Heart Disease and Diabetes

Even after a heart attack or bypass operation, some cardiac patients say no to beneficial fruits and vegetables as well as obviously harmful dietary fat.

Researchers shown that a vegetarian diet composed of specific plant foods can lower cholesterol as effectively as a drug treatment.

Natural chemicals in the body as a result of chronic inflammation may underpin the failure of healthy diet.

Men with at least 3 metabolic abnormalities are at high risk of type 2 diabetes and heart disease.

More than a quarter of diabetic patients hospitalized with heart failure are treated with diabetes medications not considered safe by the FDA.

A drug used to treat high blood sugar in people with type-2 diabetes also may lower the risk of cardiovascular disease.

Preliminary results showed diabetic patients who took the cholesterol-lowering medicine Lipitor had significantly fewer heart attacks, strokes and surgical procedures compared to patients who received placebo.

Results show that aspirin can be as effective as ticlopidine for prevention of a second stroke in African Americans.

Doctors should routinely consider giving cholesterol-lowering statins to anyone with diabetes who has a substantial risk of a heart attack or a stroke, according to recent findings.

Insulin resistance is likely a major cause of heart disease in people with type 1 diabetes.

Some studies have suggested that people with adult onset Type 2 diabetes are also less able to detect a critical heart attack warning sign.

Metabolic Syndrome X is the term used to describe a group of heart disease risk factors.

Two important risk factors for metabolic syndrome, family history of Type 2 diabetes and obesity, are independent predictors of heart disease.

People who have had silent strokes, which have no symptoms, are 8 to 12 percent more likely to have a major debilitating stroke within the following year.

Heart disease ranked as the most expensive medical condition according to a new study.

Researchers found that eating``fast food meals more than twice a week was associated with``double the risk of abnormal glucose control and a 50 percent``increase in the risk of obesity.