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| Blindness Could Be Caused By Diabetes! |
Diabetes is a metabolic disorder that reduces a person’s immunity. It can lead to heart disease, and it may also affect some organs of the body, such as the eyes. Diabetes is, in fact, the cause of the most common form of blindness, a condition known as diabetic retinopathy.
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| What Is Heart Failure? |
We always hear people talking about heart failure. But how many of us really know about this disease?
What is heart failure? How can this happen? Why does heart fail? These are the questions that always pop up in our minds awaiting someone to give us the answers.
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| Why Heart Fails? |
Heart fails when the heart is unable to pump blood effectively. So, why does this happen? Now, let us look at the various causes of heart failure.
The major causes of heart failure, according to cardiologist, are coronary artery disease, high blood pressure, cardiomyopathy, and valvular h |
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| (Published: Mon, 04 Dec 2006 07:37:29 -0600) |
| Beware Of Kids That Have Signs Of Heart Disease! |
Under normal circumstances, we would think that only adults, especially elderly, will have narrowing and hardening of arteries. But, the findings of a study presented at the annual American Heart Association in Chicago last month (Nov 2006) will probably change our views.
A group of resea |
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| (Published: Mon, 04 Dec 2006 09:56:26 -0600) |
| The Low-Down On The Diagnosis And Therapy Of Coronary Heart Disease In Women |
| It is not easy to diagnose CHD in women who develop chest pain more often than men. The chances for these chest pains to progress to heart attack are rare. In one study, half of the women undergoing coronary angiography did not have significant heart artery blockage. But, women with classical angina |
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| (Published: Tue, 05 Dec 2006 09:10:25 -0600) |
| The Role Of Physical Activity In The Alternation Of Cholesterol Level |
More and more people especially working adults do not have sufficient physical activity either due to tight work schedules or unhealthy lifestyles. This increases their risk of getting heart disease, stroke, and cancer.
So what is physical activity? It is defined as participation in a |
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| (Published: Wed, 06 Dec 2006 06:30:29 -0600) |
| All You Need To Know About Insulin |
Whenever we talk about heart disease, we always list diabetes mellitus as one of the risk factors. With the mention of diabetes, it is unlikely that we can ignore the involvement of insulin.
So, what is insulin? It is a hormone produced by beta cells, which lie inside the pancreas. For p |
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| (Published: Thu, 07 Dec 2006 07:55:58 -0600) |
| Why All People Are Firing Trans Fats Now? |
| On Tuesday (December 5, 2006), New York has become the first city in United States to ban artery-clogging artificial trans fats at restaurants, as voted by New York’s Health Board. Restaurants must stop using most frying oils containing artificial trans fats by July and artificial trans fats m |
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| (Published: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 10:14:00 -0600) |
| ECG Screening Can Really Reduce Sudden Cardiac Deaths! |
| It was reported that patients with chest pain may end up with deadly heart attack because the ECG (electrocardiogram) could not supply diagnostic result for the doctor in time to save the patients.
Nonetheless, a screening program using 12-lead ECG for young athletes in Italy has reduced the sudd |
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| (Published: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 07:10:28 -0600) |
| Prevention of Diabetes Is Not Difficult At All |
| Diabetes is a common chronic disease that could possibly lead to heart disease, if it is not appropriately controlled. When one passes the age of 40 and has any or the entire list of the following risk factors:
- High blood pressure,
- High lipid levels (the excess fatty substances in the body, |
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| (Published: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 07:42:50 -0600) |
| You Can Be Old But Your Heart Must Be Young |
| Heart health needs not deteriorate when you grow older. You must focus on the impact of heart disease and the risk factors in order to help prolong your heart’s youth. We should be looking at someone being healthy for his or her age instead of looking at someone who is simply looking young for his o |
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| (Published: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 10:49:36 -0600) |
| The Importance Of Shaping Good Eating Habits For Children |
| Obesity in schoolchildren has increased in the last decade. The impact of obesity is that more children are now with Type 2 or lifestyle diabetes (when the body produces either insufficient or ineffective insulin) as a result of their diets and less exercise. This is a worldwide problem that is not |
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| (Published: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 08:48:22 -0600) |
| How To Achieve Long Term Success In Treating Obesity? |
| Obesity can cause serious disability and diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, stroke, hypertension, sleep apnea and obesity-related cancers. For example, a male below 35 years old who is twice or 40 kg above his normal weight is 60 times more likely to develop diabetes, and he is also 10 to 12 |
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| Drug Coated Stents May Be Harmful To Patients! |
| Drug-coated stents, sold in the United States by Johnson & Johnson and Boston Scientific Corp have hailed as a major advance just 3 years ago are now being blamed to cause blood clots and other complications in certain high-risk cases and patients.
