September 27th, 2009 is World Heart Day. According to the figures just released by WHO, cardiovascular diseases stands first as the world’s number one killer, accounting for nearly 17.1 million lives last year, a staggering number indeed. But how often do we acknowledge what the human heart does for us? Most of us [...]
Heart diseases in women
April 15, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Incidence of Heart diseases in women is rising due to changing lifestyle of new age women and stress at both home and office. Smoking is the major preventable risk factor for heart diseases in women. The underlining mechanism is: (narrowing of blood vessels/Atherosclerosis) Decrease (shrinking) in the size of coronary arteries (vessels [...]
Amazing facts about your Heart
February 29, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Heart is an amazing and most hard working organ in your body which continues to pump out blood as long as you live. Heart, as a symbol of love gets an eternal place in our life. Livescience.com listed 10 amazing facts about your heart. Know about your heart: Courtesy: Livescience. 1. [...]
Problems in low cholesterol persons
September 9, 2007 By Leave a Comment
Media is concentrating on diseases associated with high cholesterol while overlooking diseases associated with low cholesterol.But, low cholesterol is also causing some diseases mainly psychiatric. We all know that low cholesterol diet is good for heart patients and prevents heart attacks.But other problems arise at the same time. Abnormally low levels [...]
Heart attack and Monday
February 3, 2007 By Leave a Comment
Heart Attack and Monday relation: Those who are doing jobs are prone to get heart attacks more on Monday, compare to other days in a week. 33% more chances of getting on Monday than on normal working days. Saturday morning ranks the second. As per article published in British medical journal, there [...]
Heart disease and Personality
February 1, 2007 By Leave a Comment
Heart Attack and personalities: Personality of a person shows direct relationship with occurance of heart disease. Type A Personality or High risk group: Ambitious personalities. They always want to challenge or contest with others even if there is no necessity. They interfere while others talking. They show more [...]
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