Angina is a brief but recurrent chest pain caused by an inadequate supply of blood (which carries oxygen) to part of the heart muscle. The decreased blood supply is usually caused by a narrowing of the coronary arteries because of atherosclerosis, a buildup of fatty deposits along the ...

Congestive heart failure is a condition in which the heart muscle has been weakened and therefore cannot pump blood to the rest of the body effectively. It may be caused by high blood pressure, rheumatic heart disease, or atherosclerosis. Symptoms include shortness of breath; tiredness; swelling ...

Your heart will grow steadily weaker as you age, losing some of its vital pumping functions, and possibly dissolving into heart failure the number one peril after age sixty five. But you may be able to prevent and reverse some of the disintegrating function of your heart ...

Coronary heart disease an illness in which your lifestyle and position in life play a major role accounted for more than 7 million deaths worldwide. It was responsible for about one third of all deaths in industrialized countries. In spite of some improvement, it is still the leading ...

Heart disease is the biggest killer, but it’s slightly misnamed. The real culprit is artery disease. Those thousands of pipes that connect your heart to everything else carry the food and oxygen for life . When they are clogged with clot or cholesterol, they fail in their ...

Blood pressure Many studies have shown an association between elevated blood pressure and risk of coronary heart disease and stroke in both women and men. Studies also have shown that controlling blood pressure through weight reduction and antihypertensive (blood pressure lowering) medication results in ...

Which wine is better for the heart red or white? It depends on whom you ask. French researchers gave rats white wine, red wine or 6 percent ethanol. At first, all three groups of rodents showed about a 70 percent reduction in the clumping of blood platelets ...

Habits And Hypertension An increased risk of high blood pressure, especially the malignant variety, is incurred by smoking and tobacco use. Nicotine from tobacco chewed or smoked is a vasoconstrictive agent, aggravating the blood vessel narrowing that is the immediate cause of the hypertension. Alcohol in ...

Heart Disease Diet Initiatives include increasing the intake of whole foods, including vegetables, fruits, whole unrefined grains, legumes, beans, nuts, seeds, fiber, vitamins, minerals, and essential fatty acids. Only 8 percent of Americans meet the governmental nutritional standard of at least two fruit and ...

Although many of my patients have had success with the eight step following program for hypertension, I only use the general guidelines discussed below after reviewing a patient’s personal and medical history, performing a thorough examination and evaluating the laboratory studies to make sure that the program will ...