Heart watch blogHeart watch blog from medicineworld.org adds a personal touch to the stories related to heart. This heart watch blog brings you stories of success, stories of endurance and latest news and research related to heart.Beijing pollution may trigger heart attacks- September 11, 2008 Olympic athletes aren't the only ones who need to be concerned about the heavily polluted air in Beijing. The dirty air may trigger serious cardiovascular problems for some spectators. Two scientists in pulmonary medicine and critical care at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine warn that for people in certain risk groups, breathing high levels of pollution can cause heart attacks and strokes within 24 hours of exposure and increase the possibility of having blood clots in...http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/7-2008/beijing-pollution-may-trigger-heart-attacks.ht... Heart attack patients who stop statin risk death- September 11, 2008 Patients discontinuing statin medicine following an acute myocardial infarction (AMI) increase their risk of dying over the next year, say scientists at McGill University and the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC). Their study was published in a recent issue of the European Heart Journal Using data on British patients who survived an AMI and were still alive three months later, Dr. Stella Daskalopoulou and his colleagues observed that those who discontinued their statin medicine were 88%...http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/8-2008/heart-attack-patients-who-stop-statin-risk-dea... Coronary heart disease patients live longer, but not always happier- September 11, 2008 Better therapys have improved survival in people with coronary heart disease, but the quality of those extra years may be less than ideal, as per research reported in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association. Compared with adults without coronary heart disease (CHD), adults with CHD scored up to 9 percent lower on four scales measuring "quality of life." Patients with coronary heart disease were more likely to say they had poorer quality of life, or describe themselves as sick,...http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/7-2008/coronary-heart-disease-patients.html How to stop a new type of heart attack- September 11, 2008 PACEMAKERS are supposed to protect people from heart attacks. But to do that they have to provide digital as well as biological security. Earlier this year, a team led by William Maisel at Harvard Medical School demonstrated how a commercial radio transmitter could be used to modify wireless communications from a pacemaker (New Scientist, 22 March, p 23). Doctors normally use these signals to monitor and adjust the implanted device, but a malicious hacker could reprogram the pacemaker to give...http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/8-2008/how-to-stop-a-new-type-of-heart-attack.html Bleeding gums linked to heart disease- September 11, 2008 Bleeding gums and poor dental hygiene can end up causing heart disease, researchers heard today (Thursday 11 September2008) at the Society for General Microbiology's Autumn meeting being held this week at Trinity College, Dublin. People with poor dental hygiene and those who don't brush their teeth regularly end up with bleeding gums, which provide an entry to the bloodstream for up to 700 different types of bacteria found in our mouths. This increases the risk of having a heart attack, as per..http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/9-2008/bleeding-gums-linked-to-heart-disease.html |