Title: Study: Calcium May Increase Heart Attack Risk Category: Health News Created: 7/30/2010 11:14:00 AM Last Editorial Review: 7/30/2010 11:14:12 AM  Read More →

Although millions of people take calcium supplements to boost bone health and ward off osteoporosis, New Zealand researchers say the supplements have little effect on bone strength and contribute to a small increase in the risk for heart attack among older people. Rather than relying on calcium supplements, the researchers suggest that people get their required calcium, if possible, from foods.  Read More →

New research may shed some light on the ongoing public health debate regarding how to minimize the death rate from the most serious kinds of heart attacks, while also limiting health care costs. One option under consideration is increasing the number of hospitals that are equipped to perform life-saving coronary angioplasty procedures, known as percutaneous coronary interventions (or PCI) — a technique that offers these heart attack patients... 

According to a new large-scale study, people who suffer a heart attack and undergo angioplasty and other procedures to open blocked arteries are receiving these treatments more quickly and more safely than ever before.  Read More →

Patients who have a heart attack and undergo procedures to open blocked arteries are getting proven treatments in U.S. hospitals faster and more safely than ever before, according to the results of a large-scale study. Data on more than 131,000 heart attack patients treated at about 250 hospitals from January 2007 through June 2009 also showed that the patients themselves have become more aware of the signs of heart attack and are showing up at... 

A study of more than 1,000 people in Holland has found that anxiety disorders appear to increase the risk of heart attack, stroke, heart failure, and death in people who have heart disease.  Read More →

Anxiety disorders may increase the risk of heart attack, stroke, heart failure and death in people with heart disease, a new Dutch study suggests. The research included over 1,000 people with stable coronary heart disease who were assessed for anxiety disorder at the start of the study and then followed for an average of 5.6 years.  Read More →

New research published in the medical journal The Lancet has found that diabetes appears to double the risk of death from heart attack, stroke, or other heart condition.  Read More →

Hospitals that use the “Get With The Guidelines” heart attack procedures from the American Heart Association have succeeded in eliminating racial and ethnic disparities when caring for heart attack patients, researchers say.  Read More →

Diabetes appears to double the risk of dying from a heart attack, stroke or other heart condition, a new study finds. The researchers implicate diabetes in one of every 10 deaths from cardiovascular disease, or about 325,000 deaths a year in industrialized countries.  Read More →

Title: Abuse May Raise Risk of Heart Attack, Stroke in Migraine Sufferers Category: Health News Created: 6/23/2010 2:10:00 PM Last Editorial Review: 6/24/2010  Read More →

Researchers in Sweden are reporting that men diagnosed with anxiety in their teens or early adulthood are more than twice as likely to have a heart attack or heart disease later in life than those who are not diagnosed with anxiety.  Read More →

People who have rheumatoid arthritis have a much higher risk of suffering a heart attack, researchers say, and this risk can be as high as six times the normal rate in women younger than age 50.  Read More →

Stem cells from the amniotic sac that surrounds a fetus may someday be used to repair damage caused by a heart attack, Japanese researchers report. The work, so far only conducted in animals, raises the possibility of a non-controversial source of stem cells to treat not only heart disease but also many other conditions, said Dr. Shunichiro Miyoshi, an assistant professor in the cardiology department at the Keio University School of Medicine, and... 

A study of more than 1,500 heart attack survivors found that patients were more likely to avoid sex in the following year if they did not have a frank talk with their doctor about when to resume sexual activity.  Read More →