Category Archives: Heart Health

High cholesterol is associated with a variety of health issues – which means, managing your cholesterol levels is imperative for your well-being. Do you know your cholesterol levels? Are they too high? Below are five potential complications that can arise from uncontrolled cholesterol levels – and five good reasons to get those numbers back under ...click here to read more

Portal hypertension is high blood pressure in the portal venous system. These are the veins that come from the stomach, intestines, spleen, and pancreas, and they merge into the portal vein that further branches out into smaller vessels and extends to the liver. If the vessels in the liver become blocked, this can contribute to ...click here to read more

Everybody knows that getting a good night’s sleep is essential for your health, and a recent study from the Ontario Veterinary College at the University of Guelph offers yet another piece of evidence supporting the importance of proper shuteye. The researchers uncovered that a disrupted circadian rhythm – your body’s natural sleep-wake cycle – can ...click here to read more

A study from the University College Dublin has found that consuming cheese does not raise blood cholesterol levels despite the food’s saturated fat content. While current health and dietary guidelines suggest that food high in saturated fats, such as cheese, may increase your risk of developing high LDL blood cholesterol, this new research has found ...click here to read more

Researchers from Duke University have found that many patients with irregular heartbeats who suffer strokes are not on the necessary anticoagulant medications. Approximately 3 million Americans have atrial fibrillation—an arrhythmia or irregular heartbeat that causes the upper chambers of the heart to quiver chaotically and can raise the risk of blood clots forming in the ...click here to read more

There are few basic principles to a healthy heart: don’t smoke, reduce stress, exercise, and eat healthy. Easy, right? Well, these fundamentals of heart health may be simple, but heart disease continues to be America’s number one killer. Obesity rates are rising, Americans are living sedentary lifestyles, and we are more stressed than ever, working ...click here to read more

When we talk about health, we can’t skip over the subject of high blood pressure. Go for any doctor appointment, be it with a GP or a medical specialist—most likely, your blood pressure (BP) will be checked. Take any household or visit a large pharmacy—you’ll find a sphygmomanometer there (yes, this is how blood pressure ...click here to read more

High cholesterol is linked to a number of health problems, and now the latest research findings presented at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) suggest that patients who undergo a rotator cuff surgery have a higher risk of surgery failure if they have high cholesterol. On the other hand, ...click here to read more

Ninety to ninety-five percent of cases of high blood pressure have no clear cause, though a new study from the Institute of Cytology and Genetics in Russia has found that hypertension may be linked to changes in brain activity and blood flow that occur in early life. High blood pressure is a risk factor for ...click here to read more

Women using hormone replacement therapy (HRT) to relieve menopause symptoms may have a lower risk of death and better heart health than those who don’t, according to a study from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Researchers retrospectively examined the health records of over 4,200 women who were given a coronary calcium scan between 1998 and 2012. A ...click here to read more

Lowering your cholesterol is a good way to support your heart health, but what is the best way to go about doing it? While jumping on an extreme diet may not be reasonable, research from Harvard Medical School suggests that making a few changes to your diet may be enough to help naturally lower your ...click here to read more

Mean arterial pressure, or MAP, is something that tells a doctor how well the body is processing oxygenated blood that is delivered to the tissues and organs. It is used to explain average blood pressure in a person during a single cardiac cycle. If MAP is low, a person can go into shock, but a ...click here to read more

In middle-aged and elderly people, the benefits of being physically active may outweigh the cons of being obese when it comes to cardiovascular disease. This assertion comes after a recent study published in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology found that older adults with a BMI in the obese or overweight range were not at ...click here to read more

Diet has a large impact on our health. What we eat can either keep us energized or make us sick. Consuming saturated fats, sodium, and sugar-loaded foods as a fuel isn’t good for health in the long run, as our bodies do not get all the necessary nutrients and become prone to serious health conditions, ...click here to read more