Tag Archives: Heart Attack

Vitamin C, known for its vital benefits in curbing scurvy and anemic conditions is known to have also similar cardiovascular benefits that one gets by daily exercise. However, it may not replace exercise but certainly supplements for obese and old people, say scientists. Available in citrous fruits such as lemons, oranges, amla among others, vitamin C can mimic the the ...

Cardiac arrest strikes almost 600,000 people each year in the United States, killing majority of them because it occurred outside of hospital, said  a new report from the Institute of Medicine. Wide disparities of survival rates exist across the US, but benchmark communities demonstrate that saving more lives is possible, especially with bystander use of CPR and automated external defibrillators, ...

Former president APJ Abdul Kalam died of severe cardiac arrest while delivering a lecture at a Shillong institute at 6:40 PM today, Monday July 27 and was dead by the time he was taken to hospital. Dr Kalam, 84, collapsed at the Indian Institute of Management-Shillong and was rushed to the ICU in Bethany Hospital where doctors declared him brought ...

Refuting rumors and reports that director Mani Ratnam was hospitalized with heart attack, his aide said he visited Apollo hospital in Delhi on Tuesday for a master health checkup and contrary to the rumours, he was not hospitalised due to cardiac problems. “Mani and his wife were holidaying in Delhi. A master health checkup was long overdue. He got it ...

Veteran film director Mani Ratnam, who rose to fame with ‘Bombay’, was reportedly hospitalized on Tuesday night after he complained of chest pain due to heart attack, early reports said. He was admitted to Apollo Hospital in New Delhi and is undergoing tests. The director had two minor heart attacks in 2004 and 2009, while working on films “Yuva” and ...

Arthritis, a common ailment in elderly people is also one of the causes of sudden heart attacks in about one-fourth of them, said a new research study. The risk was same irrespective of smoking or debetes, they noted.  The researchers studied the presence of ischaemia and infarction secondary to atherosclerotic disease (coronary artery disease) in 91 patients with rheumatoid arthritis and ...

Are you aged 60 and contemplating not to quit smoking due to your advanced age? Even if you quit smoking at the age of 60, it will still help lower your associated ailments including the risk of heart attack or stroke by five years, said a new study by  German researchers. Once a person quits smoking, the risk starts declining ...

A new method to spot heart attacks in suspected patients within an hour has been found effective in three out of four cases in a clinical trial involving over 1,000 participants, reports a study. The new technique to measure cardiac troponin T levels in the blood, a preferred biomarker for the diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction (MI), commonly known as ...

Modern jobs are more on a computer and that too in a sitting position which enhances the risk of heart attack, warns a new study presented at American College of Cardiology in San Diego as part of its 64th Annual Scientific Session. Sitting for long hours in a day may lead to increased coronary artery calcification that leads to heightened ...

Parents must watch out as kids, who spend more than two hours watching television, computers or video consoles in a day run a 30% greater risk of developing high blood pressure, says new research, reiterating many studies which have warned earlier in this direction. Doing no daily physical activity or an activity which is less than an hour a day ...