Packing on Pounds Impacts the GumsReported April 06, 2009 (Ivanhoe Newswire) These days, obesity is being blamed for everything from diabetes to high blood pressure. But gum disease? Researchers who followed men taking part in the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study say the answer is yes. Their analysis of 16 years worth of data shows men who were obese at … [Read more...]
Cardiovascular Health News
Recommendations for Drivers with Implanted Defibrillators
Recommendations for Drivers with Implanted Defibrillators Reported June 23, 2009 (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- A task force of twelve cardiovascular experts is setting limitations for drivers with Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators (ICDs). Patients with ICDs have an ongoing risk of sudden incapacitation, which could cause great harm if it happens while … [Read more...]
Secondhand Smoke Affects Toddlers Most
Secondhand Smoke Affects Toddlers MostReported March 17, 2008 (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Parents: you may want to think twice before you light up in front of your little ones. A new study reveals children between the ages of 2 to 5 years absorb six times more nicotine than children 9 to 14 years old when exposed to parental smoking in their homes. The toddlers also had higher … [Read more...]
Survive Stroke with Support
Survive Stroke with Support Reported November 21, 2008 (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- New research shows high levels of social support can provide protection to the brain during a stroke. In a study on male mice, researchers found those living with female partners before and after a stroke had significantly higher survival rates than mice that lived alone. Whats more, the … [Read more...]
Turbo Booster for Leg Pain
Turbo Booster for Leg PainReported January 25, 2008 LOS ANGELES (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Twelve million Americans have it - 75 percent of us dont even know about it. That nagging pain in your legs could be a sign of a serious cardiovascular disease. For now, memories of exotic vacations will have to do. The Paxtons were grounded when Gertrudes legs refused to budge. "I … [Read more...]
Prostate Cancer Therapy Boosts Risk of Fractures, Heart Disease
Prostate Cancer Therapy Boosts Risk of Fractures, Heart DiseaseReported April 28, 2009 (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Prostate cancer patients who take drugs to decrease their testosterone levels may be increasing their risk of developing bone- and heart-related side effects, but those risks are still relatively low, according to a new study. Doctors say androgen … [Read more...]
Better management improves survival rates of heart attack victims
Better management improves survival rates of heart attack victims Reported January 29, 2009 Sydney (IANS): Better management practices have improved survival rates of heart attack victims, according to a study based on nearly 4,500 such cases. Researchers followed the outcomes for 12 years of 4,451 patients hospitalised during 1984-87, … [Read more...]
BP Test: Home vs. Docs Office
BP Test: Home vs. Docs Office Reported December 04, 2008 (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- A high blood pressure reading at the doctors office may not be as predictive of heart risks as a high blood pressure reading at home. About 10 to 30 percent of people with high blood pressure have a condition known as resistant hypertension. For these patients blood pressure remains high … [Read more...]
Combined Testing Better at Detecting Heart Risks
Combined Testing Better at Detecting Heart Risks Reported November 06, 2009 (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Doctors may be dismissing chest-pain patients prematurely. Experts say physicians relying on simply one test to assess heart health may be missing vital diagnostic information. Experts suggest adding coronary artery calcium score (CACS) testing to … [Read more...]
Diabetics, Older Patients Benefit From Heart Bypass
Diabetics, Older Patients Benefit From Heart BypassReported March 24, 2009 (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- It may be a more invasive surgery, but new research shows heart bypass surgery leads to longer lives than angioplasty for specific groups of patients. A new study involving nearly 8,000 patients from 10 clinical trials around the world shows heart patients who … [Read more...]
Effects of Glucose Control Last Years
Effects of Glucose Control Last Years Reported October 13, 2008 (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Diabetes patients treated with drugs may be less at risk for some major complications of their disease even after therapy is discontinued, new research shows. Researchers followed up on the large-scale United Kingdom Prospective Diabetes Study (UKPDS) by selecting patients and following … [Read more...]
Fruit Juices Hamper Drugs Benefits
Fruit Juices Hamper Drugs Benefits Reported August 20, 2008 (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Washing down your medicine with fruit juice may be a bad idea. You may have heard that grapefruit juice can increase the absorption of certain drugs and potentially turn normal doses into toxic ones. Now, the scientist who first identified this problem finds grapefruit and other common fruit … [Read more...]
Heart Failure: A Growing Epidemic
(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Seniors are being treated for heart failure at alarming rates. A new study warns rates are now at epidemic proportions. The prevention and treatment of heart failure has become an urgent public health need with national implications, Longjian Liu, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics of the Drexel University School of … [Read more...]
Fitness News : Women Fitness>Uncontrolled High Blood Pressure is a High-Risk Condition
Uncontrolled High Blood Pressure is a High-Risk Condition Reported December 5, 2005 (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Uncontrolled hypertension, or blood pressure, puts people at higher risk for sharper drops in short-term memory loss and verbal ability, according to a recent study. Researchers at the Veterans Affairs (VA) Boston Healthcare System, Harvard Medical School and the … [Read more...]
Fitness News : Women Fitness> My Heart’s in Bogalusa
My Heart's in Bogalusa Reported October 24, 2005 NEW ORLEANS (Ivanhoe Broadcast News) -- Heart disease is a leading killer of Americans, but it isn't something just adults need to worry about. Extensive research shows just how damaging our overeating and sedentary lifestyles are to kids. The paper mill town of Bogalusa is the home and heart of 13,000 Louisianans. It's … [Read more...]
