Comments (5) | Post a CommentBest Diet After a Heart Attack
Posted By Simeon Margolis, M.D., Ph.D. - Fri, May 11, 2007, 2:02 pm PDTA presentation at the recent meeting of the American College of Cardiology compared the results in 101 patients started on the Mediterranean diet or the American Heart Association (AHA) diet within six weeks…Read More
Reducing Heart Attacks and Strokes in People with Diabetes
Posted By Simeon Margolis, M.D., Ph.D. - Mon, May 07, 2007, 6:06 pm PDTResearchers are continually looking for better ways to control blood glucose levels as well as prevent heart attacks and strokes in people with diabetes.Now a three-year follow-up of the PROactive study of the…Read More
More on Heart Attack Risk and Homocysteine
Posted By Simeon Margolis, M.D., Ph.D. - Fri, May 04, 2007, 3:41 pm PDTI've written before on homocysteine and its reported link to heart attack risk. Many population studies have shown that slightly elevated blood levels of homocysteine were linked to an increased risk of heart…Read More
Slowing Down Atherosclerosis: A Research Disappointment
Posted By Simeon Margolis, M.D., Ph.D. - Mon, Apr 30, 2007, 1:41 pm PDTLooking for a way to slow down atherosclerosis, researchers have examined the effects of blocking the action of an enzyme called acyl:cholesterol-acyltransferase (ACAT) that has been identified as a major…Read More
Rosiglitazone Improves Atherosclerosis in Type 2 Diabetes Patients
Posted By Simeon Margolis, M.D., Ph.D. - Thu, Apr 26, 2007, 11:36 am PDTMetformin (Glucophage) and the thiazolidinediones (rosiglitazone and piaglitazone) are oral medications used to lower blood glucose levels in people with type 2 diabetes. Now a clinical trial of 92 people with…Read More
Can CT Scans Accurately Assess Heart Disease Risk?
Posted By Simeon Margolis, M.D., Ph.D. - Sun, Apr 22, 2007, 5:30 am PDTCT (computed tomography) has been used for over 15 years to determine heart attack risk by measuring the amount of calcium in the coronary arteries, an indicator of the presence of atherosclerotic plaques.…Read More
Stop Smoking and Relax Your Arteries
Posted By Simeon Margolis, M.D., Ph.D. - Fri, Apr 20, 2007, 5:21 am PDTThere are so many convincing reasons to stop smoking that you may not need to hear about this new one: Kicking the smoking habit can reverse the stiffening of your arteries. But perhaps if you're still smoking,…Read More
Do Doctors Discriminate Against Older Patients?
Posted By Simeon Margolis, M.D., Ph.D. - Tue, Apr 17, 2007, 4:09 am PDTThe average age in the United States for having a first heart attack is 65.8 years for men and 70.4 years for women. Thus, a huge percentage of deaths from coronary disease — about 85 percent — occur in…Read More
The Rheumatic Fever-Mitral Stenosis Connection
Posted By Simeon Margolis, M.D., Ph.D. - Sun, Apr 15, 2007, 12:08 pm PDTI remember visiting a small pediatric hospital in the late 1950s, where an entire floor was full of children suffering from rheumatic fever. These days, more accurate diagnosis and aggressive treatment of strep…Read More
Prehypertension Worse Than Smoking for Postmenopausal Women
Posted By Simeon Margolis, M.D., Ph.D. - Fri, Apr 06, 2007, 6:09 am PDTPhysicians are finally coming to grips with the realization that they can no longer responsibly tell patients not to worry about their blood pressure if it is less than 140/90. More and more studies are…Read More
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