People who take medications to lower blood pressure may also be improving their heart's pumping action, thus reducing their risk of congestive heart failure.
Boys with chubby bellies are more likely to have high blood pressure than their slimmer counterparts.
Giving heart attack patients a combined low dose of the anticoagulant drug warfarin with low-dose aspirin does not prevent second heart attacks or strokes better than aspirin alone.
Rapid weight gain in children who were low birth weight babies may increase their risk for high blood pressure in adulthood.
Losing weight may lower blood levels of the inflammatory marker called C-reactive protein (CRP), a factor associated with an increased risk of heart disease.
The flu vaccine may offer significant protection against stroke, especially for people age 75 or younger.
In the first study of its kind, researchers show an association between calcium in the coronary arteries and stroke.
You are invited to cover the American Heart Association's Asia Pacific Scientific Forum, "The Genomics Revolution: Bench to Bedside to Community" and the 42nd Annual Conference on Cardiovascular Disease and Epidemiology Prevention to be held April 23-26, 2002, at the Hawaii Convention Center, Honolulu, Hawaii.
Scientists have unraveled how a defective gene can cause dilated cardiomyopathy, a condition that leads to heart failure.
Smart bombs are touted for their ability to precisely target and destroy an enemy. Now equally "smart" technology is being used by heart experts to target and destroy cells that trigger the irregular heart rhythm called atrial fibrillation.
A gene variant found in about 20 percent of the population might explain why some people develop a dangerously enlarged heart after intensive exercise or as a side effect of high blood pressure.
A simple imaging test identified people with dangerous clogging in their carotid (neck) arteries according to researchers who say the test may someday help identify individuals who need immediate surgery to prevent stroke.
A new study advises physicians to fully understand the expanded benefits of the new cholesterol guidelines, citing that the new recommendations are likely to significantly raise the number of people under 45 and older than 65 who are prescribed cholesterol-lowering medications.
A person's risk of dying from heart disease may be predicted by the number of infectious agents present in the blood.
Middle-aged men who have symptoms of psychological distress, such as depression and anxiety, are more than three times as likely to have a fatal stroke than middle-aged men who are not depressed.
An enzyme that breaks up lipids in high-density lipoprotein (HDL - the "good" cholesterol), was associated with severity of coronary artery disease.
Leptin, a protein secreted by fat cells, may be an independent risk factor for heart disease in humans.
For the first time, researchers have shown that high triglycerides -- a type of blood fat -- are a strong independent predictor of a person's risk for stroke.
Individuals who had taken at least one aspirin in the week before suffering an ischemic stroke had milder strokes than people who had not taken aspirin.
A treatment that corrects rapid heart beats by burning away small amounts of heart tissue is equally as effective and safe in infants as it is in older pediatric patients.
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