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For most people diagnosed with heart disease, losing weight is part of the prescription. My friend and fellow b5media colleague, Kate Baggot of Babylune, has a piece in the new Chicken Soup for the Dieter’s Soul: Inspiration and Humor to Help You Over the Hump. I hope it helps you lead a hearty life in […]
The numbers are in. More than one-third of all deaths in the United States in 2004 were caused by cardiovascular disease: heart disease, stroke, high blood pressure, heart failure and congenital cardiovascular defects.
For CVD deaths as a whole, Minnesota had the lowest death rate and Mississippi had the highest.
For coronary heart disease deaths, Hawaii has […]
Three years ago, Dylan Gaunt was diagnosed with dilated cardiomyopathy at the age of two with a heart three times larger than normal. On the operating table, it took 20 minutes to resuscitate him and his parents were told that a heart transplant was in Dylan’s future along with a lifetime of medication and learning […]
Red Sox baseball star David Ortiz is no stranger to heart disease. In August, he experienced an irregular heartbeat and has donated $200,000 to start the Dominican Republic’s first pediatric cardiovascular unit - CEDIMART (Centros de Diagnostico y Medicas y Telemedicina). Ortiz said:
Yeah, I get a little bit sad about it. It hurt my […]
Yesterday evening, America’s 38th president Gerald Ford died at the age of 93. No official cause of death has been released but he had an angioplasty and pacemaker implant this past August.
Dr. Sanjay Gupta of CNN’s Paging Dr. Gupta Blog:
It is true that Ford was 93 years old, the longest living president. Doctors, though, don’t […]
Yesterday morning on Christmas Day, singer James Brown died of heart failure two days after he was hospitalized with pneumonia. The 73-year-old also had diabetes and prostate cancer.
Brown was himself to the end, at one point saying, “I’m going away tonight,” said friend Charles Bobbit, who was with Brown when he died.
“I didn’t want to […]
In a stunning New York Times feature, Dr. Michael E. DeBakey describes his personal experience with heart disease, all the more amazing because he is a pioneer of cardiovascular surgery that saved his life at age 98. Dr. DeBakey developed a dissecting aortic aneurysm on New Year’s Eve 2005 that caused so much pain he […]
Here’s an important reminder for a heart healthy holiday season from the Asbury Park Press:
Not to be alarmist, but a 2004 study confirmed that people are more likely to die of a heart attack on Christmas or New Year’s Day than any other day of the year. The researchers from University of California in San […]
Four years ago, the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) study found an association between hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and an increased risk of breast cancer and heart disease. Now Professor Virginia Miller of the U.S. Mayo Clinic College of Medicine suggests that HRT may be ok if women take it between the ages of 50 and […]
Dr. ibear was just talking the other day about the propensity for recently arrested people to develop some sort of medical ailment that requires them to make a detour to the emergency department instead of going directly to jail. Millard Franklin Kendrich must have read that post too because he was being questioned about the […]
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