THURSDAY, Nov. 19 (HealthDay News) — A Spanish study has found that long-term moderate drinking decreased the risk of heart disease by up to one-third in men and to a lesser degree in women.
The type of alcohol— beer, wine or spirits — made no difference, the researchers reported in the Nov. 19 online issue of Heart. The Spanish analysis used 10-year data on 15,500 men and nearly 26,000 women who were participants in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer study. Read More
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 18 (HealthDay News) — There’s a message for doctors, hospitals and communities in new guidelines for treatment of coronary disease and heart attacks: Get organized.
Every community should have an organized system of emergency care for heart attacks, including programs to identify patients before they get to hospitals and strategies for getting them to medical centers equipped to perform artery-opening procedures, say the guidelines issued by the American Heart Association, the American College of Cardiology and the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions. Read More
TUESDAY, Nov. 17 (HealthDay News) — Surging obesity rates, especially among children, may be putting the brakes on progress made in the past few decades against heart disease, researchers report.
And it doesn’t help that many obese or overweight Americans still consider their weight “normal,” as one study found.
One of several studies on the subject of obesity presented Tuesday at the American Heart Association (AHA) annual meeting in Orlando, Fla., found that adults’ blood pressure and blood sugar levels are continuing to rise, fueled in large part by expanding waistlines. Read More
TUESDAY, Nov. 17 (HealthDay News) — Hardening of the arteries may have more of a family history — the human family tree — than was once thought.
Modern-day imaging techniques have unearthed hardening of the arteries — or atherosclerosis, which causes heart attacks and stroke — in mummies up to 3,500 years old.
Experts have long believed that atherosclerosis is a scourge of modern society, caused by meals snatched at fast-food restaurants and eaten in front of high-definition TVs. Read More
MONDAY, Nov. 16 (HealthDay News) — A moderate-fat diet may work better than a low-fat regimen for people suffering from metabolic syndrome, a collection of conditions putting them at higher risk for cardiovascular disease, new research finds.
“This is a good study that essentially confirms that the current recommendations are appropriate,” said Alice Lichtenstein, a spokeswoman for the American Heart Association (AHA). “Since 2000, the AHA has been recommending not a low-fat diet, but one that is low in saturated fats and trans fatty acids.” Read More
MONDAY, Nov. 16 (HealthDay News) — Reduced blood flow to the heart may help explain why men who’ve had a heart attack are at increased risk for another while watching exciting sporting events, Chinese researchers report.
The study included 38 male heart attack survivors who watched live broadcasts of Olympic Games competitions or entertainment television programs. While the men watched the shows, their coronary artery blood flow to the heart was assessed by ST-segment analysis using continuous 12-lead electrocardiography, blood pressure monitoring and heart rate measurement. Read More
SUNDAY, Nov. 15 (HealthDay News) — Rapid cooling of heart attack patients may boost their chance of survival without brain damage, Swedish researchers report.
They examined the use of a device called RhinoChill, which cools the brains of heart attack patients during ongoing cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). RhinoChill is a non-invasive device that pumps coolant into a patient’s nose. Read More
SUNDAY, Nov. 15 (HealthDay News) — Men, especially black men, are at a relatively high risk of sudden cardiac death over their lifetime compared to women, a new study finds.
That lifetime risk in men aged 40 and over is one in eight, or 12.3 percent — triple that of women, whose risk is one in 24, or just over 4 percent, the study found. Read More
TUESDAY, Nov. 10 (HealthDay News) — Almost a quarter of the people on Medicare who are hospitalized for heart failure are back in the hospital within a month of discharge, a new study reveals.
That should not be happening, said Dr. Joseph S. Ross, an assistant professor of geriatrics and palliative medicine at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City, who added that there’s plenty of blame to go around. Ross was lead author of the study, published online Nov. 10 in Circulation: Heart Failure. Read More
FRIDAY, Nov. 6 (HealthDay News) — If an inept or abrasive boss is ruining your workday, you may be taking that stress to heart, literally.
New research links having a poor supervisor to a higher risk of heart attack, and that’s not all: people who don’t like their managers also take more sick leave.
The findings, which come from surveys of thousands of employees in Europe, don’t prove that bad bosses cause illness and heart problems, the report’s author said. And the findings regarding heart attacks only look at men. Read More
