sudden cardiac death may occur when the heart's electrical signals become erratic (arrhythmias). When the heart tissue that is responsible for regular electrical stimulus of heart muscle contractions is damaged, the heart stops effectively pumping blood. Death usually occurs in a few minutes after t...
Combining echocardiography(ultrasoundimaging of the heart muscle) with exercise stress testing (stress echocardiography) is also a very accurate technique to detect CAD. When a significant blockage exists, the heart muscle supplied by this artery does not contract as well as the rest of the heart m...
This study estimated the long-term clinical and economic implications of reduced heart attack treatment during the pandemic in the UK and Spain. The researchers compared the predicted life expectancy of patients who had a heart attack during the first lockdown with those who had a heart attack at...
Protecting Your Heart (& Brain): The One Lecture You Must Watch If you received this post via email, click here to get to the web version, with all the links. When I heard Dr. Steven Nissen's lecture two months ago I was stunned. I couldn't stop talking about it to anyone who wo...
We are living longer – the average life expectancy in Malaysia has increased by over a decade since the 1960s to the ripe age of 76 in 2019. Despite the progress and innovation, the age-old problem of death remains an absolute certainty in life. There were 172,031 deaths in Malaysia in...
3 In context of CVS diseases, mortality from heart disease in the US fell by more than half between 1950 and 1995, with a resultant increase in life-expectancy of approximately 3½ years, half to two-thirds of which has been attributed to coronary care units, treatment of hypertension, ...
the context of atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease, the official position of the American Heart Association on hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) is that a goal of 7% or less is “reasonable” for certain patients, like “those with a short duration of diabetes mellitus and a long life expectancy....