Wednesday, March 7, 2012
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My Esselstyn Plant-Based Diet Trial Results Are In. Understanding the Numbers and Why No Oil or Nuts Makes Sense. Think Weight Loss, Lowering the Omega-6s, Healthy Arteries, and Energy
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My Lipid Profile on a Mediterranean Diet, a Plant-Based with Olive Oil & Nuts Diet, and a Plant-Based No Oil & Nuts Diet
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Are We Kidding Ourselves About Modern Medicine?
diceIt would be nice to think that everything your physician does is based on sound medical science, but a recent study1 in the United Kingdom found that only just over a third of medical treatments are beneficial, or likely to be beneficial. A similar evaluation by the US government in 1978 reached a similar conclusion, finding that only 10 to 20 percent of medical treatments had evidence of efficacy.
Even when there is proven efficacy of treatment in studies, the best treatments may not be the ones that actually get used, mainly for financial reasons. In other words, our doctors may be driven to use a less effective treatment because the health insurer simply won’t pay for a more expensive treatment, even if it has been proven to be more effective. It’s ironic that opponents to the recently passed health care reforms were right about the mythical “death panels” that they invoked to scare seniors – but for the wrong reason. The health insurers decide who lives and who dies. The Big Pharmas market their products extremely effectively, but they’re a part of the problem too, as we’ve covered in a series about their triumphs and flaws.
http://www.invesp.com/blog-rank/Heart_Disease
Heart Disease Blogs: The ultimate rank
# Blog Title RSS RSS Site Score Badge
1st The Heart Scan Blog n/a n/a n/a n/a 4 rss 100 100
2nd BottomLineFitness.com n/a 543,065 999,017 n/a 4 rss 97.58 100
3rd Jasmins heart 48 n/a 6,650,325 n/a 3 rss 97.51 100
4th The Beating Edge n/a 191,522 2,215,177 n/a 3 rss 97.47 100
5th NHLBI Podcasts n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a rss 97.45 100
6th Healthy Hearts with Heartstrong n/a n/a 1,680,447 n/a 3 rss 96.86 100
7th Heart Disease: Overview, Causes, Risk Factors, Treatment, Prevention n/a n/a n/a n/a 4 rss 96.81 100
8th Yoga and Life n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a rss 96.69 100
9th obat alami jantung koroner n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a rss 96.63 100
10th Sunny Side Up n/a n/a 2,636,205 41 1 rss 96.44 100
11th Be Heart Healthy and Lose Weight - Lisa Nelson RD n/a n/a n/a n/a 3 rss 96.42 100
12th Oral Chelation Blog n/a 1,109,864 4,363,711 n/a 4 rss 95.7 100
13th Omega-6 Fat Research News and Commentary 202 n/a 4,115,816 n/a 3 rss 95.21 100
14th NATURAL CURES n/a n/a 1,655,010 n/a 3 rss 94.88 100
15th Persistent genital arousal disorder n/a n/a 10,175,780 n/a n/a rss 94.64 100
16th Heart Disease Prevention n/a n/a 3,084,136 n/a 2 rss 94.53 100
17th Heart Disease Web n/a n/a 7,928,001 n/a 1 rss 94.51 100
18th Recipes Card Blog 12 n/a 18,174,753 2 1 rss 94.18 100
19th Living with Chronic Illness, Muscular Dystrophy, Periodic Paralysis, Celiac n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a rss 94.18 100
20th Health, Fitness, Wellness News at VitaBeat n/a 13,096 23,444,866 n/a 5 rss 94.12 100
21st Preventing Heart Disease n/a n/a 7,044,915 n/a 1 rss 93.88 100
22nd Cholesterol - LDL, HDL, Heart Disease n/a n/a 8,373,478 n/a 1 rss 93.26 100
23rd tasty foods n/a n/a 17,651,055 n/a n/a rss 93.22 100
24th Guide to Heart Disease n/a n/a 13,119,443 n/a 1 rss 92.75 100
25th Disease News n/a n/a 7,110,905 n/a n/a rss 92.38 100
26th The Prevention Revolution n/a n/a 14,770,991 n/a n/a rss 91.1 100
27th Articles on heart disease symptoms, cogestive heart disease, reversing heart n/a n/a 20,276,439 n/a 1 rss 91.06 100
28th Five healthy Hearts n/a n/a 20,326,735 n/a 1 rss 91.06 100
29th Return2Health n/a n/a 20,295,334 n/a n/a rss 89.95 100
30th The Health Franchise n/a n/a 20,302,806 n/a n/a rss 89.79 100
31st Atrial Fibrillation: A Guide To Living With It n/a n/a 20,324,486 n/a n/a rss 89.19 100
32nd Preventing Heart Disease | Simple Steps In Preventing Heart Disease
Monday, June 13, 2011
By far the most interesting of BioTime's subsidiaries, however, is ReCyte Therapeutics. The current culmination of West's career, ReCyte is located in BioTime's northern California headquarters so West can be personally involved developing iPS therapy for large-scale cardiovascular and immune system regeneration.
