Can We Avoid Angioplasty & Bypass Surgery?
Whenever we hear about heart treatment, we think about surgical procedures such as Bypass surgery or replacement surgery. We always assume that heart problems can get fixed only through operations and surgeries. People always say that the medical field has made tremendous progress and came so far in the past few years. However, very few […]
Now Limit on Dietary Cholesterol Has Been Removed
The news is out and it is indeed a good one. The limit on dietary cholesterol has been removed. The dietary cholesterol limits had been thought as the controlling factor for raising LDL cholesterol limits and increasing the risks associated with heart diseases. Numerous researches spread over several decades could not substantiate this correlation. Hence […]
5 Dieting Tips To Help Reduce Cholesterol
Are you having high cholesterol problem? Take care as your heart is at risk. Presences of too much cholesterol in your blood causes a heart disease called atherosclerosis. The cholesterol builds up on the walls of your arteries which becomes narrow. This leads to slow flow of blood to the heart muscle or blocked. It […]
How Can I Prevent Heart Disease ? : Stroke Prevention
Coronary heart disease and stroke occurs when blood flow gets restricted due to the plaque build up in the walls of arteries. This plaque may develop into clot and result in heart attack. When the supply of blood to the brain is blocked, the cells in the starts to die due to insufficient blood and […]
Necessities or Need of Preventive Cardiology
The main goal of any Preventive Cardiologist is to avert heart attacks and strokes. Initially it may seem to be an easy task to prevent them. The following are the major causes for vascular disease Smoking Diabetes High blood pressure High levels of cholesterol Genetics What is Preventive Cardiology? It is an integral part of […]