A team of researchers from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health developed a new online calculator called the Healthy Heart Score. This online tool allows people to easily assess their 20-year risk of developing a cardiovascular illness by adding up day-to-day habits. Apart from the risk evaluation, researchers also provided a collection of practical tips so that individuals using the … [Read more...]
Healthy Lifestyle Drastically Reduces Heart Attacks, Study Confirms
Once again, researchers stress the fact that environmental factors are highly important in determining our health status. More precisely, this time they looked at what causes the first heart attacks in the case of men. Lifestyle is so important that healthy choices end up reducing the risk of having a heart attack by around 80 percent. Swedish researchers from Institute of Environmental … [Read more...]
Aspirin Efficacy Test to Help Heart Disease Patients
Taking Aspirin for preventing heart attack may not be a good idea always, suggest researchers. Recently, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has also questioned the efficacy of aspirin in preventing first heart attack or stroke in people who have never had cardiovascular problems. The researchers have now developed a simple test that can measure plaque in arteries of heart of the patients and … [Read more...]
Scientists design new implantable device to treat blood pressure
The researchers in Germany have successfully developed an implantable device that can reduce blood pressure significantly by sending electrical signals to the brain. There are 24 individual electrodes in the new device that are integrated into a micro-machined cuff. The device is designed in such a way that it could be wrapped around the vagal nerve. These nerves extend from the brainstem to … [Read more...]
Aspirin against Heart Attacks Claims Doubtful – FDA
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has questioned the efficacy of aspirin in preventing first heart attack or stroke in people who have never had cardiovascular problems. Last week, the FDA has turned down the plea of German drugmaker Bayer AG to change the labeling on packages in order to market aspirin's value in preventing heart attacks in people who have never had cardiovascular … [Read more...]
Heart attack, stroke rates declining among US diabetics: Study
In what could be seen as a glimmer of good news for the diabetics, a new study has found a sharp decline in the rates of heart attacks, strokes and other complications from the disease. According to the study, there is over 60 percent fall in rates of heart attacks and strokes among the diabetes patients over the past two decades. And the other encouraging finding is that the study has … [Read more...]
Anger increases stroke risk for about two hours, says study
Anger is not good for your health. Establishing this fact scientifically, a new study has found that a person’s risk of experiencing a heart attack increases for about two hours following an outburst of anger. The researchers from Harvard University carried a review of nine studies related to anger and cardiovascular risk. These studies were conducted between January 1966 and June 2013. For … [Read more...]
Study questions vitamin D health benefits
A new research published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology suggests that no evidence supports the consumption of vitamin D supplements to fight chronic disease and early death. Opposing this, a study recently recommended that high vitamin D intake during pregnancy may increase offspring muscle strength. Other research harbinger the vitamin as a safety measure against heart attack, … [Read more...]
New blood biopsy to detect early onset of heart attacks
According to a research published by the ‘Journal Physical Biology’, the heart attack patients will be soon detected of their future strokes through blood tests. Scientists have developed a new "fluid biopsy" technique which identifies specific cells as markers in the bloodstream and predict early onset of heart attacks. The blood biopsy procedure is called HD-CEC (High-Definition … [Read more...]
