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Advice for other women with heart disease
Share what you have learned about heart disease with other women.
6 weeks post-surgery and still worse than before. Help!
- By lisaheart77 · New reply 7:17 am
- 6 replies
- Ladies, I don't often post but I am at my wits end. I'm 44 and have been pretty fit most of my adult life. After worsening shortness of breath and an increasingly loud heart murmur sent me to a cardiologist ...
Social Security
- By Nanabear · New reply yesterday at 9:18 pm
- 13 replies
- I was approved for my Social Security Disability My question is how long did it take for any of you to receive your backpay and to start getting the monthly check? Thank You ...
If Disney Ran Your Hospital
- By martzj · New reply yesterday at 3:02 pm
- 10 replies
- I found this article on the level 2 hospital where my heart attack was treated in 1996, etc. Looks like they've made some major changes since 2007... based on the book "If Disney Ran Your Hospital: 9 ...
transplant success without immunosuppressants
- By martzj · Posted July 2, 2009
- 0 replies
- Found this from Mass. General Hospital, Boston The Transplant Trick "To deal with the problem, the thymus has a system whereby it destroys all T cells that target “self.” (Problems with this system can ...
Beware: crash diets can harm your heart
- By Kennarina · New reply July 2, 2009
- 9 replies
- Hello Heart Sisters! Thinking of getting swimsuit-ready through a quickie lemonade fast, cabbage soup diet or Master Cleanse? Cardiologist Isadore Rosenfeld, MD, a professor of clinical medicine at Weill ...
Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection
- By WomenHeart · New reply June 30, 2009
- 47 replies
- **Originally posted by user katy 06/20/2005 : 22:29:37 ** Ten years ago, when I was 38, I had a heart attack. I was told it was a spontaneous coronary artery dissection(LAD). I had angioplasty and have ...
Feeling better and looking for suggestions on exercise
- By Linda_RS · New reply June 29, 2009
- 9 replies
- It is now two months since my "event" and am starting to feel better (most of the day). My doctor's suggest that I walk. I do, but I am looking for other suggestions. I want to work on maintaining the ...
Small vessel disease
- By Clematis · New reply June 28, 2009
- 10 replies
- I have been reading the mayoclinic site, and was interested to find an article on small vessel disease. Since my chest pains usually occur during rest, and I have been diagnosed with having several small ...
Migraine w aura associated w late-life cerebellar infarct
- By martzj · Posted June 27, 2009
- 0 replies
- JAMA, June 24, 2009. Vol. 301, No. 24 p. 2563. Migraine with aura in midlife is associated with late-life prevalance of cerebellar infarct-like lesions on MRI scans. (only significant in women) Migraine ...
Hypothryoidism- Heart problems, ischemia,depression
- By arizona1 · New reply June 27, 2009
- 20 replies
- This is from the doctor I work with for my CFS. I just happened to find this article while "researching" It sheds some very interesting light on heart issues and hypothyroidism. Kathi Hypothyroidism The ...
Scientists Identify Novel Way to Prevent Cardiac Fibrosis
- By martzj · Posted June 25, 2009
- 0 replies
- News Release Date: April 22, 2008 Scientists Identify Novel Way to Prevent Cardiac Fibrosis In a study that points to a new strategy for preventing or possibly reversing fibrosis – the scarring that can ...
Things I Wish I Had Known Sooner
- By lkay · New reply June 25, 2009
- 68 replies
- Hello all, I keep picking up little tidbits here and there and am surprised there isn't a list, kind of like David Letterman's top 10, of Things I Wish I Had Known Sooner .... I hope you all will jump ...
Risk Assessment & Communication, DHC June 28, Sunday
- By martzj · Posted June 24, 2009
- 0 replies
- Watch our newest Discovery Health CME program Risk Assessment and Communication Premiering Sunday, June 28, 2009 on Discovery Health Channel Check local listings for times and additional airdates. Register ...
Nicotine May Help Spur 'Prediabetes'
- By martzj · Posted June 23, 2009
- 0 replies
- Of Mice and Women? "In their study, the team gave adult mice twice-daily injections of nicotine for 14 days. The mice displayed higher levels of cortisol in the blood. They also ate less and lost weight ...
Cardiac muscle adapted to be highly resistant to fatigue
- By martzj · Posted June 23, 2009
- 0 replies
- Troponin is a complex of three regulatory proteins that is integral to muscle contraction[1] in skeletal and cardiac muscle, but NOT SMOOTH muscle. Discussions of troponin often pertain to its functional ...
50 Foods to Lower Cholesterol
- By Ecksunbeam · New reply June 20, 2009
- 3 replies
- http://www.webmd.com/cholesterol-managem ent/lower-cholesterol-9/foods?ecd=wnl_hr t_061609 ...
The CoQ10 for those over 50 (Ubiquinol vs Ubiquinone)
- By arizona1 · New reply June 19, 2009
- 23 replies
- Co Q 10 is very important, especially if you are on statins. However, there is one thing more to consider. Your age determines what form of CoQ10 that your body can absorb. Those under 50 can take ubiquinone ...
Healthcare
- By corby · New reply June 18, 2009
- 1 reply
- I was reading Heart Healthy Magazine and came across an article about Larry King. This is something I wanted to share with all of you. Some of us may need help in the future with healthcare costs etc ...
DEADLINE FRIDAY: apply TODAY for Mayo Clinic Symposium
- By Kennarina · New reply June 18, 2009
- 7 replies
- Hello heart sisters, That little red WomenHeart Science & Leadership Symposium box to the right of your screen has been up for some time, but I just wanted to jog your memories if you have been thinking ...
Eye exam could help determine heart disease
- By martzj · Posted June 17, 2009
- 0 replies
- This fascinating article was posted in the June Heart to Heart newsletter............... If you haven't yet done so, click on the WomenHeart link at the upper right of your screen to get to the WH home ...
From WomenHeart
