Heart Disease

A Woman’s Heart, Music and the Beat of Your Heart

Personally, I love music. I’m a musician and have to admit that music is and always has been a passion of mine. Whether I’m teaching, performing, singing, playing or writing, there is nothing (next to my family and faith) that evokes quite so much pleasure and joy in my life. In many ways, music completes me and I’ve found that it has a power to heal a multitude of ills and attitudes. I am, naturally, quite prejudiced when it comes to music. I believe everyone should have the opportunity to experience and enjoy music as much as I do whether it’s singing and playing professionally or simply singing in the shower or jamming with friends around a campfire. When it comes to music, it’s all good!

Dr. Andrea Russo: Atrial Fibrillation Treatment and Afibrillation Stroke Risk (video)

At Boston Atrial Fibrillation Symposium 2010, Dr.

A Woman’s Heart, Can a Positive Attitude Improve Your Heart Health?

There is a proverb that says “a merry heart does good like a medicine.” While being happy certainly improves ones disposition (and that of those around you!), can your outlook on life, particularly a positive outlook, actually impact and improve your heart health?

Could You Have Metabolic Syndrome?

Did you know that one in five Americans has metabolic syndrome? It’s a rising epidemic that can lead to heart disease and diabetes. Also known as Syndrome X and Insulin Resistance Syndrome, it includes a combination of criteria to be diagnosed.

Gender Disparity in Ablation Treatment and Outcomes for Atrial Fibrillation: Study

New multicenter research reveals that female patients fail ablation procedures more often than male patients, according to a study published in the February edition of the HeartRhythm Journal, the official journal of the Heat Rhythm Society. The study also shows that males undergo catheter ablation for the treatment of atrial fibrillation five times as often as females and typically with significantly fewer complications.

Behavioral Cardiology: Do Psychosocial Stressors Impact Your Heart?

Our eastern neighbors have long recognized the mind-body connection in the role of health, a concept which has been largely ignored by western medicine which traditionally treats the body as being separate from the mind or emotions. This western philosophy, as least as it relates to heart disease, may be changing. A new discipline within the field of cardiology, behavioral cardiology, is on the rise and brings a new approach to preventing and treating heart disease.

Monday morning blues and your heart

Have you ever noticed how the work week does not really begin on Monday morning, but instead on Sunday night?

You know what I’m talking about – the stress level that rises and rests in the pit of your stomach, the slight tension headache, the race to make certain clothes are clean, homework is done, lunches are prepared and ready. Don’t forget the mental list of all the things that must be done on Monday morning when you get to the office which replays constantly into the wee hours of the morning robbing you of precious, needed sleep.

A New Recipe for Heart Health

It wasn’t until 1990 that the Office of Research on Women’s Health at the National Institute of Health was founded.

Daily Aspirin May Cause More Harm Than Good

Are you one of the millions of Americans who pops a daily aspirin in hopes of lowering risk of cardiovascular disease? Have you talked to your healthcare provider first or did you start taking it on your own? Updated guidelines from the U.S. Preventive Task Force report that you may be doing more harm than good.

A Woman’s Heart: Does Aspirin Really Help?

Most of us have seen the commercials and are aware that taking an aspirin a day is beneficial in preventing heart attacks in men.

What about women? Will taking an aspirin a day lower a woman’s risk of heart disease as well? Does aspirin provide us with the same heart protective benefits that it does for men?