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Note the emphasis on: “social support, relaxation therapy, yoga, meditation, controlled slow breathing, and biofeedback” Acute Emotional Stress and Cardiac Arrhythmias Roy C. Ziegelstein, MD JAMA. 2007;298(3):324-329. doi:10.1001/jama.298.3.324. Episodes of acute emotional stress can have significant adverse effects on the heart. Acute emotional stress can produce left ventricular contractile dysfunction, myocardial ischemia, or disturbances of [...]
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Placing COURAGE in Context: Review of the Recent Literature on Managing Stable Artery Disease 1. Megan Coylewright, MD, MPH, 2. Roger S. Blumenthal, MD and 3. Wendy Post, MD, MS Abstract Coronary artery disease (CAD) is the leading cause of death in the United States, but prevention and intervention efforts are lowering mortality. This progress [...]
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The author concludes that “someone in her situation would have had bypass surgery.” Uh, not necessarily the case… from the article: The princess has thus become the oldest known case of coronary artery disease. Mummy Says Princess Had Coronary Disease Scientific American May 18, 2011 Cynthia Graber Princess Ahmose-Meryet-Amon enjoyed a privileged lifestyle in what [...]
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from the article: The addition of stents did not improve the ability of optimal drug therapy to prevent heart attacks and death in patients with stable CAD. When Should Stents Be Used in Coronary Artery Disease? COURAGE Study Challenges Use of Stents in Stable CAD Patients Richard N. Fogoros, M.D Updated May 23, 2011 If [...]
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from the article: We now know that CAD is about far more than just blockages. CAD is a chronic, progressive disease that tends to be far more widespread within the coronary arteries than is implied by the presence or absence of actual blockages. Plaques are often present in arteries that appear “normal” on cardiac catheterization. [...]
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Whac-a-Mole From the article: Call it “Whac-a-Mole Cardiology:” yes, an angiogram or ultrasound may identify a series of blockages, but we still can’t predict which one will pop its head up out of the hole so we can bang it over the head with a stent. More evidence about just how important it is to [...]
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In the 80′s, research suggested that being married to an educated woman was a heart disease risk. Now it seems to be a factor in risk reduction. What has changed? The inquiring mind wants to know… Is the research better? Are educated women less stressed than they used to be? Are men more used to [...]
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Mayo’s “Smart” Adult Stem Cells Repair Hearts ‘Landmark work’ moves beyond the bench August 16, 2010 ROCHESTER, Minn. — Mayo Clinic investigators, with Belgian collaborators, have demonstrated that rationally “guided” human adult stem cells can effectively heal, repair and regenerate damaged heart tissue. The findings — called “landmark work” in an accompanying editorial — appear [...]
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From Why Our Hearts Need Other Hearts Lisa Holland December 27, 2009 1. The Stockholm Female Coronary Risk Study, examined 131 women aged, 35 to 65 years, who were hospitalized for an acute coronary event. The study found that women with little or no social support were two and one half times more likely to [...]
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Medical News Today May 15, 2010 Newly published data confirm a non-invasive Respiratory Stress Response (RSR) can quickly and accurately measure the presence of significant coronary artery disease (sCAD), the leading cause of cardiovascular death worldwide. Patients in the study with sCAD had a lower RSR compared to patients without. These data, published in the [...]
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Health care reform means a lot of things to different people – from expanding care to the uninsured to increasing premiums, from impacting our deficit to eliminating the ramifications of pre-existing conditions. But there is another side of pre-existing conditions that deserves a little more focus, especially as we debate the various other aspects of [...]
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