What is stent? It is a short narrow metal tube i |
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| (Published: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 07:47:32 -0600) |
| What Is The Danger Of Not Aware Of Hypertension? |
| What is hypertension? It may sound very familiar and most of us will simply answer: it means high blood pressure. But, how many of us can really understand its hidden dangers?
To better understand hypertension, we need to know what blood pressure is.
Technically, blood pressure is the force ex |
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| (Published: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 06:39:39 -0600) |
| What Smoking Can Offer You? |
| It is known that smoking is a risk factor of heart disease. But, do you really know what smoking can offer you? Perhaps the facts stated hereafter will give you some clues: every 8 seconds, someone dies from the use of tobacco; every cigarette smoked shortens at least 7 minutes of life on average, a |
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| (Published: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 06:30:16 -0600) |
| Staying Healthy Need Not Diet But Exercise |
| When one’s weight is increased beyond healthy range, the normal advice from the doctor is to go on diet and exercise more regularly to avoid the possibility of developing heart disease, diabetes, etc. But, now some British researchers have advised clinically obese women don’t go on diet but change t |
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| (Published: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 06:13:25 -0600) |
| How A Diabetic Manages His Disease |
| Diabetes occurs when one’s body cannot produce or use insulin efficiently causing sugar to build up in the bloodstream. Family history, obesity, lack of exercise, and unhealthy diet can cause one to develop such disease. If it is not managed properly, it may result in complications such as kidney fa |
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| (Published: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 06:26:54 -0600) |
| How To Cut Down On Trans Fat? |
| Organizations around the world have stepped up their actions against trans fat following New York’s move to ban anything more than tiny amounts of trans fat at the city’s some 20,000 restaurants. Denmark limits the trans fat content of food to 2 percent of the fat. Global food companies like Nestle, |
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| How Hypertension Is Linked To Diabetes And Kidney Failure? |
| Are you aware that about 40 percent of Asian diabetic patients with hypertension eventually develop kidney disease, 10 percent of these patients will require dialysis within 10 years of diagnosis? And, only 25 percent of these dialysis patients will survive for 5 or more years from the time of initi |
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| (Published: Tue, 26 Dec 2006 04:16:55 -0600) |
| How To Get Your Life Back After Heart Disease Strikes? |
| Heart disease often destroys lives, particularly heart attack that can strike suddenly and without warning. It is estimated that half of all people who suffer a heart attack may die even without reaching hospital for treatment. People who survive from heart attacks are often disable both mentally an |
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| (Published: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 07:30:11 -0600) |
| Coronary Heart Disease In The Elderly |
Coronary heart disease (CHD) is the most common cause of mortality and morbidity in the elderly. In western countries, it accounts for 80 – 85 percent of all cardiac deaths in older people.
When a person ages, his or her cardiovascular system will undergo some normal and expected ch |
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| (Published: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 09:25:01 -0600) |
| Hypertension For Pregnant Mothers |
An increase in blood (plasma) volume and a fall in blood pressure are usually observed in normal pregnancy. So when any pregnant woman’s blood pressure is above the normal range, it is abnormal.
Hypertension in pregnancy is defined as a diastolic blood pressure of 90 mmHg or more. I |
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| (Published: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 04:25:23 -0600) |
| What Is Your Understanding Of Metabolic Syndrome? |
People often talk about metabolic syndrome but how many of us really understand its meaning and importance?
When metabolic syndrome was revealed in the early 20th century, it was known that high blood pressure, diabetes, being overweight and having abnormal levels of lipids (fats) in the |
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| (Published: Tue, 02 Jan 2007 03:47:42 -0600) |
| What Is Sudden Cardiac Death? |
If you can still remember, three young high profile professional athletes: Reggie Lewis (basketball player), Darryl Kile (baseball pitcher), and Marc Vivien Foe (football player) all died of sudden cardiac death or sudden death due to a fatal heart rhythm called ventricular fibrillation.
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| (Published: Mon, 01 Jan 2007 06:26:39 -0600) |
| What To Do If You Have The Metabolic Syndrome? |
| Though it is still not very clear what causes the metabolic syndrome, it seems that overweight does play a very important role. The syndrome is clearly more commonly found in those people who are overweight than in those who are not. Even if one has the metabolic syndrome, he or she should not worry |
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| Can Qigong Help Stroke Recovery? |
| A stroke occurs when blood supply to the brain is interrupted. The most common cause of stroke is a blockage of arteries leading to the brain. Its effect will depend on which part of the brain is affected, and its severity. Stroke, also known as brain attack, happens rapidly and hence immediate trea |
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| (Published: Mon, 08 Jan 2007 07:06:41 -0600) |
| Should Sudden Cardiac Death Of Athletes Stop Us From Exercising? |
Only 1 out of 200,000 athletes per academic year had sudden cardiac death. This finding was revealed by a study conducted in the United States among high school and college athletes.
