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Articles about heart attacks (0-50 of 3066)
- What Causes A Heart Attack
By: Dr.Christopher | - What Causes a Heart Attack
A great number of heart attacks come about as the result of Atherosclerosis. Atherosclerosis is a disease that is notable for the progressive accumulation of plaque in the arterial walls. As time passes, this make up will induce hardening of the arterial walls which will hence lessen the room available for blood to flow through the arteries. As a result, the blood flow will be limited as the disease worsens. This will then lea ...
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- 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 ...
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- Do You Know That Vitamin D Can Make A Big Difference?
By: Ruthan Brodsky | - Have you started to wonder whether you are one of those people who, in your efforts to prevent skin cancer, may have impaired your brain function because you have a deficiency of vitamin D.?
This is the sunshine vitamin so called because it is synthesized in our skin when we are exposed to direct sunlight. On the other hand, if you are like me, we wear sun block to prevent cancer and sun block impedes this synthesizing process.
Vitamin D is well known for enhancin ...
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- Panic Attacks, Anxiety Disorder And Prevention
By: Christoffer X Altesino | - Anxieties make us feel edgy and nervous. So people get panicky that way. And when panic attacks, anxiety disorder might lead to heart attacks in extreme cases. Impacts of panic attacks can very from person to person.
While some patients feel dizzy, others suffer chest pains. There are also patients who feel that they will faint anytime. Anxiety disorders are not the most enjoyable things in the world, there are easy ways to deal with your panic attacks, anxiety disorder and symptoms ...
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- Heart Attack Signs In Women
By: Sherry Granader | - Study after study show that heart attacks and heart disease are grossly under-diagnosed in women and the explanation always seems to be that they didn't have any symptoms. Women, who have had heart attacks, realize now, looking back, that they did have symptoms and just didn't realize it. Why? Women's heart attack symptoms are much different to men's and they are slow to realize what's happening before calling a doctor.
Many of us think that a heart attack comes out of the blue ...
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- Stress And Its Chemical Connectors
By: AnnA Rushton | - Adrenaline surges through your body in response to our inherited 'fight or flight' mechanism that automatically comes into play when we are faced with danger. REal danger from a burglary or imagined danger from losing a loved one both have the same effect on your body. A whole network of chemical connections comes into play and set off bodyily changes that we associate with stress. Your body is instinctibvely trying to help you cope with danger, and you need to know more aboutr how it does tha ...
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- How Gum Disease Can Cause Heart Attacks
By: Beth Guide | - If you are suffering from gum disease, do not put off coming in to see a dentist. Gum disease has been linked to heart disease. This is due to the fact that the bacteria that cause gum disease can get into the bloodstream and travel throughout the body.
The cardiovascular system is especially vulnerable to this, and heart attacks and gum disease has been proven to be a direct cause of heart attacks and strokes in a number of people.
The number of bacteria in on ...
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- Boost Your Brain With Fish Oil
By: Emile J | - What do dodocosahexaenoic acid or DHA and eicosapentaenoic acid or EPA have in common? They are the two compounds that make up the famed of omega-3 fatty acids. We have all heard how incredibly healthy these fish oils are for our bodies in helping to lower blood pressure, reduce overall cholesterol, and even reduce the effects of certain types of cancers, but did you know they can also dramatically increase the power of your brain as well?
Studies have concluded that increasing your ...
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- Fish Oil For A Healthy Heart
By: Emile J | - It seems that the healthy benefits of fish oil and omega-3 fatty acids are still being discovered. Aside from all of the health giving benefits of has been credited with in recent years, it seems that one of the most profound is its ability to help protect our hearts.
Protecting our hearts is something that is extremely valuable considering that heart disease is the number one killer of adults in the United States. This is due to a combination of a bad diet and lack of exercise and ...
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- Panic Heart Attack - How To Avoid Panic And Heart Attacks?
By: Barry Miller | - People often associate heart attack with panic. The reason behind this is the striking similarity between the symptoms of the two.
