heart-letter
Starting cardiac rehabilitation within 15 days of heart surgery, heart attack, or another cardiac event leads to greater improvements than starting rehab more than 30 days after the event.
Intensive lifestyle interventions may help people with heart disease lose weight, which improves factors that worsen heart disease. Trained experts teach participants behavior changes that foster healthy eating and exercise.
For about two hours after an angry outburst, a person has a slightly higher risk of having chest pain (angina), a heart attack, a stroke, or a risky heart rhythm.
Positive lifestyle choices help protect the heart and blood vessels from damage. These same steps may also work to quiet the genetic code that increases disease risk.
The FDA approved a drug-coated balloon to open clogged leg arteries, providing a new option for treating peripheral artery disease or PAD.
Heart rate monitors help people exercise at the right intensity, allowing them to safely reach their fitness goals.
Premature ventricular contractions happen when one of the heart’s lower chambers (ventricles) contracts early. This common, usually harmless condition is often described as feeling as though the heart has skipped a beat.
In 2014, the top 10 advances to treat and prevent heart disease and stroke include novel drugs and procedures, as well as improvements in and newfound benefits from existing treatments to address cardiovascular problems and related risks.
Everything that is unhealthy for your blood vessels and heart has also been linked to memory and thinking problems. Your brain will appreciate the heart-healthy steps you take to better your diet, exercise more, and reduce stress.
The tiny wire-mesh tubes called stents that prop open arteries cleared during an angioplasty have improved a great deal in the past 30 years.