Heart Disease: Test Your KnowledgeThe Saturday Early Show
Professor Jamie Waterall, national lead for cardiovascular disease at Public Health England, the organization that unveiled the heart calculator, said, “Taking a Heart Age Test is something you can easily do at home, but it could be one of the most important things you do to help you live...
There's a new device which can tell you the health of your blood vessels, and your heart. Someone within the United States suffers a heart attack almost 1 million times a year – often with little or no warning. High blood pressure and cholesterol are known risk factors for heart disease,...
New Heart Disease Test Brings Higher Costs and More ProceduresKatherine Harmon
Heart disease is a term that covers a very wide range of conditions that affect the heart and the blood vessels in the heart. In this lesson we will look closer at the types of heart disease and the treatments options. Types of Heart Disease ...
If you're over 65 and have no symptoms of heart disease, regular hs-cTn testing may be useful. An increase of 50% or more in the result predicts heart failure. Your physician can prescribe treatment to help you. Who needs a troponin test? Troponin tests have many uses, but it’s most...
October 1, 2003 Pharmacy Times Volume0 0 An ultrasound test could detect the early warning signs of heart disease for diabetic patients, who are more prone to develop heart problems, according to the results of a study published recently in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. Fo...
Heart disease includes many different disorders. This lesson will go over the major risk factors for heart disease and some of the most important early signs of it. What Is Heart Disease? If you find yourself short of breath it could be due to a few different reasons. Maybe you just ran...
Novel cardiovascular risk score uses stress test to predict heart disease more accurately A study by Emory cardiovascular researchers has paved the way for the development of a new cardiovascular reactivity risk score that could better identify and improve how quickly high-risk patients under high stre...
A quarter of deaths caused by cardiovascular disease (CVD) happen in people under the age of 75, with 80 percent of these preventable if people led a healthier life. "Millions are at risk of CVD but don't know it, putting themselves at real risk of suffering ill health or dying younger...