Apparently, maintaining heart health have the highest priority in health care without compromising other healthcares. Why is that? This is because heart disease is the number 1 killer disease in most countries. How to maintain heart health naturally? In addition to reducing and avoiding some risk factors that can increase heart disease risk, such ...

Lung disease is one of the serious illnesses and require long treatment time. Therefore, patients with this disease are required to be patient in the treatment. In addition to medical therapies, you can also do it with traditional herbal therapies. While safe and almost no side effects, these treatment also effective ...

Atherosclerosis occurs when plaque begins to form on artery walls. This plaque usually composed of calcium, cholesterol, fatty substances, and waste products. Atherosclerosis can trigger heart attack or stroke because it restricts blood flow to the heart. In order to prevent atherosclerosis, here are some general preventions that can be done for everyone: - ...

First, Facts about the Heart: 1. Heart disease is the number 1 killer in the world. 2. You can control risk factors of heart disease, such cholesterol levels, blood pressure, stress, obesity and smoking. 3. There are several risk factors for healthy heart that we can't control, such as heredity, gender, race, and age. 4. ...

Due to questions from visitors to this site about tips for a healthy heart, here are six tips you can do to keep your heart healthy to the max. 1. Reduce high consumption of saturated fatty foods. Saturated fat is easily converted into a 'bad cholesterol' that raises risk of coronary heart ...

Olive oil is a source of healthy fat. Olive oil contain monounsaturated fat, type of healthy fat that can lower the risk of heart disease. Olive oil is efficacious in reducing total cholesterol and low-density lipoprotein (LDL, or bad cholesterol) in the ...

Alcohol drinkers should know that their habit with alcohol abuse can get hospitalized with pneumonia risk, while it also linked to other health risks such as liver disease, heart disease, cancers, and some others. Although the risk of pneumonia has been studied and suggested before from alcohol drinking, however no results ...

Older women with chronic constipation tend to have low fiber in their dietary, less physical activity, high levels of cholesterol, or high blood pressure. According to new findings reported in the American Journal of Medicine, which were based on large study of 73,000 postmenopausal U.S. women, such condition in older women ...

Excessive fluids in the lungs often occur in the patients with acute lung injury (ALI). This causes the patient hard to breathe and sometimes causing death. So far in medicine world, mechanical ventilation with ventilator and intravenous fluid are best solution so far to help spontaneous breathing. Since using salbutamol or albuterol ...

Respiratory muscle weakness is common conditions among patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Therefore, improving respiratory muscle weakness in such patients become main target in their therapy. In other side, since low levels of vitamin D commonly linked to muscle weakness, theoretically, consuming vitamin D may helps against respiratory muscle weakness. Due ...

Several studies has described that obesity pandemic increased significantly in this decade. From the children until adults groups. Obesity is one of risk factors for comorbid disease likes cardiovascular diseases, as the result, young adults are at risk for sudden cardiac death. Now, those estimation has showed from the studied among 243 ...

The Heart is an organ that serves as a pump to circulate the blood throughout blood vessels repeated and continuously. Keep the heart healthy means other organs will receive de-oxygenated blood to feeds their cells. If other organs can not receive de-oxygenated blood appropriately, then several diseases may occur in the future ...

In a new survey among nearly 2,500 heart attack patients across the U.S., the investigators found that older heart attack patients and those who had bypass surgery more likely stop eating fast food in the six months, but return to eat again afterward. Among heart attack patients who return back to ...

The clinicians may use functional performance tests to determine whether their patients had the risk of worse outcomes after identified with peripheral arterial disease (PAD) or those with obstruction of large arteries (outsides the aortic arch vasculature, coronary, or brain). Patients with PAD usually screened with ankle brachial pressure index in ...

The findings that said Aspirin may cost-effectiveness for heart disease prevention in middle-aged men debated by other experts. According to the findings, aspirin had a role in primary prevention of CHD events in middle-aged men right down to those at the lowest risk. This suggestion just reported in Archive of Internal Medicine ...