The company's clearly stated mission statement is to “reverse the developmental aging of human cells” for“age-related cardiovascular and blood disorders.” This market approaches $1 trillion world-wide as it is the leading cause of death in most industrialized countries. It is amazing that with all the interest regenerative medicine has attracted in the medical community that the disproportionate size of this application wasn't more appreciated by BioTime's competition.
No one suffers more from the lack of accurate public knowledge than West. The best example of this knowledge gap is in the routine misreporting about the origins of iPS technology.
Professor Shinya Yamanaka is usually given credit for discovering that the introduction of certain genes into a cell will initiate a transformation of that cell into an iPS cell. While Yamanaka's work demonstrating this effect is certainly important, West applied for a patent on the process before Yamanaka. He did so in August 2005 while he was chief scientist at ACT and has bought rights to the technology since moving to BioTime.
I've asked West why he has never challenged accounts of the iPS discovery but he's expressed only an interest in maintaining rights to perform the process for therapeutic processes. There are several aspects to West's discovery of the iPS transformation process that we need to understand, however. The first is that his understanding came about not through the exhaustive experimentation that Yamanaka and his team performed. Rather, it was a realization based on his profound understanding of human cells.
More importantly, West explained to me several years ago that the Yamanaka procedure, using viruses to deliver genes, is a medical nonstarter. Researchers using the technique have assumed that, once viruses have altered the host cell's DNA, they would be inactive. This was a dubious assumption for several reasons that are now becoming clear to everyone. BioTime's technology circumvents these problems and was designed to be utilized on an industrial scale.
West told me once, in fact, that it's always been clear that genes produce RNA, which produce proteins so any of the three can be used to reprogram cells. Clear to him, I suppose. The important point is that he launched ReCyte to commercialize the process of creating endothelial precursor stem cells from a donor's own iPS cells. Those endothelial precursors will reverse the telomere clock of cellular aging in the recipients cardiovascular and eventually immune system. This will not just prevent heart disease, it will extend your cardiac warranty by as much as a hundred years. For most people, who are more likely to die of heart disease than any other cause, this will translate into decades of additional healthy life.
The company's clearly stated mission statement is to “reverse the developmental aging of human cells” for“age-related cardiovascular and blood disorders.” This market approaches $1 trillion world-wide as it is the leading cause of death in most industrialized countries. It is amazing that with all the interest regenerative medicine has attracted in the medical community that the disproportionate size of this application wasn't more appreciated by BioTime's competition.
No one suffers more from the lack of accurate public knowledge than West. The best example of this knowledge gap is in the routine misreporting about the origins of iPS technology.
Professor Shinya Yamanaka is usually given credit for discovering that the introduction of certain genes into a cell will initiate a transformation of that cell into an iPS cell. While Yamanaka's work demonstrating this effect is certainly important, West applied for a patent on the process before Yamanaka. He did so in August 2005 while he was chief scientist at ACT and has bought rights to the technology since moving to BioTime.
