Results for Cardiac Conditions

High blood pressue, high blood cholesterol and mitral valve prolapse (MVP) are three cardiac conditions that may affect your teenager. If a teenager complains of chest pain it should be brought to the attention of your pediatrician who will diagnose the problem.

Last updated: May 22, 2016
By Carolyn Sayre for Summit Medical Group
Heart disease is the number one killer of both men and women in the United States. However, many of these deaths can be prevented with the proper precautions. Seth Jawetz, MD, a cardiologist at the Live Well Heart Failure Clinic at Summit Medical Group, offers ten tips to keep your heart healthy
1. Understand your risk
People who have high blood pressure or cholesterol, diabetes, are overweight, or have a history…

Sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) is a medical emergency. It happens when an event, usually an electrical disturbance, quickly and unexpectedly [...]

Doctors divulge the most excruciating illnesses. Ouch.

HCA, the largest for-profit hospital chain in the country, uncovered evidence of unnecessary — even dangerous — cardiac treatments at some of its medical centers in Florida.

Broken heart syndrome is a real cardiac condition. WebMD explains what causes it and how it can be treated.

According to US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, the growing health benefits of medical marijuana should no longer be ignored.

From heartbeats to pacemakers, here's lot of cardiac trivia. Take this WebMD heart quiz to see how much you know about the organ that makes you tick.

People often use the terms heart attack, heart failure and cardiac arrest interchangeably. Read on to learn how all three, while linked, are different.

There are some diseases and conditions that only affect women, and others that most of us immediately, if not exclusively, associate with them, like brea...

A 13-year-old boy’s sudden cardiac death led doctors to wrongly diagnose more than 20 of his relatives with a potentially lethal heart disorder in a case that illustrates the potential for genetic testing to go wrong.

Experts say physicians need to do a better job of explaining the benefits of cardiac rehabiliation programs to get patients to use them more.

Each year, thousands of people in the United States suffer from cardiac arrest outside of a hospital, but the survival rate could double if victims were treated with CPR. Dr. Mehmet Oz joins TODAY with the goal of saving lives by giving a CPR refresher and showing how to use an automated defibrillator (AED).

People often use these terms interchangeably, but they are not the same. Learn the important differences between cardiac arrest and a heart attack to save your life or the life of someone you love.

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It indirectly harms the heart, by promoting the following cardiac risk factors -- problems that lead to heart disease: obesity, diabetes, cholesterol, blood pressure, and metabolic syndrome.

This type of positive finding is just one of many benefits of chiropractic instruments when it comes to alleviating non-cardiac chest pain.

Proposed since September 2017
Tropocollagen molecule: three left-handed procollagens (red, green, blue) join to form a right-handed triple helical tropocollagen
Collagen /ˈkɒlədʒɪn/ is the main structural protein in the extracellular space in the various connective tissues in animal bodies. As the main component of connective tissue, it is the most abundant protein in mammals, [1] making up from 25% to 35% of the whole-body protein content.…

One is a plumbing problem, while the other is electrical

Too much air pollution is linked to heart failure, arrhythmia, cardiac arrest, stroke, blood clots, and more.