Cardiovascular Disease

Dr Vijay Bang of CSI said that too often, people go to the Internet and try to apply half-baked information, solutions for their heart conditions that end up doing more harm than good

The agency has previously found that alcohol causes at least 7 types of cancer, including the most common cancer types, such as bowel cancer and female breast cancer

Yoga is more beneficial than stretching exercises for improving cardiovascular health, according to a pilot study of hypertension individuals published by Elsevier in Canadian Journal of Cardiology

Move will mark firm's digital healthcare foray 18 months after announcement; firm also plans to enter mental and respiratory illness segments, cover 28-30 cities by CY 2023-end

New Delhi [India], September 28 (ANI): Clearing the air around the effects of a booster dose of the vaccines, the health experts have said that there is no definite link between heart dysfunction and the precaution doses of the COVID shots.With social media flooded with questions revolving around the effects of booster dose on the human heart, the experts came out in defence of the vaccines.According to Dr Vivek Chaturvedi, Professor & HOD, Cardiology, Amrita Hospital, Faridabad, there have been some instances of heart-related issues in the patients after vaccination, however, there is no conclusive evidence to prove this."This is a very thorny question because we do see heart attacks happening. Not just attacks, sometimes fluid around the heart, sometimes Arrhythmias of the heart after vaccination. But it is very difficult to confirm this because these were happening in the past also," he said.However, Dr Vivek said that COVID can have effects on the heart and the person ...

In India there are between 8-10 million people with heart failure, making it one of the world's largest populations with the malady

Drinking two to three cups of coffee a day is associated with a longer lifespan and a lower risk of cardiovascular disease compared to avoiding the brew, a study has found. A team at the Baker Heart and Diabetes Research Institute, Australia, examined the link between types of coffee and incident arrhythmias or irregular heart beat, cardiovascular disease and death using data from the UK Biobank about adults between 40 and 69 years of age. "The results suggest that a mild to moderate intake of ground, instant and decaffeinated coffee should be considered part of a healthy lifestyle," said study author Professor Peter Kistler. In the study, cardiovascular disease included conditions such as coronary heart disease, congestive heart failure and ischaemic stroke. The study, published in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, included 449,563 participants free of arrhythmias or other cardiovascular disease. The median age was 58 years and 55.3 per cent were women. Outcome ...

The findings of a large study of French adults suggest a potential direct association between higher artificial sweetener consumption and increased cardiovascular disease risk, including heart attacks

Yoga can help prevent cardiovascular diseases that have significantly gone up due to poor lifestyle choices, lack of exercise, wrong diet and increased stress, and may develop into an epidemic in India in the coming decade, according to eminent experts. India will replace all western nations to be the country with the largest number of heart diseases in the coming decade, the American Academy of Yoga and Meditation (AAYM) has warned. AAYM is a non-profit organisation of physicians, scientists, and other academicians who hold regular teaching lessons for physicians to understand and use yoga in clinical practice. With an epidemic of diabetes mellitus and hypertension, India is slated to be the world's cardiovascular disease capital, said the American academy which along with its public platform called the Ganges Mississippi dialogue, is holding an online symposium to highlight how yoga can be used to prevent cardiovascular diseases. These diseases, including heart attack, stroke, ..

According to a new study, adults who do not repay college debt or take on new educational debt between young adulthood and early middle age are at increased risk of cardiovascular disease.

Researchers found that it was more effective to encourage the whole family to make lifestyle changes rather than usual care

In January 2020, the Delhi High Court granted an injunction restraining domestic companies such as Cipla, Torrent, Emcure, and Alkem from launching their brands

The suggestion was put forth during a discussion on 'Heart Wellness during Covid-19' hosted by the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry (ASSOCHAM) in their Illness to Wellness series on Friday

This study, first published on MedRxiv, has already made significant impacts in the healthcare community

"We are seeing patients who recovered from COVID come back with heart failure, and then we see that they have cardiomyopathy (weakness in the heart muscle)"

The findings, according to the researchers, strongly suggests that Covid-19 fatality is influenced by pre-existing heart conditions and/or cardiovascular risk factors

During an average follow-up of seven years, 6 per cent of women who reached menopause naturally before 40 developed cardiovascular disease

Dog owners are known to engage in more physical activity and are more likely to have regular exercise habits than those without dogs

We have discovered that sleep helps to regulate the production in the bone marrow of inflammatory cells and the health of blood vessels