Heart Disease
72 Articles & Excerpts
Keep Your Heart Healthy : What's Your Risk Profile?
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Risk factors for heart disease are typically labeled uncontrollable or controllable. The main uncontrollable risk factors are age, gender, and a family history of heart disease, especially at an early age.
Taking Aspirin To Avoid Heart Attack And Stroke
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
In recent years, you may have seen television ads promoting aspirin's ability to reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke in certain groups of people. You should know that deciding to take an aspirin a day is not as simple as it may seem.
Devices Treat Heart Defects
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
FDA recently approved new devices to treat two forms of heart defects that may be present at birth. The defects, also known as congenital heart defects, involve holes in the heart called septal defects.
Foods That Could Lower Heart Disease Risk
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
FDA approves health claim for foods that contain plant sterol and stanol esters, shown to reduce cholesterol levels in the blood. Planning a healthier diet that helps reduce the risk of heart disease just got easier.
Treating High Blood Cholesterol: Drug Treatments
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Statins work by interfering with the cholesterol-producing mechanisms of the liver and by increasing the capacity of the liver to remove cholesterol from circulating blood. Statins can lower LDL cholesterol by as much as 60 percent, depending on the drug
What Is High Blood Cholesterol? How is it Treated?
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Cholesterol levels are determined through chemical analysis of a blood sample taken from a finger prick or from a vein in the arm. Home cholesterol kits, first approved in 1993, test only for total cholesterol levels but are as accurate as tests done
Keep Your Cholesterol Under Control
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Highly effective drugs are available to lower cholesterol, but diet and exercise still come first. The body needs cholesterol for digesting dietary fats, making hormones, building cell walls, and other important processes.
Irregular Heartbeats : Preventive Treatment, An Internal Jolt
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Before starting any preventive drug treatment regimen, doctors first try to rule out reversible causes of ventricular arrhythmias: for example, caffeine, alcohol and tobacco consumption, and certain over-the-counter and prescribed medicines.
Ventricular Arrhythmias or Irregular Heartbeats : Emergency Care
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Patients with ventricular fibrillation must be treated immediately with one or more electric shocks to the heart, which are transmitted externally with defibrillator paddles placed on the chest.
Ventricular Arrhythmias or Irregular Heartbeats
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Ventricular arrhythmias, or irregular heartbeats, can range from harmless palpitations to deadly fibrillation, which can kill within minutes. But new drugs and devices show promise in curbing this common condition.
Using Food Labels to Prevent Heart Disease
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
For people who want to eat a heart-healthy diet, the new food label gives information on cholesterol, fats, and other nutrients in ways that are easier to understand and read.
Women and Heart Disease
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Heart disease has been the number one killer of women since the turn of the century. Yet, until recently, many considered it a man's disease. Today awareness is growing of how women's symptoms and treatment may differ from men's.
Implanted Defibrillators and Pacemakers
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Implanted defibrillators and pacemakers have undergone miniaturization and other technical advances, making them gentler and more efficient in steadying abnormal heartbeats. But glitches still occur.
Preventing Heart Disease by Reducing Cholesterol
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
If you are an adult without CHD, you can expect your doctor to measure your total blood cholesterol and HDL cholesterol at least once every five years, and to assess other risk factors for CHD during regular visits.
Lowering Cholesterol : CHD Risk Factors, Dietary and Drug Therapy
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
In addition to total and HDL cholesterol levels, doctors take other CHD risk factors into consideration when determining how aggressively to treat high blood cholesterol. Age is a risk factor because CHD risk increases with age.
Lowering Cholesterol
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Though a number of drugs are available to treat elevated blood cholesterol, the first line of defense is lifestyle, including diet modification, increased exercise, and smoking cessation.
Understanding Cholesterol : Healthy Eating for All
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Despite impressive declines in mortality rates over the past 20 years, coronary heart disease remains the leading cause of death in the United States. It is the number one killer of both men and women, claiming more than 500,000 American lives each year.
Understanding Cholesterol
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Despite impressive declines in mortality rates over the past 20 years, coronary heart disease remains the leading cause of death in the United States. It is the number one killer of both men and women, claiming more than 500,000 American lives each year.
The Artificial Heart, Ventricular Assist Devices
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
A currently more fruitful area of research is the electrically powered implantable ventricular assist device, a pump used to support the patient's left ventricle, the chamber that must work most vigorously to send blood on its way throughout the body.
Hearth: Blood Vessels and Valves
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Delivery of blood through open vessels is crucial to cardiovascular function. Block a vessel with plaque or a clot, and blood flow backs up, robbing nearby tissues of vital oxygen. Blood can only flow through a smooth conduit.
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