Word: cardiac
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BENEFITS: Relieves pain, fever, redness and swelling. Can save your life if taken during a heart attack. May lower the risk of a future cardiac attack or stroke. RISKS: Stomach pain and gastrointestinal bleeding. Should not be given to children with fever or viral infections since a rare but serious blood disorder may result. Call your doctor immediately if you experience ringing in the ears, skin rash, difficulty breathing or signs of internal bleeding...
...weight loss are not good for your health, but results from a large study of women with heart problems suggest that sometimes it's better to be fit than thin. Active women, no matter how thin or fat, were much less likely to have a heart attack and other cardiac problems than women who didn't exercise, according to the Women's Ischemia Syndrome Evaluation. But weight does matter. Researchers in the ongoing Women's Health Study found that overweight and obese women--regardless of how regularly they exercised--were as much as nine times as likely to develop diabetes...
...than 77 million of us will begin entering our golden--and most pressure-prone--years. Following the boomers will be their kids and grandkids, with up to 3% of the juvenile population thought to be hypertensive. "More than 25% of children with high blood pressure may already have some cardiac thickening," says Dr. Bonita Falkner, a professor of medicine and pediatrics at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia...
What do you do when your heart starts to bloat and sag? You could try to prop it up. That's the idea behind the CorCap Cardiac Support Device, a mesh wrap fashioned to fit like a support stocking around the heart to relieve the stress created when the organ becomes enlarged, usually from trying to compensate for damage caused by heart attacks, valve disorders or high blood pressure. In a study of 300 patients, the CorCap reportedly helped enlarged hearts return to a more normal size and shape. The cardiac support hose is still experimental, and implanting it involves...
...Journal of the American Medical Association (J.A.M.A.) suggests that sometimes it's better to be fit than thin. As part of the Women's Ischemia Syndrome Evaluation, researchers found that inactive women, no matter how thin or fat, were much more likely to have heart attacks and other cardiac problems than women who exercised. But don't discount the impact of slimming down. In another study in J.A.M.A., research from the ongoing Women's Health Study found that overweight and obese women?regardless of how regularly they exercised?were up to nine times as likely to develop diabetes as women...