I've asked West why he has never challenged accounts of the iPS discovery but he's expressed only an interest in maintaining rights to perform the process for therapeutic processes. There are several aspects to West's discovery of the iPS transformation process that we need to understand, however. The first is that his understanding came about not through the exhaustive experimentation that Yamanaka and his team performed. Rather, it was a realization based on his profound understanding of human cells.
More importantly, West explained to me several years ago that the Yamanaka procedure, using viruses to deliver genes, is a medical nonstarter. Researchers using the technique have assumed that, once viruses have altered the host cell's DNA, they would be inactive. This was a dubious assumption for several reasons that are now becoming clear to everyone. BioTime's technology circumvents these problems and was designed to be utilized on an industrial scale.
West told me once, in fact, that it's always been clear that genes produce RNA, which produce proteins so any of the three can be used to reprogram cells. Clear to him, I suppose. The important point is that he launched ReCyte to commercialize the process of creating endothelial precursor stem cells from a donor's own iPS cells. Those endothelial precursors will reverse the telomere clock of cellular aging in the recipients cardiovascular and eventually immune system. This will not just prevent heart disease, it will extend your cardiac warranty by as much as a hundred years. For most people, who are more likely to die of heart disease than any other cause, this will translate into decades of additional healthy life.
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
A couple of heart-friendly dark brews.
Link to this page
Alcohol consumption can reduce heart disease risk, according to a variety of studies (SN: 3/30/96, p. 197). Will any type of alcohol do? Yes, but for persons with coronary artery disease, dark beer may be particularly effective.
People may get as much benefit from drinking two glasses of dark beer as from 12 servings of uncolored alcoholic drinks, a new study finds. But you're a teetotaler? No problem. Two cups of tea a day provide the same benefits-at least in dogs.
For years, John D. Folts of the University of Wisconsin-Madison has been testing the ability of various agents to reduce the stickiness of blood platelets. To mimic human atherosclerosis, he uses dogs whose coronary arteries have been artificially damaged and constricted by 60 to 80 percent.
Under the influence of stress, cigarette smoking, or various diseases, platelets periodically become activated, turning sticky and forming clumps. At such times, they tend to lodge in narrowed vessels, posing a risk of heart attack or stroke.
Last year, Folts showed that red wine and red grape juice, both rich in pigmented antioxidants known as flavonoids, inhibited platelet activation, while flavonoid-shy white grape juice did not. Now, Folts and his colleagues have tested several other commonly consumed flavonoid-rich beverages.
In one study, they delivered Guinness Extra stout, a dark, malty brew, directly into the stomachs of 11 animals. Another 5 received Heineken lager, a light-colored beer possessing fewer flavonoids. Chemically induced platelet clogs disappeared in all animals given dark beer and did not recur, even when the dogs were again challenged with a platelet-activating compound. Platelet clogs persisted in dogs receiving the lager but fell from an initial average of about seven per dog to roughly four.
In a companion study, the equivalent of two cups of tea eliminated platelet clogs in dogs as efficiently as dark beer did. This result supports studies that have linked reduced heart attack rates in humans to tea drinking (SN: 10/30/93, p. 278). Coffee appeared to aggravate clogging in Folts' canine study.
Other studies by the group suggest that flavonoids may bind to circulating platelets, eventually making a given amount more effective. Indeed, Folts points out, after 7 days of tea consumption, only half as much is needed to prevent platelet blockages.
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/A+couple+of+heart-friendly+dark+brews.-a018283895
Link to this page
Alcohol consumption can reduce heart disease risk, according to a variety of studies (SN: 3/30/96, p. 197). Will any type of alcohol do? Yes, but for persons with coronary artery disease, dark beer may be particularly effective.
People may get as much benefit from drinking two glasses of dark beer as from 12 servings of uncolored alcoholic drinks, a new study finds. But you're a teetotaler? No problem. Two cups of tea a day provide the same benefits-at least in dogs.
For years, John D. Folts of the University of Wisconsin-Madison has been testing the ability of various agents to reduce the stickiness of blood platelets. To mimic human atherosclerosis, he uses dogs whose coronary arteries have been artificially damaged and constricted by 60 to 80 percent.
