From the category archives:
Why late to bed, early to rise is a recipe for a heart attack By Daily Mail Reporter February 9 , 2011 It is the stuff of nightmares for those whose hectic work schedule or busy family life means getting up early and staying up late. Sleeping for less than six hours a night greatly [...]
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Am Heart J. 2010 Nov;160(5):934-42. Physician diagnosis of overweight status predicts attempted and successful weight loss in patients with cardiovascular disease and central obesity. Singh S, Somers VK, Clark MM, Vickers K, Hensrud DD, Korenfeld Y, Lopez-Jimenez F. Source Department of Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic Rochester, Rochester, MN, USA. Abstract INTRODUCTION: Despite the association of [...]
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Scientists Link 13 New Gene Regions to Heart Disease Risk March 6 (HealthDay News) – In what may be the largest global investigation of its kind, scientists have implicated 13 new gene regions in the onset of heart vessel plaque build-up, a condition that often leads to fatal heart attacks. The discovery doubles the number [...]
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There are a number of studies which have attempted to correlate days of the week with the risk of a heart attack. Monday is consistently correlated with a higher incidence of a heart attack, though some of the research suggests that this primarily applies to working men. Interesting, (Japanese) women seem to be more at [...]
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Yesterday’s post suggested that one of the problems with the cardiology experience is that it is overwhelmingly a male dominated field. Research suggests that female doctors “tend to be more encouraging and reassuring, use shared decision-making, ask more psychosocial questions and spend more time — up to 10 percent more — with patients than male [...]
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One of the major factors that influences the profession (and experience) of cardiology is that cardiologists are predominately male. Over-stating the stereotype, women are usually more concerned about relationship than men: my experience of cardiologists is that they emphasize facts over feelings, authority over collaboration. Although I have not found any direct research about [...]
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