Cardio Blog

With healthy lifestyle, proper medication and regular exercise, no doubt, you may stave off the threat of heart attack largely, however, what would you do if suddenly start experiencing severe pain in your chest that starts to radiate out into your arm...

If a person is diagnosed to have the heart problem, a number of questions arise in mind related to the problem. Sometimes when people got to know about their disease they feel very shocked as if something wrong had happened to them. They react in a.

Raising level of ‘good’ cholesterol, which is necessary to stave off cardiovascular diseases, is not a tough target to achieve, as doing exercise regularly has been found improving levels of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C)...

Doctors are asked to suggest their heart patients to either eat oily fish or take a dose of omega 3 components daily to lower the risk of heart attacks. The rich sources of omega 3 are oily fish, such as mackerel, fresh tuna, salmon, herring and.

Your chances of developing heart disease may be enhanced if you have high levels of serum phosphorous. This new finding was reported in the May 14, 2007 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine. The results were based on a study conducted on 3368...

You can now let your heart beat long after your death. No, this is no tale-tell, but can happen in real life by literally preserving one's heart in a box in isolation. Called the Organ Care System, the 'heart in a box' machine is recently used by.

Raising worries for the southerners, a new study has revealed that strokes -- the third-leading cause of deaths in the U.S. -- are found to be most common in Mississippi and other Southern states. Stroke is the major culprit behind disability in the...

Affecting a third of all adults, high blood pressure doubles the risk of dying from heart disease or stroke. The disease kills around 60,000 people a year in UK alone. But, for treating it, taking those pills everyday for life turns irritating at times...

In the United States, half of over a million people suffering from heart attack die each year! There are several known factors that lead to heart attack -- be it taking certain drugs, such as cocaine or emotional stress or pain, exposure to extreme...

There is one more reason not to take depression lightly as it may increase your susceptibility to cardiovascular diseases. This conclusion sprang out form a new study of about 600 men in Ireland and France. As per the findings of this study, men with...