Jul

15

30 Ways to Reduce Your Risk of Heart Disease and Stroke

July 15, 2008 | Comments Off

Between 1950 and 2000, the death rate from heart disease in the United States plummeted nearly 70 percent, and the death rate from stroke nearly 80 percent. However, although we’re dying of heart attack and stroke less often, we’re still getting cardiovascular disease just as often. In fact, some factors that put us at risk, […]

Mar

12

Snoring linked to heart disease

March 12, 2008 | Comments Off

New research suggests there is a strong link between loud snoring and both heart disease and strokes. Hungarian scientists did interviews with more than 12,000 patients. They concluded that heavy snorers were significantly more likely to have a heart attack or stroke compared to the rest of the population.

Feb

29

Caffeine Alcohol Combo vs. Stroke

February 29, 2008 | Comments Off

A new drug that packs a wallop of caffeine and alcohol may be the latest weapon in the war on stroke. In a small study, 60% of stroke patients who were given the drug, called caffeinol, had no or minimal disability when they were discharged from the hospital.

Feb

26

Intense drug therapy urged for heart patients

February 26, 2008 | Comments Off

Canadian researchers are encouraging physicians to prescribe higher doses of cholesterol-lowering drugs to patients with severe heart disease to reduce their risk of dying from heart attack or stroke.

Feb

26

Doctors Find 3 New Signs Of Stroke Risk

February 26, 2008 | Comments Off

What do mammograms, blood-sugar tests and daytime dozing have in common? All may offer clues that someone is headed for a stroke, new studies suggest. Higher stroke risk was seen in women with artery buildups accidentally revealed by mammograms, in non-diabetics starting to have insulin problems, and in older people who tend to nod […]

Jan

30

Get informed to prevent cardiovascular disease

January 30, 2007 | Comments Off

Cardiovascular disease (CVD), primarily heart disease and stroke, causes more deaths in North Americans of both genders and all racial and ethnic groups than any other single cause of death. Cardiovascular disease is a chronic condition of degeneration, which develops over a long period of time, most often decades. Individuals with cardiovascular disease may not […]

Jan

21

High blood pressure blamed for strokes

January 21, 2007 | Comments Off

High blood pressure is to blame for more than half of all heart attacks and strokes in the Asia-Pacific region, despite the problem being easy to treat. Australian-led research has analysed hypertension figures in 15 nations to work out just how often the treatable condition triggers cardiovascular disease.

Dec

14

Folic acid won’t cut heart, stroke risk, study says

December 14, 2006 | Comments Off

Taking a folic acid supplement does not cut the risk of heart disease or stroke in people with a history of cardiovascular ailments, according to a study published on Tuesday.
Folic acid, also called folate, is a B vitamin. The body uses it to make new cells. Some doctors have recommended the vitamin to ward off […]

Dec

6

NYC bans trans fats in restaurants

December 6, 2006 | Comments Off

NEW YORK — The city’s decision to ban trans fats from restaurant fare may change how food is prepared at eateries — from fast to fine dining — around the nation.
New York became the first U.S. city to remove from menus the artificial, artery-clogging fats used in many fried and processed foods.

Jun

13

UBC Researchers Find Stroke Death Channel

June 13, 2006 | Comments Off

New therapies for stroke patients may soon be possible, thanks to a discovery made by a team of University of British Columbia neuroscience researchers who have found a new stroke death channel — the conduit through which key chemicals are lost from brain cells during stroke, causing the cell death that disables stroke victims.
The findings […]