From the monthly archives:
Cardiobrief Landslide of Lancet papers suggest importance of blood pressure variability March 11, 2010 Larry Husten Excerpt from the article: In one Article, a cohort study, Rothwell’s team found that visit-to-visit variability of systolic blood pressure was a strong predictor of stroke, heart failure, angina, and myocardial infarction, independent of mean blood pressure. By contrast [...]
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Medical News Today June 21, 2010 Seven out of 10 men admitted to hospital for a heart attack (acute ST segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI)) had erectile dysfunction (ED) in the six months prior to their admission according to new data presented at the World Congress of Cardiology (WCC) Scientific Sessions in Beijing, China. A [...]
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New York Times GINA KOLATA June 21, 2010 Excerpt: The big leap forward came a few years ago when device companies figured out how to make transmitters that send data over a broader range, 20 or 30 feet. That meant that, with her device, Mrs. Elzo did not have to wait till her doctor could [...]
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What Broke My Father’s Heart New York Times June 14, 2010 Katy Butler Excerpt: And so my father’s electronically managed heart — now requiring frequent monitoring, paid by Medicare — became part of the $24 billion worldwide cardiac-device industry and an indirect subsidizer of the fiscal health of American hospitals. The profit margins that manufacturers [...]
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SUNDAY, June 20 HealthDay News – Among older men, having a high testosterone level is associated with a raised risk of heart disease or a heart attack, new research suggests. The finding, from a new U.S. National Institutes of Health-funded study, concerns men over the age of 65 and is based on a tracking of [...]
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Medical News Today June 19, 2010 It is estimated that high blood pressure is being misdiagnosed in approximately 40% of all instances when measured with traditional single clinic measurement. Its major disadvantage is that the limited number of measurements bears no relationship to the variability of blood pressure over the 24-hour period. ABPM, on the [...]
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Heartwire Use of oxygen in MI patients questioned by new Cochrane review June 15, 2010 Sue Hughes Alicante, Spain and Guildford, UK – There is no conclusive evidence from randomized controlled trials to support the routine use of inhaled oxygen in patients with acute MI, a new analysis in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews [...]
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The Heart Beat with James Beckerman, MD, FACC June 17, 2010 Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is an inherited cardiac condition which affects approximately 1 in 500 people. It results in abnormal thickening of the heart muscle and increases the risk of symptoms like shortness of breath and dizziness, as well as potentially lethal cardiac arrhythmias. HCM [...]
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WomenHeart Support Community Welcome Heart Sisters to WomenHeart’s online support community, a branch of www.womenheart.org! This is your space, your resource, your channel to communicate with other women living with heart disease. Share your story, ask questions, interact with other members and know that we are all here to listen and support you as you [...]
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New York Times June 15, 2010 Next time you order takeout wonton soup and a spicy Number 82, you might want to make sure it comes with brown rice. Brown rice is a whole grain — white rice before it has been refined and polished and stripped of the bran covering, which is high in [...]
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Wall Street Journal June 15, 2010 Some prominent doctors are pushing a heretical notion: Physicians have been prescribing statins to some of the wrong people. For years, Americans have been taking statins, among the most widely used drugs in the world, with the aim of getting their cholesterol numbers down to target levels. People are [...]
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Common blood pressure drugs may raise cancer risk Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO (Reuters) – A widely used class of blood pressure drugs may slightly increase the risk of cancer, U.S. researchers said on Sunday, and they are calling on U.S. regulators to take a closer look. They said an analysis of available data on drugs in [...]
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Nutrition and healthy eating Mayo Clinic What does the research say about coffee and health? Is coffee good or bad for me? Coffee has a long history of being blamed for many ills — from the humorous “It will stunt your growth” to the not-so-humorous claim that it causes heart disease and cancer. But recent [...]
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from: Cardiology Blog, Alegent Health Care June 6, 2010 There is no class of medications in the history of the world that has been better studied that statins. This class of drugs is more properly termed HMG CoA reductase (3-hydroxy-3-methyl-glutaryl co-enzyme A reductase) inhibitors, but with a name like that a terser nickname is almost [...]
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Doctor’s Lounge June 8, 2010 TUESDAY, June 8 (HealthDay News) — Healthy people who take nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs to relieve minor aches and pains may raise their risk of dying from heart-related problems, a Danish study finds. The American Heart Association and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration already warn people with heart disease to [...]
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I am in a door-less white square room the size of a hospital critical care room. Nothing is in the room but four beautiful black horses, each facing a corner, one of the Four Directions, and their trainer, who tells me the horses’ only role is to pull the dead person’s body into the next [...]
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Nine years ago, I had the following dream: An airplane with a red, four-cylinder engine is leaking oil, and smoke is coming from the engine. The plane takes off, but then immediately crashes. I wake bolt upright at 5:00 a.m., and the first words in my head are “I’m having heart trouble.” (www.heartak.com) If I, [...]
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