Blisstree » cardiac_disease http://www.blisstree.com Family, Health, Home and Lifestyles Fri, 18 Dec 2009 08:24:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 A New Treatment On The Horizon For Cardiac Fibrosis http://www.blisstree.com/articles/a-new-treatment-on-the-horizon-for-cardiac-fibrosis-50/ http://www.blisstree.com/articles/a-new-treatment-on-the-horizon-for-cardiac-fibrosis-50/#comments Fri, 03 Aug 2007 17:14:58 +0000 Kendra James, RN http://www.aheartylife.com/2007/08/03/a-new-treatment-on-the-horizon-for-cardiac-fibrosis/ Post from: Blisstree

A New Treatment On The Horizon For Cardiac Fibrosis

]]> fibrosis.jpgA new type of treatment for cardiac fibrosis is on the horizon. Fibrosis occurs when an excess amount of matrix proteins, like collagen, develops and leaves pathological scarring. The heart becomes “stiff”. With inflexibility, the heart can not work properly, ie. it can not flex and relax.

Cardiac disease is the leading cause of death in the “Western world”. And with heart disease being so prevalent, too many patients deal with cardiac fibrosis on a daily basis.

The National Institutes of Health and the Novartis Corp. have funded an animal study that may lead to a possible treatment…

The animal study, led by the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, demonstrates a bone morphogenic molecule known as rhBMP7 can reverse the cardiac fibrosis process, offering the possibility of a therapeutic target for the debilitating condition.

via Science daily

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A New Treatment On The Horizon For Cardiac Fibrosis

]]> http://www.blisstree.com/articles/a-new-treatment-on-the-horizon-for-cardiac-fibrosis-50/feed/ 0 Cardiac Disease On The Fall As Diabetes And Obesity On The Rise http://www.blisstree.com/articles/cardiac-disease-on-the-fall-as-diabetes-and-obesity-on-the-rise-50/ http://www.blisstree.com/articles/cardiac-disease-on-the-fall-as-diabetes-and-obesity-on-the-rise-50/#comments Mon, 11 Jun 2007 15:18:57 +0000 Kendra James, RN http://www.aheartylife.com/2007/06/11/cardiac-disease-on-the-fall-as-diabetes-and-obesity-on-the-rise/ Post from: Blisstree

Cardiac Disease On The Fall As Diabetes And Obesity On The Rise

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Cardiac disease deaths fall while obesity and diabetes are on the rise.

So, that’s surprising? How can the amount of diabetics rise and yet cardiac disease among the very same people is decreasing. Bizarre? No…

Epidemiologists at the University of Liverpool and the Heart of Mersey have found that approximately half the recent fall in coronary heart disease deaths in the US is due to positive life style changes and a further half to medical therapies.

So yet another tribute to the ol’ healthy lifestyle. Diet and nutrition play such a big part. So, I promise this will be my last soap box type post for a while. But ya’all better listen, or else….

via Science Daily

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Cardiac Disease On The Fall As Diabetes And Obesity On The Rise

]]> http://www.blisstree.com/articles/cardiac-disease-on-the-fall-as-diabetes-and-obesity-on-the-rise-50/feed/ 0 What Came First, The Chicken Or The Egg? http://www.blisstree.com/articles/what-came-first-the-chicken-or-the-egg-50/ http://www.blisstree.com/articles/what-came-first-the-chicken-or-the-egg-50/#comments Fri, 11 May 2007 02:16:02 +0000 Kendra James, RN http://www.aheartylife.com/2007/05/11/what-came-first-the-chicken-or-the-egg/ Post from: Blisstree

What Came First, The Chicken Or The Egg?

]]> chicken-egg.jpgWhat came first, the chicken or the egg? That is a question I often ask myself while “taking care of” my cardiac patients. As a nurse, my mind often wanders to the thought of, “what if they had taken better care of themselves years ago”? Now, I know that genetics and family history plays into cardiac disease, but so does obesity, lethargy and an unhealthy lifestyle.

So when my patients that haven’t exercised in years, not even a walk to the end of the driveway, are admitted to the hospital with CHF, MI, STEMI’s, angina, ACS and high lipids, I have to revisit the whole chicken or the egg thing. Did the cardiac disease process interrupt life? Or was life always sedentary, which led to the cardiac syndrome?

I know it could go either way, and in no way am I suggesting that there is only one right answer. What I am suggesting is that we each take a long hard look at our own lifestyles and make conscious efforts to better ourselves and bodies.

We only get one go around, better make it good!

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What Came First, The Chicken Or The Egg?

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