Heart Talks

Aerobic exercise combined with cognitive behavioral therapy may improve physical function, reduce depressive symptoms and enhance quality of life in depressed heart failure patients, researchers reported at the American Heart Association’s 9th Scientific Forum on Quality of Care and Outcomes Research in Cardiovascular Disease and Stroke.
In a new study, researchers divided 74 heart failure patients […]

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Heart specialists at Johns Hopkins and elsewhere report what is believed to be the first wide-scale evidence linking severe overweight to prolonged inflammation of heart tissue and the subsequent damage leading to failure of the body’s blood-pumping organ.
The latest findings from the Multiethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA), to be published in the May 6 issue […]

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About 40 percent of African-Americans have a genetic variant that can protect them after heart failure and prolong their lives, according to research conducted at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and collaborating institutions.
The genetic variant has an effect that resembles that of beta blockers, drugs widely prescribed for heart failure. The new […]

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Beta-blockers heal the heart via the brain when administered during heart failure, according to a new study by UCL (University College London). Up to now, it was thought that beta-blockers work directly on the heart, but the new study shows that the drugs may also act via the brain, suggesting that future therapies to treat […]

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In the largest study of its kind in the U.S., researchers from Duke University have identified a possible “perfect storm” of factors pushing heart failure to the forefront of risks for complications after surgery in the elderly.
Adrian F. Hernandez, M.D., said that three concurrent trends in the next ten to twenty years point to a […]

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Albany Medical Center is the first healthcare institution in the region to introduce aquapheresis–an innovative therapy which removes dangerous levels of excess fluid in patients suffering from congestive heart failure. The therapy has proven to be more effective in removing excess fluid than standard treatment and reduces the likelihood of re-hospitalization for congestive heart failure.
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Conventional wisdom holds that as the U.S. population ages, the incidence of heart failure will continue to rise. A new study from Duke University Medical Center challenges part of that assumption, however, finding that heart failure is actually declining among the very elderly. Yet the number of heart failure cases overall continues to rise.
“Heart failure […]

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The yellow colored turmeric - spice in Indian food - may significantly reduce the chances of developing heart failure.
Canadian researchers at the Peter Munk Cardiac Centre of the Toronto General Hospital discovered that the natural ingredient in turmeric, called curcumin, is responsible for the prevention of the heart disease.
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People suffering from heart failure have an average survival time of 2.4 years or 29 months, according to a large study conducted on Ontario heart failure patients.
Heart failure is the leading cause of hospitalization and more than five million people in North America are affected.
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Hawthorn extract can drastically ease the symptoms of chronic heart failure, study suggests.
A group of researchers at Peninsula Medical School, Universities of Exeter and Plymouth, UK, found that the herbal medicine helps the heart to beat more powerfully, increasing the amount of blood flowing through the heart and reducing irregular heartbeats.
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