Category Archives: Heart Health

Cardiomyopathy is a condition where the heart muscle does not function as it should. The main types of this condition include dilated, hypertrophic, and restrictive cardiomyopathy. This condition makes it more difficult for your heart to pump and deliver blood to the rest of your body through the circulatory system. It can lead to heart ...click here to read more

Experts at UT Southwestern and Texas Health Resources have linked heart muscle stiffening and consequent heart-failure risk to a sedentary lifestyle. Our heart has chambers called ventricles. When people lead an inactive lifestyle, the heart muscles become stiff and blood cannot enter the ventricles properly. In extreme cases, the blood even gets pushed back into ...click here to read more

By now, you know what to do in order to keep your heart healthy: Lower your blood pressure and cholesterol, reduce stress, don’t smoke, moderate your alcohol intake, eat healthily, maintain a healthy weight, and exercise. If you do these things, you’re on the right path to a healthy heart. On the other hand, there ...click here to read more

When your doctor wants to check your cholesterol levels, they will give you a blood test requisition along with telling you that you need to fast for at least eight hours prior to completing the test. If you forget to fast before your cholesterol test, your results may not be accurate and the test would ...click here to read more

Ventricular tachycardia (VT) is a disorder where the heart beats faster than normal. It is caused when the electrical signals from the ventricles are irregular. For a person at rest, a normal heart rhythm usually ranges between 60 to 100 beats per minute (bpm); someone experiencing ventricular tachycardia might experience a heartbeat of 100 or ...click here to read more

Heart muscles are often permanently damaged during a heart attack and get even more damaged during an angioplasty – a traditional treatment for blocked arteries that causes heart attacks. However, according to an article published in Science Daily on January 12, 2018, new research at the Eindhoven University of Technology has shown a way of ...click here to read more

Your brain needs blood to function, so when blood flow becomes restricted, problems can arise. One condition known as vertebrobasilar insufficiency refers to reduced blood flow to the back of the brain. Blood travels to the back of the brain through two vertebral arteries, which are joined by the basilar artery. Blockage of these arteries ...click here to read more

Arrhythmia is the technical term for heart rhythm disorders. There are different conditions which can describe irregular heart rhythms. You may be familiar with atrial fibrillation which is when your heart beats irregularly, either quickly, slowly, or a mix of both. Another type of arrhythmia is known as atrial flutter and although you may not ...click here to read more

Having high blood pressure – hypertension – is a dangerous condition because it increases your risk of experiencing a deadly heart-related event. A person can live with high blood pressure without experiencing symptoms until it is too late, which is what makes hypertension that much more threatening. This is why it’s so important to monitor ...click here to read more

Lacunar infarct is a type of stroke that occurs when one of the arteries supplying blood to the brain gets blocked. These arteries are quite small, which makes them vulnerable to damage. While most arteries in the body gradually become smaller, the arteries of the lacunar stroke branch off a large high-pressure artery. Lacunar stroke ...click here to read more

If you knew that by adding a few simple exercises to your daily routine would help to lower your blood pressure and risk of suffering a potentially fatal heart attack or stroke, would you do them? High blood pressure (also termed hypertension) is a chronic medical problem that increases the blood pressure in your arteries.  ...click here to read more

Low cholesterol or hypocholesterolemia is something we don’t hear a lot about. Cholesterol, of course, is that fatty substance that can clog arteries and lead to heart attack or stroke when levels are high; however, low cholesterol can also be a health hazard. When cholesterol levels are high, it can interfere with blood flow, causing ...click here to read more

Being diagnosed with high cholesterol can mean a big adjustment for a person’s life. Having to continually watch what you eat, be concerned about heart health, and to always take your medicine can be disheartening and quite annoying. Scientists from the Houston Methodist Research Institute have made a breakthrough discovery that could be the key ...click here to read more

Vascular dementia is a term used to characterize thought processes caused by some sort of brain damage. Here we look specifically at stages of vascular dementia and life expectancy of stroke dementia patients. Vascular dementia means that someone has problems with reasoning, planning, judgment, and memory related to brain damage from impaired blood flow to ...click here to read more