Cardiology
Early cannabis use linked to heart disease
Smoking cannabis when you're young may increase your risk of developing heart disease later, according to a recent University of Guelph study.
Apr 12, 2021
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Cardiology
Researchers explain how high blood pressure accelerates atherosclerosis
High blood pressure, the most important cause of disease worldwide, accelerates atherosclerosis but the mechanism is unknown. Using gene modified minipigs, researchers from the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares ...
Apr 12, 2021
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Cardiology
Heart patients three times more likely to have diabetes than general population
Nearly 30% of patients with coronary artery disease have diabetes, according to a large study published on World Health Day in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, a journal of the European Society of Cardiology ...
Apr 7, 2021
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Medications
Viagra may prolong life for men with coronary artery disease
Men with stable coronary artery disease who are on Viagra due to impotence seem to live longer and have a lower risk of experiencing a new heart attack, a study from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden published in the Journal ...
Mar 22, 2021
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Cardiology
Triathlete mom's aorta tears followed by two strokes in two days
The day before her daughter, Maddy, turned 16, Kelly Steinberg woke up feeling a surge of energy rush through her body as she turned on her side.
Mar 9, 2021
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Cardiology
Stents or bypass surgery more effective for stable patients with high-risk cardiac anatomy
A recent study by University of Alberta cardiologists at the Canadian VIGOUR Centre shows that a particular group of patients with stable ischemic heart disease have better outcomes with percutaneous coronary intervention ...
Feb 18, 2021
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Here's what heart patients need to know about COVID-19 in 2021
When COVID-19 was first seen in the United States, now more than a year ago, doctors considered it a respiratory ailment. But that didn't last long.
Feb 11, 2021
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Cardiology
Watch your heart rate, but don't obsess about it
Keeping track of your heart rate is probably a good thing. Obsessing about it probably isn't.
Feb 10, 2021
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Cardiology
Diabetes during pregnancy may increase risk of heart disease
Women with a history of diabetes during pregnancy (gestational diabetes) are twice as likely by mid-life to develop calcium in heart arteries—a strong predictor of heart disease—even if healthy blood sugar levels were ...
Feb 1, 2021
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Cardiology
Automated AI algorithm uses routine imaging to predict cardiovascular risk
Coronary artery calcification—the buildup of calcified plaque in the walls of the heart's arteries—is an important predictor of adverse cardiovascular events like heart attacks. Coronary calcium can be detected by computed ...
Jan 29, 2021
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