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• High-Fat, Low-Carb Diets Up Heart Disease Risk

  
  The Inquisitr Entertainment — Authority: 708
  Miami, FL (AHN) – Researchers in the United Kingdom are warning against high-fat, low-carbohydrate diets, saying they significantly up heart disease risk. Dr. Steven Hunter from the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast, Northern Ireland, said in a statement that the risks of these diets far outweigh their potential ...
  10 hours ago

• Gender Gap Persists In Cardiac Care

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 715
  Gender differences persist in the quality of cardiac care across Ontario, according to a health study by researchers at St. Michaels Hospital and the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES). Ontario women who had heart attacks were less likely to receive care from a cardiologist, be referred for angiography, ...
  12 hours ago

• Higher Risk Of Hospitalization For Bleeding In Heart Attack Patients Treated With Different Combinations Antithrombotic Drugs

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 715
  An article in this weeks edition of The Lancet reports that the risk of hospital admission for bleeding in heart attack patients increases with the number of antithrombotic (clot-busting) drugs used. In addition, patients with non-fatal bleeding are also much more likely to suffer repeat heart attack or die than those ...
  12 hours ago

• A Guide to Drugs Utilized in the Management of Hypertension

  
  Naked News — Authority: 176
  High blood pressure is a widespread medical disorder in America, but it is also a dangerous one. Hypertension is a risk factor for concerns like stroke, heart attack and heart disease. When a person is diagnosed with hypertension, a health care providers primary objective is to decrease the blood pressure to the ...
  15 hours ago

• Home Health and Hospice Care

  
  New Hampshire Public Radio — Authority: 578
  When Heidi Ebol’s infant daughter came home after heart surgery, nurses from Home Health and Hospice Care provided follow-up care in the Ebols’ home.
  1 day ago

• Heart Health and Hormones

  
  EmpowHer.com - Site Activity Feed — Authority: 557
  Hormones affect almost every function and organ in the body. In a healthy person, the natural level of hormone helps regulate growth, weight, blood sugars and energy. Speaking specifically of the heart; however, many persons have increased their cardiometabolic risk due to everything from unhealthy behaviors or ...
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• Folic acid may help prevent fetal heart defects

  
  Heart Disease: Overview, Causes, Risk Factors, Treatment, Prevention — Authority: 124
  Here’s another reason for pregnant women to take folic acid supplements: they help prevent fetal heart malformations, new research from the Netherlands suggests.“Given the relatively high prevalence of congenital heart defects worldwide, our findings are important for public health,” Dr. Ingrid M. van Beynum of ...
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• Ask Your Doctor the Right Questions About Heart Disease

  
  Naked News — Authority: 176
  A critical first step in coping with heart problems is to learn to talk to your physician about your questions and fears. You are not alone in terms of difficulties in talking to a medical practitioner about your health worries. But in terms of heart health and wellness no question should be left unanswered.
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• Use Holidays To Improve Personal Health Records

  
  Psych Central News — Authority: 578
  Obtaining then maintaining an electronic personal health record is a positive step toward improving individual health. An accurate PHR is an essential tool for consumer directed health care and improved medical management in the new health reform environment. Two researchers at the University of Virginia believe ...
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• Hidden Inflammation

  
  HealthMad — Authority: 486
  Hidden inflammation can occur throughout our bodies without us ever being aware of it. What starts it is different with every person. It can be a long term infection, gum disease, smoking, being overweight can make anyone very prone to inflammation. Fat cells give out inflammatory proteins called cytokines. They can ...
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• Supportive Materials Will Help Regenerate Heart Tissue

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 715
  Bioengineers from University of California, San Diego are developing new regenerative therapies for heart disease that could influence the way in which regenerative therapies for cardiovascular and other diseases are treated in the future. New results from UC San Diego on using adult stem cells to regenerate heart ...
  1 day ago

• Study finds gender gap persists in cardiac care

  
  Heart Disease: Overview, Causes, Risk Factors, Treatment, Prevention — Authority: 124
  Gender differences persist in the quality of cardiac care across Ontario, according to a health study by researchers at St. Michael’s Hospital and the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES). Ontario women who had heart attacks were less likely to receive care from a cardiologist, be referred for ...
  1 day ago

• Low carb diet ‘increases heart disease risk’

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  London, Dec 10 (ANI): Eating a low carbohydrate diet can raise a person’s risk of heart disease, says a new study.The low-carb diet involves eating more protein and fat in foods such as meat, cream and butter and cutting out bread, sugar and other foods high in carbohydrates.People who shun carbs like bread and ...
  1 day ago

• A Cure for the Funky Heart?!?!

  
  Adventures of a Funky Heart! — Authority: 127
  I’ve got Google Alerts searching for the appearance of certain Heart Defect words and phrases across the internet, and they deliver new information to my computer every night. The information is new to me , but not always new. So imagine my surprise when I read this report from a 1981 edition of the ...
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• Ischemic Heart Disease

  
  Preventing Heart Disease — Authority: 123
  David Cowley asked: Ischemia is a decrease in the blood supply to a bodily organ, tissue, or part paused by constriction or obstruction of the blood vessels, and it is the proper medical term for reduced blood flow to the heart. Hardened or blocked arteries us usually the cause of it, and it is the number one ...
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• A Guide to Drugs Used in the Treatment of Hypertension

  
  SmartHealthForLife.com — Authority: 160
  Hypertension is a widespread health condition in the United States, and it’s also a potentially life threatening one. Hypertension is a risk factor for conditions like heart attack, stroke and heart disease. Once a person is confirmed to have high blood pressure, a doctor’s primary goal is to lower the blood ...
  1 day ago

• Study finds gender gap persists in cardiac care

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 660
  TORONTO, Ont -- December 9, 2009 -- Gender differences persist in the quality of cardiac care across Ontario, according to a health study by researchers at St. Michaels Hospital and the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES). Link:  ...
  2 days ago

• High-fat low-carb diets could mean significant heart risk

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 660
  New scientific research has shown that low-carbohydrate high-fat diets, made popular by the likes of the Atkins diet, do not achieve more weight loss than low-fat high-carbohydrate diets. Link:  http://www.sugar-bureau.co.uk
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• Why You May Need Anbiotics After or Before Dental Surgery

  
  Retirement — Authority: 128
  gum disease I have been discovering why dentists will sometimes prescribe antibiotics before or after a dental procedure. I have made up my mind that it is merely for the faster healing of the gums but after doing my research, I was stunned with what I found out. Before or even after a bloody surgical procedure, ...
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• TWLD - Heart Disease - Oseaana

  
  Your Weight Loss Headquarters — Authority: 150
  Weigh-in and information about heart disease in women and African-Americans. … oseaana "the weight loss diaries" weight health wellness "heart disease" fitness "weight watchers" hooping exercise Spread the Word!
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