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Category : Heart Diseases : Health & Medical
Coping With Heart Disease
If you have heart disease, it's important to know how to stay healthy and live as long a life as possible.
Acute Ischemic Heart Disease
Improving quality of life and functional status are primary goals in treating patients with coronary artery disease (CAD), a chronic condition without a definitive cure.
Chocolate and Your Heart
Several studies have now documented an association between chocolate consumption and improved cardiovascular health.
Cholesterol Has Shades of Gray - Not Just Good Vs Bad
Cholesterol is not just Good vs Bad, it has gray shades of cholesterol.Your LDL (bad) level has a subtype of Lp(a) which is highly inflammatory and thrombotic, meaning it causes blood clots.When it increases, it increases your risk of heart attack. Your HDL (good) has subtypes of HDL1 and HDL2.Both
Door-to-Balloon: An Alliance for Quality
The Door-to-Balloon (D2B): An Alliance for Quality campaign has enrolled more than 1,000 PCI hospitals. Here, a look at this quality improvement initiative.
Turning Off Your ICD-Credits
ByHealthwise StaffPrimary Medical ReviewerKathleen Romito, MD - Family MedicineSpecialist Medical ReviewerRakesh K. Pai, MD, FACC - Cardiology, ElectrophysiologyLast RevisedMay 8, 2013
Exercise Heart Rate Guidelines Overestimate Intensity for CHF Patients
Determining appropriate exercise targets for patients with heart failure requires careful evaluation of cardio-respiratory stress using exercise testing.
Niacin and Cholesterol - Is It Safe and Effective?
As an alternative to statins, some people prefer to use niacin to help control cholesterol levels, and who can blame them? After all even though statins are very effective at controlling cholesterol levels they have some pretty serious side effects including muscle pain, heart failure and memory iss
Coronary CT Angiography Indicates Complexity of PCI
Does preprocedural coronary CT angiography have potential for guiding percutaneous coronary interventions?
Heart Attack Prevention
Find WebMD's comprehensive coverage of preventing heart attacks including medical reference, news, pictures, videos, and more.
Patient's Muscle Cells Help Heart
Injections of patients' own muscle cells into scarred areas of the heart helped people with heart failure to breathe a little better, walk a bit further, and generally feel better.
Good Cholesterol Levels - Discover the Two Types of Cholesterol
Good cholesterol levels are essential to great health. Many young people do not worry about what they eat. It has been shown that the beginnings of heart disease can begin as soon as your teen years, so it is important to teach your children how to eat right in the early years of life. If you can de
Preventing Pump Head
Cognitive impairment after bypass surgery - pump head - can be prevented by a simple step
Pacemaker Implant For a Healthy Heart
Pacemaker implants are becoming a very common phenomenon these days. Doctors generally recommend this implantation to patients with slow heartbeats for a healthy heart with healthy heartbeats.
Left Atrial Appendage Closure for Stroke Prevention in AF
How do stroke rates fare for patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation having left atrial appendage closure vs standard care with anticoagulants?
Aortic Aneurysm
Find WebMD's comprehensive coverage of aortic aneurysms including medical reference, news, pictures, videos, and more.
What Are The Risk Factors For Cholesterol?
Cholesterol is present naturally in the body and is something that the body so that it can function properly. It is used mainly in the production of vitamin D, some hormones and bile acids. However, the body needs only very small amounts of it to meet its regular requirements. When you have an exces
Exercise OK for Heart Patients With ICDs
Results of a new study show that people with implanted cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) can safely participate in more intense sports such as biking, basketball, and skiing without increasing the risk of shock-related failure of the devices or other inju
Sirolimus Vs Paclitaxel-Eluting Stents in Patients With Diabetes
Which drug-eluting stents (DES) are associated with a lower incidence of in-segment and in-stent restenosis in patients with diabetes? Results from the DES-DIABETES trial are reviewed.