Under the influence of stress, cigarette smoking, or various diseases, platelets periodically become activated, turning sticky and forming clumps. At such times, they tend to lodge in narrowed vessels, posing a risk of heart attack or stroke.
Last year, Folts showed that red wine and red grape juice, both rich in pigmented antioxidants known as flavonoids, inhibited platelet activation, while flavonoid-shy white grape juice did not. Now, Folts and his colleagues have tested several other commonly consumed flavonoid-rich beverages.
In one study, they delivered Guinness Extra stout, a dark, malty brew, directly into the stomachs of 11 animals. Another 5 received Heineken lager, a light-colored beer possessing fewer flavonoids. Chemically induced platelet clogs disappeared in all animals given dark beer and did not recur, even when the dogs were again challenged with a platelet-activating compound. Platelet clogs persisted in dogs receiving the lager but fell from an initial average of about seven per dog to roughly four.
In a companion study, the equivalent of two cups of tea eliminated platelet clogs in dogs as efficiently as dark beer did. This result supports studies that have linked reduced heart attack rates in humans to tea drinking (SN: 10/30/93, p. 278). Coffee appeared to aggravate clogging in Folts' canine study.
Other studies by the group suggest that flavonoids may bind to circulating platelets, eventually making a given amount more effective. Indeed, Folts points out, after 7 days of tea consumption, only half as much is needed to prevent platelet blockages.
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/A+couple+of+heart-friendly+dark+brews.-a018283895
Monday, May 30, 2011
CW: What’s better for predicting heart disease: A CT-scanner or a Timex?
May 26, 2011
in Cycling Wed,General Cardiology,Healthy Living
Good morning all. Cycling Wednesday fell prey to the Springtime weather in Kentucky. Right before post time last evening, our power (which means internet) went down when a large thunderstorm rolled through.
Here’s what I have for you this week:
It is hardly news to say that we need better means to predict who will die of heart disease. No matter how much you may hear about medical errors, hospital acquired infections, or even distracted driving, it’s still heart disease that kills the most of us.
The inflammation that begins narrowing our arteries starts when we are young. It percolates quietly, stealth-like for years. The young usually skate by unscathed. But all the cookies, beers, chips, inactivity and work stress adds up. The tension of life squeezes our arteries, daring them to crack or fissure. This cataclysm is one of the ways that middle age may introduce herself.
A friend, or colleague, or sibling dies suddenly of heart problems. Those of us that our “masters-aged” have likely felt these sensations of sadness, and then the reality that they may be next.
“I should probably come in and get a check-up,” is something I hear frequently in the doctor’s lounge after such a tragedy.
I agree. When you are old enough to use reading glasses it is time to think about what lurks inside your heart’s blood vessels.
But herein lies the catch.
What’s the best way to evaluate people without symptoms?
Is it with simple tests or complex imaging procedures?
If we find partial blockages, should they be treated with medicines, or a procedure?
And…does treating non-symptomatic blockages make any difference in outcomes?
These are the tough questions that keep preventive cardiologists coming to work.
As an illustration of how tough it is to predict heart disease, let me briefly mention two recent studies that highlight opposite spectrums of complexity. One study looked at using complex imaging of the heart with modern CT scanners, and the other used a stop-watch and a treadmill.
Let’s start with the fancy new test. You have all heard about coronary CT angiography. The notion behind CT-Angio is that a CT-scan of the chest (often with the IV injection of contrast) can detect coronary artery disease. At a minimum, CT-scanners can detect calcium deposits in the heart, and at a maximum, these same machines can create beautiful 3D-images of the arteries surrounding the heart. They are indeed stunning images.
In this recent study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, (summarized nicely here at Cardiobrief), researchers looked at the impact of using CT-scans for screening low-risk individuals. They compared 1000 South Korean patients that got a CT scan to a 1000 who did not.
There were interesting findings.
CT scans found more than 200 (of 1000) patients with heart blockages.
Many more patients in the CT scan group were treated with aspirin and statins.
