More than 350,000 times a year in homes and public places throughout the U.S., someone’s heart starts beating so fast and erratically that it is unable to pump blood effectively. In a split second, the person collapses and lies motionless on the ground without a pulse.
Your Heart and Other Conditions
Guidelines were changed to prevent more cardiovascular events and deaths.
But when a review of more than 900 clinical trials found that a reading of 130/80 mmHg offered far greater protection against stroke, cardiovascular death and all-cause death, the American Heart Association and American College of Cardiology issued new guidelines lowering their...
Your Heart and Other Conditions
Families often become extremely fearful when a heart patient is transferred to an intensive care unit (ICU). The number of strange tubes, monitors and machines can be frightening, and the continual presence of nurses can be worrisome. But when a heart patient becomes very sick, the...
Your Heart and Other Conditions
Researchers hope dampening the immune response will limit damage.
Since a stroke overstimulates the immune system, resulting in permanent damage to the brain, can using stem cells to calm the immune system limit the extent of damage caused by a stroke? Cleveland Clinic researchers participating in multicenter studies of this unusual approach to...
Your Heart and Other Conditions
Now that summer has arrived, perhaps you’d like to visit your grandchildren, explore one of America’s national parks or tour Europe. If the temptation to get away appeals to you, don’t let heart disease stop you.
Your Heart and Other Conditions
Surgery can avert catastrophic death, but the disease process marches on.
Aortic disease kills more than 40,000 people a year in the U.S. alone, yet is relatively unknown. The disease causes the walls of the aorta, the largest blood vessel in the body, to weaken and balloon out, creating an aortic aneurysm. When the aneurysm reaches its limit, the inner...
Your Heart and Other Conditions
Depending on your exercise goals, there may be specific benefits to working out at a particular time of day. Exercising in the morning may be associated with lower blood pressure, better sleep and greater weight loss, due to improved fat burning and appetite suppression. Studies...
Your Heart and Other Conditions
It’s both a tragedy and an irony when a powerful chemotherapy agent cures a woman of breast cancer, only to leave her with heart failure or cardiomyopathy. It is not uncommon. Some of the most effective chemotherapy drugs used in the fight against breast cancer are known to be...
Your Heart and Other Conditions
“CPR is a simple intervention that anyone can master with little training, yet the magnitude of its effect is incomparable,” says Venu Menon, MD, Director of the Coronary Care Unit at Cleveland Clinic. Many people who suffer sudden cardiac death are in the prime of life...