When one typically gets a panic attack the symptoms are not that bad if the attack is not severe. However in the case of a severe panic attack the symptoms will resemble the heart attack. The patient's heart will race or he/she will feel irregular heart beats, he/she might also profusely sweat and will complain of the chest pain.
Typic ...
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- Can You Reduce The Risk Of Having A Heart Attack By Taking A Vacation Or Holiday?
By: DorothyYamich | - Can you remember when you last had a wonderful, relaxing vacation? If its been a while, you may want to consider taking another holiday sooner than later. Why? Because vacations and holidays are playing a more and more important role in peoples mental and physical health.
Recent research has shown that if people go on vacations every year they can reduce their risk of developing a serious disease. Stress in the workplace as well as at home can effect a person ...
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- Anxiety Heart Attack - Why The Anxiety Attacks Are Mixed Up With The Heart Attacks?
By: Barry Miller | - Every year, thousands of patients who come to the hospital complaining of heart attacks leave the hospital within an hour. The reason for this is that these people mix up panic or anxiety attacks with the fatal heart attacks.
The symptoms of the both anxiety and the heart attacks may be similar but there are clear differences which if kept in mind, can easily make us distinguish between the two. In order to make people aware of these differences, we need to look at the symptoms a ...
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- Aerobic Fitness - Healthy Lifestyle
By: Paul Oliver | - If we are to stay healthy and fit, it is important that we maintain a healthy lifestyle. This may be a difficult thing for some people who juggle with time and work. Yet, you may notice how many people save themselves from heart attacks, strokes and other ailments simply by having an aerobic fitness workout in their daily lives.
Living an active life means that you have a lower propensity of being overweight which causes a number of health problems. Strokes occur as a result of o ...
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- Aspirin, Strokes And Heart Attacks - What You Should Know
By: Jean Shaw | - A few years ago, my doctor recommended I take one 75mg dispersible aspirin every day. He suspected, at the time, I'd had a TIA, or a Transient Ischemic Attack to give its full title.
A TIA is the medical term for stroke-like symptoms that occur and resolve spontaneously within 24 hours. Sometimes it's called a mini stroke and doctors take TIA's seriously because they could be an indication of a full stroke in the near future.
Aspirin thins the blood and as strokes ...
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- The Cholesterol Buzz
By: Stephen Sinatra | - The health field is really humming and, if you listen closely, everyone seems to be talking about cholesterol. Nowadays, everyone seems to be declaring all-out war on the substance. The rally to lower cholesterol levels and eliminate it from our diets has taken on the fire and brimstone, reminiscent of a turn-of-the-century religious debate.
Practically every medical, government, and health organization in the country has jumped on the band wagon. And, if you’ll notice, all of this ...
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- High Cholesterol Or Poor Procedure?
By: Stephen Sinatra | - In the same way that improper procedures could easily lead to a misdiagnosis of having high blood pressure, the same thing holds true for cholesterol testing. If you’ve been diagnosed as having high blood cholesterol levels you owe it to yourself (and your pocketbook) to at least make sure the test results are accurate.
First of all, don’t have your lab work done in your doctor’s office. I’ll admit that some doctors have excellent in-house laboratories, but it&rsqu ...
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- Will Seafood Cause Cholesterol Problems?
By: Stephen Sinatra | - With all of the concern about cholesterol and fat in the diet, it seems that shellfish often get an undeserved reputation. If you like foods like oysters, clams, shrimp, crabs, mussels, etc. you'll be happy to know they can be part of a healthy diet. Not only do shellfish have a low fat content (0.5 percent to 2.5 percent), but about half of that fat is in the form of beneficial omega-3 oils.
Generally, fish from warmer water will contain even less fat. In frigid temperatures, the tissues ...
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- Bromelain And Heart Attacks
By: Stephen Sinatra | - For years I’ve discussed many of the potential dangers involved with taking an aspirin a day to help prevent heart attacks. Now, I want to tell you about an "aspirin substitute"—bromelain.
