Category Archives: Heart Health

It’s no surprise that to live a healthy life, you need a healthy heart. Your heart is responsible for supplying the body with oxygenated blood, and when the rest of your body gets oxygenated blood it can perform at its best. A new study has uncovered another benefit to maintaining a healthy heart in older ...click here to read more

If you live with eczema, you may have to worry about your heart health. Eczema is a skin condition where the skin becomes inflamed, red in color, cracked, itchy, and rough. Researchers are now uncovering a possible link between the skin condition and matters of the heart. The researchers found a small increase in non-fatal ...click here to read more

Diet plays a large role in cholesterol levels. When your doctor suggests that you have elevated cholesterol levels, the first thing they will recommend is to change up your diet. This means eating healthier by limiting your intake of processed foods and foods that are high in saturated fat because saturated fat has been found ...click here to read more

Cholesterol deposits around the eyes are a sign of high cholesterol. The condition is also referred to as xanthelasma. Although cholesterol deposits around the eyes may not always signify high cholesterol, it’s still important to check your blood as many other conditions cite this as a symptom. Cholesterol deposits around the eyes do not cause ...click here to read more

There is a large area of science being studies that involves aging and how to slow it down or possibly even reverse it. The latest findings in this scientific area come from researchers at the University of Colorado who uncovered that chemically altering a natural supplement could reverse aging of blood vessels. By reversing this ...click here to read more

A new study from the researchers at John Hopkins has found that postmenopausal women with more male sex hormones than female hormones are at an increased risk for cardiovascular disease. The literature on this topic is not entirely lacking in evidence to support this, either. Women are generally at a lower risk of developing heart ...click here to read more

While many of us suffer from skin concerns, for most of us, they clear up after high school or university. Up to one in ten adults will suffer from atopic eczema at some point in their life and, for some, it continues throughout adulthood. The causes of this inflammatory skin condition are well understood – ...click here to read more

A common drug to treat osteoporosis, known as alendronate, has been tied to additional health benefits besides simply treating weak bones. A recent study found that patients who take this medication also experience a reduced risk of cardiovascular death, heart attack, and stroke. The study included newly diagnosed patients with hip fractures between 2005 and ...click here to read more

How many articles have you read about the negative effects of video games on the minds and bodies of our youth? You’ve likely read dozens, but this article isn’t one of those. With the advancements in video game technology now creating ever more realistic graphics and virtual reality experiences, the negative effects have declined. In ...click here to read more

Heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) is a medical condition that is passed down through genes. It is caused by elevated levels of cholesterol in the blood. A fairly common condition, it affects one in every 200 people from birth. FH can result in early coronary heart disease, so patients are recommended to follow a healthy diet ...click here to read more

Type 2 diabetes is by far the most common kind of diabetes that patients suffer from – 95 percent of those who are diagnosed with the condition. In general, across the globe, diabetes rates continue to climb drastically. When diabetes was co-diagnosed with another serious medical issue, such as hyperlipidemia (a metabolic disorder caused by ...click here to read more

Obstructive sleep apnea occurs when breathing stops and starts during sleep. The condition has the potential to become highly dangerous, as the lack of oxygen can eventually cause serious cardiovascular and cerebrovascular complications. In this line of thinking, it has been proposed that obstructive sleep apnea may play a role in causing and worsening cardiovascular ...click here to read more

As we age, the risk of osteoporosis increases, as does the condition’s role in the increased risk of mortality. Exactly what role it is that osteoporosis plays in the general mortality of elderly patients is unclear, however. Other risk factors include type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure, although, like osteoporosis, these conditions have not ...click here to read more

Hypertension, or high blood pressure, is a well-documented risk factor for the development of atrial fibrillation and any complications thereof, such as cardiac and cerebrovascular events. What is still yet unknown is whether or not left ventricular hypertrophy (the enlargement and thickening of the walls inside the heart’s main pumping chamber, the left ventricle), which ...click here to read more