More patients in the CT group underwent other heart tests or procedures.
All this sounds good, right? CT scans enhanced detection of disease, and more patients got treated.
But their final, and most telling finding was that none of this mattered.
At 18 months follow-up, there was one heart-related event in each group. In other words, the enhanced detection of CT-angiography had no impact on real outcomes!
(Now…I know it was a small study with short term follow-up. Larger trials are needed to be more conclusive. Plus, these were low-risk patients; the results may have been different in moderate-risk patients.)
The point is that detecting heart disease, starting medicines, and even doing procedures, in patients without symptoms, may not make much difference in real outcomes.
So are their any other tests that could be done to better predict heart outcomes?
You bet…check this out:
In a recent study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, researchers studied the long-term predictive value of a single measurement of fitness at age 45, 55 and 65. Their metric did not involve radiating the patient, nor did it require injecting any potentially kidney-damaging dye. Rather they simply measured how long it would take a person to run a mile. They used a Timex.
The Cooper Institute in Dallas followed 11,000 patients for 23 years. They found that differences in fitness (as measured by mile times) were associated with marked differences in the chance for heart-related death. Listen to these numbers: A 55 year-old man who measured to be low fitness (>15 min/mile) had a 34% lifetime risk, while a high fitness (<10min/mile) 55 year-old had only a 15% risk.
They also found one other striking result
“the combination of high fitness with a high traditional risk factor burden was associated with a lifetime risk for CVD death that was comparable to that of a person with low risk burden.”
At least in their cohort, being fit counterbalanced having many of the traditional risk factors. That’s a strong statement.
Folks, I am still suffering a little withdrawal symptoms from Europe. All that pragmatism and mastery of the obvious was very infectious. But even so, I still love telling you about simple, inexpensive tests that speak strongly to our cardiovascular risk.
A simple measurement like the time it takes one to run a mile cannot make beautiful images of the heart’s blood vessels. It just tell us about the end result–it measures function. And how things function aren’t always predicted by how they look.
When will it be that the message of fitness gets broadcasted as loud as the next new drug, bio-absorbable stent, or million dollar x-ray machine?
Taking care of the heart isn’t always complicated.
If it were, I’d only be a blogger, not a doctor.
http://www.drjohnm.org/2011/05/cw-whats-better-for-predicting-heart-disease-a-ct-scanner-or-a-timex/
Lifetime Risks for Cardiovascular Disease Mortality by Cardiorespiratory Fitness...
Berry et al. J Am Coll Cardiol.2011; 57: 1604-1610
May 26, 2011
in Cycling Wed,General Cardiology,Healthy Living
Good morning all. Cycling Wednesday fell prey to the Springtime weather in Kentucky. Right before post time last evening, our power (which means internet) went down when a large thunderstorm rolled through.
Here’s what I have for you this week:
It is hardly news to say that we need better means to predict who will die of heart disease. No matter how much you may hear about medical errors, hospital acquired infections, or even distracted driving, it’s still heart disease that kills the most of us.
The inflammation that begins narrowing our arteries starts when we are young. It percolates quietly, stealth-like for years. The young usually skate by unscathed. But all the cookies, beers, chips, inactivity and work stress adds up. The tension of life squeezes our arteries, daring them to crack or fissure. This cataclysm is one of the ways that middle age may introduce herself.
A friend, or colleague, or sibling dies suddenly of heart problems. Those of us that our “masters-aged” have likely felt these sensations of sadness, and then the reality that they may be next.
“I should probably come in and get a check-up,” is something I hear frequently in the doctor’s lounge after such a tragedy.
I agree. When you are old enough to use reading glasses it is time to think about what lurks inside your heart’s blood vessels.
But herein lies the catch.
What’s the best way to evaluate people without symptoms?
Is it with simple tests or complex imaging procedures?
If we find partial blockages, should they be treated with medicines, or a procedure?
And…does treating non-symptomatic blockages make any difference in outcomes?
These are the tough questions that keep preventive cardiologists coming to work.
