High Heat, Heavy Smog a Deadly Combo: Study
Latest Heart News By Steven Reinberg HealthDay Reporter TUESDAY, July 5, 2022 (HealthDay News) Heat coupled with smog can be a particularly lethal mix, especially for older adults, a new study finds. Unfortunately, both hot temperatures and air pollution are going to increase as the planet warms, and so will deaths, researchers report. “We are […]
AHA News: Fuzzy and Full of Nutrients, Peaches Are a Summertime Staple
Latest Nutrition, Food & Recipes News TUESDAY, July 5, 2022 (American Heart Association News) Typically in season from July to September, peaches are a staple of summertime salads, meals and desserts. They’re also a popular choice for nutritionists, who say their sweet taste makes it easier for people to add them to their diet. “They’re […]
Sleep is linked to heart health
Sleep duration is now considered an essential component for ideal heart and brain health. Life’s Essential 8™ cardiovascular health score replaces Life’s Simple 7™, according to a new Presidential Advisory, Life’s Essential 8 — Updating and Enhancing the American Heart Association’s Construct on Cardiovascular Health, published today in Circulation, the Association’s flagship, peer-reviewed journal. Other […]
Only 1 in 5 people in the U.S. has optimal heart health: Circulation Journal Report: New Life’s Essential 8™ score reveals concerning data
About 80% of people in the U.S. have low to moderate cardiovascular health based on the American Heart Association’s new Life’s Essential 8™ checklist according to a new study published today in Circulation, the Association’s flagship, peer-reviewed journal. Life’s Essential 8™, also published today in Circulation, details the Association’s updated guidance to measure cardiovascular health, […]
AHA News: 38-Year-Old Learns the Surprising Reason She Had a Heart Attack
Latest Heart News TUESDAY, June 28, 2022 (American Heart Association News) As she finished mowing the lawn of her home in Girard, Ohio, Amy Kren had a somewhat familiar feeling. The shortness of breath and tightness in her chest seemed like another asthma attack. She went into the garage and put a hand on a […]
9 Ways to Protect Your Heart and Brain From the Summer Heat – MedicineNet Health News
Latest Heart News TUESDAY, June 28, 2022 Your favorite summertime playlist probably has more songs about surfing than about potential health risks. But with much of the nation having already sweated out a historic heat wave in June, health experts would like to add a note of caution to the mix. Hot weather is like […]
Spiral wave teleportation theory offers new path to defibrillate hearts, terminate arrhythmias
A spiral wave of electrical activity in the heart can cause catastrophic consequences. One spiral wave creates tachycardia — a heart rate that’s too fast — and multiple spirals cause a state of disorganized contraction known as fibrillation. Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology offer a new method to disrupt spiral waves that uses […]
Women’s heart attacks are often missed: This gene may help explain why
When diagnostic tests for the heart were first created, scientists at the time did not fully consider that no two bodies are the same, especially between the sexes. According to University of Florida College of Nursing associate professor Jennifer Dungan, many of the current symptom profiles and lab tests for heart disease do not accurately […]
Landmark Pig Heart Recipient Succumbed to Xenograft Rejection, Had Porcine Virus
It turns out that the world’s first pig-to-human heart xenotransplantation had resulted in atypical rejection that may have contributed to the patient’s death 2 months later, according to the team behind the pioneering surgery from January. The transplant surgeon Bartley Griffith, MD, of University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore, and colleagues revealed that […]
Lack of diversity of micro-organisms in the gut or elevated metabolite implicated in heart failure severity
Some people who experience heart failure have less biodiversity in their gut or have elevated gut metabolites, both of which are associated with more hospital visits and greater risk of death, according to a systematic review of research findings led by Georgetown University School of Nursing & Health Study researchers and colleagues. The gut microbiome […]