When Breathing Causes Heart Attack and High Blood Pressure

When Breathing Causes Heart Attack and High Blood Pressure

by | Dec 6, 2019

Research out of Italy recently has given scientists pause for thought…a pause in breathing, that is. Looking at hospitalization records related to high blood pressure, heart disease and heart attack, scientists discovered that the essential act of breathing could...
How Paleo Cause Stroke and Heart Attack

How Paleo Cause Stroke and Heart Attack

by | Sep 17, 2019

Diets seem to come and go all the time, but the paleo diet has been going from strength to strength. Have you felt tempted to try it? If you’ve adopted “the caveman diet” for heart health reasons, then a new study in the European Journal of Nutrition might come as a...
Shingles Increases Your Risk of These Two Deadly Conditions

Shingles Increases Your Risk of These Two Deadly Conditions

by | Sep 9, 2019

A recently published study in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology shows that people at risk of shingles are also at risk of heart attacks and strokes because of the virus that causes shingles. Shingles comes from the Herpes Zoster virus. It first causes...
The New Technology for Heart Attack Detection

The New Technology for Heart Attack Detection

by | Aug 31, 2019

Smart speakers that run Alexa, Google Assistant, Siri, or Cortana are becoming increasingly common in our homes. Some people love their ease and convenience, while others think that George Orwell’s 1984 has come true, and that these are tools designed to spy on us....
Cut Your Heart Attack Risk By 50%

Cut Your Heart Attack Risk By 50%

by | Aug 12, 2019

If you want to cut your heart attack risk by doing something that doesn’t involve dieting, exercise, or giving up bad habits, then researchers at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have got some good news for you. They’ve found a free and easy way to get a...
How Cholesterol Causes Strokes and Heart Attacks

How Cholesterol Causes Strokes and Heart Attacks

by | Jun 16, 2019

Our immune systems are supposed to keep us healthy, but occasionally they do their jobs a little too well…well enough to kill us, in fact. You can read about one example of this in a new study by German scientists, in the journal, Nature. They’ve been looking at...