Tag: #HeartDisease
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Gut bug may help prevent heart disease and promote longevity: Research
ISLAMABAD, July 21 (Online): A “friendly” microbe that occurs in abundance in the guts of people over 100 years old may reduce the production of a chemical that researchers have linked to cardiovascular disease. Compared with young adults, people who live for longer than 100 years have, on average, 15 times more of the bacterium…
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Heart Condition Linked to Stress May Be Increasing During COVID-19 Pandemic
ISLAMABAD, July 20 (online): They say there’s no cure for a broken heart, but it turns out that one cure might be self-care, especially during a global pandemic. Researchers have found an increasing number of stress-related heart conditions there’s been a significant increase in patients experiencing stress cardiomyopathy, also known as “broken heart syndrome,” during…
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How 12 Weeks of Stretching Can Improve Your Heart Health
ISLAMABAD, July 11 (online): They note that this kind of stretching can improve a person’s heart health. Passive stretching is a stretch where an external force provides the stretch. This can be through a stretching partner, stretching accessories, or gravity. The researchers enlisted 39 healthy men and women and split them into two groups. Just…
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Eat walnuts daily for better gut, heart health
ISLAMABAD, Jan 17 (APP): Walnuts may not just be a tasty snack, they may also promote good-for-your-gut bacteria, say researchers, adding that these ‘good’ bacteria could lead to better heart health. The study, published in the Journal of Nutrition, suggests walnuts as a part of healthy diet may be a heart- and gut-healthy nut. Additionally,…
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Newly donated blood better for heart surgery: study
ISLAMABAD, Jan 01 (APP): Heart surgery patients receiving newly donated blood have significantly fewer post-operative complications than those who received blood donated more than two weeks before their surgery, found a research. The study examined records at the New Brunswick Heart Centre (NBHC) in Saint John, Canada for heart surgeries performed over the past nine…
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Stress hurts women’s hearts more than men’s
ISLAMABAD, Dec 26 (APP): A new study has found that stress may be more harmful for women’s heart than it is for men’s. Researcher from Duke University, Wei Jiang, who’s also the study’s senior author, said that normally when under stress, people fought back by pumping more blood to the body, and as per the…
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Early cholesterol treatment lowers heart disease risk: study
Paris, Dec 4 (AFP/APP): Treating younger people with high cholesterol levels may help reduce their risk of heart attack or stroke in later life, a major study showed Wednesday. Described as the “most comprehensive” review of its kind covering almost 400,000 patients over more than 40 years, the study in The Lancet said its findings…