For a number of years, the medical establishment and scientists have urged people to take an aspirin daily to ward off strokes and heart attacks. The belief is that taking a low dose of aspirin regularly offered some type of heart protection. Many middle aged individuals bought into this theory, and according to The Wall Street Journal, more than forty-four million packages of low dose aspirin were sold this past year, up twelve percent from 2005. Medical experts, however, are refining their earlier suggestions that everyone can benefit from taking aspirin daily.
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There’s a polyunsaturated fatty acid found in fish called omega-3, and it seems to support cardiovascular health.
Inflammation seems to be a leading cause of heart and blood vessel disease, and the buildup of plaques is another big problem. Both of these can contribute to atherosclerosis, which is the hardening of the arteries formed by plaque gathering on artery walls. When this plaque breaks away from the vessel wall it can become very dangerous. Traveling plaques can cause vision loss, strokes, and more severely a heart attack!
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Perhaps you have been debating whether to give your newborn Similac or to breastfeed. Maybe after reading the findings from this recent research you will be more likely to nurse your babies.
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In Spain, a recent study was conducted dealing with drinking alcohol and its relationship with heart disease. The study included more than 41,000 adults, and the results showed that any regular drinking of alcohol lowers the risk of serious heart disease by about a third in men.
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It turns out that researchers have found evidence of heart disease in Egyptian mummies, thus negating the claim that heart disease is a relatively recent historical development. The evidence of heart disease was found in the hardened arteries of the excavated mummies.
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A recent study shows that elders who walk at a slower pace are three times as likely to die from heart disease as compared to those who walk more quickly. Researchers now believe that studying walking habits is a new way to test for heart and circulation problems in patients, and research has been conducted to test this idea.
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Declining kidney function has been shown to increase the risk of having problems like heart failure, heart attack, peripheral arterial disease, and even early death, according to studies from the Journal of the American Society Nephrology.
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If you have high blood pressure, high cholesterol, or blood clots, you most likely will have heart problems at some point. Those three signs are the first warnings of heart disease, and an electric thimble called the Endo-Pat has been designed to detect these signs of heart disease before the symptoms even appear.
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Recently, U.S. researchers studied phosphorus levels in the blood and its relation to coronary artery calcification (or CAC), which is an early indicator of hardening arteries and heart disease. During this study, known as the Spokane Heart Study, 900 healthy adults were tested as part of this long-term investigation of heart disease risk factors.
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Several studies have been done on the links between bad dental hygiene and heart disease. One such study, published in April of 2008, has linked gum disease with coronary heart disease. According to this study, this link exists despite regardless of other risk factors for heart disease – age, body mass index, smoking and diabetes, for example.
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