Cardiology
Drinking alcohol makes your heart race
The more alcohol you drink, the higher your heart rate gets, according to research presented today at EHRA 2018 Congress, organized by the European Society of Cardiology.
Mar 18, 2018
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Atrial Fibrillation
Health
Irregular heartbeat: What is it and how do you treat it?
Many things can make your heart skip a beat—the words to a song, a case of the nerves or a near car accident—but these temporary palpitations aren't usually cause for concern.
Feb 20, 2023
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Depression linked to heart disease and type 2 diabetes
A lower frequency of depressive episodes is associated with a 34 percent decreased risk of coronary artery disease and a 33 percent decreased risk of type 2 diabetes, irrespective of lifestyle risk factors and genetic susceptibility. ...
Feb 16, 2022
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Cardiology
Could your Apple Watch spot dangerous A-fib?
(HealthDay)—That shiny new Apple Watch you got this holiday could potentially alert you to heart trouble you didn't know you had.
Dec 27, 2018
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Cardiology
New way to prevent some strokes discovered
Larry Ambrose was diagnosed as having a stroke a few days after he woke up one night, wandered into his kitchen and couldn't read the time on his microwave. Ambrose, like 25 percent of all stroke patients, experienced a cryptogenic ...
Jun 25, 2014
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Medications
Study finds warfarin underutilized in women
Dr. Rabab Mohsin, an internal medicine resident at the University of Kentucky, working with Dr. Alison Bailey of the University of Kentucky Gill Heart Institute, has discovered that the drug warfarin was underutilized in ...
Dec 13, 2011
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Cardiology
Prescribing tool may help to reduce incidence of stroke
A 102-year-old patient, lucid, intelligent and still with things to accomplish in life, underlined the value of hospital pharmacist Beata Bajorek's work in stroke prevention.
Sep 14, 2016
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Cardiology
No link between coffee consumption and common type of irregular heartbeat
There is no association between coffee consumption and an increased risk of atrial fibrillation, according to research published in the open access journal BMC Medicine. The research includes a meta-analysis of four other ...
Sep 22, 2015
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Cardiology
Study shows heart failure, not stroke is the most common complication of atrial fibrillation
The lifetime risk of atrial fibrillation (a heart condition that causes an irregular and often abnormally fast heart rate) has increased from one in four to one in three over the past two decades, finds a study from Denmark ...
Apr 17, 2024
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Cardiology
Early rhythm control key in A-fib and heart failure
(HealthDay)—For patients with atrial fibrillation and signs and symptoms of heart failure, early rhythm control (ERC) therapy reduces cardiovascular events, according to a study published online July 30 in Circulation to ...
Jul 30, 2021
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