HEART DISEASE

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“I went into sudden cardiac arrest because the blood was no longer pumping,” recalled Leigh Pechillo of Southington. Pechillo remembered the massive heart attack she suffered on Mother’s Day in 2014. What she suspected was heartburn turned out to be much more, a widow-maker heart attack. “I was LifeStarred to the hospital and they did find a 70% blockage,” said...

The American Heart Association is hoping to bring attention to women’s heart health with National Wear Red Day. Heart disease is the lead cause of death for both women and men, but signs of this problem show more in men.

A new U.K. study has found that going to sleep between 10 p.m. and 11 p.m. could lower the risk of heart disease.

The study tracked and analyzed data from more than 88,000 adults for around six years.

Older adults without heart disease shouldn’t take daily low-dose aspirin to prevent a first heart attack or stroke, an influential health guidelines group said in preliminary updated advice released Tuesday.

At 27, Kara DuBois experienced chest pain but her doctor explained that she had a panic attack. So she thought little of it until five years later. She learned that she actually had experienced a heart attack and needed quadruple bypass surgery. Since then she has had four more heart attacks and was in end-stage heart failure. “I didn’t know that...

New evidence shows that COVID-19 can have a serious impact on the health of those who contract the virus after their initial recovery. Doctors in Washington state, where the virus hit earlier this year, found an alarming rate of COVID-19 patients were left with heart damage.

Heart Disease and Stroke Remain No. 1 Killers of Women, claiming the lives of 1 in 3 women. The American Heart Association aims to increase awareness about heart disease and strokes being the woman’s greatest health threat. As part of their ongoing efforts, they celebrate an annual luncheon designed to empower local women with education and resources to prevent heart…

February is recognized as Heart Month, an annual campaign to raise awareness for heart disease. “We want the awareness to increase among the health care workers and also the patients so that we follow the same practice even in the community centers,” explained Dr. Anu Vallanki, a cardiologist at Windham Hospital. Vallanki stressed that a heart attack or stroke should…

U.S. regulators have approved expanded use of a fish oil-based drug for preventing serious heart complications in certain patients. The Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved Vascepa for reducing risk of potentially deadly or disabling cardiac complications.

The New York City medical examiner says Ric Ocasek, the 75-year-old frontman for The Cars, died of heart disease, worsened by emphysema.

Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Ric Ocasek, lead singer of the rock band The Cars, died Sunday in New York at age 75.

Millions of people who take aspirin to prevent a heart attack may need to rethink the pill-popping, Harvard researchers reported Monday. A daily low-dose aspirin is recommended for people who have already had a heart attack or stroke and for those diagnosed with heart disease. But for the otherwise healthy, that advice has been overturned. Guidelines released this year ruled...

Chips, soda and frozen pizzas tend to be full of salt, sugar and fat, but now scientists are trying to understand if there’s something else about such processed foods that might be bad for us. Already, the spread of cheap, packaged foods has been linked to rising obesity rates around the world. Yet advice to limit processed foods can seem...

Ayelet Connell from Simply Paleo showed us how to make this heart healthy and vegetarian salad.

A Vietnam veteran from Andover is heading to Washington D.C. for the State of the Union Address on a mission to rally support from federal lawmakers to make health care more accessible to veterans exposed to the toxic chemical known as Agent Orange.

A new report estimates that nearly half of all U.S. adults have some form of heart or blood vessel disease, a medical milestone that’s mostly due to recent guidelines that expanded how many people have high blood pressure. The American Heart Association said Thursday that more than 121 million adults had cardiovascular disease in 2016. Taking out those with only...

Registered Dietician Natalie Rizzo shared new and healthy oatmeal recipes.

A government study has found that 1 in 3 U.S. adults eat fast food on any given day. That’s about 85 million people. It’s the first federal study to look at how often adults eat fast food. An earlier study found a similar proportion of children and adolescents ate it on any given day. The Centers for Disease Control and...