Archive for Cardiovascular:
Looking Beyond Cholesterol
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For many of the 250,000 people who succumb each year from sudden cardiac death, cholesterol - now the main focus of prevention efforts - is simply not a factor. Cholesterol screening fails to identify about 50% of those who have heart attacks in the US, because their total cholesterol is either normal or only slightly elevated (1)
Read More...The Connection Between Heart Disease and Inflammation
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In 1997, a study showed, for the first time, the link between C-Reactive Protein (CRP) and heart disease. The public began to hear rumblings about testing for CRP a few years later.
Read More...Study Ties Obesity, Inflammation to Heart Failure
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Heart specialists at Johns Hopkins and elsewhere report what is believed to be the first widescale evidence linking severe overweight to prolonged inflammation of heart tissue and the subsequent damage leading to failure of the body’s blood-pumping organ.
Read More...Inflammation, Obesity, Stress and Coronary Heart Disease: Is Interleukin-6 the Link?
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There is mounting evidence that inflammation plays a role in the development of coronary heart disease (CHD). Observations have been made linking the presence of infections in the vessel wall with atherosclerosis, and epidemiological data also implicate infection in remote sites in the aetiology of CHD.
Read More...The Statin Scam
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For every 100 people in the trial that lasted for 3 1/2 years, three people on placebo, and two people on Lipitor had heart attacks-that is one less heart attack for every 100 people. In other words, 100 people had to take the drug for 3 1/2 years to prevent one heart attack. What this really means is 99 out of 100 people taking the drug had no benefit.
Read More...The Inflammation Disconnect–How It Will Rob Your Health
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We all are plagued with the same condition-what doesn’t impact our lives through health in our own bodies we tend to dismiss until the inevitable happens and it’s knocking at our door.
Read More...The Cure For Heart Disease
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Dr. Lundell found one common denominator in his 5,000 open heart surgery patients–inflammation.
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