Category: Cardiology

Are primary care doctors referring too much?

… Interestingly, at our institution, we find that there are patients with a specialist or subspecialist for every health condition they have. A cardiologist follows them for their high blood pressure. A gastroenterologist follows them for their …

Implantable cardiac monitors reveal abnormalities in healthy mountaineers at high altitudes

Climbing above 4,000m can provoke abnormal heart rhythms in otherwise healthy mountaineers, with the abnormalities increasing with altitude, new research has shown. The study, by sports scientists at Leeds Beckett University and cardiologists at Poole Hospital, found that in a team of 16 healthy mountaineers, without a previous history of heart disease, more than half experienced rhythm disturbances at altitudes of 4,100 metres or above.

Atrial fibrillation can lead to stroke

… most common in people 65 years and older. What can seem like a little flutter in the chest can be a sign of a serious health condition that can lead to stroke, and one local physician is hoping to encourage the elderly to be proactive. “If you have …

From Alzheimer’s to autism, nuclear neurology could launch revolution …

When applied to the brain, nuclear medicine techniques reveal critical information about the progression of the most devastating diseases, from Alzheimer’s to traumatic brain injury. Just last week, Nature published research showing brain imaging might be able to help diagnose autism in infants as young as 6 months old, an advance that would represent extraordinary progress in more effectively treating the disease.

PTC Cardiovascular Technology Program Hosts Heart Health Event

Piedmont Technical College’s cardiovascular technology program recently hosted Think Heart Smart, a community heart health event. The event offered a blood drive with The Blood Connection and free cardiovascular risk assessment and counseling provided by Self Regional Healthcare that included blood pressure, body mass index , cholesterol screenings and A1C testing.

Women are affected by heart disease too

In Jamaica, we observe Heart Month with several activities over the course of the month led by the Heart Foundation of Jamaica, the Cardiology Unit at the University Hospital of the West Indies and other cardiologists and heart centres promoting awareness of heart disease prevention and early detection and treatment. This year, the theme for heart month is sudden cardiac arrest.

Can you really die of a broken heart?

… in women – by people with a history of neurologic problems, such as seizures, and by people with a history of mental health problems. Though a stress-based theory is probably correct, the precise cause of the syndrome remains unknown, according to …