Life stress early on such as that experienced by babies who are sick, appears to have an early impact on heart function, affecting the heart's ability to refill with oxygen-rich blood and relax. A group of researchers from Georgia Regents University conducted a study using rat pups, separating...
Men who take calcium supplements are more likely to die of heart disease than those who do not take supplements. The finding came from a new study by a team of experts led by Qian Xiao, from the National Institutes of Health, and supports prior research from last year which indicated that...
There was an app for the android market of an mp3 app that was free. It had a heart on the picture as the icon for the app. I got it a couple of months back, now I changed phones and app is gone!! Need the name if possible!! Ive googled all day someone must know the name!! Help!!
If you're suffering from depression, it's highly unlikely you'd see a cardiologist about it—but maybe you should. Some 30% to 50% of clinically depressed individuals are also likely to develop cardiovascular disease, according to psychiatrist Angelos Halaris. And*60% of heart disease patients...
A syndrome common in women of reproductive age may place them at greater risk for hardening of the arteries, which predisposes them to heart attack and stroke, according to research published Feb. 15 in the American Journal of Physiology, Endocrinology and Metabolism. Glucose can stimulate an...
Almost a year ago, we wrote about Natasha Harris, the 31-year-old New Zealand mom with a two-gallon-a-day Coke habit. She died of a heart attack and there was an inquest into the causes of her death. Today, the coroner's report has been released and it reads, in part: I find that, when all the...
John Alleman, the unofficial spokesman for the Heart Attack Grill, died of a heart attack yesterday. If you're not familiar, the Las Vegas restaurant's whole schtick is serving horrendously unhealthy food--like the "quadruple bypass burger," which contains nearly 10,000 calories alone--with a...
Cardiorentis has initiated the first-ever acute heart failure (AHF) Phase III trial to be specifically designed to assess the effect of early treatment on cardiovascular mortality. TRUE-AHF (TRial of Ularitide's Efficacy and safety in patients with Acute Heart Failure) aims to show that early...
February is American Heart Health Month, so you're probably about to hear a lot of advice like "eat more vegetables" and "get more exercise." But you know this, right? We all do. So to help you learn something new (and get you on the best path to lower your risk of heart disease), we compiled...
Tomorrow, Feb. 1, is Go Red For Women Day, the American Heart Association's helpful but flawed public health campaign to raise awareness about women and heart disease. More »
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For people with diabetes, meeting the recommended guidelines for blood pressure and cholesterol is even more important than meeting the guidelines for blood sugar control in reducing the risk of heart attack or stroke, according to a new Kaiser Permanente study published today in the Journal of...
Remember when we thought most of the human genome was "junk" DNA? Because when scientists first sequenced it, they found less than 3% of the DNA was for coding proteins, the building blocks of life. Since then, they have been discovering some surprising things about non-coding DNA. In a new...
The 35th Annual Kennedy Center Honors actually took place Dec. 2. But unless you were there, you didn't get to see the awesomeness that was Heart's tribute to 2012 honoree Led...
Ordinary Heart Cells Become "Biological Pacemakers" With Injection Of A Single Gene
Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute researchers have reprogrammed ordinary heart cells to become exact replicas of highly specialized pacemaker cells by injecting a single gene (Tbx18)-a major step forward in the...
By linking 15 new genetic regions to coronary artery disease, a large international study sheds new light on the underlying causes of this most common form of heart disease, which results from the build up of fatty material or plaque on the insides of the blood vessels of the heart. One...
Heart disease is the leading cause of death in patients with kidney failure. Coronary heart disease affects 30% to 60% of kidney failure patients. Among the two available procedures for opening blocked arteries surrounding the heart, one appears to be safer than the other for dialysis patients...