Category: heart-letter

Why don’t you ever tell your readers that everyone who takes a statin to lower cholesterol should be taking coenzyme Q10, too?

Brief updates on tingling stents, Alzheimer’s disease and blood pressure, exercise as medicine, and vascular disease in women.

Low levels of testosterone have been linked to many health problems in men.

According to the long-term Framingham Heart Study, having parents who live to age 85 or beyond may offer a greater degree of protection from heart disease and stroke.

In 2006 Americans spent more than $190 billion on heart-related health care issues, nearly one-fifth of total health care costs that year.

I am a 70-year-old woman with type 2 diabetes. I take Glucophage, Glucotrol, and a statin. My diastolic pressure used to be between 70 and 80, but now it’s down into the 50s and 40s. This seems low to me. Could this indicate a problem?

Researchers are exploring how the use of music therapy may aid in the treatment and recovery of cardiovascular patients.

Women are at as much risk for heart disease as men are. The American Heart Association has compiled a list of guidelines that offer a number of ways women can reduce their risk.

The combination of aspirin and warfarin is prescribed to prevent clotting, but it does not have this effect in all heart disease patients, and can sometimes cause stomach bleeding.

I’m a 75-year-old woman. The top number of my blood pressure is between 135 and 140, the bottom number around 75. My doctor says this is fine. Should I believe him?