Waltzing beats exercise for patients with CHF
The clinical difference is small, but the evidence is in ? waltzing does more than other aerobic exercise (ET) for the health of a patient with chronic heart failure (CHF).
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Women’s health – Unexpected risk factors found
That women with heart disease generally have worse outcomes than men is well known, but recent research is turning up some unusual and possibly very important new risk factors. Low testosterone levels, ?on-pump? bypass grafts, increased anxiety and under-treatment in secondary prevention may each have an independent, negative impact on women?s outcomes.
Conner Lecturer – Healthcare changes must focus on value
A transformation in health care requires vision, values and leadership ? and physicians are best poised to be transformative leaders, according to Ian Morrison, Ph.D., president emeritus of the Institute for the Future.
Hospitals to speed care in treating heart attacks
To improve patient care, especially treating patients suffering from heart attack, hundreds of hospitals in USA are joining an ambitious project intended to give faster emergency room care.
Cholesterol :: Statin drugs – cost effective, beneficial in lowering cholesterol
Cholesterol lowering ‘statin’ drugs are cost effective in far more people than current guidelines recommend and should be considered for a wider range of people, say researchers in a study published online by the BMJ today.
Heart Disease :: Genomics to play key role in prevention, therapy
Genetic factors are poised to take a leading role in the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease.
Heart :: AHA to launch heart magazine – Heart Insight
Heart Insight will give readers practical advice, new treatment recommendations … and encouragement. The American Heart Association announces the launch of a new patient magazine, Heart Insight, for heart patients, their families and caregivers.
Heart Disease :: Increasing survival in cardiac arrest
Researchers are taking cardiac devices already in the operating room and using them in radically different applications as extracorporeal life support systems in cardiac arrest or traumatic hemorrhage.
Heart Disease :: Guidelines, hypothermia improve survival
A patient?s chance of survival falls 7 percent to 10 percent per minute when CPR is delayed after cardiac arrest, and post-arrest survival for out-of-hospital events is as low as 2 percent in one large Chicago hospital.
Heart Disease :: Heart failure patients can waltz their way to healthier hearts
Dancing improves ability to function and quality of life among chronic heart failure patients and may be a good alternative to other aerobic exercises, researchers reported at the American Heart Association’s Scientific Sessions 2006.