Tiny blood vessels show pollution heart disease link
AFP via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News Tue, 30 Nov 2010 14:17 PM PST
By photographing tiny blood vessels in a person's eyes researchers have found a way to link exposure to air pollution with a higher risk of heart disease a study published Tuesday said. |
Study finds low vitamin D levels in northern California residents with metabolic syndrome
PhysOrg Tue, 30 Nov 2010 14:02 PM PST
Researchers from the UC Davis Health System have found that compared with healthy controls, blood levels of vitamin D are significantly reduced in patients in the Sacramento area with metabolic syndrome, a constellation of disease risk factors that affects about one in three U.S. adults and predisposes them to diabetes, heart disease and stroke. |
Suicide risk increases after heart attack
Reuters Tue, 30 Nov 2010 13:52 PM PST
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People are more likely to commit suicide in the wake of a heart attack -- and some are more at risk than others, new study findings report. |
Spectrum Health performs first heart transplant, patient doing well
WWMT 3 Kalamazoo Tue, 30 Nov 2010 13:50 PM PST
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (NEWSCHANNEL 3) â€" Spectrum Hospital in Grand Rapids and one of its patients are celebrating a milestone. On Saturday, 50-year-old Rahn Bentley became the first patient at Spectrum Health's heart and lung transplant facility to receive a donor heart. |
'Big' Hearts Offer Hope for Marfan Syndrome
Fox News Tue, 30 Nov 2010 13:12 PM PST
Eleven-year-old Haley Dostalik has a big heart â€" in more ways than one. More specifically, she has a larger-than-normal aortic root because she suffers from Marfan syndrome, a rare condition that could take her life. But, she's taking part in a clinical trial that could potentially save many lives of Marfan patients |
We get enough vitamin D and calcium, panel finds
Los Angeles Times Tue, 30 Nov 2010 12:33 PM PST
An Institute of Medicine panel says that North Americans may not need supplements. Studies that link low blood levels of these nutrients to heart disease, cancers and other problems are 'inconclusive and often contradictory,' the team says. A team of experts convened by the Institute of Medicine on Tuesday sought to douse growing concerns that North Americans are deficient in two key nutrients ... |
Scientist and Olympic sailor Britton Chance dies
The Argus-Press Tue, 30 Nov 2010 12:24 PM PST
FILE - This May 22, 2003 file photo shows Britton Chance, professor emeritus of biochemistry and biophysics at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, talking on the phone in his department. Penn's School of Medicine confirmed Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2010 that Chance died Nov. 16 of heart failure in Philadelphia at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. (AP Photo/Jacqueline Larma) |
Screening Tool May Better Identify Heart Disease In African-Americans
redOrbit Tue, 30 Nov 2010 12:16 PM PST
In a study being presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), researchers say they may have an explanation as to why African Americans, despite having lower amounts of coronary artery calcification, are at increased risk for heart attacks and other cardiovascular events compared with Caucasians. The answer, according to researchers at the Medical ... |
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