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Michael Russell, a 12-year-old boy who died after a ride on a Walt Disney World roller coaster, had a congenital heart defect that was found by autopsy today. The Disney-MGM’s Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster did not appear to have malfunctioned.
According to The Washington Post:
Researchers at the University Hospital of Mannheim in Germany put […]
The title of this post is pretty obvious. The link between diabetes types 1 and 2 and cardiovascular disease is clear and well established. A recent study lays down the numbers.
Diabetes (type not specified) is the clinical equivalent of aging 15 years, thrusting men and women with the disease into a high-risk category […]
A recent Major League Baseball draft, Carson Kainer, will be receiving a kidney from his father sometime this summer. Born with chronic renal disease, he has only had one functional kidney since childhood. Carson’s remaining kidney function is now down to less than 13 percent.
How does kidney disease tie in with cardiovascular disease? […]
PLoS Medicine presents a rare case of a 47-year-old woman who was hospitalized due to acute hearing loss. Not until about four days after visiting the hospital did she begin to show some signs suggesting cardiovascular disease - shortness of breath, a dry cough, and edema of her face and legs. In the […]
Results from the PEACE–Prevention of Events With an ACE inhibitor–trial has found that treatment with ACE inhibitors, such as captopril, enalapril, lisinopril, and trandolapril*, appears to be more effective at reducing the risk of death in patients with existing heart condition and impaired kidney function. When compared to study participants on placebo,
Heart patients […]
A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) shows that depression is more common among patients with heart disease.
1 in 20 people in the general population has depression
1 in 5 patients with coronary heart disease has depression
1 in 3 patients with congestive heart failure has depression
As many as half of […]
Manola Blablablanik, who I featured in Heart-to-Heart #13, asked a very important question today.
…have you posted about this before? I’ve read about women going to the ER thinking they are having a heart attack when it was in fact a panic attack. Just curious. :)
The Women’s Heart Foundation has just the answer:
Heart disease in women […]
New York Magazine ran a series in their June 19th issue on Medical Marvels. Several featured patients with cardiovascular disease. Here are some excerpts.
Medical Marvel #1: Conductor, 89, With Heart Problems, Too Old and Sick for Surgery
Dr. Howard Cohen: He badly needed an angioplasty, but given his age—89 at the time—any surgical […]
My week started off pretty well when I received some samples of Right Direction Cookies from Justin Longoria, a company representative. It came a little too late for breakfast especially since I’d already had a hefty piece of carrot & walnut cake (shut up back there, I can see you with a donut in your […]
With her sharp wit and sense of humor, Manola Blablablanik at sex and the beach is definitely not in danger of “broken heart” syndrome.
The condition mimics a heart attack; symptoms include chest pain and breathlessness. In the case of jilting, additional symptoms include the desire to throw all his clothes out the balcony in the […]
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