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Heart disease

Health: Library - 27 February 2003
What is heart disease, how is it treated and how can you prevent it?

Tags: heart-disease, older-people

Implantable defibrillators and quality of life

Health Minutes - 06 October 2008
Implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs)preserve quality of life in people with heart rhythm disturbances.

Tags: heart-disease, medical-procedures

Coconut: good fat or bad?

Health: The Pulse - 25 September 2008
Mixed messages abound about coconut and health. Is it a fatty treat, to be eaten with care? Or a miracle food, as some websites claim?

Tags: diet-and-nutrition, heart-disease

Cholesterol: the full story?

Health Minutes - 22 September 2008
Some experts say blood fats other than cholesterol are better at assessing your true risk of a heart attack or stroke.

Tags: diet-and-nutrition, heart-disease, doctors-and-medical-professionals

Butter or margarine: which is better when it comes to fat?

Health: Talking Health - 06 August 2008
Are you a butter or margarine person?

Tags: diet-and-nutrition, heart-disease

Coping with chronic disease

Health: The Pulse - 31 July 2008
Half of all Australians over 65 have a chronic illness. What makes some succumb to despair, and others adjust and even improve their lives?

Tags: arthritis, heart-disease, older-people, self-help

Diabetes: good news and bad

Health Minutes - 21 July 2008
Findings from Norway have good news and bad news for people with diabetes. Death rates are down, but they're still high.

Tags: diabetes, heart-disease

Heart checks for athletes?

Health Minutes - 21 July 2008
Should a person thinking of taking up competitive sport have their heart checked first? Experts are divided.

Tags: exercise-and-fitness, heart-disease, sports-injuries

Stronger musles, longer life

Health Minutes - 21 July 2008
Being strong might predict a longer life. Muscle strength seems to protect against cancer and all combined causes of death, say researchers.

Tags: exercise-and-fitness, cancer, heart-disease, older-people

CT scans for the heart

Health Minutes - 07 July 2008
CT angiography enables doctors to obtain quite detailed pictures of the coronary arteries. But it's unlikely to be of any benefit in people with no symptoms.

Tags: heart-disease, healthcare-facilities, medical-procedures

Vitamins no help for heart disease

Health Minutes - 09 June 2008
A large study of people with risk factors for coronary heart disease has found that taking vitamins made no difference.

Tags: alternative-medicine, vitamins, heart-disease, womens-health

Hypertension: treat the elderly?

Health Minutes - 09 June 2008
It's worth treating blood pressure in the elderly; it reduces heart attack and stroke risk, say researchers.

Tags: heart-disease, hypertension, stroke, older-people

Starting late to a healthy life

Health: Healthy Living - 03 June 2008
Forget your unhealthy past - change your ways now and there's still plenty to gain!

Tags: heart-disease, older-people

Bruits suggest heart disease

Health Minutes - 02 June 2008
A bruit - a kind of blowing noise heard via stethoscope over the carotid arteries in the neck - may indicate a raised risk of heart disease.

Tags: heart-disease, stroke, doctors-and-medical-professionals

Calculating heart attack risk

Health Minutes - 02 June 2008
Swedish researchers have refined the way a person's risk for heart attack is calculated.

Tags: heart-disease, mens-health

Eggs: healthy or not?

Health: Healthy Living - 27 May 2008
Go on have an egg; it's not the dietary evil we once thought.

Tags: diet-and-nutrition, heart-disease

Pharmacogenetics questioned

Health Minutes - 19 May 2008
Genetic testing to see whether a certain drug will work in a particular person is expensive, and may not be as successful as was hoped.

Tags: heart-disease, pharmaceuticals, genetics

Home defibrillators

Health Minutes - 19 May 2008
A clinical trial looking at the use of home defibrillators showed no improvement in survival rates in people who'd had a cardiac arrest.

Tags: heart-disease, medical-procedures

Hole in the heart may cause stroke

Health Minutes - 19 May 2008
One in four people have a hole in the heart called a patent foramen ovale; evidence suggests it might be a source of strokes and possibly dementia.

Tags: alzheimers-and-dementia, heart-disease, stroke

Worldwide hypertension

Health Minutes - 19 May 2008
Half of all strokes and heart attacks worldwide are caused by raised blood pressure, and the problem is worse in low- to middle-income countries.

Tags: heart-disease, hypertension, stroke

Is chocolate good for your heart?

Health: Talking Health - 14 May 2008
Do you ever use the 'health' argument to justify your chocolate consumption?

Tags: diet-and-nutrition, heart-disease, hypertension

Aspirin resistance

Health Minutes - 29 April 2008
Thousands of Australians are on low-dose aspirin or other anti-platelet medications. But many may be aspirin resistant, with potentially serious consequences.

Tags: heart-disease, stroke, pharmaceuticals

Look mum, no mouth

Health: The Pulse - 24 April 2008
The kiss of life isn't as important as chest compressions in resuscitating someone with a cardiac arrest, say American experts.

Tags: disasters-and-accidents, heart-disease, medical-procedures

Look mum, no mouth

Health: The Pulse - 24 April 2008
The kiss of life is less important than chest compressions in resuscitating someone with a cardiac arrest, say American experts. But Australian experts are not so sure.

Tags: disasters-and-accidents, heart-disease, medical-procedures

Once upon a time there was a sickness

Health: The Pulse - 17 April 2008
How can health workers improve communication with Indigenous patients? One way is to tell stories together.

Tags: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, heart-disease, doctors-and-medical-professionals, liver-and-kidneys

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