• Americans going to doctor less, buying fewer drugs

    Updated: 2010-07-30 21:00:11
    Americans with health insurance aren’t utilizing it as much this year. According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, Americans have cut back on doctor visits, prescription drug orders and medical procedures. How can they tell? From second-quarter financial reports that are pouring in from medical labs, hospitals, drug companies and insurers. One reason for the [...]

  • Modern Trends in Myocardial Infarction

    Updated: 2010-07-30 09:13:20
    Heart disease, and in particular coronary heart disease, is the leading cause of death worldwide but rates have actually been declining since the 1950s likely due to reductions in smoking prevalence and the availability of effective treatments for hypertension.  Consequently, rates of death from acute myocardial infarction (MI) have also been falling but there is [...]

  • Little Change in Prognosis for Ventricular Septal Rupture

    Updated: 2010-07-30 09:12:24
    Ventricular septal rupture following myocardial infarction is a rare but potentially catastrophic complication.  Current ACC and AHA guidelines recommend immediate operative intervention in patients with postinfarction ruptures, regardless of their clinical status, but surgical repair remains very challenging with reported in-hospital mortality being reported in the range of 20-60%.  In this single-centre, retrospective study the authors [...]

  • Allopurinol anti-ischaemic in stable angina

    Updated: 2010-07-30 09:03:44
    Allopurinol is a xanthine oxidase inhbitor which has previously been shown to reduce myocardial oxygen consumption in patients with heart failure.  As such, as the authors of this paper decided to investigate the potential benefit of high-dose allopurinol in patients with chronic stable angina. The double-blinded, randomised, placebo controlled study recruited 65 patients with angiographically documented [...]

  • CACS improves cardiovascular risk prediction

    Updated: 2010-07-30 09:01:39
    Coronary Artery Calcium Scoring (CACS) can be used to predict the likelihood of future cardiovascular events.  However, whether this provides extra information on top of traditional cardiovascular risk factors remains unclear. In this study 6814 participants in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) underwent CACS and were then followed up for five year.  None of the [...]

  • Gimmee a Pill Part Deux

    Updated: 2010-07-29 21:48:10
    Is obesity a disease or a condition?  If it is a disease, is it chronic or situational?  Does obesity raise itself to a problem which requires the might of pharmaceutical research to overcome, or is it a societal problem?  What do you do when one third of the United States population is obese?  These are [...]

  • Eating Less "Added Sugar" Fructose May Reduce High Blood Pressure

    Updated: 2010-07-27 00:49:02
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  • Q&A: Are blood pressure fluctuations normal?

    Updated: 2010-07-26 14:36:38
    Is it normal for blood pressure to fluctuate throughout the day? —O.B., Bristol, Conn. Yes. Blood pressure—particularly the systolic pressure (upper number)— rises and falls throughout the day in response to what you’re doing, feeling, and thinking. Caffeine, exercise, smoking,...

  • Gimmee a Pill!

    Updated: 2010-07-22 21:49:01
      When I was a child I had four great-grandparents.  Two were from Russia and two were from Poland.  My grandparents were actually born in the United States.  My last great-grandparent died at the age of 96 when I was 31 and in training after medical school.  She was someone I knew as a full person [...]

  • Chaos theory help predict heart attacks

    Updated: 2010-07-22 14:34:02
    Chaos models may someday help model cardiac arrhythmias -- abnormal electrical rhythms of the heart, say scientists in the journal CHAOS, which is published by the American Institute of Physics. In recent years, medical research has drawn more attention to chaos in cardiac dynamics. Eventhough chaos marks the disorder of a dynamical system, locating the origin of chaos and watching it develop might allow scientists to predict, and maybe even counteract, certain outcomes........

  • PCBs Linked to High Blood Pressure

    Updated: 2010-07-21 18:50:05
    PCBs were once used in many products, but they have been banned in the United States since 1979 because of fears they caused cancer and other health problems.