As an illustration of how tough it is to predict heart disease, let me briefly mention two recent studies that highlight opposite spectrums of complexity. One study looked at using complex imaging of the heart with modern CT scanners, and the other used a stop-watch and a treadmill.
Let’s start with the fancy new test. You have all heard about coronary CT angiography. The notion behind CT-Angio is that a CT-scan of the chest (often with the IV injection of contrast) can detect coronary artery disease. At a minimum, CT-scanners can detect calcium deposits in the heart, and at a maximum, these same machines can create beautiful 3D-images of the arteries surrounding the heart. They are indeed stunning images.
In this recent study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, (summarized nicely here at Cardiobrief), researchers looked at the impact of using CT-scans for screening low-risk individuals. They compared 1000 South Korean patients that got a CT scan to a 1000 who did not.
There were interesting findings.
CT scans found more than 200 (of 1000) patients with heart blockages.
Many more patients in the CT scan group were treated with aspirin and statins.
More patients in the CT group underwent other heart tests or procedures.
All this sounds good, right? CT scans enhanced detection of disease, and more patients got treated.
But their final, and most telling finding was that none of this mattered.
At 18 months follow-up, there was one heart-related event in each group. In other words, the enhanced detection of CT-angiography had no impact on real outcomes!
(Now…I know it was a small study with short term follow-up. Larger trials are needed to be more conclusive. Plus, these were low-risk patients; the results may have been different in moderate-risk patients.)
The point is that detecting heart disease, starting medicines, and even doing procedures, in patients without symptoms, may not make much difference in real outcomes.
So are their any other tests that could be done to better predict heart outcomes?
You bet…check this out:
In a recent study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, researchers studied the long-term predictive value of a single measurement of fitness at age 45, 55 and 65. Their metric did not involve radiating the patient, nor did it require injecting any potentially kidney-damaging dye. Rather they simply measured how long it would take a person to run a mile. They used a Timex.
The Cooper Institute in Dallas followed 11,000 patients for 23 years. They found that differences in fitness (as measured by mile times) were associated with marked differences in the chance for heart-related death. Listen to these numbers: A 55 year-old man who measured to be low fitness (>15 min/mile) had a 34% lifetime risk, while a high fitness (<10min/mile) 55 year-old had only a 15% risk.
They also found one other striking result
“the combination of high fitness with a high traditional risk factor burden was associated with a lifetime risk for CVD death that was comparable to that of a person with low risk burden.”
At least in their cohort, being fit counterbalanced having many of the traditional risk factors. That’s a strong statement.
Folks, I am still suffering a little withdrawal symptoms from Europe. All that pragmatism and mastery of the obvious was very infectious. But even so, I still love telling you about simple, inexpensive tests that speak strongly to our cardiovascular risk.
A simple measurement like the time it takes one to run a mile cannot make beautiful images of the heart’s blood vessels. It just tell us about the end result–it measures function. And how things function aren’t always predicted by how they look.
When will it be that the message of fitness gets broadcasted as loud as the next new drug, bio-absorbable stent, or million dollar x-ray machine?
Taking care of the heart isn’t always complicated.
If it were, I’d only be a blogger, not a doctor.
http://www.drjohnm.org/2011/05/cw-whats-better-for-predicting-heart-disease-a-ct-scanner-or-a-timex/
Lifetime Risks for Cardiovascular Disease Mortality by Cardiorespiratory Fitness...
Berry et al. J Am Coll Cardiol.2011; 57: 1604-1610
Truth and Lies In Heart Disease.... The Earth's No. 1 Killer
24.05.2011
A Review Of The Latest Truth and Lies In Heart Disease.... The Earth's No. 1 Killer
Truth and Lies In Heart Disease.... The Earth's No. 1 Killer. 44418.jpegFor both women and men of all ages, heart disease may be the primary killer. It kills more people than ALL forms of cancer tumors grouped together. If you're black or over 65, your chance of a heart attack is greater, but it's an equal opportunity destroyer. Anyone, anywhere, at any time could have a cardiac arrest [1].