Bromelain is an enzyme extracted from the pineapple plant. It is referred to as a "protease" which means it breaks down proteins, reducing them to their basic building blocks.
Almost 500 years ago, Christopher Columbus and his crew "discovered" the pineap ...
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- Stop A Cold, Heal Your Heart
By: Stephen Sinatra | - There’s been no shortage of articles written about the number-one killer in this country: cardiovascular disease. There’s one associated problem, however, that has gotten far less “air time,” and that’s angina (ann-JY-nuh).
The large majority of the time, angina itself isn’t a disease. It’s a symptom of cardiovascular disease, and one that’s very often misunderstood.
In medical circles, angina is often referred to as angina pectoris, ...
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- Skipping Breakfast Increases Heart Attacks
By: Stephen Sinatra | - During the 1991 National Conference on Cholesterol and High Blood Pressure Control, cardiologist Renata Cifkova gave us some very useful information. Ms. Cifkova was studying blood platelet activity at the Memorial University of Newfoundland when she made her "discovery."
She was working on ways to measure platelet activity in people with high blood pressure. (Platelets determine the "stickiness" of the blood and are responsible for blood clotting.) For several days sh ...
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- Mediterranean Diet: Watermelon Can Lower Your High Blood Pressure
By: Emilia Klapp, R.D., B.S. | - For many people watermelon is a summer fun food. Recent research now seems to indicate that this delicious fruit may also be an important tool in lowering high blood pressure. Native to central Africa this fruit arrived in the Americas in the early 1600s and has grown in popularity ever since. According to The University of Georgia approximately 100 million are now grown annually in America. So the question is:
Minerals and Blood Pressure
Salt or sodium is a mine ...
Tags: High blood pressure, watermelon, arginine, Mediterranean diet, nitric oxide, heart attacks, stroke, lutein, lycopene
- Omega-3 Fats From Fish Reduce The Risk Of Repeat Heart Attacks By As Much As 45%
By: Emilia Klapp, R.D., B.S. | - Introduction
Interest in the Mediterranean diet with its high content of Omega-3 fats from fish has skyrocketed in recent years, after it has been observed that people living in regions bordering the Mediterranean Sea appeared to live longer and suffer less from repeat heart attacks. In particular, a Mediterranean diet that includes fish has long been associated with a low rate of heart disease in countries such as Spain, Greece, and Italy.
But whether or not a diet high in ...
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- The Relationship Between The Oral Health And Heart Attacks
By: IC | - Which diseases would you be most afraid of? -- some people may say a stroke, others would say some sort of cancer and heart attacks are definitely within that range. According to recent studies it has been estimated that heart attack if the leading cause of death in the USA but alarmingly only 31% of women are aware of it, we refer to women because they are more to suffer from it that men.
Dental health and heart attacks
So what do these two things have to do with ...
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- Would You Recognise The Symptoms Of A Heart Attack?
By: Kenneth Scott | - According to the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, coronary heart disease is the leading cause of death for both men and women in the United States. Heart attacks kill about 460,000 Americans every year. People usually die within one hour of when symptoms start, but before they get to the hospital. If more people recognized the signs of heart attacks and acted sooner, more people would survive them.
One reason that people do not always recognize the warning signs of heart ...
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- Heart Disease In Dogs
By: Gerry Ronson | - There are several reasons a dog may have heart disease. In some cases heart disease is actual genetic, meaning that a parent also had the issue and passed it on. In most cases heart disease actually forms later in the dogs life due to several causes. One of the leading causes of heart disease is improper nutrition. In other words the dog owners have not supplied a healthy diet, they gave the dog human fatty food, or the dog didn't get enough exercise to counter act the diet they were on ...
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- Causes And Symptoms Of Heart Attacks In Women
By: ann7 | - Over the years doctors were not able to clearly diagnose impending heart attacks in women. This was mainly due to their symptoms are not the same as those of men. They were often diagnosed with anxiety or panic attacks, only to experience more severe heart attacks at a later date.
