National Wear Red Day is celebrated on February 3. American Heart Association encourages other to spend the day raising awareness of heart disease, stroke and other cardiovascular diseases that take the lives of more than 800,000 Americans each year. All Knoxville and surrounding residents are encouraged to join WATE 6 On Your Side news anchors and Knoxville companies in wearing red to generate awareness to these diseases in women.
Category: Heart Disease
Two medical students at Royal Cornwall Hospital win top award
Two medical students based at Royal Cornwall Hospital are delighted after receiving an award from The British Maternal & Fetal Medicine Society Two medical students based at Royal Cornwall Hospital have received a top award, following their research on pregnant women with heart problems. Amy Hough and Luke Tanner, who are part of Exeter University Medical School, won the award from The British Maternal & Fetal Medicine Society.
Doc Talk: Dr. John P. Girod
… payment, enter a vacation stop, report a missed delivery, or submit a complaint. In February, the focus is on heart health. It’s the month that the American Heart Association puts the spotlight on raising awareness for cardiovascular disease. We …
Are You at Risk of Heart Disease? 51 minutes ago
… the risk factors below carefully; if you exhibit one or more of these, it would be in the best interest of your health to consult a doctor sooner rather than later. Do you suffer from high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, or obesity? …
The Telomere Effect
Might there be a unifying element to our biology and the health and longevity effects induced by our behaviors and environment ? Not a theory of everything but a way of tying together the complex parts of human lives and wellbeing that not only is heuristic but clearly points the way to having a longer and healthier life? That is what you will be treated to in The Telomere Effect: A Revolutionary Approach to Living Younger, Healthier, Longer. This is no snake oil.
Soft Robot Helps the Heart Beat
Harvard University and Boston Children’s Hospital researchers have developed a customizable soft robot that fits around a heart and helps it beat, potentially opening new treatment options for people suffering from heart failure. The soft robotic sleeve twists and compresses in synch with a beating heart, augmenting cardiovascular functions weakened by heart failure.
Low-income women are at a higher risk of heart disease, says study
Women from low socio-economic backgrounds are 25 per cent more likely to suffer a heart attack than disadvantaged men, a new study from the George Institute for Global Health has revealed. A review of 116 studies revealed that a lower socio-economic status, compared to a higher, is associated with a higher risk of cardiovascular disease for both genders, but women from disadvantaged backgrounds were relatively more likely to suffer from coronary heart disease than similarly affected men.
Can caffeine perk up heart health, too?
The caffeine in your morning cup of joe may do more than jolt you awake — it may also help dampen the type of inflammation that’s linked to heart disease risk factors, a new study suggests. Researchers found that an inflammatory mechanism was dialed up in certain older adults , but not others.
This might be how stress, heart attacks are linked
Scientists have long known that stress can influence your heart health, but exactly how this relationship takes place has been something of a mystery — until now. Activity in the amygdala, a region of the brain associated with fear and stress, can predict your risk for heart disease and stroke, according to a study published in the journal The Lancet on Wednesday.
Men who eat lots of red meat are at risk for a painful gut disorder
… lining of the colon; over half of Americans aged 60 and older have them, according to the U.S. National Institutes of Health. Most people who have these pouches suffer no problems, but around 5 percent develop diverticulitis — where the pouches …
This might be how stress and heart attacks are linked
Scientists have long known that stress can influence your heart health, but exactly how this relationship takes place has been something of a mystery – until now. Activity in the amygdala, a region of the brain associated with fear and stress, can predict your risk for heart disease and stroke, according to a study published in the journal The Lancet on Wednesday.
Doctor’s Orders: 7 Changes to Make Today to Lower Your Cancer Risk
… and 600,920 people will die from the disease. All of us have been affected by cancer one way or another. The World Health Organization predicts that by 2032 cancer cases will increase by about 70 percent. Encouraging news is the number of cancer …
Rate of elevated systolic blood pressure increases globally, along with associated deaths
… is important to guide prevention policies and interventions. Christopher J. L. Murray, D.Phil., of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, and colleagues estimated the association between SBP of at least …
Doctors warn Hong Kong diabetics to keep a close eye on heart health
… here are more than 700,000 diabetic patients, with the number expected to jump to 1.02 million by 2030. Department of Health figures show that heart diseases have been the third leading cause of death in the city since the 1960s.
Stent profit cap plea
New Delhi, Jan. 3: A doctors’ network today asked the government’s medical price control agency to cap the profit margins for coronary stents at 20 per cent, expressing concerns about what the network says are “huge profits” in the device industry’s supply chain. The Alliance of Doctors for Ethical Care has also told the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority to calculate the actual cost of manufacture of stents – devices used to treat patients with heart disease – in regulating their prices.
There’s a genetic mutation which means 35 million people have a heart that is at risk of failing
It all comes down to a special protein in the body called titin. Titin is responsible for making muscle stretchy and bendy.
Did Debbie Reynolds die of broken-heart syndrome?
… Known medically as stress-induced cardiomyopathy or takotsubo syndrome, it can strike anyone, even those in good health with no previous heart problems. Reynolds, who suffered two strokes in 2015 but recovered, was taken by ambulance to a hospital …
Advocate Lutheran General patient experiences Chicago Bears pregame on the field
At the age of 59, Vito Lullo of Norridge had no symptoms of heart disease. So when his niece suggested that Advocate Lutheran General Hospital was doing healthy heart screenings for $49, he decided to do it on a whim.
Advocate Lutheran General patient experiences Chicago Bears pregame on the field
At the age of 59, Vito Lullo of Norridge had no symptoms of heart disease. So when his niece suggested that Advocate Lutheran General Hospital was doing healthy heart screenings for $49, he decided to do it on a whim.
Low-Calorie Food Market – Global Forecast, Share, Size, Growth and Industry Analysis, 2014-2019
Global Low-calorie Food Market: Snapshot As per the World Health Organization , obesity and overweight conditions in people have resulted in about 44% of diabetes, 7-41% of certain cancers, and 23% of ischaemic heart disease, worldwide. Another disturbing figure released by the WHO shows that around 42 million preschool children were overweight in 2013.
Advocate Lutheran General patient experiences Chicago Bears pregame on the field
At the age of 59, Vito Lullo of Norridge had no symptoms of heart disease. So when his niece suggested that Advocate Lutheran General Hospital was doing healthy heart screenings for $49, he decided to do it on a whim.
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Impact of Sleep on Arrhythmogenesis
… centers in the brain to establish normal respiratory sinus arrhythmia, which is generally indicative of cardiac health. Heart rates accelerate briefly during inspiration to accommodate increased venous return and to provide increased cardiac output …
Absolute and Attributable Risks of Heart Failure Incidence in Relation to Optimal Risk Factors
… generally focused on rates of coronary heart disease (CHD), stroke, or total CVD. Heart failure is a growing public health problem 8 and eventually affects 1 in 5 US adults. 9 Although heart failure has several risk factors in common with CHD and is …
Incident Heart Failure Prediction in the Elderly: The Health ABC Heart Failure Score
… HF, defined as hospitalization for new-onset HF, in 2935 elderly participants without baseline HF enrolled in the Health ABC study (age, 73.6A 2.9 years, 47.9% males, 58.6% whites). A prediction equation was developed and internally validated by …