Holidays tend to intensify feelings across the emotional spectrum. If you dread them, you can develop survival strategies. If you love them, enjoy and reap the health benefits.
Dr. Anne Fabiny discusses how she prepares for exercising outdoors in cold weather.
Echocardiograms create still and moving images of your heart. The probe is typically used on the outside of the chest, but sometimes the probe is put on a flexible tube passed down the esophagus to get a clearer picture of the heart’s valves.
Electronic devices called implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) detect and terminate irregular beats in the heart’s lower chambers.
A miscarriage, stillbirth, or problems during pregnancy like high blood pressure or diabetes may signal hidden cardiovascular vulnerabilities later in life.
Exercising at home is much easier than people think. A simple routine can have a significant impact on a person’s quality of life and stop the decline in muscle mass that happens naturally with aging.
Added sugar is a risk for weight gain, heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, cancer, and even dementia. Women should limit added sugar intake to 6 teaspoons per day, and men should limit added sugars to 9 teaspoons per day.
While eating several meals per week of fish has been shown to reduce the risk of heart disease, fish do contain small amounts of toxic substances – particularly mercury and polychlorinated biphenyls.
A study has shown that a 5-mg dose of testosterone cream restores premenopausal levels in women.
Heart problems that can cause people to faint include an abnormally fast or irregular heartbeat (arrhythmia) or a heart valve problem.