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Advice for other women with heart disease
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20, new mom and need PPCM help please!!
- By RedneckMama · New reply 8:57 pm
- 5 replies
- I just had a baby 6 months ago and recently got diagnosed with PPCM. I'm exhuasted all the time and I am so out of breath...I'm just looking for advice on how to cope with this. My husband is in the Army ...
What You Should Know About C-Reactive Protein
- By Ecksunbeam · Posted 9:55 am
- 0 replies
- Heart Health Special Report What You Should Know About C-Reactive Protein One of the key markers for measuring heart attack risk has been elevated levels of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol ...
Niacin Tops Zetia in Cutting Artery Plaque
- By Ecksunbeam · New reply yesterday at 5:07 pm
- 4 replies
- Niacin Slows Plaque Buildup The new study, funded by Abbott, the maker of Niaspan, involved 363 people who had heart disease or were at high risk of heart disease. All the patients were on statin drugs ...
Reopening of CABG Sternal Incision
- By C-cat · New reply yesterday at 2:45 pm
- 11 replies
- It is over a year since my original CABGx4. The incision site still leaks at the base and "proud flesh" keeps filling it, but not healing it. I just saw the plastic surgeon. They want to reopen the incision ...
Statins do not eliminate risk of low HDL-cholesterol levels
- By martzj · New reply November 18, 2009
- 1 reply
- Statins do not eliminate risk of low HDL-cholesterol levels November 17, 2009 | Michael O'Riordan Orlando, FL - Low levels of HDL cholesterol, even among statin-treated patients, are associated with a ...
Streisand & Dr. Noel Bairy-Merz on The Doctors
- By martzj · New reply November 18, 2009
- 18 replies
- Cool! I never watch this ABC show, The Doctors....but just came across it the moment Dr. Bairy-Merz was talking about female vs male heart attacks. Barbra Streisand called to join in the conversation ...
Gratitude creates prosperity....I think
- By kardia · New reply November 18, 2009
- 7 replies
- I love this topic for April, and I am late also...or maybe not April 1st is this week. Recently I read a comparison of two charts that I now incorporate visually in meditation. They can be found in the ...
your symptoms of heart attack
- By shortcake · New reply November 18, 2009
- 4 replies
- I was just wondering for those who have had a heart attack what were your symtoms and did you notice things different leading up to your heart attack> I have had some different symtoms lately and wondered ...
Mammograms and Pacemakers or ICDs
- By kk_stl · New reply November 17, 2009
- 11 replies
- I've read that a pacemaker reduces the accuracy of the mammogram. I guess because it may block some of the breast from view. I've also heard that in rare cases the lead wires can be damaged from the compression ...
Living with PPCM and would love advice...
- By RedneckMama · New reply November 17, 2009
- 6 replies
- I recently got diagnosed with PPCM in June of '09. I'm only 20 and have one son, Bryan, who is 6 months old. I am an Army wife, stay at home mama, live 1200 miles away from my family and my husband works ...
TRIGLYCERIDES SPIKING
- By tickers · New reply November 16, 2009
- 10 replies
- Am reading Hidden Causes of Heart Attack and Stroke (Inflammation, Cardiology's newest frontier)/Wilde and came across a section on Triglycerides spiking mentioning: " Indulgance in a high fat food raises ...
Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection
- By Stephanie2 · New reply November 15, 2009
- 80 replies
- A week after delievering a healthy boy, I had a heart attack. I had no comlications or heart issues during pregnancy, my delievery was nice and I had no risk factors for a heart disease. Angiography was ...
Does exercise contribute to arthritis? Runners knees?
- By martzj · Posted November 14, 2009
- 0 replies
- Harvard Medical School offers special reports on over 50 health topics. Visit our Web site at http://www.health.harvard.edu to find reports of interest to you and your family. Copyright © 2009 by Harvard ...
Finally! Public reporting shows 1 in 4 back in a month
- By martzj · New reply November 14, 2009
- 9 replies
- Ladies... Newly introduced 'public reporting' is already producing eye-opening data trends...... The group looked at data on more than 1.6 million separate hospitalizations of fee-for-service Medicare ...
Pregnancy and Heart Disease/SCAD Article
- By jay73 · New reply November 12, 2009
- 5 replies
- I've just stumbled across this article and I know it's a subject of interest to many of us. It's a few years old so apologies if it has been posted before. http://www.theheart.org/article/124447.d o ...
Christian Scientists want 'spiritual care' as part of health bill
- By martzj · New reply November 10, 2009
- 8 replies
- Ladies, This is about 'billing'....as in charging $25-40 or more for their prayers for you. And this is the kind of bunk that is dragging down the passage of a clear all-inclusive health care reform package ...
US Healthcare Reform
- By MMaslek · New reply November 10, 2009
- 1 reply
- I've never started anything remotely political here but when I recieved this I felt it affects us all so much I was compelled to post it. Universal healthcare will be so much more fair if our elected ...
Hospitalized kids w/o insurance 60% more likely to die
- By martzj · New reply November 9, 2009
- 5 replies
- John Hopkins study of 23 million child hospitalizations in 37 states from 1998-2005 showed that the uninsured children faced a 60 percent increased risk of dying. That is a lot of dead children....and ...
Searching for Conference or Symposium
- By lashawnsheart · New reply November 9, 2009
- 3 replies
- Does anyone know of any Conferences or Symposiums that allow patients to come? The only ones I have been able to find are only for Doctors and people in the cardio field. Thanks ...
Name change proposal for women's heart disease to IHD
- By martzj · New reply November 9, 2009
- 7 replies
- This is from November Heart to Heart e-newsletter. If you haven't done so, take a few moments to subscribe to this free WH resourse. It is loaded with the latest in women's heart news, research links ...
