Latest cardiovascular disease Stories

Association of Black Cardiologists, Heart Rhythm Society, and the Monarch Awards Foundation Partner to Raise Awareness and Help Prevent Heart Condition Disproportionately Impacting African Americans CHICAGO, March 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- To help Chicago residents understand their risk for sudden cardiac arrest (SCA), the Heart Rhythm Society (HRS), Association of Black Cardiologists (ABC), and the Monarch Awards Foundation are hosting an education event urging consumers,...

redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online Obese cardiac patients are actually less likely to die from their heart-related condition than those who maintain normal body weight, researchers from University College London claim in a new study. According to Andrew Kincade of Examiner.com, the investigators studied 4,400 heart patients hailing from England and Scotland. They found that patients with cardiovascular issues who were clinically obese – having a body mass index...

redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports – Your Universe Online Children who are suffering from depression have a higher risk of developing cardiovascular disease later on in life, according to new research presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychosomatic Society in Miami, Florida on Friday. The study, which was prepared by scientists at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the University of Pittsburgh, reports teenagers who suffered clinical depression...

The novel Natural Sciences Repository aims to provide reliable information on various areas of scientific interest which in the simplest words and terms possible. The site has now added the new category Health and Disease that contains scientific information on health, which is the state of being free from injury or disease, and the new category Heart Disease which contains information on cardiovascular disease which is a class of diseases that involve the heart, the arteries, and the...

Dwelling on negative events can increase levels of inflammation in the body, a new Ohio University study finds. Researchers discovered that when study participants were asked to ruminate on a stressful incident, their levels of C-reactive protein, a marker of tissue inflammation, rose. The study is the first time to directly measure this effect in the body. “Much of the past work has looked at this in non-experimental designs. Researchers have asked people to report their tendency to...

Lean On Life, a leading healthy lifestyle website with the latest on weight loss, nutrition and fitness is encouraging the general public to focus on healthy eating and an active lifestyle in order to prevent heart disease. TORONTO, ON (PRWEB) March 13, 2013 Lean On Life, a leading healthy lifestyle website with the latest on weight loss, nutrition and fitness is encouraging the general public to focus on healthy eating and an active lifestyle in order to prevent heart disease. This...

Dr. Markzar, periodontist in Los Angeles, now informs about the possible link between gum disease and cardiovascular diseases. Los Angeles, California (PRWEB) March 13, 2013 Dr. Sam Markzar, Los Angeles periodontist, now informs patients that there may be a connection between periodontal disease and cardiovascular disease. Patients who suffer from one or both of these conditions need to be aware of this connection and seek regular medical and dental care to control their condition or...

Mass. General-led study finds that quitting cuts the risk of cardiovascular events in half, despite any weight gain An analysis of data from the Framingham Offspring Study – a long-term study that follows children of participants in the original Framingham Heart Study – may have answered a question that has troubled individuals considering stopping smoking: do the health effects of any weight gained after quitting outweigh the known cardiovascular benefits of smoking cessation? The...

April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online More so than in many industrialized nations, Americans work longer hours, take fewer vacation days and retire later in life. It is not surprising, therefore, that with such demanding careers many experience job burnout expressed as physical, cognitive and emotional exhaustion resulting from stress at work. Previous studies have found that burnout is also related to obesity, insomnia and anxiety. A new study from Tel Aviv University's...

Link found between kidney disease and hearing loss. Hyannis, MA (PRWEB) March 12, 2013 Cape Cod Hearing Center is joining the Better Hearing Institute in promoting National Kidney Month in March . Cape Cod Hearing Center will be raising awareness of the threat that kidney disease poses and of the link between kidney disease and hearing loss. As part of its outreach efforts, Audiologist Theresa Cullen is urging people with chronic kidney disease to get their hearing checked. A free,...