Tag Archives: Heart Attack

World Health Organisation has been vocal about the massive life-threatening risk among the humanity called hypertension or blood pressure in common parlance. Raised or High Blood Pressure occurs when the blood vessels persistently raise pressure on heart as it has to pump blood back to all parts of the body. Figures show that 8 million people die of it every ...

India’s Mumbai don and the most wanted criminal in Mumbai riots, Dawood Ibrahim is said to have been admitted in Aga Khan Hospital in Karachi after suffering a severe heart attack on Friday night and his condition is still unknown officially. Unconfirmed reports said the don has died but the Mmabi police have refused to confirm the details and Pakistan ...

Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation(APSRTC) has cancelled many Chennai-bound buses, especially from Tirupathi and Chittore owing the unpredictable developments on Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa’s heart attack and her current situation in Apollo Hospitals. While many VIPs and MPs are queueing up to Apollo hospital in Chennai to enquire about Jayalalithaa’s health, the hospital said that she is ...

As the news came out that Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa suffered heart attack on Sunday night, she was reportedly moved back to ICU from the private room in Apollo Hospitals in Cehannai. While the hospital is yet to issue any update, all MLAs have been asked to rush back to the state capital indicative of a serious situation. ...

As already known, genetic factors do contribute significantly to cardio-vascular heart diseases but recent advances in genetics have led to the identification of many Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms, or SNPs — very small differences in our DNA that vary from person to person, which could diagnose the symptoms coronary heart disease or CHD, and help start treatment, said Indian Origin heart ...

Having sex by older men once a week or more will put them at higher risk for heart attacks and other cardiovascular problems but not for older women, who may live a healthy life with less hypertension due to the same sex life, said a startling new study reversing the age-old belief just opposite to that. The first large-scale study ...

Fidgeting or moving legs while in a sitting posture is helpful to heart in a long way, found researchers from the University of Missouri (USA). “Whether it’s binge watching our favourite TV show or working at a computer… a small amount of leg fidgeting could prevent a decline in leg vascular function caused by prolonged sitting,” said lead author Jaume ...

Another study has validated that drinking tea is associated with decreased coronary artery progression and a lower incidence of heart attacks or strokes, said a paper presented at the American Heart Association’s Epidemiology/Lifestyle 2016 Scientific Sessions. Researchers studied 6,212 adults to determine how tea drinking might be associated with coronary artery calcium progression, a marker for blood vessel disease, and ...

Many heart attacks reported immediately after alcohol consumption has been proved again and even moderate levels of consumption may double the risk of heart attack and stroke within an hour after drinking, a new study has showed. After analyzing data from 23 studies involving 30,000 participants in the hours and days after drinking alcohol, Elizabeth Mostofsky from Harvard TH Chan ...

BCCI president Jagmohan Dalmiya, who suffered chest pain on Thursday evening in Kolkata, was rushed to the BM Birla Heart Research Institute amid worries that falling health is a big concern for the cricket board. Dalmiya, 75, has been unwell and was indisposed for some time, said reports. Confirming the news sourced to hospital staff, media reports said Jagmohan Dalmiya ...