How Diabetes Makes Heart Attacks 1 ½ Times More Deadly

by Jodi Knapp | Aug 1, 2016

Because of advances in medical care, a heart attack is now more survivable than ever before. But if you experience a heart attack while also fighting type 2 diabetes, your chance of surviving the attack is much smaller, up to years later. So why does this happen and...

High Blood Pressure Cured By This Vampire

by Christian Goodman | Jul 31, 2016

In a never-ending quest by scientists to find a magic bullet to cure high blood pressure and other heart disease, researchers often will look at the most unlikely places. We most often connect vampires such as Dracula and other tales to death and destruction. But...

Why Exercising May NOT Help for Stroke and What to Do Instead

by Scott Davis | Jul 29, 2016

We’ve been told that one of the most essential things you HAVE to do to prevent high blood pressure, stroke, and heart attack is to exercise regularly. Although this is true in a way, a new study reveals specific types of exercises that millions of people all over the...

Your Blood Pressure is Skyrocketed Several Times a Day By This Device

by Christian Goodman | Jul 26, 2016

Italian researchers at Guglielmo da Saliceto hospital in Piacenza made an alarming discovery recently. It seems that a device almost everyone uses spikes your blood pressure to a dangerous level several times per day. In this unusual study conducted on 49 women with...

Surprising Cause of Heart Attack and Stroke And How To Prevent It

by Scott Davis | Jul 24, 2016

The World Health Organization (WHO) announced recently the disturbing news that 1.3 million people die every year of heart attack caused by a somewhat surprising cause. You’ve been told to eat healthy, exercise, reduce stress and lower cholesterol and high blood...

This Kind Act Lowers High Blood Pressure 40%

by Christian Goodman | Jul 22, 2016

Getting more exercise, eating right and reducing stress aren’t the only non-drug ways to drop blood pressure. A new study out of Carnegie Mellon University revealed a simple, kind activity that drastically lowers blood pressure. The best part is that this activity is...