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News: February 14, 2012
Certain Risk Factors Could Spur Heart Failure in Normal-Weight People
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 14 (HealthDay News) -- Normal-weight patients diagnosed with a cluster of factors known as the "metabolic syndrome" could face a higher risk for heart failure than even obese patients without such factors, new research suggests. M...
New Drug May Put the Squeeze on Heart Failure
THURSDAY, Aug. 18 (HealthDay News) -- An experimental heart failure drug may change the way doctors treat this vexing condition, researchers say. Heart failure, also called congestive heart failure, occurs when the heart can no longer pump strongl...
Latest Study on Diabetes Drug Avandia Finds NoHeart Risks
TUESDAY, June 29 (HealthDay News) -- In direct contrast to research reported on Monday, a new study concludes there is no increased risk of heart attack, stroke or death by taking the diabetes drug Avandia. This latest finding even suggests that r...
Diabetes Drugs Go Head-to-Head in Study
THURSDAY, Dec. 3 (HealthDay News) -- A class of drugs still taken by millions of people with type 2 diabetes is associated with a higher risk of dying and heart failure than the newer treatment metformin, researchers say. Sulfonylureas, long a mai...
Vitamin DMay Be Tied to Heart Disease Via Genes
THURSDAY, Dec. 3 (HealthDay News) -- New research points to the possibility of a genetic link between vitamin D and heart disease. People with high blood pressure who had a gene variant that reduces vitamin D activation in the body were found to b...
Clinics Less Likely to Refer Heart Patients to Cardiologists
TUESDAY, April 28 (HealthDay News) -- American heart patients who receive their primary care at a community health clinic are less likely to be referred for a consultation with a cardiologist than patients who receive their primary care at a hospi...
Blacks, Hispanics Less Apt to Get Best Heart Failure Care
FRIDAY, March 6 (HealthDay News) -- When black and Hispanic Medicare recipients suffer severe heart failure, they are less likely than their white counterparts to be treated with the most cutting-edge treatment available, a new analysis suggests. ...
Some Heart Failure Meds May Raise Fracture Risk in Women
TUESDAY, Jan. 27 (HealthDay News) -- The short-term use of heart failure drugs called loop diuretics does not appear to increase the risk of fractures in postmenopausal women, a new study finds, but their effect over the long term is less clear. L...
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