Archive for the 'Heart Disease' Category


High Prevalence Of Atrial Fibrillation Found Among Cross-Country Skiers

Next month, in the Norwegian town of Rena, 12,000 elite cross-country skiers will line up for this year’s Birkebeiner ski marathon, an annual endurance race which will take them through 54 kilometres of snow-covered countryside to the winter sports resort of Lillehammer…


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Herbal Remedies May Increase Risk Of Dangerous Drug Interactions In Heart Patients

More and more Americans are turning to herbal remedies to help manage chronic conditions or promote general health and wellness. But many of today’s popular herbal supplements, including St…


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Addressing The Public Health Impacts Of Climate Change

Strategies to reduce greenhouse gases also benefit human health, according to studies published in the medical journal The Lancet. The Lancet series highlights case studies on four climate change topics - household energy, transportation, electricity generation, and agricultural food production.


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Can Stress-Reducing Transcendental Meditation Help CHD Patients Prevent Future Heart Attacks?

The National Institutes of Health’s National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute will fund a $1 million collaborative study by the Center for Natural Medicine and Prevention at Maharishi University of Management Research Institute and Columbia University Medical Center to determine whether the stress-reducing Transcendental Meditation technique can help patients with coronary heart disease (CHD) prevent future heart attacks, strokes and death.


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Soybeans Contain Compounds That Could Prevent Heart Disease And Cancer

Soybeans contain high levels of several health-beneficial compounds including tocopherols, which have antioxidant properties. These molecules can be used in the development of functional foods, which have specific health-beneficial properties and can be used in the treatment or prevention of diseases. Tocopherols exist in four forms (α, β, γ, and δ) of which γ-tocopherol is found in greatest concentration in soybeans.


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Inhaling A Heart Attack: How Air Pollution Can Cause Heart Disease

It’s well known that measures such as exercise, a healthy diet and not smoking can help reduce high blood pressure, but researchers at the University of Michigan Health System have determined the very air we breathe can be an invisible catalyst to heart disease. Inhaling air pollution over just two hours caused a significant increase in diastolic blood pressure, the lower number on blood pressure readings, according to new U-M research.


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Prevent Cancer, Heart Attacks And Global Warming By Eating Less Red Meat

Raising livestock also accounts for around 18% of greenhouse gases. It is therefore possible to act against climate change and reduce cardiovascular and cancer deaths, by cutting the production and consumption of ‘red meat’ from these animals. The World Cancer Research Fund and the American Institute for Cancer Research have recommended that an individual should eat no more than 500 grams of red meat per week.


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Laugh A Little To Help Protect Heart, Lower Blood Pressure

Laughter is not only an effective stress-reliever, but can be heart-healthy, according to research presented at the American College of Sports Medicine’s 56th Annual Meeting in Seattle. Two separate studies examined the role of a good laugh as it relates to health. One of the studies took an inverted approach to previous research on the harmful cardiovascular tolls of stress and negative mood.


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Let’s Get Moving For Heart Children’s Health!

The Children’s Heart Federation (CHF) launches Let’s Get Moving for Heart Children’s Health: a call to action to include children with congenital heart disease in PE at school and to increase their access to sport in the community, at its House of Common’s reception today (14 May) in the presence of Gerry Sutcliffe MP, Minister for Sport and one hundred delegates, including representatives of nine leading sports development organisations.


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Heart Procedure? Bring Your IPod Along, Review Suggests

The right mix of Portuguese instrumentals calms Philadelphia researcher Joke Bradt. That’s what she’d want to hear during a serious medical procedure that or classical music. She points out quickly that this is her musical preference. She knows the right music can help her and, as a music therapist, she uses it to help others as well.


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