Patients with depression appear to have an impaired ability to recover their heart rate variability following acute coronary syndromes such as heart attack, a factor that could increase their risk of coronary death, according to a report in the September 2007 issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. However, patients who […]

Regression of cardiovascular damage seen from prescribing Valsartan.
University of Minnesota - Researchers have discovered that giving the drug Valsartan to people who have early cardiovascular abnormalities, but show no symptoms of cardiovascular disease, can slow progression and even reverse damage to the heart and blood vessels.
In a recent double-blind study, researchers enrolled 76 asymptomatic subjects […]

The reported failure of vitamin E to prevent heart attacks or atherosclerosis may be due to underdosing, according to a new study by investigators at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
The findings, published early online in Free Radical Biology and Medicine, suggest that these earlier studies all had a fundamental flaw – the doses used weren’t high […]

Health Behavior News Service - With 40 percent of all heart attacks and related cardiovascular problems being related to low levels of so-called “good” HDL cholesterol, researchers have long sought medications to increase the amount of HDL cholesterol in the body’s circulation.
But a new review of 31 randomized controlled trials published in the Journal of […]

Washington University School of Medicine - Heart disease hits people with diabetes twice as often as people without diabetes. In those with diabetes, cardiovascular complications occur at an earlier age and often result in premature death, making heart disease the major killer of diabetic people. But why is heart disease so prevalent among diabetics?
To help […]

Statin side effect study adds question of higher overall cancer risk to liver toxicity and muscle cell damage as known risks of statin use.
Newswise — Millions of Americans take statins to lower their LDL cholesterol, but how low should you go? Many scientific studies support the benefits of lowering low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol for those […]