Interesting article on the role of inflammation and heart disease, and how to change your risk through nutrition:
It seems counterintuitive, but inflammation begins with the body’s way of defending itself against harm. We’ve all experienced it as part of the normal healing process after a scrape or cut. Waves of immune cells rush to the [...]
Archive for January, 2008
Inflammatory Foods
Posted in News, Nutrition, Risk factors on January 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
New hope for heart failure treatment
Posted in Heart failure, Medications on January 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Immune Therapy Cuts Heart Risk
Some people with heart failure might benefit from a therapy which helps dampen their overactive immune systems.
US researchers treated more than 1,000 patients, and found those with certain types of heart failure had a lower risk of death or hospitalisation.
BBC article here.
Woman’s Day Red Dress Awards
Posted in Heart Truth Campaign, Red Dress Campaign on January 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Woman’s Day magazine will award several Red Dress awards this year to women who have made significant strides in helping to raise awareness, treat, and prevent heart disease in women. The reception will be held in NYC at the end of January.
Read about the 2008 Red Dress Award Honorees.
Photos from the 2007 Red [...]
New Rat Heart Created in Lab
Posted in News on January 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Medicine’s dream of growing new human hearts and other organs to repair or replace damaged ones received a significant boost on Sunday when University of Minnesota researchers reported success in creating a beating rat heart in a laboratory.
NY Times Story
Additional BBC Story
U.S. Worst in World in preventable deaths
Posted in Coronary Artery Disease, News on January 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – France, Japan and Australia rated best and the United States worst in new rankings focusing on preventable deaths due to treatable conditions in 19 leading industrialized nations, researchers said on Tuesday.
If the U.S. health care system performed as well as those of those top three countries, [...]
Anxiety level raises heart disease risk
Posted in Coronary Artery Disease, News on January 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
ScienceDaily (Jan. 7, 2008) — We all know that people with a Type A personality and an off-the-charts hostility level may be courting a heart attack. But this might come as a surprise: New research shows that their nervous, socially withdrawn neighbors also have reason to worry.
Full story
Find Red Dress events in your community
Posted in AHA, Red Dress Campaign on January 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Visit the Go Red For Women site and enter your zip code to find local events.
Toni Braxton to kick off February as Heart Month
Posted in Red Dress Campaign on January 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Singer and actress Toni Braxton is a heart disease survivor. She has teamed up with Campbell’s soup to unveil a new design by Lisa Perry at the Women’s Day Red Dress Awards on January 31, 2008. Campbell’s will auction the dress to raise funds for the American Heart Association.
Go Red with Campbell’s [...]
Campaign News
Posted in Heart Truth Campaign, NHLBI, Red Dress Campaign on January 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Diet Coke is partnering with the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute in the movement to eradicate heart disease as the #1 killer of women.
Read more about NHLBI and partners here.
Coca-Cola’s press release here.
