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‘Gypsies' and Travellers' Health Much Worse Than Other Vulnerable Group

...le in the other groups. Their rates of diabetes, stroke and cancer were not higher. But the authors point out that often these diseases can be 'silent' and that any associated symptoms might not have been recognised. Gypsies and Travellers were also significantly more likely to say they had chest pain, ...

Not Having a Good Night’s Sleep? -You Might Need a Check U

...sily treatable disorder, that raises the risk of stroke or heart attacks. Hence doctors advise early diagnosis by a study called the polysomnogram. According to Dr. Sean M. Caples, of the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine in Minneapolis, there is abundant physiologic evidence implicating obstructive slee...

Antidepressants Improve Post-Stroke Mental Abilities

Antidepressant treatment appears to help stroke survivors with the kind of complex mental abilitie...f Medicine. "We found that people diagnosed with stroke who often have a decline in 'executive function', that is, those mental abilities that enable us to ...

Reasonable Quantities Of Wine May Increase Longevity

... the consumption of red wine is said to bring down stroke or heart attack. Though this research seemed to highlight the benefits of moderate amount of consumption of wine, the American Heart Association does not advocate the same right now. As per the association, the right kind of diet, life style and ex...

Good Oral Health Equals Good Health for Your Heart

...m. You never know, you may then be warding off a stroke or heart attack. AN...

Sleep Well, Have a Healthy Heart !

...ficiencies, and an increased risk of hypertension, stroke and diabetes. OSA can occur in men and women of any age, but it is most common in obese, middle-aged men. The AASM estimates that four percent of men and two percent of women have OSA, and millions more remain undiagnosed. Safe and effective trea...

Heart Disease, Stroke Prevention Efforts Among Women

...which currently provides no-cost heart disease and stroke tests to low-income, uninsured women in 14 states. The measure also would authorize grants to be made to educate physicians about preventing, diagnosing and treating heart disease among women. "This legislation addresses the critical knowledge gap by...

Cholesterol in Stroke Patients Exceeds National Guidelines

Many stroke patients have cholesterol higher than national gui...recommend that, if managed, may have prevented the stroke from happening//, according to a study published in the issue of Neurology, the scientific journal o...

Irregular Heartbeat Linked to Genetic Mutation

..., which is often complicated by increased risk for stroke and heart failure. "Our findings support the emerging understanding of atrial fibrillation in younger patients as an inherited disease of ion channels, the building blocks of electrical pathways," says Timothy Olson, M.D., a pediatric cardiologist...

Watch Your Cholesterol Even If You're Healthy

...tly associated with an increased risk for ischemic stroke even in women who are otherwise healthy, the study found. "We did not look at people with high risk for cardiovascular disease or with existing cardiovascular disease, but at women who were apparently healthy," Kurth said. "That means even when y...

An Aspirin a Day Keeps Heart Disease Away

...ments of women's risk of suffering a heart attack, stroke or severe chest pain (angina). Blumenthal, an associate professor and director of the Ciccarone Preventive Cardiology Center at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, says doctors should intervene with lifestyle changes and drug treatment...

Learning to Prevent Medical Mistakes in Caring for Stroke Patients

... voluntary and mandatory event reporting system in stroke patients admitted to Strong Memorial Hospital at t...or may not cause harm to a patient. Of the 1,440 stroke patients studied, 12 percent, or 173 patients, experienced an adverse event. A total of 201 events w...

Reset Your Biological Clock and Prevent Heart Attack!

...quently the early-morning risk of heart attack and stroke by using drugs to ‘reset’ the molecular clock.” Since blood pressure response (via rising catecholamines) to stress in the early morning is tied to one’s internal clock, tamping down the clock using drugs could be a treatment for people with high b...

High Cholesterol Increases Risk of Stroke in Otherwise Healthy Women

...a potential risk factor and increases chances// of stroke even in healthy women with no history of heart dis...riod, meaning nine out of every 10,000 women had a stroke each year. The study found a strong association between total cholesterol levels and later stroke. ...

Living in Poor Neighborhoods Raises Risks for Heart Disease and Stroke

... the health behaviors related to heart disease and stroke - physical inactivity, poor nutrition, smoking - a.... They found that new cases of heart attacks and stroke were 1.9 times higher for women and 1.5 times higher for men who lived in high-deprivation vs. low-d...

Smog in Warm Weather may Contribute to Stroke Risks in Elderly: Study

...te the contribution of fine particle pollution to stroke risks in the elderly.// Fine particle pollution...lution levels from 1998 to 2004 with the number of stroke deaths among elderly subjects above 65 years, living in Helsinki. A total of 1,304 stroke deaths i...

Faith May Help Stroke Victims

...art Association, strong religious faith can defend stroke patients from depression.// Salvatore Giaquinto ...team had undertaken a study among 133 survivors of stroke with an average age of 72. This project considered other factors like emotional anguish, marital sta...

Surgeons Develop Simpler Way to Cure Atrial Fibrillation

...disorder are five times more likely to suffer from stroke and have up to a two-fold higher risk of death. For some patients, medications can control the abnormal heart rhythms and the risk of clotting associated with atrial fibrillation, but unlike the Cox-maze procedure, the drugs do not cure the disorder....

New Drug Therapy for Breast Cancer Offers Hope

... don’t increase the risk for endometrial cancer or stroke associated with tamoxifen, they do increase the risk for osteoporosis and, in some cases, significant joint pain”, supports his statement. “And, they are much more pricey than tamoxifen, which is a problem for older patients on fixed incomes who d...

Robotic Therapy Helps Restore Hand Use After Stroke

...o feel. Seven women and six men who had suffered a stroke at least three months prior participated in the pi...e third leading cause of death in the country. And stroke causes more serious long-term disabilities than any other disease. Nearly three-quarters of all stro...

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