WEDNESDAY, April 17, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Changes in gut bacteria have been linked to a variety of different diseases, including type 2 diabetes, obesity and inflammatory bowel disease. Now, a new study indicates that gut bacteria also might play a role in a person’s risk of developing heart disease.Continue Reading
FRIDAY, April 12, 2024 (HealthDay News) — It’s long been documented that women have a slimmer chance of surviving heart bypass surgery compared to men, and researchers believe that they now know why. Women tend to be more vulnerable to blood loss during surgery — red blood cells, specifically —Continue Reading
THURSDAY, April 11, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Intense weather fluctuations caused by climate change could be contributing to an increase in stroke deaths, a new study claims. Freezing cold fronts and broiling heat waves are associated with more than half a million deaths annually in recent years, researchers report AprilContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, April 10, 2024 (HealthDay News) — A new drug can slash triglyceride levels nearly in half by targeting a genetic driver of high fat levels in the bloodstream, researchers said. The injectable drug, olezarsen, lowered triglyceride levels by 49% at the 50 milligram (mg) dose and by 53% atContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, April 10, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Beta blockers appear to be useless when prescribed to heart attack survivors who aren’t suffering from heart failure, a new clinical trial indicates. The study calls into question the routine of prescribing beta blockers to all patients following a heart attack, which hasContinue Reading
TUESDAY, April 9, 2024 (HealthDay News) — For people struggling with both diabetes and a common type of heart failure, the weight-loss drug Wegovy may do more for their health than help them shed pounds, new research suggests. In the study, published Saturday in the New England Journal of Medicine,Continue Reading
MONDAY, April 8, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Just a little exposure to secondhand smoke may increase your risk for the heart rhythm disorder atrial fibrillation (A-Fib), a new, large study suggests. People who have A-Fib, the world’s most common heart rhythm disorder, are five times more likely to have aContinue Reading
FRIDAY, April 5, 2024 (HealthDay News) — America is making headway against heart disease, with heart-related deaths declining over the past three decades. But it appears that only the well-to-do have benefitted, a new study shows. Heart attack rates have stayed the same or gotten worse among the poor duringContinue Reading
TUESDAY, April 2, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Think vaping is the “healthy” alternative to smoking? Think again: A new study finds it raises people’s odds for heart failure. “More and more studies are linking e-cigarettes to harmful effects and finding that it might not be as safe as previously thought,”Continue Reading
MONDAY, April 1, 2024 (HealthDay News) — A new warning is being issued over a heart pump whose use could perforate the heart. The device has already been linked to over 100 injuries and 49 deaths. These left-sided Impella heart pumps are made by Abiomed, a subsidiary of Johnson &Continue Reading