  • Traffic Pollution Boosts Sudden Cardiac Death Risk

    Updated: 2010-07-21 18:36:00
    Results from a new study suggest that exposure to high levels of traffic air pollution among people with heart or lung disease is associated with a risk factor for sudden cardiac death known as reduced heart rate variability (HRV).

  • Women More At Risk from Serious Angina Than Men

    Updated: 2010-07-21 18:27:04
    Canadian researchers have found that women who have the most severe type of angina (Class IV) are three times as likely to develop serious coronary artery disease (CAD) than men who have the same condition.

  • Do statins make you immortal?

    Updated: 2010-07-19 20:39:35
    My blogs over the past week have been concerned about the screening of asymptomatic patients for coronary artery disease and whether we make a difference in their morbidity and mortality if we find it.  That’s really all we are concerned with:  Can we, as physicians, change a patient’s outcome by putting in place a medicine or a [...]

  • Does Alcohol Help or Hurt Heart Patients?

    Updated: 2010-07-19 14:51:56
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  • How to Proceed?

    Updated: 2010-07-17 16:49:03
    If you fall into the age groups that I discussed in my last blog, what should you do?  First, remember that this discussion is only about asymptomatic patients. Those that do not have a history of heart attack, stroke or do not suffer from claudication, which is pain in the legs on exertion.  First and foremost, [...]

  • Can We Do Better?

    Updated: 2010-07-17 04:30:35
    A considerable number of strategies in American medicine are troubling.  One of the most troubling is our insistence on spending large amounts of resources treating illnesses that might be able to be prevented at an earlier stage.  Simple examples are providing better treatment of diabetes and hypertension by making the drugs and materials needed more [...]

  • Stroke Risk Increases for an Hour After Drinking: Study

    Updated: 2010-07-16 16:19:01
    A person's risk of suffering a stroke rises for an hour after he or she drinks even a small amount of alcohol, a new study has found.

  • At-Home Blood Pressure Monitoring Helps Keep it Low

    Updated: 2010-07-16 16:02:05
    British researchers say that people who have high blood pressure can control their condition more effectively on their own at home if they undergo proper training.

  • Some Coumadin Tablets Recalled

    Updated: 2010-07-15 03:23:00
    Bristol-Myers Squibb has initiated a voluntary recall of three lots of physician sample blister packs of Coumadin 1 mg tablets and five lots of Coumadin 1 mg tablet hospital unit dose (HUD) blister packs.

  • Study Raises Concerns Over Heart Imaging Radiation

    Updated: 2010-07-15 02:49:05
    Researchers looked at five major health care markets and found that nearly one in 10 adults under the age of 64 had undergone a heart procedure that involved radiation over a three-year period.

  • Depression, Anxiety May Delay Cardiac Recovery

    Updated: 2010-07-15 02:39:01
    Results from a new Australian study suggest that better screening for anxiety and depression could reduce the number of deaths and hospital readmissions among cardiac patients.

  • U.S. Heart Attack Care Better Than Ever: Study

    Updated: 2010-07-15 02:29:04
    According to a new large-scale study, people who suffer a heart attack and undergo angioplasty and other procedures to open blocked arteries are receiving these treatments more quickly and more safely than ever before.

  • New Tools for Atrial Fibrillation

    Updated: 2010-07-14 21:45:14
    I have blogged about atrial fibrillation many times as it is a constant feature in the practice of cardiology.  An estimated 2.2 million patients in the United States alone have this problem.  It has been difficult to prove in some patients and very difficult to follow.  The facts are extraordinary. If you have atrial fibrillation and [...]

  • Tai Chi and Qigong Helps Mental, Physical Health: Study

    Updated: 2010-07-14 16:51:03
    A review of previous research has found Tai Chi and Qigong exercise routines can offer a number of significant mental and physical health benefits.

