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The Importance of Cardiovascular Health: An Overview

GEMMS

By prioritizing cardiovascular health, individuals can improve their quality of life and longevity. Cardiovascular health is of utmost importance as it directly affects the well-being of our heart and blood vessels. Moreover, a healthy heart contributes to improved overall fitness, endurance, and quality of life.

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Strengthening Your Heart With Cardiac Rehabilitation

AMS Cardiology

This comprehensive program overseen by a cardiac rehabilitation specialist offers numerous benefits that can significantly improve quality of life and reduce the risk of future cardiac events. Cardiac rehab is a program designed to help patients recover from heart attacks, heart surgery, or other cardiac conditions.

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Revolutionizing Hypertension Treatment: The Promise of Renal Denervation

Wellnest

These groundbreaking developments offer a paradigm shift in the management of resistant hypertension, especially when it is extremely difficult to achieve blood pressure control through conventional means, such as lifestyle modifications and various drug therapies.

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In Your 40s to 60s And Worried About Heart Disease? Here Is What You Can Do.

Dr. Paddy Barrett

. ‘ Snipers Alley ’, it turns out, is an age between 40-60, where mostly males were having fatal heart attacks. These patients were not overly bothered about having a heart attack at age 80, but usually, one of their friends, aged 52 or so, had just had a heart attack, and they did not want to be next.

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Beta Blockers May Not Benefit Many Heart Attack Survivors

DAIC

The findings call into question the routine use of beta blockers for all patients following a heart attack, which have stood as a mainstay of care for decades. Approximately 50% of heart attack survivors do not experience heart failure. Over a median follow-up period of 3.5

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New Guidelines on Peripheral Artery Disease Issued by American Heart Association, American College of Cardiology and Leading Medical Societies

DAIC

A new joint guideline from the American Heart Association (AHA), the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and nine other medical societies reports early diagnosis and treatment of peripheral artery disease is essential to improve outcomes and reduce amputation risk, heart attack, stroke and death for people with Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD).

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How to wean off Beta-blockers

Dr. Sanjay Gupta

improve quality of life. Beta blockers can be used to control blood pressure. Beta blockers can be used as a treatment for heart failure. There have also been reports of heart failure status worsening and blood pressure going up excessively. In some situations they make people feel better i.e