Does Cutting Back on Salt Help Folks Battling Heart Failure?
TUESDAY, April 5, 2022 (HealthDay News) — If you have heart failure, there’s good news and bad news on how much it would help you to cut back on salt.New research finds that while it doesn’t prevent death or hospitalization among patients, it does ap…
Learn MoreAHA News: She Wasn’t Having a Heart Attack – It Was ‘Broken Heart Syndrome’
TUESDAY, April 5, 2022 (American Heart Association News) — Life has not slowed for Patricia Harden of Oakland, California, since she sold her public relations company in 2020 or since retiring from her remaining consulting work the following year. No…
Learn MoreAHA News: The Pandemic’s Ripple Effects on Health Have Begun. What Can We Do Now?
TUESDAY, April 5, 2022 (American Heart Association News) — For more than two years, COVID-19’s direct harm has been visible in overflowing intensive care wards and grim statistics. Now, some of its indirect effects are coming into focus.Studies are l…
Learn MoreStudy Explores Characteristics of Vestibular Migraine
TUESDAY, April 5, 2022 (HealthDay News) — For patients with vestibular migraine (VM), the mean age of headache and vertigo onset is 25 and 39 years, respectively, according to a study published in the April issue of Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery.
Neşe Çelebisoy, M.D., Ph.D., from Ege University in Izmir, Turkey, and colleagues examined demographic and clinical features of VM in...
Learn MoreACC: Treatment Beneficial for Mild Chronic HTN in Pregnancy
TUESDAY, April 5, 2022 (HealthDay News) — For pregnant women with mild chronic hypertension, treatment with antihypertensive medications recommended for use in pregnancy is associated with improved pregnancy outcomes, according to a study published o…
Learn MoreAAOS: Patients Mostly Satisfied After Flatfoot Reconstruction
TUESDAY, April 5, 2022 (HealthDay News) — The typical flatfoot reconstruction patient experiences good returns to physical activity, but a meaningful number of patients experience persistent inhibition, according to a study presented at the annual me…
Learn MoreA-Fib Detected in Nearly Three in 10 Cryptogenic Stroke Patients
TUESDAY, April 5, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Almost one in three patients surviving a stroke of unknown cause have atrial fibrillation (AF) detectable using continuous cardiac monitoring, according to a study presented at the annual meeting of the Europ…
Learn MoreRisk for Atrial Fibrillation Recurrence Increases With Body Weight
TUESDAY, April 5, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Rates of atrial fibrillation (AF) recurrence following ablation increase incrementally according to body mass index, both in short- and long-term follow-up, according to a study presented at the annual meetin…
Learn MoreCOVID-19 Vaccination Early in Pregnancy Not Linked to Fetal Anomalies
TUESDAY, April 5, 2022 (HealthDay News) — COVID-19 vaccination within the teratogenic window (30 days before conception until 14 weeks of gestation) is not associated with increased odds of major fetal structural anomalies, according to a research le…
Learn MoreSexual, Emotional Abuse in Childhood May Up Multiple Sclerosis Risk
TUESDAY, April 5, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Childhood sexual and emotional abuse are associated with an increased risk for developing multiple sclerosis (MS) in women, according to a study published online April 4 in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurg…
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