While the safety and efficacy of endovascular treatment with intracranial stenosis remain unclear, the cost of this treatment also showed raise in triple than usual care. According to Adnan Qureshi, MD, from the Minnesota Stroke Initiative, based on review of more than 370,061 admissions for ischemic stroke or transient ischemic attack ...

As impact from FDA alert to antiarrhythmic drug Dronedarone (marketed as Multaq from Sanofi-Aventis) for the risk of severe liver complications, and followed by monthly meeting of the Committee for Medical Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA), along with the decision by Sanofi-Aventis to send ...

A new scientific evidence to discard the doubt in some people in the past related to protective effects of fruits and vegetables against the risk of diseases, particularly to heart disease, has been reported in the European Heart Journal on January 19, 2011. Despite some prevention can be achieved by other ...

Earlier studies have been inconclusively determine whether or not of psychological treatment program such as cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) had strong benefits in patients with coronary heart disease. CBT is psychotherapeutic through sytematic procedure that had a purpose to solve problems related to dysfunctional emotions, behaviors and cognition. As emotional factors included ...

Heart failure (HF) treatment is the most costly diagnosis in the Medicare population, and the most common cause of hospitalization in individuals older than 65 years. According to the researchers from Duke University Medical Center, among those patients, depression is another common that estimated affecting 24% to 42% of patients. With this ...

The children who exposed with smoked from their parents not only affects to their child's lung infection, but also influence the blood pressure. According to current findings, this condition lead the children for having cardiovascular risk in their future life. With this findings, the authors of current study suggest the parents to ...

Many people spend a lot of time in front of a television screen at leisure time, or even at working hour. Despite this entertainment can make people more relax, enjoyable, and could reduce daily stress, however, a new study said that those who spend two hours or more a day in ...

Multaq drug, marketed for dronedarone from Sanofi-Aventis mainly used to maintain irregular heartbeat become normal heart rhythm in the treatment of atrial fibrillation and atrial flutter by limited toxicity due its high iodine content in patients with pulmonary fibrosis, thyroid disease, and liver disease. This cardiac arrhytmias-indicated's drug has been approved ...

Currently, many scientists continue to understanding and investigate whether omega-3 fatty acids had a benefits regarding to any diseases. One of the benefit of omega-3 fatty acids that published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology on January 5, 2010, reported that n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAS) might improved ...

Another benefits of whole grain foods showed that with three daily serving may reduce the risk of cardiovascular diseases. According to the current researchers the effect of whole grain foods consumption might reduce systolic blood pressure (BP), reduce pulse pressure, and decrease concentration of cholesterol. This findings based on their randomized controlled ...

In the reproductive and sexual function, sex hormone Estradiol has played critical role. However, from recent study,high level of estradiol also may reduce the effects of diet rich fiber to reduce total lipoprotein cholesterol levels. As premenopausal women often taking estrogen hormone through oral contraceptive pill to improve their estradiol, the ...

The blood clot that forms within a vein or Venous thromboembolism (VTE) been estimated around 1 to 2 events every 1000 people in the general population and categorized an emerging health problem. As several risk factors for thromboembolism may included individual and lifestyle factors such as old age, obesity, smoking, pregnant, ...

Compared with usual care of severe lung injury treatment, lung surfactant treatment with recombinant surfactant protein C (rSP-C, Nycomed) may had no significant benefits. According to the researchers who compared between these treatment, the mortality rate at 28 days was 22.7 in the surfactant group vs. 23.8% in the usual care ...

The worst outcomes or even death after acute coronary treatment in older women showed mostly with had low left ventricular ejection (LVEF) and some with high LVEF. In the analyzed among more than 5000 women (age 65 and older) with acute coronary syndrome hospitalized, the researchers found that those with low ...

A new suggestion said that there is little evidence of association between dietary impact such as alcohol, caffeinated drinks, high fiber dietary, and fish oil supplements (for fatty acids intake) to the risk of atrial fibrillation (AF). This suggestion based on longitudinal analysis of the Framingham Heart Study that prospectively followed ...