Breast Cancer, Cancer, Early Menopause, Heart Attack, Heart Disease, Premature Menopause
A new article in the New England Journal of Medicine that came out today showed that women who receive radiotherapy for breast cancer have a higher risk of ischemic heart disease. The authors studied 2168 women who had radiotherapy for breast cancer between 1958 and...
Diabetes, General Health, Heart Attack, Heart Disease, Menopause
For people with diabetes, heart disease is one of the most serious complications. And people with heart disease and partially blocked arteries often are candidates for preventing a heart attack. the choices for now are doing open heart surgery and bypassing the...
cholesterol, General Health, Heart Attack, Heart Disease, High Blood Pressure, Menopause, perimenopause, Stroke
I want to share this interview I did with Puja Mehta, a cardiologist at the Barbara Streisand Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Here she discusses heart attacks in women and what you need to know. Men and women have such different symptoms that many women don’t...
Diet & Nutrition, General Health, Heart Attack, Heart Disease, Menopause, perimenopause, Premature Menopause
Your always hearing people talking about vitamins. The term comes from the words vital and amines – vitamins. These are substances that your body needs to live and be healthy. Vitamin D is the only vitamin that your body can make; the other vitamins must be...
cholesterol, Diet & Nutrition, General Health, Heart Disease, Menopause, Weight Control
A new study showed that there is finally something good to talk about with regards to cholesterol – it’s getting lower in kids. Elevated total cholesterol dropped to 8.1% for kids ages 6 – 19 from 2007 to 2010 compared with 11% from 1988 to 1994....
cholesterol, Heart Disease
Before you buy your kid or grandkid their next hamburger, check their cholesterol. It may be elevated. http://bit.ly/S1G7lq. Please Like and share with friends.
