Adipose-Derived Regenerative Cells in Ischemic Cardiomyopathy
Can liposuction-leavings help patients with ischemic cardiomyopathy?
Keep Your Heart Healthy!
You have heard many of the rules for preventing heart disease - know your cholesterol levels, cut down on saturated fats and eliminate fried foods, exercise, quit smoking if you haven't already and do anything you can do reduce your stress levels- meditate, do Yoga or take a walk. We need to ad
Dronedarone for the Control of Ventricular Rate in AF: The ERATO Study
Does dronedarone improve ventricular rate control in patients with atrial fibrillation without causing toxic side effects?
What Is Digoxin Used For?
Digoxin is a generic prescription medication from the class of drugs known as digitalis glycosides. Doctors prescribe digoxin for the treatment of certain heart problems.
New Hope for Fixing Broken Hearts
It has long been thought that damage to the heart is irreversible, but new research is challenging that assumption.
Acute Heart Disease
According to the American Heart Association, acute coronary syndrome is sometimes used to describe a person who has suffered a heart attack (acute myocardial infarction) or chest pain due to an inadequate blood supply to the heart muscle (acute myocardial ischemia) that results from coronary heart d
Stress and Your Heart
Many health-conscious people are concerned about developing conditions like heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, and high cholesterol. And they should be-- each of these claims many lives each year. However, few people are concerned about a major contributor to all of the above: stress!
The Benefits of Public Access Defibrillators
Public access defibrillator's have saved thousands of lives since they began appearing in schools, business, and public areas like malls and stadiums. Studies indicate that individuals experiencing sudden cardiac arrest have a better chance of survival if defibrillation occurs in the first few
Healthy Diet and Lifestyle Help to Reduce Your Cholesterol Level
Cholesterol exists as the killer that clogs the blood vessels and also the arteries to affect the blood flow to your heart, brain and etc. Therefore, those people with high cholesterol with LDL need to control either from their daily diet or their lifestyle.
How To Prevent A Ischemic Heart Disease
How to prevent a heart attack. Heart is the most important part of human body - it is the hardest working organ and we can call it a living pump. It's defeat is, in most of the cases, equivalent to death.
Conjugated Equine Estrogens and Peripheral Arterial Disease Risk
Does unopposed conjugated equine estrogens provide protection against peripheral arterial disease among generally healthy postmenopausal women?
Cardiac Catheterization
Cardiac catheterization is a test used to check blood flow in the coronary arteries, blood flow, and blood pressure in the heart's chambers; find out how well the heart valves work; and check for defects in the way the heart's wall moves.
Heart Attack
Find WebMD's comprehensive coverage of heart attack including medical reference, news, pictures, videos, and more.
What to Do in Case of Cardiac Arrest
Why is Cardiac Arrest so dangerous? What to do in case of Cardiac Arrest? How to recognize it and what immediate steps should be taken in case of sudden unexpected Cardiac Arrest.
Anger Expression and Risk of Coronary Heart Disease
Anger's effects on heart disease may vary depending on the type of anger that is expressed.
Will CV Biomarkers Cull the Middle-Risk People?
In part 2 of this series on lipids, Henry Black asks Howard Weintraub about biomarkers and whether they can help identify high-risk individuals within the big middle-risk group.
Diabetes Plus Hypertension -- Folie a Deux
Henry Black talks about how the presence of hypertension affects cardiovascular risk in patients with diabetes.
Screening for Diabetes in General Practice
Read a review on the continuing debate about who should be considered for screening, how one should screen, and whether one should screen for diabetes at all.
Ranolazine in Patients With T2DM and Stable Angina
How well does ranolazine keep angina symptoms under control . . . and reduce nitroglycerin use?
Heart Failure in Older Patients
The authors review the current epidemiology of CHF, and focus on the applicability and use of contemporary non-pharmacological and pharmacological therapy to older patients with CHF.