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. ...
Tags: chronic heart disease, heart attack, stroke
- 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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- Reversing The Symptoms Of Heart Disease For A Long Healthy Life
By: Jason Jantzi | - There are numerous diseases that affect the heart. Among the most common are coronary heart disease, heart failure, congenital heart disease, hypertension, heart valve problems, heart arrhythmias and heart infections. These all fall under the term "heart disease."
Heart disease occurs for a variety of reasons, including genetics, sedentary lifestyles, smoking, diabetes, clogged arteries and hypertension. Fortunately, there are a number of lifestyle behaviors you can adopt to help ...
Tags: symptoms of heart disease, causes of heart disease, reversing heart disease, heart disease prevention
- 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 ...
Tags: Heart disease, heart treatment, heart attack, heart valve disease, high blood pressure
- 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 ...
Tags: heart disease, coronary, congenital
- Coronary Heart Diseases
By: Tarun Gupta | - How cholesterol testing can help
Coronary Heart Disease (CHD), commonly known as coronary artery disease (CAD), atherosclerotic heart disease or ischemic heart disease, is a result of formation of cholesterol plaques on the inner side of the arterial (type of blood vessels) walls that supply oxygen and nutrients to the myocardium (heart muscles). So, in order to supply adequate blood to the body, heart has to do extra work. Now if you are assigned extra work on daily basi ...
Tags: cholesterol, Tobacco smoke, cholesterol testing, Coronary Heart Diseases, Health & Wellness Home Test Kits, TestCountry Health Information Resources
- 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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Social Web Results   NEJM -- Genetic Variants Associated with Lp(a) Lipoprotein Level and Coronary Disease Shared By: nutrigenomics - Background An increased level of Lp(a) lipoprotein has been identified as a risk factor for coronary artery disease that is highly heritable. The...
 Dr Portnay: Strongest evidence yet that Lp(a) causes heart disease Shared By: drportnay - "A novel genetic study provides the strongest evidence to date that Lp(a) is a causative factor for coronary disease; the results suggest that...
 Alcohol 'protects men's hearts' Shared By: DanirkTest - The type of drink did not appear to change the results Drinking alcohol every day cuts the risk of heart disease in men by more than a third, a major...
 Invention That Revolutionized Coronary Artery Disease Treatment Ears Honour For UT Alumnus « Health News Shared By: oralchelation - It was the first of a series of inventions by the cardiologist that have helped many with coronary artery disease. On Oct. 16, Simpson was named the...
 The Heart Scan Blog: Overweight, hungry, diabetic, and fat-free Shared By: epistemocrat - I was concerned about personal heart disease risk, though I knew next to nothing about lipids and coronary risk prediction outside of the little I...
 Goji and Heart Diseases | Healthy Heart - Cardiac Informatics Shared By: NutraThai - Goji contains cyperone, a sesquiterpene that can benefit the heart and blood pressure; its... strength and integrity of coronary arteries.
 Phoenixville Hospital recognized for 3rd year by coronary disease group - The Mercury News: Pottstown, PA and The Tri... Shared By: Resultsfitness - Montgomery County Pennsylvania daily newspaper covering local, regional, and national news including local sports, video and multimedia coverage, and...
 Breathe in a healthier state | freep.com | Detroit Free Press Shared By: ARosario525 - Also, in 2005, California's Environmental... adult nonsmokers from lung cancer, approximately 46,000 adult nonsmokers from coronary heart disease,...
 ACRA: Australian Cardiovascular Health & Rehabilitation Association Shared By: Klemmie - Policy Statement from the ACRA An integrated and coordinated approach to preventing recurrent coronary heart disease events in Australia.
 FDA sets stage for Tuesday’s Crestor (rosuvastatin) advisory panel « CardioBrief Shared By: cardiobrief - “For the prevention of cardiovascular disease in adult... smoking or a family history of premature coronary heart disease, CRESTOR is indicated to:
- 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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- Heart Valve Disease Information
By: David Cowley | - The heart is one of the strongest muscles in the body and it is divided into two parts. The top part contains the two atrium chambers and the bottom half contains the two ventricle chambers. The atrium's collect blood from outside of the heart area and forces it into the ventricular chambers. The two ventricular chambers distribute the blood into the lungs for oxygenation or into the rest of the human body depending on which one of the ventricular chambers you are looking at.
S ...
