WHI follow-up study confirms health risks of long-term combination hormone therapy outweigh benefits for postmenopausal women

Low-fat diets are more effective in preserving and promoting a healthy cardiovascular system than low-carbohydrate, Atkins’-like diets, according to a new study by researchers at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee.

Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have determined that the level, or saturation, of oxygen in blood could be used to identify children with sickle cell anemia who are at an increased risk of stroke.

Age-related macular degeneration (AMD), an eye disease that mostly affects elderly, may double risk for heart disease and stroke.

Most Western countries face high and increasing rates of cardiovascular disease. Each year, heart disease kills more Americans than cancer. Diseases of the heart alone caused 30% of all deaths, with other diseases of the cardiovascular system causing substantial further death and disability. Up until the year 2005, it was the number 1 cause of death and disability in the United States and most European countries. Women are not less vulnerable than men.

New figures published by the European Society of Cardiology1 and the European Heart Network2 this month, highlighted the significant differences in cardiovascular disease across Europe. One fact, nevertheless, remains the same: cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the main cause of death in the European Union, killing over 2 million people per year.

Researchers from the University of Glasgow have developed a urine test which could be used to identify people with heart disease before symptoms appear.

Nowadays there exist a lot of risk factors that can easily excite the development of various forms of cardiovascular disease, commonly known as heart disease.

It's the leading cause of heart disease and stroke: atherosclerosis--a disease characterized by the thickening of arterial walls, restricting blood flow like a narrow pipe.

American adults have a higher prevalence of stroke than their European counterparts, due in part to a higher rate of stroke risk factors among Americans and barriers to care in the United States, according to a study presented at the American Stroke Association’s International Stroke Conference 2008.

A new device could put the beat back into weak hearts - and free patients from a lifetime of anti-rejection drugs.

Professor Dave Bates from the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology is to attempt to ski from Chamonix in France to Zermatt in Switzerland in April to raise money for some of the charities that have supported his research over the past ten years.