heart-letter
When a friend of mine had a stress test, his doctor gave him a medication to make his heart work harder, instead of having him run on a treadmill. Does that mean medications could replace exercise to strengthen the heart?
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?