Tag: heart disease

Treating a Cold with High Blood Pressure

Cold and flu season is hard enough, but if you have high blood pressure (HBP) you may want to avoid certain OTC cold medications. To learn more about how certain types of cold medicine might impact people with hypertension, and to find out more about a cold medication that might be right for you, watch this video! For more, visit: http://conditions.healthguru.com/topic/kids-health/cold-flu

Heart and Brain Disease in Women: Sex and Gender Connections

The evidence on sex differences in understanding, treating and preventing disease is mounting, and The National Institutes of Health has made Sex as a Biological Variable (SABV) key to all research it funds. Scientists are developing an unprecedented understanding, in particular, of the links between heart and brain disorders in both women and men. These insights are opening new frontiers in investigating the co-occurrence of heart disease and depression, and the risk for memory decline and Alzheimer’s disease — comorbidities that disproportionately impact women. Applying a sex-and-gender lens, this Forum explored the unfolding story of newly-discovered connections between heart and brain – and their potential to transform understanding of heart disease, Alzheimer’s and depression in women. Presented during American Heart Month and shortly before International Women’s Day, we asked why diseases of the heart and brain often go hand-in-hand, with women often at twice the risk of men – and how this new understanding can be translated into better treatments and prevention strategies for women across the globe.Presented jointly with STAT on February 28, 2018.Watch the entire series at ForumHSPH.org.

What to Expect: Nuclear Medicine Stress Test | Cedars-Sinai

Your doctor has ordered a nuclear medicine stress test for you—now what? Here’s what to expect and how to get ready for your exam.

If You’re Stressed Often, Here’s What You Need To Know About This Common Condition

Everyone gets stressed out now and then, but chronic stress causes much more wear and tear on the body than most people realize.

Chronic stress is a hard thing to describe to family, friends, and sometimes even doctors. They can’t see it like they would a broken arm or a flesh wound, which may cause some to doubt its very existence.

However, anxiety is a very real disorder that effects 18 percent of the American population. When it rears its ugly head, so do many other physical side effects. Here are 10 of the most common.

1. Heart disease

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You know that saying, “You’re going to give me a heart attack?” Well, anxiety and panic attacks might actually do that. High blood pressure and weakened heart muscles are both side effects of stress that raise your chances of having a heart attack and/or developing cardiovascular disease.

2. Loss of libido

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With all these negative things happening in your body, it’s not a big surprise that your libido can suffer. Part of this is because your hormones aren’t functioning properly, and another is that your mind and body are distracted. It’s important to communicate with your partner and remember that you don’t “owe” anyone sex.

3. Brain damage

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Years of extreme stress and anxiety can lead to brain damage, particularly early-onset Alzheimer’s. It’s been found that the cortisol that’s released during stressful periods actually kills the hippocampus, leading to loss of memory and premature brain aging.

Read more: http://www.viralnova.com/stress-symptoms/

Heart-Pounding Facts About Your Own Body That Are Hard To Believe. Wow.

What is the most important part of the body: The head or the heart?

This question existed since the dawn of philosophers… and middle school English teachers. We value our intelligence over most things, and for good reason. We traveled to the moon and back and turned communication with others around the globe into child’s play. We even created technology allowing me to write this article at 32,000 feet on a plane traveling near the speed of sound, all thanks to the human brain.

But without the heart, the brain could not exist. That’s why you MUST know these 25 important (and cool) facts about hearts. Some may even save your life… and your intelligence.

1.) According to studies, the more education you have, the less likely you’ll die from heart disease.

2.) Yet heart disease is still the greatest risk of death.

3.) They’ve even found signs of it in 3,000 year old mummies.

4.) The largest heart belongs to the blue whale, at over 1,500 lbs.

5.) Your heart is a super muscle, and it’s used well beyond any other muscle in your body during a lifetime.

6.) Your heart creates enough energy to power a truck for 20 miles a day.

7.) Which means you could drive to the moon AND back on nothing but heart power.

8.) Healthy hearts start with a balance of clean living, low stress, and exercise.

9.) There are 75 trillion cells in your body, and the heart pumps blood to almost all of them.

10.) Your cornea is the only thing doesn’t get them.

11.) Hate waiting for long trains? Well your heart pumps enough blood in a lifetime to fill 200 tankers (1.5 million barrels).

12.) A heart cell, the very first one, starts to beat at 4 weeks.

13.) The days with the most heart attacks are Christmas Day, December 26, and on New Year’s.

If you thought those were mind-blowing, just wait till you see the rest!

Read more: http://viralnova.com/heart-facts/