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Heart Failure Treatment: Potassium and Magnesium

While taking potassium or magnesium, have your blood pressure checked regularly as advised by your doctor. If you take controlled-release tablets o...

Heart Disease and Stroke

Your doctor can evaluate your risk for stroke and help you control your risk factors. A stroke, sometimes called a 'brain attack,' occurs when bloo...

Why Belly Fat Hurts The Heart

Researchers have found that exercise is a must to get rid of belly fat. 29, 2008 -- Belly fat tucked deep inside your waistline may be worse for yo...

Intermittent Claudication

Claudication is pain you feel when your leg muscles don’t get enough blood while you exercise. PAD is when your arteries, especially the ones in yo...

Heart Failure: Belly Fat Bad, Exercise Good

Their evidence comes from the largest study to date of exercise for heart failure patients. More than 2,300 heart failure patients in the U.S., Can...

Treating Heart Failure with Aldactone

Aldactone protects the heart by blocking a certain chemical (aldosterone) in the body that causes salt and fluid build-up. When receiving aldactone...

Cardiovascular Diseases

Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in the U.S. It’s important to learn about your heart to help prevent it. This is the term for ...

Cholesterol: The Big Picture

You have high cholesterol if your LDL is 160 or above and your total cholesterol is 240 or above. (Total cholesterol is calculated using a formula:...

Resveratrol Supplements

Beginning in the 1990s, experts began to focus on resveratrol, an antioxidant compound in red wine. We also don't know if resveratrol is necessaril...

Monounsaturated Fats Reduce Risk of Heart Disease

'It's not enough to reduce total calories from fat in our diet,' Alice Lichtenstein, PhD, professor of nutrition at Tufts University and member of ...

Anatomy and Circulation of The Heart

The major blood vessels connected to your heart are the aorta, the superior vena cava, the inferior vena cava, the pulmonary artery (which takes ox...

Plant-Based Diet for Heart Health

If you decide to swap dairy products for rice milk, nut milk, soy milk, or other plant-based alternatives, check the label to see how much calcium ...