Sportsmen, especially those renowned in their respective fields will certainly attract media attention and |
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| (Published: Thu, 04 Jan 2007 05:11:51 -0600) |
| Causes And Treatment Of Hypertension |
Hypertension can lead to a number of complications including stroke, heart failure, kidney failure, and heart attack. Therefore, it is important that we understand how it is developed and how to treat it.
5 percent of the hypertensive patients may be caused by kidney disease, narrowing of |
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| (Published: Wed, 03 Jan 2007 05:10:27 -0600) |
| Hypertension In The Elderly Patients |
| It is estimated that more than half of the people aged 65 and above around the world have some form of hypertension, or high blood pressure. Hypertension is a common condition in older people. When people get older, the changes in the structure of walls of blood vessels make them harder or stiffer. |
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| (Published: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 06:28:54 -0600) |
| The Danger Of Exercising Hard Without Consultation |
Exercise is a good habit that will bring us many health benefits. It plays an important role in the prevention of heart disease, diabetes, high cholesterol, obesity, and many other diseases. However, it may also get one into trouble especially when he or she has not exercised for a long time.
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| (Published: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 06:54:43 -0600) |
| Why Are Patients Reluctant To Join Cardiac Rehabilitation? |
| Cardiac rehabilitation is an integral part of the cardiovascular continuum. Secondary prevention is extremely essential as this prevents a recurrence or further complications such as heart failure after a heart attack. However, only few patients who are on their way to recover from heart attack or s |
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| (Published: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 07:23:04 -0600) |
| Can I Travel With Heart Disease? |
| Can I travel if I have heart disease? This is a common question that people will ask, especially if they have intention to travel by air. According to doctors, people treated with heart conditions or have significant cardiac histories need not avoid travel. It can safely be done, provided few precau |
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| (Published: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 04:59:40 -0600) |
| What Are The Right Ways To Manage Your Weight? |
| Obesity or overweight will increase one’s risk of premature death and chronic diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, stroke, high cholesterol, and heart disease. Reduction of weight can not only lower these risks but also improve one’s appearance, quality of life, and mental health.
However, it |
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| (Published: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 02:56:11 -0600) |
| Can Diabetes Be Managed By Supplements? |
| A friend of mine was diagnosed to be mildly diabetic and prescribed some medication. This was the result of his recent annual checkup when he found out that his BMI (body mass index) and fasting glucose levels were high.
But he is a type of person that is resistance to medication. So, he did some |
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| (Published: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 05:18:16 -0600) |
| Do You Believe Smoking Is A Way To Stay Slim? |
| Smoking can help one stays slim.
Are you sure?
It does not sound convincing at all but unfortunately it is a common belief among teenage girls.
Besides the many healthy problems like heart disease, diabetes, hypertension, high cholesterol, stroke, and many others that are associated with ov |
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| (Published: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 05:16:59 -0600) |
| Children Diets Can Influence What Their Parents Eat |
| Obesity or overweight has always been identified as one of the risk factors for heart disease. Unhealthy foods and lifestyle have created many obese children around the world. Most health researchers have usually attributed the correlation between adults’ and children’s diets to parental influence.
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| (Published: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 04:21:37 -0600) |
| A True Story Of A Young Man With A New Heart |
| A 20-year-old young man, Richard (not his real name) considered he was given a very special present – a new heart a new life, when he underwent a successful heart transplantation operation on New Year’s Eve of the year of 2004.
When he was 16, he suffered his first heart attack when he felt his h |
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| (Published: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 05:06:08 -0600) |
| How To Use Revised BMI To Prevent Heart Disease? |
| BMI stands for body mass index. It is a surrogate measure of the amount of fat in the body. It is widely used as a good indicator of body fat, and it is easy and convenient to use without incurring high costs.
Using sophisticated methods to measure body fat requires highly trained personnel and e |
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| (Published: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 06:47:14 -0600) |
| What Are The Causes Of Sudden Cardiac Death In Athletes? |
| As its name implies, sudden cardiac death is sudden and unexpected, with death occurring within minutes after collapse. It is more common in older folks with serious heart problems, but it can also happen to young and healthy people with no sign of heart disease.
