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SES vs Brachytherapy for Bare Metal In-stent Restenosis
Are sirolimus-eluting stents still a viable treatment option compared with vascular brachytherapy for bare metal stent restenosis?
Antioxidants, Amino Acid Protect Blood Vessels From Stress
Antioxidants, when combined with the amino acid L-arginine, may help reduce wear and tear on your blood vessels and reduce inflammation.
Effective High Blood Pressure Treatments - What Really Works?
If you have high blood pressure, you will have to take action to treat it. If ignored, hypertension can lead to very serious health problems including stroke, heart disease and kidney failure. So what high blood pressure treatments are the most effective? Find out what works best to keep blood press
Discover Food For Lower Cholesterol - The Secret of How to Naturally Lower Cholesterol Levels
The secret's out. The secret that the manufacturers of cholesterol medication were hoping you would not learn is now a well proven fact. Food to lower cholesterol is every bit as effective as cholesterol medication or lowering high lipid levels.
Hypertension and Risk for Dementia and Alzheimer Disease: The Evidence
Henry Black, MD, discusses a new study that has finally shed strong light on the connection, if any, between hypertension and later vascular dementia and Alzheimer disease.
What Are the Low Blood Pressure Symptoms?
Hypotension is a condition that appears when an individual's blood pressure (the pressure from the blood against the blood vessels walls) is lower than normal. This situation can cause the so called "low blood pressure symptoms", which include:Dizziness, or feeling of losing balance.
ICDs After Heart Attacks Don't Save Lives
Getting an ICD (implantable cardioverter defibrillator) implant soon after a heart attack doesn't improve survival, a new study shows.
Polypill and Risk of Vascular Morbidity and Mortality in CAD
Most patients with CAD use a combination of aspirin, a statin, and one or more BP-lowering agents. Is combination therapy with these agents associated with a lower risk of vascular events and total mortality?
Pathology in Coronary Artery Disease
The pathology of coronary artery disease involves a serious health condition that develops over the course of a lifetime, usually exacerbated by either behavioral or genetic risk factors, or a combination of the two.
Women's Health: Heart Disease
Heart disease kills half a million American women each year. So why are women more afraid of breast cancer?
Malignant Coronary Heart Disease
While coronary heart disease (CHD) is quite common, cancer of the heart, known as malignant CHD, is rare. A more specific form of the illness is malignant coronary artery disease, which affects blood flow due to narrowing of blood vessels.
Heart Murmur-Topic Overview
What is a heart murmur? A heart murmur is an extra sound that the blood makes as it flows through the heart. Your doctor uses a stethoscope to listen to your heartbeat. When you have a heart murmur,your doctor can hear an extra whooshing or swishing noise along with your heartbeat. It can be scary t
Statin Therapy Slows Progression of Arterial Thickening: Low-Risk CVD
ACC.07: These trial results seem to show that aggressive statin therapy slows progression of atherosclerosis, even in low-risk individuals; but do they support a new strategy?
Unprotected Left Main PCI
Find out more about the current understanding of unprotected left main coronary artery disease, with a particular focus on what recent clinical studies have added to this body of data.
Correct Heart Defects With the Amplatzer Septal Occluder
The Amplatzer Septal Occluder is a new device being used to correct heart defects causing a hole in the heart between the two upper chambers.This device is a safe and effective way to cover the hole and encourage the body to repair this defect itself.
Prasugrel Versus Clopidogrel for PCI Wthout Stent Implantation
A clear winner emerged in the TRial to assess Improvement in Therapeutic Outcomes by optimizing platelet inhibitioN with prasugrel (TRITON) - Thrombolysis in Myocardial Infarction (TIMI) 38.
How to Lower Your Cholesterol - Secrets That Really Work
If you want to prevent heart disease, you need to learn how to lower your cholesterol. Read this article to get little known secrets to maintaining cholesterol within safe range.
TROPICAL: Treatment of Patients With an In-stent Restenotic Native Coronary Artery Lesion
Should drug-eluting stents replace brachytherapy as the gold standard for the treatment of in-stent restenosis? Looks like that might just need to be the case.
What Are the Causes of Bradycardia?
The heart is the center of all our body's activities. Because of the things that it can do to the body, there are also several conditions that come with it if you do not take care of it properly. One of which is the condition called bradycardia.