Tag Archives: Heart

High salt diet or low salt diet good for your heart?

Doctors have been telling us for long that too much salt is bad for our health. However, the controversial results of an eight-year study by Belgium scientists have suggested that eating a diet high in salt is not only good … Continue reading

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Take care of your heart in the morning

Heart attack is a life threatening condition requiring urgent medical attention. People who have a heart attack in the morning tend to fare worse than those who have one at other times of the day and night, experts have discovered. … Continue reading

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Risk Factors for Heart Attacks and Some Ways to Eliminate it

What is a heart attack (myocardial infarction)? A heart attack, or myocardial infarction, occurs when one or more regions of the heart muscle experience a severe or prolonged lack of oxygen caused by blocked blood flow to the heart muscle.

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First heart transplant

The World’s First Heart Transplant As of April 1985, only two heart transplants had been performed in the Carolinas, both at Duke University Medical Center in Durham. That all changed on Jan. 6, 1986. At Charlotte Memorial Hospital (now Carolinas … Continue reading

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TECH: Heart Transplant Surgery

Heart transplantation, or cardiac transplantation, is a surgical transplant procedure performed on patients with end-stage heart failure or severe coronary artery disease. The most common procedure is to take a working heart from a recently deceased organ donor (allograft) and … Continue reading

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