DAIC

OCTOBER 30, 2024

30, 2024 — HeartLung Technologies , a developer of AI tools for early detection of heart disease, lung cancer and other conditions announced that its AI-enabled Automated Cardiac Chambers Volumetry (AutoChamber) recently received “Breakthrough Medical Device” designation and marketing authorization from the U.S.

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Dr. Anish Koka

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Image by Pexels from Pixabay There would appear to be confusion among some cardiologists about the relative prevalence of malignant heart disease between men and women as evidenced by this exchange on twitter from pre-pandemic times. This does not mean heart disease in women should be ignored.

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

AUGUST 23, 2024

While I have covered many of these fitness measures individually in previous posts, I wanted to summarise these metrics and how they relate to living longer and preventing major diseases such as cardiovascular disease, cancer and dementia. 6 Heart-rate recovery immediately after exercise as a predictor of mortality.

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DAIC

JANUARY 28, 2025

An improved understanding of heart development could help inform new clinical strategies in managing congenital heart diseases, which are the most common type of birth defects, said research team leader Shang Wang from Stevens Institute of Technology.

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MIBHS

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

Heart disease is often perceived as a predominantly male issue, but the reality tells a different story. It’s the leading cause of death for women, claiming more lives each year than all forms of cancer combined. A key difference lies in how women and men experience heart attacks.

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Dr. Anish Koka

MAY 16, 2023

The CDC wonder database that tracks mortality data shows just how much more deadly heart disease is in men than women. The table below shows mortality from heart disease for men vs women in 2000. Men die of heart disease at more than two times the rate women die starting at the age of 35.

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Dr. Sanjay Gupta

AUGUST 31, 2022

In this video, I wanted to explore this further with respect to Aspirin which is commonly prescribed for prevention or treatment of heart disease. This is called the Primary Bank because it is only for those people who have never had a heart attack or a stroke but are looking to prevent one from happening by taking Aspirin daily.

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Physiologically Speaking

APRIL 10, 2024

In addition, rates of cardiovascular disease and cancer in high-performing athletes are 27% and 40% lower, respectively, than in non-athletes. Calcified plaques are known to be more stable and less prone to rupture and lead to a heart attack. We cannot, of course, infer causation from these observations.

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DAIC

MARCH 8, 2024

Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) has approved an additional indication for Wegovy ( semaglutide ) to reduce the risk of major cardiovascular events such as death, heart attack, or stroke in adults with known heart disease and with either obesity or overweight along with a reduced calorie diet and increased physical activity.

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DAIC

MARCH 5, 2024

Getty Images milla1cf Tue, 03/05/2024 - 13:15 March 5, 2024 — Frequent cannabis smoking may significantly increase a person’s risk for heart attack and stroke, according to an observational study supported by the National Institutes of Health. Cannabis use could be an important, underappreciated source of heart disease.”

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DAIC

APRIL 29, 2024

Getty Images milla1cf Mon, 04/29/2024 - 13:06 April 29, 2024 — Women with heart disease are less often treated with cholesterol-lowering drugs than men, according to research presented today at ESC Preventive Cardiology 2024 , a scientific congress of the European Society of Cardiology ( ESC ).1 2Knuuti J, Wijns W, Saraste A, et al.

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

JULY 12, 2024

If you have high LDL cholesterol and are unsure what that means for your risk of heart disease, this article is for you. This 10-year phase shift in LDL cholesterol level rise is thought to explain why females tend to develop heart disease about ten years later than males. Heart attacks kill people.

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American College of Cardiology

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

These include hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, early or premature menopause, gestational diabetes, polycystic ovarian syndrome, autoimmune or other inflammatory diseases, and breast cancer therapies. These have ranged from heart attacks, cardio-obstetrics, breast cancer, prevention and arrhythmias.8-13

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

MARCH 5, 2024

Push Ups The simple push-up is a very strong predictor of your future chance of dying from heart disease. Compared to those who could complete less than 10 push ups, those who could do 40 push ups were 96% less likely to die from cardiovascular disease over the next 10 years 2. You should be doing a formal V02 max test.

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Dr. Malcolm Kendrick

OCTOBER 30, 2024

This misinformation would have resulted in many thousands of people giving up their medication and suffering heart attacks and strokes as a result. Why do these attacks happen? And if you dare to suggest the idea that low-fat foods do not protect against heart disease, you get much the same treatment.

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