Category Archives: Cardiology
Stress and Cardiovascular Risk Factor III
Researchers have been determined to play a demanding task and put a lot of hard work does not always imply the existence of an unhealthy stress.
The keys seem to be in tension caused by a lack of job control (when the employee is overwhelmed and does not control the situation) and insufficient in obtaining employment [...]
Stress and Cardiovascular Risk Factor II
From earliest times, the agency has responded through various mechanisms to adverse situations. In most cases this was to preserve his own life, and this was seen as a natural and positive. The difference is that now the stress response is evoked constantly. And no way to dispel it.
Within the context of modern life are [...]
Stress and Cardiovascular Risk Factor I
Stress is difficult to measure, but it certainly is another cardiovascular risk factor and therefore has implications for health. Sometimes, work stress is associated with a higher cholesterol levels and increased overweight.
1. Is stress an illness?
Stress, in different degrees, is part of our daily lives and we all experience in a positive or negative. Only [...]
Identified 12 variations in a gene associated with heart failure
Researchers at the Medical School at Washington University in Saint Louis (USA) have identified a group of 12 genetic variants in the gene HSPB7 associated with heart failure in humans. The findings are published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation ‘.
The scientists, led by Gerald Dorn, used a sophisticated method to analyze DNA that had [...]
Fats and their influence on cardiovascular health
The human adipose tissue is composed mostly of triglycerides and represent the main energy reserve of the organism.
If a person is overweight or are pursuing an unbalanced diet (with a high intake of saturated fat, simple sugars and alcohol), the concentrations of triglycerides in the blood may be elevated. This results in a thickening of [...]