Tags: Heart disease, heart treatment, heart attack
- Rheumatic Heart Disease Information
By: David Cowley | - 100 years ago Rheumatic fever was the leading cause of death in people aged 5-20 years in the United States. Entire hospitals were dedicated to the treatment of rheumatic fever in children. Today Rheumatic heart disease is rarely seen industrialized countries do to the proper diagnosis and treatment of strep throat.
Rheumatic fever occurs when an untreated strep throat infection migrates to the the rest of the body. Rheumatic fever affects the joints and heart, causing fever, m ...
Tags: Heart disease, heart treatment, heart attack, heart valve disease
- Rheumatic Heart Disease
By: David Cowley | - 100 years ago Rheumatic fever was the leading cause of death in people aged 5-20 years in the United States. Entire hospitals were dedicated to the treatment of rheumatic fever in children. Today Rheumatic heart disease is rarely seen industrialized countries do to the proper diagnosis and treatment of strep throat.
Rheumatic fever occurs when an untreated strep throat infection migrates to the the rest of the body. Rheumatic fever affects the joints and heart, causing fever, muscle ac ...
Tags: Heart Disease, heart treatment, heart attack, Heart Valve Disease, Rheumatic Heart Disease
- Heart Valve Disease Description
By: David Cowley | - The heart is one of the strongest muscles in the body and it is divided into two parts. The top part contains the two atrium chambers and the bottom half contains the two ventricle chambers. The atrium's collect blood from outside of the heart area and forces it into the ventricular chambers. The two ventricular chambers distribute the blood into the lungs for oxygenation or into the rest of the human body depending on which one of the ventricular chambers you are looking at.
Some time ...
Tags: Heart Disease, heart treatment, heart attack, Heart Valve Disease
- Reverse Cholesterol & Heart Disease
By: Juliet Cohen | - Heart disease, (Angina pectoris) is the result of myocardial ischemia caused by an imbalance between myocardial blood supply and oxygen demand. In most cases, the lack of blood supply is due to a narrowing of the coronary arteries as a result of arteriosclerosis. This pain is known as angina. It is more likely to occur during exertion (e.g. walking, climbing stairs) when the heart muscle needs more blood and oxygen as it works harder. Angina usually occurs during exertion, severe emotional stres ...
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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 ...
Tags: Coronary Heart Disease, Heart Attacks, Strokes, Cholesterol, American Women, HDL, LDL
- Fish Oil And Heart Disease
By: David McEvoy | - According to National Statistics online, nearly 15% of the population of the UK are suffering or have suffered from a cardiac health event in their lifetimes. That means that for every 100 people in the room, about 15 of them will have a heart attack or suffer from a coronary disease. Interestingly enough, this statistic includes both men and women, with men only having a slight advantage over the women in terms of number of cases. Even with all we know about heart disease and how to prevent ...
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- Plans To Prevent Heart Disease
By: Chris Marshall | - New plans have been unveiled to try and prevent heart disease which in turn could save over 7,000 lives over the next five years. Health professionals in Scotland also hope to prevent 27,000 heart attacks and other "cardiac events" by adopting a new approach.
The plan will provide preventative treatment for around 500,000 people, including risk assessments for all over-40s, in an attempt to stop those most at risk from developing heart disease. It also recommends that more people ...
Tags: heart disease, Scotland, prevention
- Genetic Heart Disease Link Identified
By: Chris Marshall | - Scientists have identified a genetic flaw which increases the risk of heart disease and heart attacks. Researchers from the US and Canada found that that up to one in four white people carries the section of DNA which increases the risk of heart disease by around 40%. Whilst in Iceland researchers found the same genetic variant was linked to a fifth of heart attacks.
Both teams of researchers scanned the genomes of patients who had coronary heart disease or who had suffered a he ...
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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 ...
Tags: heart disease, cholesterol, cholestrol, hdl, ldl
- 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 ...
Tags: heart disease, heart treatment, heart attack, Woman and Heart Disease
- Coronary Heart Disease And What You Need To Know
By: David Cowley | - Coronary heart disease (CHD), also known as coronary artery disease (CAD) and Atherosclerotic heart disease, and Arteriosclerosis, is a disease affecting the walls blood vessel. This disease may be one of the most easily preventable diseases of the modern civilization in the 40 to 70 age group. It is characterized by the thickening and hardening of the arties. This loss of elastically and narrowing of the arties can lead to high blood pressure and if left untreated, increases the chance of a ...
