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1. | 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 ...
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2. | 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 ...
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3. | 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 ...
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4. | 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", "Beta-carotene", ...
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5. | 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 ...
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6. | 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 ...
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7. | 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 ...
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8. | 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 ...
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9. | 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 ...
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10. | 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 ...
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11. | 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.
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12. | 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 ...
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13. | 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 ...
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14. | 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 ...
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15. | 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 ...
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16. | 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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17. | 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 ...
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18. | 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 ...
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19. | 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 ...
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20. | 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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21. | 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 ...
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22. | 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 ...
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23. | 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 ...
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24. | 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 ...
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25. | 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 stroke are willing to ...
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26. | 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 ...
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27. | 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 ...
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28. | 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 ...
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29. | 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 ...
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30. | 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 ...
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31. | 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 ...
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32. | 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 ...
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33. | 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 blood ...
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34. | 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 ...
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35. | 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 ...
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36. | 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 ...
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37. | 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 ...
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38. | 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 ...
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39. | 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 ...
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40. | 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 ...
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41. | 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 ...
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42. | 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, ...
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43. | 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 ...
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44. | 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, ...
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45. | 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 ...
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46. | 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.
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47. | 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 ...
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48. | 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 ...
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49. | 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 ...
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50. | 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 ...
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