Heart Failure - Questions For Your Doctor Studies have shown that patients who are involved in their own treatment plan are much more likely to comply with the treatment plan. Furth...
Nicotine Replacement Therapy Nicotine substitutes treat the difficult withdrawal symptoms and cravings that 70 to 90 percent of smokers say is their only reason for not...
Heart Failure - Do I Have to Quit Smoking? Yes, you should quit smoking. No matter how bad your heart disease is now, continuing to smoke can make it worse. The constituents of tobac...
What Can I Do To Improve My Quality of Life? Patients who work to control their symptoms, studies have shown, have improved outlooks and fewer symptoms than those patients who just “go...
Is Depression a Problem With Heart Failure? Yes. Depression occurs frequently in the general population and even more frequently in patients with diseases such as CHF. The worsening o...
Heart Failure - Blood Clots in The Leg Patients with CHF do have a higher rate of blood clots in the leg. This condition is called deep venous thrombosis (DVT). Under normal circ...
Heart Failure - Sleep Apnea Sleep apnea is a condition characterized by episodes of stopped breathing during sleep. In normal conditions, the muscles of the upper part...
Heart Failure - Pulmonary Edema Pulmonary edema is a serious medical condition. Sometimes called pulmonary congestion or water on the lung, pulmonary edema is an excess ac...
Treating Cholesterol to Prevent Heart Desease How do you and your doctor decide whether and how to treat your cholesterol? Even though high cholesterol is clearly linked to heart diseas...
Kidney and Heart Disease Even mild kidney damage increases your chances of having a heart attack or stroke, or dying from one of these. And heart disease may be a w...
Using Calcium Test for Diagnose Heart Disease Since the early days of cardiac pathology in the late nineteenth century, doctors have known that calcium is deposited in the plaques of at...
Emerging Heart Desease Risk Factors You may have heard about new tests such as those that measure homocysteine or C-reactive protein levels that can estimate risk for heart di...
Heart Desease - Avoiding Psychological Factors The links between the heart and mind are harder to quantify than those between the heart and the waistline, but most authorities think that...
Avoiding Heart Desease Risk Factors Fortunately, most of the risk factors for coronary artery disease can be partially or totally addressed. Many are unhealthy habits, such as...
Heart Disease - Risk Factors Over the past several decades, many careful studies have identified personal traits and habits that increase the risk of developing heart d...