Atrial fibrillation occurs when the heart’s upper chambers flutter rapidly and weakly, instead of contracting regularly and steadily. Age, high blood pressure, lung disease, thyroid problems, and smoking are among the likely contributors.
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?
In addition to necessary changes in diet, activity, and the need to take medication, hypertension also takes a toll on life expectancy.
Adding certain cholesterol-lowering foods to a low-fat diet may be more effective at lowering long-range heart disease risk.
Hospitals have shortened the interval from when a person having a heart attack arrives to when angioplasty begins.
Low-fat diets are not as effective at lowering cholesterol compared to Mediterranean and portfolio diets.
Receiving hospital treatment for a heart attack may lead to anemia, due to the amount of blood taken for testing.
African-Americans with prehypertension are more likely to progress to full-fledged high blood pressure, and to do so sooner, than whites.
Compulsive hoarders accumulate unneeded items beyond reason. While hoarding is sometimes a symptom of obsessive-compulsive disorder, most hoarders do not exhibit the characteristics of OCD.
Further information about a breast cancer drug that may weaken the left ventricle.