Note that this article focuses only on heart attacks, which are caused by blockages in the flow of blood to the heart, and not on sudden cardiac arrests (SCA) which involve heart stoppages caused by the heart itself malfunctioning. For more on SCA and how they differ from heart attacks, ...
New research focusing on heart attacks, specifically ST‐segment–elevation myocardial infarctions (STEMIs), has uncovered that socioeconomic, racial, and gendered disparities are associated with greater risk and that those affected are less likely to receive certain procedures. The data were presented ...
Is cardiac arrest when the heart stops beating? In cardiac arrest,the heart stops beating and needs to be restarted. While a heart attack is a circulation problem, cardiac arrest is an electrical problem triggered by a disruption of the heart's rhythm. Most heart attacks do not lead to card...
It was three days beforeValentine's Dayand I wanted nothing more than for time to stand still. "Valentine's Day can absolutely get fucked," I said the next day to my friend Michelle as I ran on the treadmill and cried simultaneously. A feat of human nature, you might say. ...
Monday 3pm: Leaves his room and goes to the kitchen 3:40pm: Leaves the kitchen and goes back to his room 6:30pm: Head to the lake to the east of his house to smoke 7:30pm: Arrives at the lake and smokes 9:30pm: Heads back home Tuesday 3pm: Leaves his room and goes to the...
题目On a Friday evening in December,two weeks before Christmas,I lost my job.I hadn't seen it coming.I was excited for the weekend,when my daughter,Kristil,then 12,and I planned to get our Christmas tree.Then I listened to my voicemail. "We're sorry,but your...
and not one but two heart attacks.” After a scary fall at his home in Lake Nacimiento, California, he began to have trouble with his balance. An MRI showed that he had "major blood clots on both sides of [his] brain," leading to the decision to wear a hairpiece. Going through a ...
On Monday, February 22, the catheterization lab team led by Robert Stoler, MD, FACC, FSCAI, co-medical director of cardiology and medical director for catheterization laboratory at Baylor Scott & White Heart and Vascular Hospital – Dallas, became the first in Texas to commercially use the Shoc...
Delirious, caked with salt and blood, they were sucking marrow out of clumsily splintered human ribs with feral intensity. Even when taken on board, "they were loth to part with the bones of their dead mess mates".Hardyment, Christina
I was absolutely thrilled when EmpowHer asked me to write some articles on women’s heart health. The need for this education was drilled home when my dear, sweet, wonderful husband, with his brilliant IQ of 158, asked me why women need to be concerned about their heart health!!!