  • Drugmaker Recalls Some Coumadin Tablets

    Updated: 2010-07-14 05:44:05
    Bristol-Myers Squibb has initiated a voluntary recall of three lots of physician sample blister packs of Coumadin® 1 mg tablets and five lots, of Coumadin 1 mg tablet hospital unit dose (HUD) blister packs.

  • New Toys for the Electricians

    Updated: 2010-07-12 21:37:59
    Electrophysiology is the subspecialty of cardiology that deals with the electrical problems of the heart.  At times the heart develops rhythms that break down into the fast rhythms, the slow rhythms and the lethal rhythms.  I have blogged in the past about the development of ICDs or implantable defibrillators and now we are seeing the [...]

  • Mental Health First Aid

    Updated: 2010-07-11 19:05:48
    I wanted to share something that I received from our local hospice agency. They send out information to grieving family members, and I though this information was appropriate as it can impact all of us…not just those of us who have lost loved ones. So here is their list for First Aid for Your Mental [...]

  • Tight Blood Pressure Control Does Not Help Diabetics, Study Finds

    Updated: 2010-07-08 18:50:05
    New research published in the Journal of the American Medical Association suggests that people with diabetes and coronary artery disease do not have fewer strokes or heart attacks when their blood pressure is maintained under 130 mm Hg.

  • Sugar--Not Just Salt--Boosts Blood Pressure

    Updated: 2010-07-08 18:27:02
    Scientists have found that drinking 2.5 cans or more of non-diet soda per day--or consuming an equivalent amount of fructose from other foods--increases a person's risk of hypertension by at least 30 percent.

  • Complications Shorten Stroke Patients' Lives: Study

    Updated: 2010-07-08 18:13:04
    Stroke complications such as secondary stroke and pneumonia can shorten stroke patients' lives by an average of two years, a new study has found.

  • Proteins that regulate blood pressure

    Updated: 2010-07-07 21:45:09
    Scientists at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine have identified key players in a little-known biochemical pathway that appears to regulate blood pressure. The findings, published in the early online version of Cardiovascular Research, have evolved from studies conducted by Jeffrey S. Isenberg, M.D., Eileen M. Bauer, Ph.D., and their colleagues at Pitt's Vascular Medicine Institute........

  • Common Diabetes Drug Hurting Patients?

    Updated: 2010-07-07 17:59:39
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  • Methods To Sort Out Severe Anxiety Disorder And Commence Overcoming Panic Attacks Right Now!

    Updated: 2010-07-07 01:55:50
    Severe anxiety disorder is a disease that involves a varied variety of pathological concerns and anxiousness. Severe anxiety disorder is a set of emotions of nervousness, trepidation, fear, or worry that may well happen without a cause, or be dependent on a genuine dreaded scenario but which is commonly completely out of proportion to what [...]

  • New tool to rule out coronary heart disease

    Updated: 2010-07-06 20:35:32
    A simple new rule can help primary care physicians rule out coronary heart disease in patients with chest pain, states a study published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal) (pre-embargo link only) http://www.cmaj.ca/embargo/cmaj100212.pdf. Chest pain is common, yet it is challenging for primary care physicians to reliably identify serious cardiac disease while protecting patients from unnecessary interventions........

  • Study Of Curative Approaches For Diabetes

    Updated: 2010-07-06 08:18:17
    Investigations of healing for diabetes continue to be really consequential today taking into consideration noteworthy number of patients suffering from this challenging sickness. Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes hits patients of various ages and considerably tells on their life fashion, behavior, employment, scholarship and food consuming wants. The medical professionals desire that the study [...]

  • Organic Herbal Products For Heart Disease

    Updated: 2010-07-05 05:18:25
    Heart disease, also called cardiovascular disease, mainly affects older connections again means that there are problems with the center and cardinal vessels. You dexterity have information someone who has cardiovascular sickness thanks to 61 million Americans accredit some produce of it. This disorder includes a separation of problems, including high blood pressure, skillful cherry cholesterol, hardening [...]

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