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Posted 8/5/2005 2:10 PM (GMT 0)

stardreamer

my grandpa use to say middle age is 10 years older than you are now and old age is 15 years older than yuo are now.

I will always remember that.

 Teri some great links I about fell of the couch when one of our medical reporters on Tv said a certain hospitial in Jax.,Fla is investagting how women are different from men when doing exercise after a heart atack and how they need a diferent type of exercise than men need. Horray for that.

Then also been in the paper how the  youngs kids nbow will have more diabetes and heart trouble from being overweight and eating fast foods.

Heidi

Posted 8/10/2005 12:26 AM (GMT 0)

"Surgery Ups Survival with Common Heart Ailment

HCM (hypertrophic cardiomyopathy) affects more than 500,000 Americans, so it's actually more common than better-known conditions such as Crohn's disease or multiple sclerosis. HCM involves a thickening of the heart muscle walls, particularly the wall (or septum) that separates the two main pumping chambers." http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_26204.html

Posted 8/10/2005 12:28 AM (GMT 0)
 

Salt Restriction Improves Blood Pressure in Blacks

 

Modest reductions in dietary salt can benefit black people with high blood pressure considerably, UK researchers report.

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_26208.html

 

Posted 8/10/2005 2:03 PM (GMT 0)

That is a great link Teri.

I was educated abuot the reason Blacks have such higher blood pressure is the way they cook and the highly salty spices they use and they need to use alternatives. I do agree with that. I have  really changed my eating habits and very very low sodium for i am highly salt senstative i can eat just a small spoonfull of something with salt and I think to myself who stubbed their toe with the salt shaker and  in a few moin I am puffed up my feet and l;egs no ankles at all h just one big log and that is part of my CHF too so I hardly eat any salt manly Mrs. dash.

Heidi

Posted 8/11/2005 2:07 AM (GMT 0)
"Guidelines issued for atrial fibrillation

The first evidence-based clinical guidelines for prevention and management of atrial fibrillation occurring after cardiac surgery have been released."

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_26243.html

Posted 8/11/2005 2:19 AM (GMT 0)
ok I cook greens in a cast iron skillet and a dab of olive oil and onions and soy bacon & one of my friends who works for dept of Health tell me  some  enthic groups tend to cook with more salt than others and they need to learn to cook with less salt , then I told her how I cook greens so she told me she would pass that on with olive oil instead of lard or fat back. but yes we all do need to watch our salt.

Heidi

Posted 8/12/2005 3:01 AM (GMT 0)

When I read this headline, it really made me stop and think.  We have to remember that all the med's we take have the potential for being dangerous, especially if we don't follow the Dr.'s directions on how to take them...this just adds more warning to that. 

"Stopping Aspirin Therapy Triples Stroke Risk"

"For the many people who take aspirin regularly to thin the blood because they're at high risk for having a heart attack, stopping aspirin abruptly endangers more than the heart. Doing so more than triples the likelihood of having of a stroke or TIA (commonly called a mini-stroke), new research indicates." http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_26252.html

Posted 8/12/2005 3:04 AM (GMT 0)

Well, with the bad, comes along the good... tongue

"Cocoa may help stop stroke, heart disease"

"Cocoa has long been described as a medicine for many ailments and now researchers say it might also have a beneficial effect on heart disease and stroke." http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_26256.html

Posted 8/13/2005 2:50 AM (GMT 0)
"Vegetarians, Older Folk Advised to Get Enough B12"

 

 "Vitamin B12 deficiency is more common than doctors once thought, and experts advise that those most at risk -- vegetarians and older adults -- be sure to take supplemental forms of the vitamin.

Vitamin B12 is essential for maintaining healthy nerve cells and red blood cells; a deficiency in the vitamin can cause symptoms ranging from the subtle, including fatigue and mild dizziness, to the more severe, including nerve damage, anemia and dementia."

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_26233.html

Posted 8/13/2005 8:32 PM (GMT 0)
Here's a wonderful article that my co moderator, Heidi sent me! smurf

Heart-failure research focuses on drug for African-Americans

 

"After Jacksonville resident Johnnie Cherry suffered three heart attacks, his physician put him on a low-salt diet and inserted a pacemaker into his chest. The 49-year-old widower also was enrolled in a clinical trial in 2001 to determine whether a heart medicine targeted specifically for African-Americans actually worked."

 

http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/081305/met_19492803.shtml

Posted 8/14/2005 1:59 AM (GMT 0)
Thanks Terimthis trial was done at the hospitial I go to. IT has a good cardio section and  state of the Arc cardio Rehab.
Heidi

Posted 8/15/2005 10:40 PM (GMT 0)

"Blood Filtering May Improve Prognosis After CPR"

"After resuscitation from cardiac arrest, there's a high risk of the patient dying from intractable shock, but this may be averted in some cases by a blood filtering procedure, according to a small study. Lack of circulation followed by restoration of blood flow -- ischemia-reperfusion -- is known to cause widespread damage to blood vessels. This is thought to lead to death by multiple organ failure following successful resuscitation, Dr. Mehran Monchi and colleagues note in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology." http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_26304.html

Posted 8/15/2005 10:42 PM (GMT 0)

"Blood Pressure Lower in Adults with Long-lived Dad"

"A middle-aged adult's risk of high blood pressure seems to be related in part to how long his father lived, new research findings suggest. In a study that followed more than 1,000 adults age 50 and up, French researchers found that those whose fathers lived to the age of 80 had healthier blood pressure readings than their peers."

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_26302.html

Posted 8/16/2005 8:35 PM (GMT 0)

"High Blood Pressure Linked to Higher Glaucoma Risk

The results of a study involving more that 27,000 people with glaucoma suggest that high blood pressure, also known as hypertension, is significantly more common in this group than in those who do not have hypertension, UK researchers report. They also found that treating hypertension with beta-blocker drugs, but not other types of antihypertensive drugs, lowered the risk of glaucoma." http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_26332.html

Posted 8/17/2005 4:33 AM (GMT 0)

"Mysteries of garlic are revealed"

" University of California scientists have determined garlic's active ingredients work the same in the same way as the chemicals in chili peppers and wasabi.

Researchers at the University of California-San Francisco's Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology said garlic's pungent aroma and its effects on the body, such as dilating blood vessels, are due to a variety of sulfur-based chemicals, especially allicin." http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_26338.html

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