Myth #1: Exclusively older adults need to worry about their cardiovascular system.
The things that will cause heart disease build-up over the years. To be a couch-potato, boredom eating and also not training are typical bad habits that could possibly begin in when we are children. Increasing numbers of health professionals are starting to have victims of strokes in their 20's and 30's instead of patients generally in their 50's and 60's.
Appearing fit and at the appropriate body weight will not make you proof against heart attacks. Though, both working out regularly and having a good body weight helps. You still want to check your cholesterol and blood pressure level. A really good cholesterol (or lipid profile) number is below two hundred. A very good blood pressure level is 120/80.
Myth #2: I'd feel ill if I had high blood pressure or high-cholesterol.
They consider these, "silent killers" basically because they present NO warning signs. 30 % of all mature people have hypertension. Of those, one-third have no idea they have got it.
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High cholesterol is a way of measuring the fats stocked by your blood. Fats could be dropped anywhere in your system, but may congregate all around body organs. As well as your heart. This tendency may run in family members. So, even if you're at a good weight and don't smoke cigarettes, have your cholesterol levels and blood pressure levels checked regularly. Once may not be enough [2].
Myth #3: Both males and females DON'T experience the same symptoms.
Men and women CAN have precisely the same indicators, but they commonly will not. Ladies are more likely to get the subtler signs though males usually experience the form of heart attacks you see in the movie films. But, either gender CAN have any symptoms.
These subtler signs or symptoms, for example jaw achiness, nausea, difficulty breathing and intense weakness, are more likely to get identified away. "My jaw hurt because my lunch sandwich was on whole-grain bread and I was forced to chew very, very hard," or , while clutching their stomach, "I shouldn't have had that extra piece of pizza." "Half of ladies do not have chest pain after all," announces Kathy Magliato, a heart specialist at California's St. John's Health Center. Put all the little signs or symptoms at the same time and pay attention to your physique.
Obviously, both women and men could experience the "grab-your-chest-and-fall-down-gasping" form of stroke, but now you already know, that isn't the only way.
Myth #4: So long as my blood sugar level is in check, Diabetes isn't a heart risk.
While trying to keep your blood sugar level with a proper range (80ml-120ml) keeps you healthier, just having the added glucose in your body takes its toll on arteries. You'll need working out and eating more healthy to help take control of your type 2 diabetes, bear in mind to check your blood pressure and cholesterol levels, too.
Myth #5: My doctor would order tests if I were at risk for heart problems.
Sometimes, most people overlook to inform the doctor about the little pains we're feeling. The medical professionals, with no knowledge of most of the things we deem as unimportant, may pass over heart exams.
"Mammograms and Colonoscopies are regularly prescribed by doctors," says Merdod Ghafouri, a cardiologist at Inova Fairfax Medical center in the state of Virginia, [3] "and are very important, but heart scans usually are not often done." A cardiac scan can find plaque build-up inside the arteries even before you discover you've a problem.
Do you have the oil pressure and transmission fluid checked in your auto? Have other preventive service done? Doesn't your only heart deserve as much care as your auto?
Links to Extra Sources About Heart Disease:
- [1] Family Doctor by American Academy of Family Physicians provides trustworthy wellness information and resources for patients. They have a very good guide covering high cholesterol and arterial blood vessels
- [2] Mediterranean Book is the National Board for the preservation of the Italian healthy eating traditions. It's a non-profits blogging site managed by Italians that enhance the Mediterranean Diet. They provide headlines and medical-related research linked to the many benefits of the Mediterranean sea eating plan and cardiovascular disease prevention
- [3] Circulation is the part of the American Heart Association associated to cardiac journals, they have a very good report in .pdf that discusses the connection between tryglicerides and cardiovascular disease
http://english.pravda.ru/health/24-05-2011/117992-heart_disease-0/
24.05.2011
A Review Of The Latest Truth and Lies In Heart Disease.... The Earth's No. 1 Killer
Truth and Lies In Heart Disease.... The Earth's No. 1 Killer. 44418.jpegFor both women and men of all ages, heart disease may be the primary killer. It kills more people than ALL forms of cancer tumors grouped together. If you're black or over 65, your chance of a heart attack is greater, but it's an equal opportunity destroyer. Anyone, anywhere, at any time could have a cardiac arrest [1].
