Young Women With Autoimmune Condition Need To Be Warned About The Dangers Of Smoking And Use Of Oral Contraceptives

An article published Online First and in the November edition of The Lancet Neurology reports that women with a particular subtype of antibody called lupusanticoagulant (LA) have a more than 40-fold increased risk ofstroke. Moreover, they have a 5-fold increased risk of heart attack compared with the general population of young women. The autoimmune condition antiphospholipid syndrome mostly [...]

Repeated Inflations Of A Blood Pressure Cuff Limits Tissue Damage In Patients With AMI

Repeated lack of oxygen for short periods of time in a distant organ by stopping blood flow, can protect another organ (e.g. the heart), during a subsequent tissue damaging period due to oxygen deficiency. The principle can be applied before predictable oxygen deficiency during heart surgery. However, in most patients heart attacks are unpredictable. In this [...]

30 Minutes To Better Health In 2010

Adding 30 minutes of daily physical activity should top your list of New Year’s resolutions for a healthier 2010, says Peter Brubaker, professor of health and exercise science at Wake Forest University. Regular daily exercise is the most important step toward a healthier lifestyle, Brubaker says.
“People don’t realize you can get tremendous benefit from regular [...]

C-Reactive Protein Levels Correlate With Future Risk Of Heart Attack, Stroke And Cancers, But Causality Seems Unlikely

There has been intense interest among researchers during the past decade about whether blood concentrations of C-reactive protein (CRP) – a sensitive indicator of tissue injury inflammation produced by the liver – is a causal factor in heart disease. Earlier studies had suggested that this protein might be as important in the causation ofheart attack [...]

STROKE

A stroke is a condition where a blood clot or ruptured artery or blood vessel interrupts blood flow to an area of the brain. A lack of oxygen and glucose (sugar) flowing to the brain leads to the death of brain cells and brain damage, often resulting in an impairment in speech, movement, and memory.
The two [...]