Posted in News, Prevention, Risk factors on March 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Alcohol ‘quickly’ cuts heart risk
Wine was found to have the biggest effect on heart disease
Middle-aged non-drinkers can quickly reduce their risk of heart disease by introducing a daily tipple to their diet, South Carolina researchers say. New moderate drinkers were 38% less likely to develop heart disease than those [...]
Posted in News, Nutrition, Risk factors on January 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
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
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, [...]
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 But this might come as a surprise: New research shows that their nervous, socially withdrawn neighbors also have reason to worry.
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