Myth #1: Exclusively older adults need to worry about their cardiovascular system.
The things that will cause heart disease build-up over the years. To be a couch-potato, boredom eating and also not training are typical bad habits that could possibly begin in when we are children. Increasing numbers of health professionals are starting to have victims of strokes in their 20's and 30's instead of patients generally in their 50's and 60's.
Appearing fit and at the appropriate body weight will not make you proof against heart attacks. Though, both working out regularly and having a good body weight helps. You still want to check your cholesterol and blood pressure level. A really good cholesterol (or lipid profile) number is below two hundred. A very good blood pressure level is 120/80.
Myth #2: I'd feel ill if I had high blood pressure or high-cholesterol.
They consider these, "silent killers" basically because they present NO warning signs. 30 % of all mature people have hypertension. Of those, one-third have no idea they have got it.
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High cholesterol is a way of measuring the fats stocked by your blood. Fats could be dropped anywhere in your system, but may congregate all around body organs. As well as your heart. This tendency may run in family members. So, even if you're at a good weight and don't smoke cigarettes, have your cholesterol levels and blood pressure levels checked regularly. Once may not be enough [2].
Myth #3: Both males and females DON'T experience the same symptoms.
Men and women CAN have precisely the same indicators, but they commonly will not. Ladies are more likely to get the subtler signs though males usually experience the form of heart attacks you see in the movie films. But, either gender CAN have any symptoms.
These subtler signs or symptoms, for example jaw achiness, nausea, difficulty breathing and intense weakness, are more likely to get identified away. "My jaw hurt because my lunch sandwich was on whole-grain bread and I was forced to chew very, very hard," or , while clutching their stomach, "I shouldn't have had that extra piece of pizza." "Half of ladies do not have chest pain after all," announces Kathy Magliato, a heart specialist at California's St. John's Health Center. Put all the little signs or symptoms at the same time and pay attention to your physique.
Obviously, both women and men could experience the "grab-your-chest-and-fall-down-gasping" form of stroke, but now you already know, that isn't the only way.
Myth #4: So long as my blood sugar level is in check, Diabetes isn't a heart risk.
While trying to keep your blood sugar level with a proper range (80ml-120ml) keeps you healthier, just having the added glucose in your body takes its toll on arteries. You'll need working out and eating more healthy to help take control of your type 2 diabetes, bear in mind to check your blood pressure and cholesterol levels, too.
Myth #5: My doctor would order tests if I were at risk for heart problems.
Sometimes, most people overlook to inform the doctor about the little pains we're feeling. The medical professionals, with no knowledge of most of the things we deem as unimportant, may pass over heart exams.
"Mammograms and Colonoscopies are regularly prescribed by doctors," says Merdod Ghafouri, a cardiologist at Inova Fairfax Medical center in the state of Virginia, [3] "and are very important, but heart scans usually are not often done." A cardiac scan can find plaque build-up inside the arteries even before you discover you've a problem.
Do you have the oil pressure and transmission fluid checked in your auto? Have other preventive service done? Doesn't your only heart deserve as much care as your auto?
Links to Extra Sources About Heart Disease:
- [1] Family Doctor by American Academy of Family Physicians provides trustworthy wellness information and resources for patients. They have a very good guide covering high cholesterol and arterial blood vessels
- [2] Mediterranean Book is the National Board for the preservation of the Italian healthy eating traditions. It's a non-profits blogging site managed by Italians that enhance the Mediterranean Diet. They provide headlines and medical-related research linked to the many benefits of the Mediterranean sea eating plan and cardiovascular disease prevention
- [3] Circulation is the part of the American Heart Association associated to cardiac journals, they have a very good report in .pdf that discusses the connection between tryglicerides and cardiovascular disease
http://english.pravda.ru/health/24-05-2011/117992-heart_disease-0/
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