Heart attacks are caused by blockages in the coronary arteries. The symptoms of most heart attacks in men are severe chest pain, nausea, shortness of breath, the numbing of the left arm, or a feeling of ...
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- Avoiding Trans Fat May Save Your Life
By: Charles Carter | - As consumers we had no idea how much trans fatty acids (trans-fat) were in the food we eat. Until now, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), after much red tape, is requiring that trans-fats be on all packaged food labels. You will see the new addition right below the saturated fat listing. At least now, Americans in the packaged food they buy can see how much is in there. Trans-fat are worse on the heart than saturated fat and should be avoided in any diet program.
Tra ...
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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
- Negative Effects Of Stress On Your Blood Pressure
By: Andrew John | - High blood pressure is natural at times when your organism is preparing for a fight or for running away. Normally the pressure goes down away as soon as the need for it disappears. However, if you let yourself live under stress for a longer time, high blood pressure will start to cause negative effects throughout your body - effects that can be dangerous to anyone, even teenagers!
If you want to live a healthy life (or truly, if you want to live at all), you have to act quickly an ...
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- Ideal Treatment To Prevent Heart Attacks
By: Abdulmajeed Alkatheeri | - A new study found that people who took enhanced medicine and health care treatment have survived from heart attacks. This study was published in the American Medical Association, and noted that the hospitals and clinics follow confirmed guidelines for treating heart attacks chest pains, results will end with more patients surviving from heart attacks. There were 44,372 participants who have been tested between July 1999 and December 2006 at 113 hospitals in 14 countries.
The stu ...
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- High Blood Pressure, Heart Disease And Influenza
By: Stephen Morgan | - Wow, the above title sounds a real mouthful but the reason for it is this. Apparently, (listen up at the back please) the yearly Winter Flu Jab can help reduce the number of fatal heart attacks, incidence of death and the number of unplanned emergency procedures that require work on the clogged arteries of patients with Coronary Artery Disease,
Way to go, lets all pile down the Doc's and get jabbed
Without being accused of making too much of a joke about the abov ...
Tags: High Blood Pressure, Heart Attacks, Flu, Influenza
- Affects Of Family, Heart Beats And Aspirin On Heart Attacks
By: Justin Foss | - If any one of the family member is suffering from an heart attack, does it increase the likelihood of the other members of the family acquiring it?
If your dad or brother had a heart attack before age 55, or if your mom had one before age 65, you're more likely to develop heart disease. This does not mean you will have a heart attack. It means you should take extra good care of your heart to keep it healthy.
It is found that if either of the parents have experienced ...
Tags: Affects, Family, Heart Beats, Aspirin, Heart Attacks
- Heart Attack We All Know The Term, But What Exactly Is A Heart Attack?
By: Stephen Morgan | - It has possibly been described as THE disease of the 20th Century and is certainly the one of the Century's biggest killers but what exactly is Heart Disease and what exactly is a Heart Attack?
As they say, what is in a name? Well in this case the most common terminology in use is as follows. Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) is (as the name suggests) the Disease of the Coronary Arteries. Ischaemic Heart Disease or IHD is a narrowing of the blood vessels resulting in Ischaemia, which ...
Tags: Heart Attacks, Heart Disease, Coronary Heart Disease, CHD, Coronary Artery Disease, CAD
- Vitamins For A Healthy Heart
By: Galina Samitova | - As we all know, vitamins are very important when it comes
to keeping your heart healthy. You need to eat the right
foods of course, although you also need to supplement the
food you eat with the necessary vitamins your body needs to
stay in shape and keep your heart working healthy for a
long time to come. If you don't consume the right
nutrients, you won't be doing your heart any favors - and
may end up having problems later on in life.
< ...
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- Can Heart Attacks Be Prevented?
By: Ng Peng Hock | - A major global study, conducted by few Canadian doctors, reported in August 2004 that it should be possible to prevent most premature heart attacks, after finding risk factors transcended ethnic and racial divides.
The study found that heart attacks can be predicted by 9 factors that are common to Europeans, Asians, Africans, Arabs, and other ethnic groups and races. As identified by the study, the two most severe factors for premature heart disease were smoking and high abnormal ...
