Hypertension/High Blood Pressure When the doctor said, “Your blood pressure is 135 to 85″, for example, the figures really mean? The first number is the systolic blood pressure (SBP) – the amount of pressure in the arteries of the heart as a pump. Systole is the rhythmic contractions of the heart muscle, where the expulsion [...]
Pulmonary Hypertension Pulmonary hypertension is a progressive disorder concerning the main artery to the lungs, and causes continuous high blood pressure in the pulmonary arteries. In other words it is the narrowing of arteries as blood vessels that carry oxygen from the right ventricle in the heart to the small arteries in the lungs. Symptoms [...]
Screening for High Cholesterol in Children American children are much more obese than they were just 1 decade ago and with this extra weight comes diabetes and high cholesterol fears. Now experts are saying that children as young as 9-11 need to be tested universally with lipid screening for fasting and non fasting with more [...]
High Cholesterol There are over 300 million people living in America and fully one third of those Americans have high cholesterol, why? Our forefathers didn’t have these type of numbers as far as we can tell, this is purely a 20th-21st century phenomenon. Many of the common causes of high cholesterol are easy to control [...]
New Therapy Improves Blood Flow in Heart Muscle Dr. Allen’s Device for Heart Treatment enhances the blood flow inside the heart muscle assisting in recovery from cardiovascular disease or after a heart attack.The new Thermobalancing Therapy enabled by this device stabilises and maintains the normal temperature in the heart tissue thus improving its functioning and relieving [...]
Medicare &Heart Disease Screening Heart Disease is the general term given to a host of heart related illnesses such as Cardiovascular Disease, Peripheral Artery Disease ( PAD ), Tachycardia and heart arrhythmia to name a few. Heart disease as a group is responsible for the majority of deaths in America every year and now stands [...]
Studies Show Vitamin D Slashes Cancer And Heart Disease Risk In Half Health conscious individuals have been closely following Vitamin D research for the past decade as volumes of scientific evidence prove this prohormone has been selected through our evolution to provide critical protection against many inflammatory and immune mediated diseases such as heart disease. [...]
Resveratrol Benefits Your Heart Resveratrol, an antioxidant, anti-inflammatory substance created by a variety of plants, starting from vines to peanuts and pine trees. Resveratrol has been used in Asian medicine for hundreds of years, especially in liver and heart problem treatments. Resveratrol helps lower cholesterol, and is as much as 10 to 20 times more [...]
High cholesterol Falling? So says the Centers for Disease Control ( CDC ). Apparently a study of 6000 American Adults, including interviews and blood tests, between 2009 and 2012 confirm this. Supposedly the study concludes that only 13% of Americans have high cholesterol, I say don’t believe a word of it! You can choose to [...]
Coronary Artery Calcium Scan Coronary Artery Disease is the most common of heart diseases that is easily preventable with a healthy diet, excersize and the correct medications. Although science has shown us exactly how to treat and prevent coronary artery disease, Americans continue to ignore the advice that could save their lives. A study done [...]
Bare Metal Stents: The Next New Thing? Although drug eluting stents (DES) have largely supplanted bare metal stents (BMS) in clinical practice, a new study published in Circulation suggests that using these devices in all patients may represent an inefficient use of healthcare resources. Lakshmi Venkitachalam and colleagues analyzed data from 10,144 PCI patients [...]
Statins Speed up Plaque Removal Until now researchers did not fully understand how statins could reduce atherosclerosis, the accumulation of fat and cholesterol that hardens into plaque in arteries, a major cause of mortality in Western countries. High blood cholesterol is a major culprit in atherosclerosis. As a result of narrowing arteries, blood clots can [...]
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