Nonetheless, sudden cardiac death |
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| (Published: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 04:45:43 -0600) |
| How Needles Help A Stroke Patient To Recover? |
| Traditional Chinese Medicines (TCM) is usually regarded as an alternative treatment. Patients will seek help from TCM physicians only when they cannot be treated by western medication.
Lately, a growing number of western doctors have started to learn and use TCM to complement their western medica |
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| (Published: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 02:08:33 -0600) |
| What Healthy Diet Is All About? |
| Diet, as part of a healthy lifestyle, plays an important role in maintaining one’s healthy body. It will help reduce chances of getting many health issues, including diabetes, hypertension, obesity, high cholesterol, etc that may ultimately lead to the risk of heart disease.
Saying is easier than |
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| (Published: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 09:42:52 -0600) |
| What Healthy Diet Is All About? |
| Diet, as part of a healthy lifestyle, plays an important role in maintaining one’s healthy body. It will help reduce chances of getting many health issues, including diabetes, hypertension, obesity, high cholesterol, etc that may ultimately lead to the risk of heart disease.
Saying is easier than |
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| (Published: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 06:01:04 -0600) |
| Is Having Fast Food Restaurant In Kid’s Hospital A Wise Choice? |
| A United States research, published in Dec 2006’s issue of Pediatrics, suggested that having fast-food restaurants in children’s hospitals may encourage young patients’ families to eat fast food and to think that it is relatively healthy.
Parents of children who received outpatient treatment at C |
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| (Published: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 04:57:13 -0600) |
| Does Racing 42 km Put A Heart At Risk? |
| In 2005, 382,000 people completed a marathon in the United States, an increase of more than 80,000 since the year of 2000, according to marathonguide.com. Mathematically, the risk is very small: Runner dying from a heart attack during marathon is about 1 in 50,000.
But, does racing 42 km put a he |
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| (Published: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 06:49:23 -0600) |
| How Is Brugada Syndrome Related To Sudden Death? |
| People die suddenly are mostly caused by heart conditions, though people can also die in their sleep from an asthmatic attack, a stroke, the rupture of an enlarged blood vessel or sleep apnea. Sleep apnea is a condition when one’s breathing stops due to an obstruction in the airway. For a very small |
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| (Published: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 06:35:59 -0600) |
| Can Diet With Supplements And Exercise Reverse Type 2 Diabetes? |
| It is believed by most people that adult-onset diabetes is irreversible. Once you become diabetic, medication seems to be the only way to help you manage the condition to prevent you from getting into more health complications, for example, becomes a possible candidate of heart disease.
However, |
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| (Published: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 06:49:08 -0600) |
| How About A No Starve Diet? |
| Glycemic index (GI) is a ranking system for foods (specifically the carbohydrates contained therein) based on their effect on blood sugar levels in the first two hours. The concept was invented in 1981 by Dr. David J. Jenkins of the University of Toronto.
Foods with a high GI tend to raise quickl |
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| (Published: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 04:57:02 -0600) |
| Things You May Not Know About Sugar |
| Sugar taste good and is something that people like to have but dare not because of various health issues especially for diabetics and obese. We like sweet, chocolate bar or candy since our childhood. They have been used as rewards by parents to persuade their children to behave the way they want the |
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| (Published: Mon, 05 Feb 2007 06:22:48 -0600) |
| Why Do People Eat Vegetables? |
| When talking about healthy diet, you cannot ignore fruits and vegetables, which are good sources of fiber that are required by our body. Fiber is good at lowering blood cholesterol, which will in turn reduce the risk of heart disease.
However, people eat vegetables for different reasons. For ins |
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| (Published: Tue, 06 Feb 2007 08:53:52 -0600) |
| Sporting Only On Weekend May Not Benefit The Body |
| In addition to a balanced healthy diet, exercise also forms an integral part of a heart-healthy lifestyle. However, sporting, especially those high intensity exercises, only over weekend will do more harm than good to the body. High intensity exercises such as soccer and ruby will increase cardiovas |
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| (Published: Wed, 07 Feb 2007 08:31:38 -0600) |
| Does Heart Grow Older With Age? |
| Your age does not determine how young or old your heart really is. A heart of a 40-year-old person may have the vitality of a 30-year-old while a much younger person’s heart could behave as one twice the chronological age of the person. Sound unbelievable? So how can one determine one’s |
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| (Published: Thu, 08 Feb 2007 08:06:58 -0600) |
| What If You Have A Fatty Liver? |
| A fatty liver is one that has build-up of fat in the liver. It may not cause any harm to the liver, if mild. However, if the condition gets worse, the liver can become inflamed and over time, this might even result in severe liver damage. Diabetes and high levels of cholesterol and triglycerides are |
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| (Published: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 05:16:53 -0600) |
| Does Salt Matter Your Heart Health? |
| We add salt into our food to make it tasty. Occasionally, we also put salt into our mouth if we have ulcer because it can make the ulcer healed faster. In older time when we do not have refrigerator, salt was used to preserve our food for longer period of time. Salt, also known as sodium chloride, i |
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| (Published: Fri, 09 Feb 2007 08:37:08 -0600) |
| What Are Designer Eggs Related To Heart Disease? |
| We all have heard about designer fashions, designer watches, or designer bags. But, have you heard about designer eggs? When you shop around supermarkets, you will probably come across eggs tagged with labels such as “Omega 3”, “Low Cholesterol”, “Organic Selenium&rdquo |
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| (Published: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 04:55:59 -0600) |
| What So Great About GL Diet? |
| GL stands for glycemic load. It is believed by many health professionals that low GL diet will be more popular than low-fat, low-carbohydrate (carb) or low-calorie.
