Category: heart-letter

Structuring a diet around types of foods rather than specific nutrients to eat or avoid is an easier way to practice healthy eating.

People who take a combination of two blood-pressure medications are more likely to get their pressure under control than those who take just one medication.

Further information about a breast cancer drug that may weaken the left ventricle.

African-Americans with prehypertension are more likely to progress to full-fledged high blood pressure, and to do so sooner, than whites.

Receiving hospital treatment for a heart attack may lead to anemia, due to the amount of blood taken for testing.

Low-fat diets are not as effective at lowering cholesterol compared to Mediterranean and portfolio diets.

Hospitals have shortened the interval from when a person having a heart attack arrives to when angioplasty begins.

In addition to necessary changes in diet, activity, and the need to take medication, hypertension also takes a toll on life expectancy.

I’ve read that if you take aspirin every day, stopping it temporarily increases your chance of having a heart attack more than if you had never taken aspirin. Is that true? If I need to stop taking aspirin for some reason, is there a safer way to do it?

Thanks to a change in dental procedure, people who take aspirin and Plavix to prevent clotting do not have to stop taking the drugs before oral surgery.