Heart

Heart valve disease diagnosis, treatment, and preventive measures

Heart valve disease or valvular heart disease is a condition that causes your heart’s valves to malfunction. About five million Americans are diagnosed with heart valve disease annually. Many people live long, active lives with valvular heart disease. However, understanding the treatment for it, as well as preventative measures, can lower the chances of it ...click here to read more

Heart attack, atrial fibrillation, congestive heart failure risk increases with alcohol abuse: Study

Heart attack, atrial fibrillation, and congestive heart failure risk increases with alcohol abuse. The risk of these heart conditions has been found to climb up with excessive alcohol drinking as much as with other known risk factors such as high blood pressure, diabetes, smoking, and obesity. Heart disease still remains to be the number one ...click here to read more

Cardiovascular disease, obesity, and type 2 diabetes can be improved with these two fruits

Cardiovascular disease, obesity, and type 2 diabetes can be improved by eating a combination of two particular fruits. Researchers found that eating a combination of compounds found in grapes and oranges could help improve the health of diabetics, reduce obesity, and lower the risk of heart disease. The researchers are hopeful that the findings may ...click here to read more

Drug may reduce cardiovascular risk in type 2 diabetics

The drug fenofibrate has shown promise to reduce the risk of heart disease among some type 2 diabetes patients. More specifically, fenofibrate was shown to be effective in those diabetics who had high triglyceride levels and low HDL (good) cholesterol levels despite taking statins. Fenofibrate is commonly used to reduce triglyceride count, but the researchers ...click here to read more

Cardiovascular mortality risk predicted with telomere length: Study

Cardiovascular mortality risk can be predicted based on the length of telomeres, the protective caps at the end of chromosomes, according to research findings. Short telomeres have been associated with an increased risk of death from heart disease, but more recent research uncovered that the change in the length of telomeres is also a good ...click here to read more