Prahallad Panda's Library tagged heart →  View Popular, Search in Google

For the first time The American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association has issued guideline for treatment of hypertension in seniors above 65 years old.
The guideline is as under.

american heart association hypertension managing high bp

The U.S. Health and Human Services department, the American Heart Association, on Tuesday launched Million Hearts, a coordinated approach to prevent heart problems in the population at risk. The government is contributing nearly $200 million as a part of President Barack Obama's preventive care strategy. In ABCS;

ABCS heart

High cooking temperatures used in frying the potatoes and preparing chips seem to destroy most of the healthy substances in a potato, leaving mainly starch, fat and minerals. Microwaved potato seems to be the best way to preserve nutrients.

heart disease high blood pressure people with obesity potatoes reduce

Many analgesics in group of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) act by inhibiting the COX (Cyclo-oxygenage) enzymes; responsible for producing inflammation inducing chemicals/molecules..
But inhibition of COX enzymes also inhibits some good molecules, those keep the circulation in a healthy state.
That effect may cause increase in cardiac events, after long term use; specially in a setting of previous heart disease.

Heart events nsaids patients

Researchers at Columbia Engineering have established a new method to patch a damaged heart using a tissue-engineering platform that enables heart tissue to repair itself. This breakthrough, recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is an important step forward in combating cardiovascular disease, one of the most serious health problems of our day.

Patching heart self repair of

It is typically advised to a patient of heart attack after the recovery to rest for at least for one month. That is also true after interventional therapy in form of stenting.
Now researchers advise the sooner the exercise the better is the outcome in a stable patient recovering from heart attack. The new study by researchers at the University of Alberta shows that for best results in stable patients after a heart attack, early exercise as well as prolonged exercise is the key to the best outcomes.

heart attack Rehabilitation exercise

Now, new research suggests that the bond may be stronger than had been suspected. In an exercising pregnant mother instead of leading a passive life, the foetus joins in the workout of the mother; thus actively participating in the symbiosis.

Pregnancy Exercise Strong heart Foetal

Exercise preserves the heart muscles through out old age in comparison to the sedentary lifestyle.

exercise Heart muscle preserves

Maternal cigarette smoking in the first trimester was associated with a 20 to 70 percent greater likelihood that a baby would be born with certain types of congenital heart defects, according to a study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Smoking Congenital heart disease

An example of a heart attack, which can occur ...It has been seen by the researchers that occasional physical and sexual activity is associated with increased risk of heart attack.

Heart attack.

can we isolate the gene from zebra fish, that is responsible for re-growth of damaged heart muscle; and put it in human.

Heart mouse re-grow

It is the circadian rhythm that regulates the hormonal surge. Increase in different hormone level may increase the blood pressure and increase in stickiness of the platelets.

heart attack Stroke

After a heart surgery kidneys bear the brunt in eliminating the toxic products from body. Sometimes in the severest form there may occur acute shut down of kidney function.

Proteinuria Heart surgery CABG

Resilience of great vessels in the body increases by coffee. The effect is due to the polyphenol content as claimed by the researchers. It amy be helpful to hypertensives.
It increases alertness due to caffeine content and good for persons engaged in night shift duty.
May not give good sleep to people intend to take a good nights sleep.

alertness coffee daily limbers up Heart hypertension

The research once again proves the risk of red meat in comparison to poultry.

Coronary disease lower risk Paultry red meat. Heart attack