Green tea cuts heart disease risk
Green tea cuts heart disease risk Reported September 09, 2009 To reach the conclusion, researchers from Okayama University tracked the health of more than 12,000 elderly people living in Japan. The men and women were aged between 65 and 84. In the study, the volunteers were asked to fill out questionnaires on lifestyle … [Read more...]
Statins cut risk of stroke, heart attack in study
Statins cut risk of stroke, heart attack in study Reported November 10, 2008 Boston researchers reported yesterday they have developed a strategy that dramatically reduces the risk of heart attacks, strokes, and even death among older adults who don't have the traditional warning signs of perilously clogged arteries. Using a test they pioneered, scientists from Brigham and … [Read more...]
Medicine’s Next Big Thing: Growing Hearts
Medicine's Next Big Thing: Growing HeartsReported September 19, 2007 ANN ARBOR, Mich. (Ivanhoe Broadcast News) -- Imagine surviving a heart attack and having laboratory-grown muscle implanted in your heart. Or try to envision being born with a defective heart valve and being able to get a new heart to grow in its place. These are possibilities that could soon become … [Read more...]
New Test Measures Death Risk in COPD Patients
New Test Measures Death Risk in COPD Patients Reported March 21, 2005 (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- A new, non-invasive test measuring lung hyperinflation can be used to predict the risk of death in patients suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), according to a new study. COPD is a lung disease that often … [Read more...]
Stem cells may repair damaged heart tissue
Stem cells may repair damaged heart tissue Reported December 03, 2009 CHICAGO, Dec. 3 (UPI) -- Chicago heart researchers say they've determined adult stem cells might help repair heart tissues damaged by a heart attack. Rush University Medical Center scientist said the results from a Phase I study show stem cells from donor bone marrow appear to help heart attack patients … [Read more...]
Wines Found Contaminated With Metals
Wines Found Contaminated With Metals Reported October 31, 2008 (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- If youre living by the idea that wine protects your heart with antioxidants, you may want to consider new research that states otherwise. In a recent study, researchers analyzed metal levels in wines from sixteen different countries and found many commercially available wines contain … [Read more...]
Cholesterol Control Genes
Cholesterol Control Genes Reported July 10, 2009 (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Twenty genes playing large roles in controlling cholesterol within cells have been identified through several innovative methods. These genes may also point the way to new risk factors for heart disease. "Some of the genes identified by us as regulators of cellular cholesterol … [Read more...]
Vein Blood Clots Can Cause Heart Attacks
Vein Blood Clots Can Cause Heart Attacks November 27, 2007 A new study published in the journal Lancet suggests that blood clots in a persons vein put him at nearly twice the risk of heart attack or stroke within a year. The study confirms the existing belief that all three conditions are linked. Vein blood clots are often the result of restricted … [Read more...]
Experts Take Step Toward National Heart Disease Surveillance
Experts Take Step Toward National Heart Disease SurveillanceReported March 24, 2009 WASHINGTON, D.C. (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has started establishing a unit to systematically track cardiovascular disease and stroke in the United States, the first step toward an organized national surveillance system for the two conditions. … [Read more...]
Genetic Screening for Diabetes?
Genetic Screening for Diabetes? Reported November 24, 2008 ORLANDO, Fla. (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Using genetics to predict type 2 diabetes may not be as big of a breakthrough as researchers hoped -- at least not yet. Although recent research has identified 18 gene variants that increase an individuals risk for type 2 diabetes, a recently published New England Journal of … [Read more...]
Fitness News : Women Fitness
Heart attack patients who are black are less likely than white patients to undergo procedures to reopen blocked arteries. A new study reveals treatments and survival rates differ between races. Black patients had lower rates of revascularization procedures, like angioplasty, in the 30 days after a heart attack than white patients, report researchers from the University of Iowa … [Read more...]
Fitness News : Women Fitness>Device Helps Heart Pump
Device Helps Heart Pump Reported October 31, 2005 LOS ANGELES (Ivanhoe Broadcast News) -- A severe heart attack can weaken the heart to the point where surgery to unclog arteries may be too risky. Now a new device is helping those with frail hearts survive surgery. A severe heart attack left David Doerfler's heart so badly damaged surgeons doubted he would survive surgery … [Read more...]
Holes for the Heart
Holes for the Heart Reported August 17, 2009 PHOENIX (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States. There are stents, surgeries and transplants to help failing hearts recover, but some patients are too weak to survive the treatment. A new approach for the sickest patients involves drilling holes in the … [Read more...]
Infection Dangerous After Heart Transplant
Infection Dangerous After Heart TransplantReported October 12, 2007 (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Patients who develop a central nervous system infection after having a heart transplant are at serious risk for death. Researchers at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine in Rochester, Minn., collected data from 315 consecutive heart transplant recipients from 1988 through 2006. They … [Read more...]
Killing Ourselves?
Killing Ourselves? Reported July 02, 2009 ROCKVILLE, Md. (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- We are spending more money to fight disease and cure cancer than any other country in the world, but Americans are still managing to kill themselves. The number one cause of death for both men and women is preventable. What do the latest stats reveal about you? … [Read more...]
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