As more research is done concerning diagnosis and treatment of CVD among women, it is becoming clear that women sometimes experience different symptoms and benefit from different treatment than men do. Consider the following: Feeling painOver the years, it has been widely assumed that men, being the stronger, tougher sex, were much more tolerant of [...]

The basic causes of heart disease can be found in faulty eating and living habits and various mental and physical environmental stresses. The famous Framingham Heart Study of the National Heart and Lung Institutes identified and qualified the following major risk factors in coronary heart disease: a.  Elevated blood levels of cholesterol, triglycerides, and other [...]

Yes, high levels of cholesterol in the blood increase the risk of heart disease. Yet some people manage to elude heart attacks even when their numbers are high. It could be that the way your body oxidises cholesterol in the blood may point to susceptibility to heart disease. At the University of Southern California in [...]

For many, if not most, men and women, a program of diet, exercise and stress control will bring cholesterol levels under control. But some of us need additional help. The body makes its own cholesterol in the liver and, to a much lesser extent, in the intestine. But some of us make too much, and [...]