Archive for the 'silent heart disease' Category

Signs of heart disease

Saturday, October 25th, 2008

A complete look at heart disease treatment and prevention and the impact it has on residents of Northeast Pennsylvania.
Doctor to give lecture on heart disease (Watertown Daily Times) UW Health Partners Watertown Regional Medical Center will kick off a Heart Health Series with a lecture titled Know your Risk for Heart [...]

Heart attack systems

Thursday, October 2nd, 2008

Overeating doesn’t just wreak havoc with your stomach and waist it disrupts the brain and triggers a cascade of internal damage that may cause diabetes, heart disease and other ailments, U.S. researchers reported today. Reuters writes that the research, reported in the journal Cell, might help explain why obesity causes so [...]

The Heart and Its Functioning and Structure

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

The heart is placed behind the breast bone and within the ribs (thoracic cage) with the lungs on either side. It is a hollow muscular organ made up of smooth muscles (myocardium). It is enclosed in a sac known as the pericardium (outside layer), and shaped like an egg, is about the size of a [...]