Heart News
May 14, 2012
Physical fitness may reduce hypertension risk in people with family history
Study Highlights:
If your parents have high blood pressure, you can significantly lower your risk of developing the disease with moderate exercise and increased cardiovascular fitness.
People with low fitness levels and hypertensive parents have a...
Categories: Heart News
May 11, 2012
Program to Coordinate Regional Systems to Speed Heart Attack Care
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Friday, May 11, 2012
DURHAM, N.C. – Competing cardiac care teams in some of the nation’s most populated areas will start working together to markedly reduce the time from heart attack to treatment as part...
Categories: Heart News
May 08, 2012
Heart patients with a distressed personality reported worse health
Study Highlights
Implantable cardioverter defibrillator patients who had a distressed (Type D) personality reported significantly poorer health than those who did not.
Patients whose defibrillators delivered electrical shocks to restore heart...
Categories: Heart News
May 07, 2012
Exercise slows muscle wasting from age and heart failure
Study Highlights:
A four-week exercise program for heart-failure patients slowed muscle-wasting and improved their exercise capacity, regardless of age.
The study confirms that exercise can reduce inflammation in skeletal muscle.
Findings offer a...
Categories: Heart News
May 07, 2012
Death risks higher for heart attack survivors living near major roadways
Study Highlights:
Living near a major roadway increases heart attack survivors’ risk of death.
The study provides new evidence that long-term exposure to roadways is associated with increased risk for death, including in patients with...
Categories: Heart News
April 26, 2012
Gene “switch” regenerates damaged heart cells in animal study
Study Highlights:
For the first time, researchers in an animal study have converted scar tissue that forms after a heart attack into regenerated heart muscle using microRNA.
If confirmed in human studies, this finding could help prevent heart...
Categories: Heart News
April 25, 2012
Stroke risk high when anti-clotting drugs stopped
Study Highlights:
Patients with irregular heartbeats who take anti-clotting medications are at high risk of stroke or blood clot whenever the drugs are stopped.
The risks are similar whether patients are taking warfarin or a newer anti-clotting...
Categories: Heart News, Stroke News
April 25, 2012
New tests monitor brain health during children’s heart surgery
Study Highlights:
Two new monitoring methods may help detect brain damage in infants and children undergoing surgery to repair heart defects.
One method, called autoregulation monitoring, can non-invasively determine periods during surgery, where...
Categories: Heart News
April 20, 2012
Novartis agrees to pull Valturna® from market and adds warning labels on drugs containing aliskiren
DALLAS – April 20, 2012 ― Novartis has announced it will pull its combination product Valturna® (which contains aliskiren and valsartan) from U.S. markets. Aliskiren (Tekturna®), one of the components of Valturna, will remain on...
April 17, 2012
Patients often stop taking heart drugs during Medicare coverage gaps
Study Highlights:
Patients in the Medicare Part D prescription drug coverage gap without supplemental insurance were more likely than others to discontinue their heart disease medication.
No short-term differences in health outcome occurred, but...
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