• New Moms – Breast Feeding can Lower your Heart Attack Risk

    Updated: 2012-03-30 19:30:53
    Breast Feeding Your Baby can Reduce Your Heart Attack Risk   A large US study involving over one hundred thousand women has concluded that breast feeding your baby as a new Mom can protect you against heart disease, heart attacks and strokes in later life. The investigations were carried out by a team of scientists [...]

  • Low fat high protein diet when cooking is healthy

    Updated: 2012-03-30 01:18:42
    . Increase Hdl Lower Ldl Hdl Ldl Ratio High Cholesterol Atheroslerosis Low fat Subscribe To This Site The low fat high protein diet When cooking is healthy Actually , a low fat high protein diet is considered heart healthy . According to a recent Harvard Medical School study , more than 80 of all heart diseases can be prevented by eating healthy food , being physically active and quitting . smoking I love cooking , in fact , I see cooking as a type of art . I always liked the old say The way to the man’s heart is through his stomach” . Although this is 100 true say , following a proper diet and foods can make this old saying true . too What's inside a low fat high protein diet The hidden secret of this diet is the consumption of proteins-deriving foods rather than other . Actually ,

  • A new lipid drug appears

    Updated: 2012-03-29 21:43:09
    Over the past two and one half years that I have been writing this blog, I have often blogged about lipids and statins.  As we have always known and have recently heard again, statins are not perfect drugs.  They provide a large secondary benefit of reduction of death and myocardial events after a first cardiovascular [...]

  • A good week for Chick-fil-a (Part II)

    Updated: 2012-03-27 22:04:01
    Alright. Let’s stop fooling around and get to the meat of the matter. (I couldn’t help myself.) This epidemiological study used two studies: the Health Professionals Follow-up Study of 37,698 men and the Nurses Health Study with 83,644 women. In the Health Professionals Follow-up Study, after 22 years, there were a total of 8,926 deaths. [...]

  • A good week for Chick-Fil-A (Part I)

    Updated: 2012-03-22 16:17:30
    I bet you have seen the Billboards for Chick-Fil-A at various times as you drive around the city.  They are actually pretty clever with cow replicas writing graffiti admonishing us to “eat more chicken.”  It seems that those cows may be on to something.   A paper was published in the Archives of Internal Medicine [...]

  • The best drug you never heard about (Part II)

    Updated: 2012-03-20 20:53:21
    Why do we care about the resting heart rate?  Our bodies are made up of checks and balances.  One of these pathways is that when the cardiac function falls, the kidneys sense it and produce signals and substances that make the heart go faster to increase the cardiac output.  Back in olden times, the most [...]

  • CT Angiography shows incremental prognostic benefit

    Updated: 2012-03-18 19:31:29
    TweetRecently evidence has emerged suggesting the prognostic value of CT coronary angiography (CTCA), however whether it can provide extra information over and above routine clinical workup – including exercise treadmill testing – remains uncertain.  Dedic et al. determined to answer this question in patients with stable chest pain and suspected coronary artery disease (CAD). The [...]

  • Gender differences in myocardial infarction

    Updated: 2012-03-16 09:03:08
    TweetIn general, women present to hospital with symptoms and signs of coronary artery disease at a later age than males; furthermore, they often present with atypical symptoms.  While a large amount of work has been directed towards examining sex differences in mortality, few studies have taken into account age difference when doing so. In this [...]

  • The best drug you have never heard about (Part I)

    Updated: 2012-03-15 23:45:22
    Would you believe me if I told you that there is a drug that reduces a condition’s mortality by 39%, and we don’t have it here in the United States? By this time you, my readers, know that it is probably true. Now I will tell you who and what. I can’t tell you why because [...]

  • Eating too much red meat raises your risk of dying from heart disease

    Updated: 2012-03-15 22:42:48
    Red meat is back in the news again this week of March 12th 2012, with the worrying results of a new study from the United States into it’s effects on our health, when other factors are removed from the equation. And it’s not just heart disease that this affects but bowel cancer, as well – [...]

  • Heart Disease Medication – does it matter what time you take it ?

    Updated: 2012-03-14 00:40:35
    Millions of heart disease sufferers around the world are prescribed vital medication to treat their condition, and keep it under control. Yet how many people actually give a thought to the significance of the daily timing of taking their medicine, and the effect it could have on their condition ?     You are Three Times More Likely to [...]

  • What will it be…yes or no?

    Updated: 2012-03-13 19:59:23
    Here is a good story for you. It’s a real brain teaser. In the interest of full disclosure, the drug I will discuss is one of my least favorite. This drug that I have blogged about in the past continues to be a problem for the FDA, which they have not adequately addressed. The drug Vytorin was [...]

  • Latest on how meat, soda, and exercise affects your life span

    Updated: 2012-03-13 15:00:00
    If your daily routine is an extra large soda and a bacon cheeseburger for lunch, and pushing the remote control is your most strenuous activity, then I’d like to be named as your life insurance beneficiary. This from reading three...

  • The next big advance (Part II)

    Updated: 2012-03-08 22:03:16
    In my previous blog, I outlined the problem with resistant hypertension and its treatment. Now let me explain where medicine may be heading. Published in J Am Coll Cardiol, 2012; 59:901-909 and titled “Renal Sympathetic Denervation Reduces Left Ventricular Hypertrophy and Improves Cardiac Function in Patients With Resistant Hypertension” (Catchy title; we do know how [...]

  • The next big advance (Part I)

    Updated: 2012-03-06 22:57:22
    In practicing medicine for over 30 years, I have seen some of the greatest advances and some of the flops.  Some start out as fully formed and some we grow into.  Some seem ridiculous at their beginning and end up like treadmills in many homes, expensive clothes hangers. Some of the advances include: The emergence [...]

  • No cardiac benefit of vitamin D in CKD

    Updated: 2012-03-04 11:24:22
    TweetThere is a renewed interest in the role of vitamin D in cardiovascular disease, largely due to observational studies suggesting a link between vitamin D deficiency and cardiovascular outcomes.  Moreover, vitamin D receptors have been found on vascular smooth muscle, and endothelial cells.  Given the vitamin D deficiency that commonly effects patients with chronic kidney [...]

  • Intracoronary abciximab offers no extra benefit

    Updated: 2012-03-04 10:57:59
    TweetDespite the introduction of primary angioplasty programmes for patients with acute ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), up to 70% of patients have impaired myocardial tissue perfusion even after successful treatment.  As intracoronary delivery of abciximab results in much higher concentrations within the coronary artery when compared to intravenous administration, it is logical to propose that this [...]

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