Tags: heart disease, heart treatment, heart attack, Coronary Heart Disease
- Take Care Of Your Heart
By: Marcus Martinez | - Heart disease is one of the most prevalent causes of death in the Western world and it is also one of the most preventable. Many risk factors are controllable and it is not that difficult to make some simple changes in our daily routines that will go a long way for the health of our heart.
1. Aerobic exercise. We have heard it time and again that exercise is good for our health. But it is actually more important for us to realize that we need to match our exercise with our desired ...
Tags: heart health, heart disease prevention, coronary disease prevention, cardiovascular disease prevention, high cholesterol, high cholesterol prevention,
- Are Women Spared From Heart Disease?
By: Ng Peng Hock | - People always have the impression that heart disease only affects men. Women are less likely to have heart disease. This is definitely a common misconception. Most women are not aware that heart disease is the leading killer of women in United States and many developed countries. But, the following unexpected incident experienced by a young lady may change your mind!
Being a non-smoker and very conscious of her eating habits, an active woman who has kickboxing classes twice a week ...
Tags: heart disease, heart attack
- Heart Disease, Risk Factors, And Treatments
By: William Walters | - William Walters
Heart-Condition-Guide
Thursday, 2:48 pm
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.
Tags: Everything You Must Know About Heart Disease, Reverse Heart Disease, Cardiovascular Disease, Prevent Heart Attack, And Heart Rate Monitors
- Cholesterol And Heart Disease The Basics
By: James Madisonic | - Heart disease is a potential threat to millions of people worldwide. A killer disease like heart attack can strike anytime, and threaten people with improper diet, lifestyles and certain genetic preconditions. Coronary Heart Disease afflicts about 14 million Americans.
Cause Of Heart Disease
Heart disease is caused by a buildup of fat and tissue in the arteries, the vessels that carry blood from heart to various parts of the body. The arteries are clogged with the b ...
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- The Definition Of Heart Disease
By: Joann Cheong | - A lot of people have been bombarded with warnings and advice about the heart and how to prevent heart disease that they sometimes no longer listen. Or it is simply because the mere mention of the words such disease, coronary artery disease, coronary heart disease, or cardiovascular disease, does not mean anything because you don't know what these conditions mean and how exactly they can be destructive to health. What's the difference anyway?
The terms for such diseases are in on ...
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- Smoking Is The Cause Of Coronary Heart Disease
By: Joann Cheong | - The heart disease caused by smoking is coronary heart disease.
Heart disease is one of the most touched health-related topics at the present time. It is just right! If we take a look at the kind of lifestyle we have today, it is not impossible that we develop certain illnesses like the deadly disease. Although it is apparent that a lot of people are becoming more and more health conscious, but still there are those who aren't.
There are several types of such disea ...
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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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- 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 ...
Tags: coronary disease heart, symptoms heart disease, reversing heart disease, vioxx and heart disease
- Care For Canine Heart Disease In Dogs
By: Joann Cheong | - Canine heart disease basically means heart disease in dogs. If you are a dog owner, you probably know this concept, but if you don't, just remember that as a dog owner you have the responsibility of keeping your dog's heart healthy.
Keeping the dog's heart healthy is not a hard thing to do. The key here is regular visits to veterinarians, and awareness of the fact that canine heart disease is one of the biggest causes of death in dogs.
This disease can be present ...
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- What Is Hypertensive Heart Disease?
By: Joann Cheong | - Hypertensive heart disease is a late complication of hypertension that affects your heart.
Hypertensive heart disease is the number one cause of death related with hypertension and is actually a group of ailment that includes heart failure, ischematic heart disease, and hypertensive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
Heart failure is when your heart's pumping capability is weaker than normal. With heart failure, blood moves through the heart and body at a slow pace and p ...
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- Things You Need To Know About Vioxx And Heart Disease
By: Joann Cheong | - Vioxx is a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) which was most often prescribed for the treatment of pain caused by arthritis. This pain prescription medication was approved by the FDA in 1999 to treat severe pain associated with rheumatoid arthritis, primary dysmennorhea, and osteoarthritis. On September 30, 2004 however, Vioxx was voluntarily recalled when an internal study exposed an underlying relationship between vioxx and heart disease and stroke risks. This drug sold over twenty ...
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