Obesity is certainly a risk factor for heart disease, but how important is it, really? Read all about it it here.
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Nearly 5 million Americans suffer with heart failure, many with significant symptoms or disability, followed by reduced survival. But with adequate treatment the symptoms of heart failure often can be controlled and survival greatly improved.
Cholesterol gets all the press, but triglycerides can be important in determining your cardiovascular risk, too.
Read about triglycerides - What causes triglyceride levels to go up? When should you become concerned about triglycerides? And what is the best treatment for elevated levels?
More and more people today are being told that they have "diastolic dysfunction" (or diastolic heart failure.) Diastolic dysfunction occurs when the ventricles of the heart become relatively "stiff," and thus it becomes relatively difficult to fill the ventricles with blood in between heart beats. Read what causes diastolic dysfunction, how it is diagnosed, what it means to have it, and how it is treated, here.
Aortic dissection an emergency condition in which a tear forms in the wall of the aorta, which "dissects" (or tears apart) the layers of the vessel wall. Aortic dissection can rapidly lead to death.
Read here about the symptoms, causes and treatment of aortic dissection.
In people who have Raynaud phenomenon, the blood vessels in the fingers (and sometimes the toes) have an exaggerated response to cold or emotional stress, causing striking discoloration, numbness, tingling and sometimes pain. In severe cases, actual tissue destruction can occur.
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