Callor other emergency services immediately if you have:Chest pain that has not gone away within 5 minutes after taking one nitroglycerin and/or resting, especially if the pain is pressing or crushing and occurs with shortness of breath, sweating, and nausea.Symptoms of a stroke. These include: ...
Current dietary guidelines recommend using lots of vegetable oil, but you should know about the potential downside of many vegetable oils.
Frozen and fresh fish the best choices
Many people with heart failure may be a bit overly optimistic when it comes to estimating how long they have left to live, a study shows.
Heart-healthy fats are usually the liquid fats at room temperature. These include the vegetable oils such as olive oil, sunflower oil, peanut oil and soya oil. Reading the labels on the food we buy in shops will help us to decide if we want to buy fat-rich foods or low-fat foods. If you need to watc
Use of public defibrillators doubled between 1999 and 2002, according to one study.
Despite publication of guidelines on the use of hsCRP in CVD risk prediction, there is a lack of clear consensus regarding the optimal clinical use of hsCRP.
Could ECGs become the basis for classification of atrial fibrillation?
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is a genetic disease characterized by abnormal myocardial hypertrophy, which can lead to a wide clinical spectrum, including sudden cardiac death and heart failure. Find out the best ways to diagnose it.
What Is a Heart Attack?A heart attack happens when a person's heart muscle stops beating. You need to get oxygen to your heart to keep it alive. If a person's heart stops for too long, severe damage to the heart muscle can result. Smaller versions of heart attacks, or infarctions, may not...
Learn more about established and novel percutaneous interventional techniques, which may palliate or bridge pulmonary hypertension patients to transplant.
Many women believe breast cancer to be the biggest killer of women, but they are wrong.Heart disease is the number one killer of women.This article discusses why this is so, symptoms, causes, who is at the biggest risk and methods of prevention.
New treatments for AF include advances in surgical and catheter-based ablation, biatrial pacing, and alternatives to rhythm control.
The popular phrase "Ignorance is bliss" is tragically inaccurate when applied to dietary choices. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) food pyramid promotes a high carbohydrate, low meat diet that is readily endorsed by cardiologists. However, someone forgot to tell Greenland eskimos, whose die
The FDA has approved the first automatic external defibrillator (AED) for home use.
Find out more about determining the need for repeat revascularization in older patients after PCI.
Like many health problems it is possible to correct them and maintain good health through the correct combination of good foods in our diet. High cholesterol is a dangerous health risk and therefore every effort should be made to include the right foods in our diet and delete the bad foods. Find out
First randomized study of its kind finds intracoronary delivery of autologous bone marrow cells is safe and significantly improves left ventricular function in AMI patients at 6 months.
A comprehensive overview of aspirin resistance, discussing its definition, prevalence, diagnosis, and therapeutic approaches is provided.
