Heart Health

Minerals Linked to Fewer Strokes

Feb 14, 2017 · · Heart Health
Are you getting the minerals in your diet that you need to help reduce stroke risk? In a new look at data on more than 180,000 women in the Nurses’ Health Study, combined intake of magnesium, potassium and calcium was associated with lower stroke risk. Separately, participants with the highest … Read More

Caffeine Doesn’t Cause Heart Jitters

Feb 14, 2017 · · Heart Health
The popular notion—reflected in doctors’ advice and clinical guidelines—that caffeine can cause your heart to “skip a beat” is probably wrong. A new study, the first of its kind to actually monitor participants’ hearts over a 24-hour span, concludes that frequent caffeine consumption is not associated with premature heart contractions … Read More

Pessimism, Worry Can Lead to Heart Damage

Jan 24, 2017 · · Heart Health
Two recent studies suggest that thoughts may be as important as risk factors like high blood pressure, high cholesterol and high blood sugar when it comes to heart health. Research published online Nov. 17, 2016 in BMC Public Health tested levels of pessimism in nearly 3,000 men and women ranging … Read More

Many Common Medication Can Cause or Worsen Heart Failure

Jan 24, 2017 · · Heart Health
Many patients who have heart failure also have other medical conditions, for which they may take numerous prescription medications daily. However, many commonly used medications can cause or worsen heart failure, according to the American Heart Association (AHA). The AHA’s list of more than 70 medications that may cause or … Read More

Signs of A Heart Attack

Jan 23, 2017 · · Heart Health
A heart attack, also called a myocardial infarction (“myo” means muscle; “cardial” stands for heart), occurs when oxygen-rich blood is blocked from reaching the heart. Most heart attacks are the result of coronary artery disease, which is a build of waxy plaque in the arteries. This plaque can build up … Read More

1. Your Heart-Brain Partnership

Jan 23, 2017 · · Heart Health
Biologically speaking, everything that makes you what you are depends on a three-pound organ inside your skull that is kept alive by the beating of an organ in your chest that weighs only 8 to 10 ounces. Your heart beats about 100,000 times a day, pumping 2,000 gallons of blood … Read More

A Letter From The Consulting Editor

Jan 23, 2017 · · Heart Health
Dear Friends, Before the discoveries of modern medicine, medieval philosophers believed the heart was “the root of all faculties”—the source of what makes each individual unique. Though we now understand that cognition and consciousness spring instead from the brain, those ancient thinkers were not far wrong in emphasizing the central … Read More

Cut Cardiovascular Risks With Your Diet

Jan 20, 2017 · · Heart Health
You already know that having high LDL (“bad”) cholesterol and/or blood pressure raises your odds of having cardiovascular disease (CVD), which increases your risk of heart attack, stroke, and other problems that affect your heart and circulatory system—but you may not know just how much your odds drop when you … Read More

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