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This page in Cheney's cardiovascular diary began a few weeks ago, when Reiner decided to check the Vice President for irregular heartbeats, or arrhythmia. By all accounts, Cheney hadn't exhibited any symptoms--no dizziness or fainting spells that might indicate a problem. But roughly 5% of people who suffer heart attacks develop arrhythmias, often without realizing it. This is particularly common among patients like Cheney, whose "ejection fraction," a measure of how efficiently the heart is pumping, is around 40%. Usually the problem occurs because some scar tissue in the heart muscle starts to interfere with the electrical...
...there tends to be more platelet aggregation, which makes a heart attack more likely." So instead of a drug, say devotees, prescribe yoga. "All the drugs we give people have side effects," McCall says. "Well, yoga has side effects too: better strength, better balance, peace of mind, stronger bones, cardiovascular conditioning, lots of stuff. Here is a natural health system that, once you learn the basics, you can do at home for free with very little equipment and that could help you avoid expensive, invasive surgical and pharmacological interventions. I think this is going to be a big thing...
...Preventive and Rehabilitative Cardiac Center, which offers yoga, among other therapies. "While we haven't tested yoga as a stand-alone therapy," says Dr. Noel Bairey Merz, the center's director, patients opting for yoga do show "tremendous benefits." These include lower cholesterol levels and blood pressure, increased cardiovascular circulation and, as the Ornish study showed, reversal of artery blockage in some cases...
...website is password-accessible, and patients' records, doctors' updates and videos are kept confidential. (It also offers an online payment mechanism, so relatives anywhere can help out with medical bills.) To date the hospital has logged nearly 500 online visits. Says Dr. Vivek Jawali, chief cardiovascular surgeon: "We started this as an innovative technology play, but it is turning out to be an emotional support system." That is certainly true for the Viswanathan family. Their sons are preparing to rig up their home PC so they can come face-to-face more often...
...found that the sisters with high folate levels showed little evidence of Alzheimer's-type damage in their brain after death. This makes a certain amount of sense; folate tends to counteract the effects of homocysteine, an amino acid produced in the body that has been implicated in cardiovascular disease. Plenty of folate in the blood would thus mean less chance of stroke--and might even protect brain cells from damage by homocysteine in the brain...