February is recognized as National Heart Month. The American Heart Association is reaching out to the public during February, beginning with the Ninth Annual National Wear Red Day today to raise awareness on heart disease, but more specifically, heart disease among women.
February is American Heart Month. To celebrate, Texas Regional Medical Center at Sunnyvale and Dr. Larry Moore, a cardiologist at Southwest Cardiac Associates in Mesquite, offer this advice for lowering the risk of heart disease:
By: Kali Dingman Coronary heart disease is the second leading cause of death in Minnesota. Cardiologists, like Daniel Duprez, hope to stop this trend by using a different scoring system to detect heart disease before it attacks. As February marks American Heart Month, University of Minnesota cardiologists are tooting the Rasmussen score, developed at the University, as a more effective scoring ...
TUESDAY, Feb. 21 (HealthDay News) -- Having high levels of the amino acid homocysteine won't raise your risk of developing heart disease, a new analysis indicates.
Most people know that coronary heart disease is firmly linked to five basic risk factors: high cholesterol, high blood pressure, obesity, diabetes, and smoking.
