Three words:Consume less salt.
We are consuming too much salt in our diet.
Thanks to New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s National Salt reduction Initiative, 16 private companies have now agreed to reduce salt levels in their products. Reuters comments, “U.S. researchers found recently that cutting salt intake by nearly 10 percent could prevent hundreds of thousands of heart […]

An article in the August 27th issue of the New England Journal of Medicine reports on two studies investigating quicker ways to identify heart attacks for patients coming to an emergency room with heart attack symptoms.  The study councluded that newer blood tests were more accurate at identifying heart attacks than the current methods. These […]

More than 22 million people have heart failure.  Even with the major advances in treatment for heat failure, over 50 percent of these people die within five years or learning of the condition. 
Dr. Doris Taylor, the Medtronic-Bakken Chair in Cardiac Repair and the Director of the Center for Cardiovascular Repair at the University of Minnesota […]

In a new study released by Johns Hopkins, it was found that patients recieving hearts from same sex donors were as much as 25% more likely to survive.

 
With numerous advancements in medical science, some studies have been done to treat the heart diseases recently and medical fraternity has come up with some interesting facts. Among various treatments that keep a check on your cardiovascular health, digoxin treatment figures prominently. Extensive studies have been done to find the real root cause and cure […]