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.
In the West, demand for traditional Chinese medicine just goes on growing, however it’s the Chinese who are taking a great big acupuncture needle and trying to prick this bubble.
Genetic factors are poised to take a leading role in the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease.
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.
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.
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.
Children with risk factors such as high blood pressure, obesity, diabetes and high cholesterol levels already show signs of fatty build-up in their arteries that could lead to heart attack in adulthood, researchers reported at the American Heart Association’s Scientific Sessions 2006.
New data show that in cases of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, interrupting chest compressions for anything — including mouth-to-mouth ventilations — appears to be detrimental. Cardiocerebral Resuscitation, a new, chest-compression-only approach developed at the University of Arizona Sarver Heart Center, improved survival rates by 300 percent and enhances bystanders’ willingness to perform CPR.
Magnetic resonance spectroscopy may provide a noninvasive way to monitor neuropsychiatric symptoms in patients with lupus, according to results from research in mice at Wake Forest University School of Medicine.
Two drugs that a Wake Forest University School of Medicine research team has been investigating for lupus for several years may stabilize atherosclerotic plaque in the walls of arteries and help avert heart attacks and strokes.