12.07.2010
Lifestyle Coaching: Changing Your Path, Stress Management: Maintaining Balance, The Wounded Heart: Heart Disease and You
A recent article summarizes a study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology indicating that overall picture of cardiac care has improved overtime in the U.S. This included factors ranging from people becoming more aware of heart attack symptoms, quicker visits to the ER/Hospital, better pharmaceutical care, hospital procedure outcomes, less mortality.
According to the article, Dr. Gregg C. Fonarow, a cardiology professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, noted, “These findings show the substantial efforts to provide physicians and hospitals with detailed feedback on performance coupled with targeted quality improvement efforts are producing measurable and meaningful benefits to cardiovascular disease patients.”
Article available at: http://consumer.healthday.com/Article.asp?AID=641040
Original study located at: http://content.onlinejacc.org/cgi/content/short/56/4/254 (Journal Access Needed)
Dr. Schwartz
San Diego Psychologist
www.integrative-health.net
01.06.2010
Lifestyle Coaching: Changing Your Path, The Heaviness of Weight Management, The Wounded Heart: Heart Disease and You
Although children, adolescents, and sedentary behavior has been a hot topic these days, a new 20 year study indicates that being young (young adults) without exercise can have negative long term effects when it comes to hypertension.
According to the article, “4,618 men and women between 18 and 30 years old were recruited for a long-term study of cardiovascular disease risk factors. Study volunteers completed a treadmill test and a physical activity questionnaire when the study began. In addition, their overall health was assessed at six follow-up appointments over 20 years.”
The article also noted, “If people moved more and were able to increase their fitness level, the researchers estimate that about 34 percent of hypertension cases could be prevented.”
Lead researcher, Dr. Mercedes Carnethon, Ph.D., assistant professor of preventive medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago stated, “Those who were the least physically fit, as determined by the amount of time on a treadmill and self-report, were more likely to develop hypertension.”
Article available at: http://www.healthday.com/Article.asp?AID=639705
Original Study Abstract at: http://hyper.ahajournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/HYPERTENSIONAHA.109.147603v1?maxtoshow=&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&fulltext=Mercedes+Carnethon%2C+Ph.D&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=0&resourcetype=HWCIT
Dr. Schwartz
San Diego Psychologist
www.integrative-health.net
22.02.2010
The Darkness of Depression
A Columbia University study shows that happiness can potentially reduce the risk of heart problems. The authors found, “For every point on the happiness scale, people were 22 percent less likely to have a heart problem.” As reported by the San Diego Union Tribune. http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/feb/18/happiness-helps-when-it-comes-to-the-heart/
Dr. Schwartz
San Diego Psychologist
www.integrative-health.net
13.01.2010
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Anxiety (and even fear) can be helpful. It can motivate us, keep us focused, alert, and increase our performance in tasks. If, however, the anxiety doesn’t go away after the situation, increases significantly in intensity, or just remains “hanging” like a cloud all the time, the consequences can be harmful. They can considerably affect your everyday functioning or even affect your physical health with problems such as cardiac symptoms, reduced immunity, Gastro-Intestinal symptoms, excessive fatigue, and many of the other stress related physical symptoms. According to the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), approximately 18% of all U.S. adults have an anxiety disorder.
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13.01.2010
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Heart disease is a general term that describes a wide variety of diseases that affect you heart and you blood vessels. These conditions include coronary artery disease; heart rhythm problems (arrhythmias); and heart defects you’re born with (congenital heart defects). The most common cause of heart disease is cardiovascular disease — a condition involving the narrowing or blockage of the coronary arteries (blood vessels that supply the heart) that can lead to chest pain (angina), heart attack, or stroke. Other forms of heart disease may include infections and conditions that affect your heart’s muscle, valves, or rhythm.
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