Monday, 17 March 2014

About Heart Health Center: Blowing Your Top Can Really Blow Your Top

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From Richard N. Fogoros, M.D., your Guide to Heart Health Center

This week: Angry outbursts (like road rage, for instance) can greatly increase your risk of a stroke or heart attack for up to two hours.  Also - A drug called ivabradine appears to offer new hope to people with inappropriate sinus tachycardia. 

Blowing Your Top Can Really Blow Your Top
Those movie scenes where some expendable character, moved to an outburst of great wrath over money or infidelity or a bad call at first base, suddenly collapses and dies (thus... Read more

Ivabradine For Inappropriate Sinus Tachycardia - IST
Ivabradine is a relatively new drug, available in the most of the developed world except the United States, which is used for the treatment of angina.  In recent years, reports... Read more

Atrial Fibrillation and Cryptogenic Stroke
Cryptogenic stroke - a stroke whose cause remains unknown even after a thorough medical workup - is a common problem, accounting for almost 40% of all strokes in the U.S.... Read more
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Subclinical Hypothyroidism and the Heart
Everyone knows that hypothyroidism - the condition in which the thyroid gland is not producing enough thyroid hormone - negatively impacts the heart.  But evidence is accumulating that a lesser... Read more
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