Outdoor Secondhand Smoke
Studies reveal the hidden dangers behind outdoor secondhand smoke exposure.
A 2006 U.S. Surgeon General's Report claims secondhand smoke kills tens of thousands of people each year, and it has long been claimed that second hand smoke can be dangerous through indoor exposure. However little is known about the risks of outdoor inhalation. Recent research from Stanford University examines how smoking can affect the quality of air at park benches, sidewalk cafes and other public places. Researchers concluded that sitting a few feet downwind of a smoker can leave someone exposed to contaminated fumes that are much more concentrated than normal air pollution levels.
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Vigorous Exercise with Age
People who sustain a highly active lifestyle gain less weight as they age.
A new study by Paul Williams of Berkeley Lab has found that maintaining a vigorously active lifestyle can help offset gaining weight with age. The data comes from the National Runners' Health Study which conducted 20 years of research on 120,000 runners. The runners maintained a weekly mileage over the course of 7 years. The men and women who ran over 30 miles per week gained half the weight of others that ran less than 15 miles.
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Heart Failure Device
“Back in 94 I was laying down Christmas Eve and my heart started racing and when I got here my heart rate was 250 beats.” Ronald McClarin has a dangerous heart rhythm--which is why doctors put into him an ICD--an implantable cardioverter. It keeps his heart beating regularly…and shocks it when the rhythm has gone arhy.
But pacemakers and ICDs do fail from time to time.
There are more and more pacemakers and so called ICD’s—implantable cardioverter-defibillators used each year.
Still there is not a lot known about their reliability and how often they malfunction--something that could cause a very serious problem.
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Coffee and Heart Attack Risk
Could your morning cup of coffee be putting you at risk for a heart attack! According to new research, that's the case for some individuals who are genetically susceptible.
First of all this doesn't mean that if you drink coffee you're going to suffer a heart attack, and it also doesn't mean that even if you are one of the ones who carry the genes that make you susceptible that one or two cups is going to cause you harm.
But mix that gene with one too many cappuccinos, and it could be a set up for a problem.
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AHA—MINORITY DISPARITIES IN CARDIAC CARE
Angina Treatment in Women
Ask anyone on the street and they will tell you.. There ARE many, many differences between the sexes.
“I think women are smarter.”...
“Men are stubborn.”...
“Women can have babies, men can’t.”...
“Women are quite unpredictable, aren’t they?”
Yes women are not the same as men, even in how they experience heart disease. But the incorrect perception that women aren’t nearly as susceptible to coronary disease as men is killing them, literally.
Dr. Nieca Goldberg is a specialist in women’s heart health. She says, “Last year a sure among physician was done that showed only one in five recognized heart disease as a leading health care issue in women. If women have symptoms of shortness of breath or unexplained fatigue or the pressure isn’t in the center of the chest but lower down, those need to be considered as significant heart symptoms and women need to be referred for appropriate testing.”
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Aspirin Primary Prevention Study
So does an aspirin a day really keep the doctor away?
There’s a new study that questions the long term benefits of aspirin in people who are using it to prevent a first time heart attack or stroke.
It might be surprising to some, but for those with no history of cardiovascular disease, the benefits of aspirin is practically hearsay, especially when it comes to women.
A new study reviewed previously done studies combined which looked at the benefits of aspirin in the so-called primary prevention of heart attacks and strokes…preventing the first ones from occurring.
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Tough Women Study
It’s an often talked about aspect of the battle of the sexes: which gender can handle pain better?
A new study shows women--at one time considered the weaker sex--are actually stronger.
But that may not be such a good thing, especially given the fact that still don’t understand that heart disease is the number one killer of woman over the age of sixty-five, and they ignore the warning signs of heart problems.
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Exercise Intensity
Those New Year’s resolutions are just around the corner.
And as usual, one of the most popular resolutions is to start exercising.
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CALLING 911 AND HEART ATTACKS
Being a grandparent is one of life’s great gifts. As a grandmother of 5 grandchildren, 52 year old Nancy Ruggles is intimately familiar with the joy. But, for Nancy, the day she had her heart attack, she feared she’d never see her grandchildren again. “I felt like my heart was coming out of my chest. I’m just lying on the bathroom floor going, I’m weak, I think I’m just dying.”
Nancy’s daughter immediately called 911. EMT, Robert Deschense, was the first responder on the scene. “I observed that Nancy was red in the face and she appeared to not have been breathing really well and I knew at that point that time was of the essence, it could be a possible heart attack. I went to my medical bag and administered her a St. Joseph’s regimen aspirin,” explains Deschense
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Stent Danger
There’s new evidence the latest generation of coronary stents--those that are coated with drugs--may in fact be associated with an increased risk of blood clots in the heart arteries they’re designed to keep open.
Coronary stents have been an incredible advance in cardiology. The latest type, those that are coated with drugs, help keep the arteries clear by preventing scar tissue from developing.
But now comes new worries over a delayed side effect: a blockage of these stents by clot formation. It has doctors wondering how to best address the problem.
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