Category Archives for heart disease
Collagen-Skin, Muscle, Joint, Brain and Heart Health
“In 2018, thanks in part to a small but growing body of evidence suggesting it (collagen) can improve skin, ease arthritis symptoms, promote wound healing, and fend off muscle wasting,” Nutritional
Continue readingExercise w/ Atrial Fibrillation-Good or Bad?
The burden of arrhythmia can be reduced by physical exercise. The effect of exercise intensity on burden of atrial fibrillation (a-fib) needs to be studied further You’ve developed atrial fibrillation
Continue readingCoQ10 to Improve Ejection Fraction in Congestive Heart Failure
“Pooled analyses of available randomized controlled trials suggest that CoQ₁₀ may improve the Ejection Fraction in patients with congestive heart failure” I have chronic atrial fibrillation
Continue readingExercise-Based Cardiac Rehabilitation
(HF) Patients assigned exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation had greater improvements in exercise capacity and health-related quality of life compared with those assigned the control… I’m
Continue readingAnthracycline- Induced Cardiotoxicity- Late Stage Side Effect
The incidence of late progressive (anthracycline-induced cardiomyopathy) cardiovascular disease in long-term survivors of cancer is established and may contribute to heart failure and death. In 2010 I
Continue readingHeart Health Post SCT, Post Chemo-
In a period of less than one year, my oncologist had me undergo four cardiotoxic chemotherapy regimens- Adriamycin, Cytoxan, Busulfan, and Melphalan. To say that oncology has known about cardio toxicity
Continue readingBenefits Of CBD Oil On Mental Health & Wellbeing-
I am a long-term survivor of Multiple Myeloma, an incurable blood cancer. From the tine of my diagnosis in early 1994 until my oncologist told me “there is nothing more we can do for you, “
Continue readingChemotherapy-Induced CardioVascular Disease- How Many Die?
“…deaths from cardiovascular disease among patients…has shown that more than one in ten cancer patients do not die from their cancer but from heart and blood vessel problems instead…” The
Continue reading80% of Pediatric Cancer Survivors Suffer Chemo-Induced Heart, Brain, Joint Damage
“Eight of 10 pediatric cancer survivors had abnormal findings on brain, heart, and bone images, including six patients with and two patients without clinical symptoms.” Though the study linked
Continue readingCoffee, Cardiovascular Disease, Stroke Risk and Heart Failure- What Do the Studies Say?
“But drinking moderate amounts of coffee is linked to lower rates of pretty much all cardiovascular disease, contrary to what many might have heard about the dangers of coffee or caffeine…” I
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