The low-fat and low-calorie diets do not stop obesity epidemic in countries like Britain and United States despite the fact that the |
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| (Published: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 06:32:34 -0600) |
| The Risk Of Drug-coated Stents Can Be Managed |
| Despite the recent negative news that patients with drug-coated stents have higher risk of blood clots than those with bare metal stents, a pioneer of the drug-coated stent has said that with proper medication, that risk can be managed.
According to Professor Patrick Serruys from Netherlands’ Uni |
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| (Published: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 06:10:24 -0600) |
| Can Fiber Help Diabetics? |
| Fiber forms an important part of our diet. Unfortunately, many of us ignore this either intentionally or unintentionally. Some people will find fiber hard to chew or rather not tasty at all. So they simply keep fiber away from their meals. Others may eat less fiber simply because of their eating hab |
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| (Published: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 06:27:47 -0600) |
| Fiber Is Good To Prevent Heart Disease Too |
| It is unarguable that fiber may provide many healthy benefits to our body, many of us have in fact tried to avoid as far as possible. Why is this so? We all know that, fiber has no flavor or color and it hides in many of the foods that we eat. People choose to stay away from it simply because it is |
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| (Published: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 07:13:10 -0600) |
| What Is Stress Test? |
| Stress test is just a screening tool to examine the effect of exercise on your heart. It gives a general sense of how healthy your heart is. It uses a treadmill or an exercise bike to get a person’s heart working, and an electrocardiogram and blood pressure cuff to measure heart function. Sometimes, |
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| (Published: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 07:17:24 -0600) |
| Can Everybody Go For A Heart Scan Now? |
| Blocking of arteries in hearts can lead to heart disease. In the worst scenario, it may even cause fatal heart attack that could lead to death. Hence, when patient’s heart shows some sorts of unhealthy signs, his or her doctor will usually recommend or ask the patient to go for a heart scan to see i |
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| (Published: Fri, 02 Mar 2007 04:52:44 -0600) |
| Can Aspirin Really Keep Heart Attack Away? |
| According to the new guidelines issued by American Heart Association (AHA) and published in the Feb 20, 2007 issue of Circulation, Journal of AHA, all women of 65 and older should consider taking a daily dose of aspirin. In contrast to 162 mg previously, AHA recommends women with no heart disease to |
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| (Published: Wed, 07 Mar 2007 06:13:10 -0600) |
| A Weight Loss Alternative For Obese Teens |
| Obesity can lead to a number of medical issues such as high blood pressure, diabetes, kidney failure that could eventually lead to heart disease. As such, one cannot ignore this if he or she is going to live a full and healthy life especially young teens.
A 17-year-old girl weighing more than 100 |
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| (Published: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 08:27:49 -0500) |
| Are Women Spared From Heart Disease? |
| People always have the impression that heart disease only affects men. Women are less likely to have heart disease. This is definitely a common misconception. Most women are not aware that heart disease is the leading killer of women in United States and many developed countries. But, the following |
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| (Published: Wed, 30 May 2007 09:07:50 -0500) |
| How Much Do You Know About Heart Attack? |
| We may hear about heart attack all the time. And most of us will probably know that it is a very serious medical condition that could end the life of the victim. But, how many of us really have a good understanding of this condition?
Heart attack results when a blood clot completely blocks a coro |
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| (Published: Fri, 08 Jun 2007 09:10:13 -0500) |
| Are Cardiac CT Scans Suitable For Everyone? |
| How do doctors determine whether their patients have developed heart problems? In the past, invasive angiogram used to be the common and unavoidable procedure doctors will employ. But now, more and more doctors are switching to cardiac computed tomography (CT) scans.
It is known that there are at |
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