Angina - The Cause and How to Treat It

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Angina is a pain or a feeling of discomfort around the chest area. For some people it can feel like a squeezing sensation or pressure on their chest. This pain occurs when the heart muscles are not receiving sufficient enough oxygen from the blood flowing into the heart. The pain can also appear in

Recommended Cholesterol Level - What is the Ideal Cholesterol Level For Women?

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When it comes to the cardiac ailments cholesterol levels become a big issue. Basically this is necessary to build the intestinal walls in our body. This is also important to strengthen the digestion system. But after a certain point they become dangerous for us.

Heart Failure-Topic Overview

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What is heart failure?Heart failure means your heart muscle does not pump as much blood as your body needs. Failure does not mean that your heart has stopped. It means that your heart is not pumping as well as it should.Because your heart cannot pump well, your body tries to make up for it. To do th

Heart Disease and Exercise

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Exercise -- especially aerobic exercise -- is key to good health for people with heart disease. WebMD provides you guidelines for starting and sticking with a program.

Relationship Between Coronary Disease & Obesity

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The American Heart Association has identified risk factors for coronary heart disease. Some risk factors, such as race, sex or heredity, can't be controlled. However, other risk factors, such as obesity, can be controlled.

Where is Cholesterol Made?

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Cholesterol exists in two forms within organisms. There is the cholesterol that is taken in by food (mainly from meats), and there is the cholesterol that your body naturally produces. The majority of your body's natural cholesterol is made in the liver, with the average person manufacturing an

Five-Year Clinical Follow Up after Intracoronary Radiation

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The authors assessed the long-term outcomes of real-world patients treated with intracoronary radiation therapy for in-stent restenosis and the characteristics implicated in its failure.

Heat Related Health Problems

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Contrary to what many people believe, heat related health problems are not confined to hot climates. They can happen anywhere even indoors. When we exercise we sweat.

Hit 'em Hard and Fast: Statins Early After Heart Attack Improve Outcomes, Save Lives

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In the era of aspirin, clot-busters, and an array of increasingly sophisticated technologies that have put an impressive dent in the number of people dying from heart attacks, it's hard to imagine how another drug could possibly improve these odds.

Underlying Cause of Heart Failure Predicts Survival

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Whatever causes your heart muscle to weaken and fail also predicts how long you will live, according to a recent study.

RCTs of Conventional Stenting vs Direct Stenting in AMI

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Direct stenting is commonly used during PCI for acute myocardial infarction to prevent distal embolization. What's best-practice?

Can Garlic Help to Reduce Your Risk of Heart Attack by 50%?

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The ability of Garlic to protect you against cardiovascular disease is mainly because it is an antioxidant that can lower lipids and also has an anticoagulant effect. In fact, a study was done in April 2003 at the University of California; Los Angeles which showed that aged garlic extract (also know

Electrocardiogram

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An electrocardiogram (EKG or ECG) is a test that checks for problems with the electrical activity of your heart. An EKG translates the heart's electrical activity into line tracings on paper.

Vagally Mediated Atrioventricular Block

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Vagally mediated AV block is associated with slowing of the sinus rate, and there is much to learn about diagnosing and treating patients with this aberrant conduction pattern . . .

Heart Failure and the Biventricular Pacemaker

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WebMD explains a special type of pacemaker called a biventricular pacemaker that is used for treatment of heart failure.

Can Heart Disease Be Prevented? Protandim May Be the Answer

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Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States and is a major cause of disability. Almost 652,091 people die of heart disease in the US each year. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that in 2009, 785,000 Americans will have a new coronary attack, and abo

'Seesaw Balloon-Wire Cutting' and Chronic Total Occlusions

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Can this new technique help cross the threshold of chronic total occlusions?

Dosage Instructions for Mepergan Fortis

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Mepergan fortis is prescribed under several brand names to treat moderate to severe pain. Because narcotics often cause nausea as a side effect, it combines anti-nausea medications with some narcotics to help lessen adverse affects. Mepergan fortis is an oral medication made up of two medicines call

Electrocautery-Induced Ventricular Tachycardia and Fibrillation

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The authors present 4 cases of electrocautery-associated VT or VF during either implantation or explantation of ICDs and pacemakers.

Self Testing PT/INR With INRatio Test Strips

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If you are a patient on Coumadin it's critical to have your PT/INR regularly tested. Historically patients have had to go to the doctor's office to have this test done, but now because of new technology, more reasonable prices and insurance reimbursement patients can monitor their PT/INR a