Do Soft Drinks Cause Metabolic Syndrome?
Monday July 30, 2007
A study published in Circulation last week associates the consumption of more than one soft drink beverage per day with an increased risk of developing metabolic syndrome. This association ... Read More
Statins, Low Cholesterol, and Cancer
Thursday July 26, 2007
A study this week in the American Journal of Cardiology has raised considerable public consternation in reporting an association between low LDL cholesterol levels in patients taking statins, and the ... Read More
Women and Heart Disease
Monday July 23, 2007
Many women - and many doctors - are still unaware that heart disease kills nearly twice as many American women as does cancer. Worse, heart disease in women ... Read More
AHA Endorses Calcium Scores
Friday July 20, 2007
A writing group for the American Heart Association has recently updated its recommendations regarding using CT scanning to measure coronary artery calcium scores. Unlike its last set of recommendations, ... Read More
Multislice CT Scans
Monday July 16, 2007
Multislice CT scans are the latest thing in non-invasive imaging of the coronary arteries. The images produced by multislice CT scans can be truly amazing - but can they ... Read More
Dark Chocolate Helps Blood Pressure
Thursday July 12, 2007
Last week, investigators from Germany reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association that eating one square of dark chocolate per day reduces blood pressure. They reached this ... Read More
Is HRT Really Safe Again?
Monday July 9, 2007
A new analysis of data from the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, suggests that in younger post-menopausal women (those from 50 to ... Read More
Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy (CRT) for Heart Failure
Friday July 6, 2007
In some patients with heart failure, a new kind of pacemaker can re-coordinate the muscular function of the damaged heart, relieving the symptoms of heart failure, and reducing the odds ... Read More
Latest Guidelines on LDL Cholesterol
Monday July 2, 2007
Shortly after the Adult Treatment Panel III (ATP III) guidelines from the National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP) were last published in 2002, several clinical trials came out suggesting that target ... Read More