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- Artery Disease The Killer Among Us
By: Annabelle Wolski | - What do our arteries do?
The human body is an incredible machine and the thing that keeps it all going is the heart. This organ is our pump and the blood pumped around our body by this pump is carried around via arteries and veins. Therefore, it is imperative that any disease to these arteries is prevented or treated as a matter of urgency.
Diseases that can affect the arteries
Any form of arterial disease is dangerous due to the death of orga ...
Tags: Atheroma, atheromatous disease, strokes, heart attacks, cholesterol, hardening of the arteries, blockages of arteries, embolism, smoking
- Heart Attacks And How To Prevent Them
By: CP | - At one time, little could be done for people with heart disorders, and for those who suffered from a heart attack. Today, improved medicines and new methods of treatment allow many cardiac (heart) patients to live normal or nearly normal lives. Also, new kinds of equipment and new methods of performing heart operations have saved the lives of many people for whom there was formerly no hope.
The arteries of older people may become hardened or narrowed. This may be serious if it hap ...
Tags: heart attack, heart attacks, heart attack prevention, heart failure, stroke
- Heart Attack Symptoms
By: Vigdis Tange Andersen | - Heart attacks are something that can be inherited from others in your family or you can create a world where you are eating and leading the lifestyle that is going to lead to a heart attach. No matter if your parents have had heart attacks, or if you are leading a sedentary lifestyle, it is important to understand and learn about what is going to be the signs of a heart attack. Heart attack symptoms are something that should not be ignored, and that you should seek medical attention for if you f ...
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- Heart Disease Symptoms And Prevention
By: Barney Garcia | - With heart disease on the rise in North America, it is vital to know the warning signs of heart disease before its too late - it could save your life. There are several warning signs of heart disease, and they include the following.
Most heart attacks involve discomfort in the center of the chest that lasts for more than a few minutes, or comes and goes. The feeling can come in the form of pressure, squeezing or a feeling of fullness of the chest. Heart attacks are often also accompanie ...
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- Your Waistline Says Whether You Are In Good Health
By: Eva Moffat | - Copyright 2006 Eva Moffat
The health of your heart can be seen when you use a tape measure.
Measuring your waist has been found to be a much better indication of the health of your heart rather than weighing yourself.
This way of combating heart disease was found when an International study was conducted recently.
The findings from the study were presented at the annual conference in Atalanta of the American College of Cardiology.
Tags: Heart, Health Heart, Heart disease, Heart Attacks, Waistline, Mearurements,
- Keep Your Heart Healthy
By: Charles Kassotis | - Heart disease is the number one killer today. Men and women are both likely to become victims. Men typically suffer more heart attacks, but womens can be deadlier, so it is important for both genders to monitor their heart health by making a number of simple lifestyle adjustments.
1.Eat smart. The American Heart Association and other health organizations, as well, publish guidelines for sensible diets that promote heart health. Get a copy at their website or ask your ...
Tags: heart, heart disease, heart attacks, heart attack, circulation, stress
- Some Food For Thought-is Your Diet Killing You!
By: Marie K Gordon | - I must admit that I don't usually write articles with such a chilling headline, so I feel that I should give a little background on a relatively innocent experience which prompted me to write this piece.
I would also say quite candidly that there is nothing really new in the main context of it, in fact most probably, everyone is concious of these facts in some way or another.
What I really do wonder though, is just exactly how many of us are actually making any real ...
Tags: healthy diet, weight loss, avoid heart attacks, healthy eating, best diet program,
- The Signs Of Heart Attacks "€" Your Body"€™s Alarm System
By: Ken Snoddy | - According to the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, coronary heart disease is the leading cause of death for both men and women in the United States. Heart attacks kill about 460,000 Americans every year. People usually die within one hour of when symptoms start, but before they get to the hospital. If more people recognized the signs of heart attacks and acted sooner, more people would survive them.
One reason that people dont always recognize the warning signs of hear ...
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