Heart & Vascular Health: Overview
Beware of Trans Fat Substitutes
06/07/07, Johns Hopkins UniversityManufacturers are struggling to find healthy substitutes for trans fats while chefs and food chemists are checking the taste of other naturally…
Dramatic Drop in Heart Attack Deaths
06/05/07, Johns Hopkins UniversityThe rates of in-hospital deaths after a heart attack fell by almost 50 percent between 1999 and 2005.
Heart Disease Risk Increased for Firefighters
05/22/07, Johns Hopkins UniversityFirefighters and others in similarly demanding occupations must be particularly careful to identify and control heart disease risk factors.
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Do Doctors Discriminate Against Older Patients?
04/17/07, Johns Hopkins UniversityI advise all of you, but especially older readers, to ask your doctors about your LDL cholesterol, HDL cholesterol, and triglycerides levels, and to…
Triglycerides: The Risk Factor Nobody Talks About
04/01/07, Johns Hopkins UniversityPeople in the upper third of triglyceride levels had between a 58 percent and a 76 percent greater risk of coronary heart disease than those in the…
Top 10 Heart Advances and Disappointments of 2006
03/05/07, Johns Hopkins UniversityEach year, we get a clearer picture of what works and what doesn't in heart health.
What's Your Heart Disease Risk? Ask Mom
06/06/06, Johns Hopkins UniversitySeveral recent studies report that premature coronary heart disease is a greater risk when it occurs in a mother than in a father.
Acute Heart Attacks: Your Blood Tells the Story
05/30/06, Johns Hopkins UniversityMost widely used now to detect a heart attack is troponin, a protein that is released more quickly by a damaged heart muscle and that persists longer…
Do You Have White Coat Hypertension?
05/16/06, Johns Hopkins UniversityYou can tell if you have white coat hypertension by checking your blood pressure at home with a blood pressure monitor and comparing it to readings…
Does Heart Defect Cause Migraines?
01/17/06, Johns Hopkins UniversityI was surprised by a newspaper story that pictured a car restorer over the caption, "Surgery to repair a hole in his heart also stopped migraines that…
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