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Anticoagulants (Anticoagulant Drug Class)

Anticoagulants (Anticoagulant Drug Class)

What are anticoagulants? An anticoagulant is a drug (blood thinner) that treats, prevents, and reduces the risk of blood clots-breaking off and traveling to vital organs of the body, which can lead to life threatening situations. They work by preventing blood from coagulating to form a clot in the vital organs such as the heart, […]

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AHA News: Women With Heart Failure Less Likely to Get Heart Pump Device

AHA News: Women With Heart Failure Less Likely to Get Heart Pump Device

Latest Heart News FRIDAY, Sept. 13, 2019 (American Heart Association News) — Women are less likely than men to receive a mechanical heart pump that is becoming the norm for people with advanced heart failure, according to new research. The study, published Friday in the American Heart Association journal Circulation: Heart Failure, took a deeper […]

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Heart Attack Can Be More Lethal If Symptoms Are More Gradual

Heart Attack Can Be More Lethal If Symptoms Are More Gradual

Latest Heart News THURSDAY, Sept. 12, 2019 (HealthDay News) — Heart attack patients often take longer to seek help if they have gradual symptoms, which may put them at increased risk of death, researchers say. Gradual symptoms begin with mild discomfort that slowly worsens, while abrupt symptoms are sudden and severe pain, according to authors […]

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What’s the difference between the keto and Atkins diets?

What’s the difference between the keto and Atkins diets?

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AHA News: She Had a Stroke at 21; So Did Her Co-worker

AHA News: She Had a Stroke at 21; So Did Her Co-worker

Latest Heart News WEDNESDAY, Sept. 11, 2019 (American Heart Association News) — While in the hospital recovering from a stroke, 21-year-old Alex Leary was trying to make sense of what happened when she got a text message from a co-worker she barely knew. Vicky King wrote that she understood what Leary was going through. A […]

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Does the keto diet affect cholesterol?

Does the keto diet affect cholesterol?

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Taller people less likely to develop type 2 diabetes

Taller people less likely to develop type 2 diabetes

New research from Germany has found that taller people have a lower risk of type 2 diabetes. Height may influence people’s diabetes risk, new research suggests. For every 10 centimeters (cms) of additional height, there was a 41% reduced risk of type 2 diabetes in males and 33% in females, according to the recent Diabetologia […]

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Arrhythmia

Arrhythmia

Introduction to Arrhythmia An irregular heartbeat is an arrhythmia (also called dysrhythmia). Heart rates can also be irregular. A normal heart rate is 50 to 100 beats per minute. Arrhythmias and abnormal heart rates don’t necessarily occur together. Arrhythmias can occur with a normal heart rate, or with heart rates that are slow (called bradyarrhythmias […]