cardiovascular

At over 40%, the mortality rate due to cardiovascular disease (CVD) in China is amongst the highest in the world¹ and has been rightly described as an epidemic. Its population faces a catalogue of CVD risk factor statistics that expose high levels of obesity, diabetes, cholesterol and blood...

The European Society of Cardiology (ESC) is to deliver an educational programme at the 66th Annual Congress of the Brazilian Society of Cardiology. This meeting is the largest cardiology conference in Latin America and will be held in Porto Alegre, Brazil from 16 to 19 September 2011. The...

Compared to patients who had persistently high platelet reactivity, those who achieved low platelet reactivity, according to the VerifyNow P2Y12 Test, had a reduced incidence of cardiovascular death, heart attack and stent thrombosis, as indicated by a clinical trial presented today at the ESC...

UC San Diego Sulpizio Cardiovascular Center (SCVC) will officially open its doors to the public on Monday, August 8 after the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) certified the SCVC for patient care. The region's first cardiovascular center is now accessible to the tens of thousands of...

Improving cardiovascular health appears to be the best way to help process what we hear, according to Ray Hull, an audiologist at Wichita State University. "There are a number of ways to improve hearing, through hearing aids and surgery, for example," said Hull. "But for central nervous system...

Scientists now understand more about why being exposed to nicotine while you were a fetus will increase your risk of developing cardiovascular disease as an adult. "We have found distinct links between cigarette smoking or even using nicotine patches or gum and the long-term harm for the child,"...

Researchers have developed a new type of imaging technology to diagnose cardiovascular disease and other disorders by measuring ultrasound signals from molecules exposed to a fast-pulsing laser. The new method could be used to take precise three-dimensional images of plaques lining arteries...

Please help!! need any type of cardiovascular fitness exercises or workouts. And.. do push-ups help ? Thanks x

I'm 14-years-old and 1.6 metres (5'3") and I intend to trek Mt. Kilimanjaro in July 2011. Can anyone recommend a good 6 month routine I can follow to train my cardiovascular fitness? Oh, and I weigh 49kg, 109lbs.

Why only 6 month? exercising is like bushing your teeth or showering it doesn't last thats why you have to do it everyday of your life. If you got in shape then stopped you would become out of shape. If i stopped lifting weights i would lose muscle since your body isnt under that stress anymore...

I'm 14-years-old and 1.6 metres (5'3") and I intend to trek Mt. Kilimanjaro in July 2011. Can anyone recommend a good 6 month routine I can follow to train my cardiovascular fitness? Oh, and I weigh 49kg, 109lbs.

I want to improve my mile time by at least 7%. How can I go about doing that?

Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: AMLN) and Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY) today announced results from a retrospective study of nearly 375,000 type 2 diabetes patients evaluating the incidence of events related to cardiovascular disease (CVD) and all-cause hospitalizations among...

Columbia University Medical Center has announced the winners of the 5th annual Katz Prizes in Cardiovascular Research, with the 2010 Lewis Katz Visiting Professorship in Cardiovascular Research being awarded to an internationally renowned heart failure expert from University of Texas...

For the first time researchers have found out what effect multiple, rather than just single, foods with anti-inflammatory effects have on healthy individuals. The results of a diet study show that bad cholesterol was reduced by 33 per cent, blood lipids by 14 per cent, blood pressure by 8 per...

Is percent body fat associated with cardiovascular fitness? How so? I know that smoking has anegative effect, and that genetics, diet and exercise are also some direct factors, but I'm not sure about this

I went from being fit to very unfit in just 2 years, All I really done was sit at a computer and after nearly passing out and throwing up at an MMA class I decided it was time to get fit again. For 1 month now, I have been running every 2nd day for 30-40 minutes, I don't jog...I run at a fast...

what major muscle is affected by doing cardiovascular fitness training?

High levels of the stress hormone cortisol strongly predict cardiovascular death among both persons with and without pre-existing cardiovascular disease according to a new study accepted for publication in The Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (JCEM). In...

The question is being asked, Will Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Widen Health Inequalities? in a Policy Forum essay in the OpenAccess Journal PLoS Medicine. Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post... More...