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Is Alcohol Good for Your Heart?

CHL Marketing — Wed, 29 Jan 2020 20:23:57 +0000

You may have heard that drinking alcoholic beverages like red wine can help your heart. That may be true, but it all depends on how much you drink. More and more research shows that heavy drinking is harmful for your heart. Studies have linked it to risks like high blood pressure, heart attack, stroke, and abnormal heart rhythms or beats. ...

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A New Eating Peril: The Social-Business Diet

Cleveland Heartlab — Mon, 29 Aug 2016 13:00:02 +0000

When it comes to our eating habits, it doesn’t get much grimmer than the Western diet. High in fat, red and processed meats, salt, and sugar and low in healthful plant foods, it’s the predominant eating pattern in the U.S.—and increasingly in other parts of the world—and solidly linked to heart disease, diabetes, cancer, and other chronic conditions. But recently ...

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A Hidden Heart Risk for African Americans

Cleveland Heartlab — Wed, 06 Jul 2016 22:20:27 +0000

It’s an unfortunate fact: Heart disease is not an equal opportunity disease. Nearly half of all African American adults have some form of cardiovascular disease, compared with just a third of all white adults in the U.S. And African Americans are 30 percent more likely to die from heart disease than non-Hispanic whites. Yet, until recently, little research has probed ...

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Silent Heart Attacks

Cleveland Heartlab — Mon, 06 Jun 2016 14:47:10 +0000

Silent and Deadly: The Growing Danger of Symptomless Heart Attacks A heart attack can be a vital wake-up call for people with cardiovascular disease—a chance to embrace radical changes to improve heart health, and if medical help is sought quickly, even avoid heart damage. But what if the heart attack goes undetected because there are no symptoms? According to alarming ...

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4 Things I Wish I’d Known Before My Heart Attack: A Doctor’s Story

Cleveland Heartlab — Fri, 29 Jan 2016 20:56:46 +0000

Doug Dunning, MD thought he was healthy – until he suffered a heart attack on June 15, 2015, at age 56. He is now convinced that it might have been prevented with the right knowledge, testing, and optimal medical care. “This experience has changed how I practice medicine, making me a more attentive advocate for my patients’ cardiovascular wellness – and my ...

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3 New Tests to Predict Heart Attack and Stroke Risk

Cleveland Heartlab — Tue, 22 Dec 2015 16:54:02 +0000

Three new blood tests can help identify hidden risk for a heart attack or stroke in seemingly healthy patients—before symptoms strike. The new tests, now available through Cleveland HeartLab (CHL), check levels of certain biomarkers that have been linked to cardiovascular danger in peer-reviewed studies. Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading killer of men and women, accounting for one in ...

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TMAO Testing: A New Way To Assess Heart Attack And Stroke Risk

Cleveland Heartlab — Tue, 15 Dec 2015 22:09:45 +0000

A new blood test that measures levels of TMAO (trimethylamine-N-oxide) — a metabolite derived from gut bacteria — can powerfully predict future risk for heart attack, stroke, and death in patients who appear otherwise healthy, according to pioneering Cleveland Clinic research. The new test — now available through Cleveland HeartLab — measures blood levels of TMAO, a compound produced by ...

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The Diet that Helps Prevent Heart Attack, Stroke and Inflammation

Cleveland Heartlab — Mon, 12 Oct 2015 12:52:55 +0000

Even if you’re not overweight, cutting calories could lower inflammation by nearly 50 percent, improve other major risk factors for heart attack and stroke, including blood pressure and cholesterol, and even add years to your life, suggests a new National Institute on Aging (NIA) study. The findings, which were published in Journal of Gerontology: Medical Science, “are quite intriguing,” said ...

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What 90% of Women Don’t Know About Their Stroke Risks

Cleveland Heartlab — Tue, 22 Sep 2015 12:57:49 +0000

Only about one in ten women can correctly identify female-specific risks for stroke, according to a national survey released by Ohio State University (OSU) Wexner Medical Center. That’s concerning, given that stroke is the third leading cause of death in American women and the top cause of long-term disability, reports the National Stroke Foundation. “What women don’t know about stroke ...

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Novel Biomarker Test for Cardiovascular Disease Risk Now Available from Cleveland HeartLab

Cleveland Heartlab — Fri, 31 Jul 2015 13:27:40 +0000

A novel biomarker called ADMA/SDMA is an independent predictor of heart attack risk and may also identify patients with diabetes, pre-diabetes or kidney disease, according to recent peer-reviewed studies. The ADMA/SDMA biomarker blood test, now available through Cleveland HeartLab (CHL), measures levels of asymmetric dimethylarginine (ADMA) and symmetric dimethylarginine (SDMA). Elevated levels of these biomarkers can signal damage to the ...

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