Category: heart disease

mRNA Vaccines Put You at Risk for Acute Coronary Syndrome

If you’ve taken a two-dose regimen, you’ve more than doubled your five-year risk of this – driving it up to the odds of 1 in 4. Here are nine symptoms to watch out for. STORY AT-A-GLANCE Using the PULS cardiac test, researchers have found Pfizer and Moderna mRNA COVID shots dramatically increase biomarkers associated with…


Illuminating the Dark Genome in the Fight Against Congenital Heart Disease

An Australian university researcher, investigating the relationship between a person’s genes and their propensity for heart disease, has been awarded an $8 million (US$5.8million) fellowship from the Snow Medical Research Foundation. University of New South Wales (UNSW) researcher, Emily Wong PhD, intends to illuminate the relationship between the ‘dark genome’—regions of a genome that are understood…


7 Ways to Prevent and Even Reverse Heart Disease With Nutrition

Heart disease, while still the #1 cause of mortality in the developed world, can be prevented and even reversed with nutritional interventions, according to a growing body of scientific research we’re indexing on GreenMedInfo.com Considering that heart disease is the #1 cause of death in the developed world, anything that can prevent or reduce cardiac mortality, or…


Could This Be the Root of All Heart Disease?

In this interview, repeat guest Dr. Malcolm Kendrick, a board-certified family physician and author of the book, “The Clot Thickens: The Enduring Mystery of Heart Disease,” reviews the underlying mechanisms for heart disease, which for the last century has been the leading cause of death in the U.S. Of all the books he’s written, this…


Moderna, AstraZeneca Partnering To Develop an ‘mRNA Therapeutic’ For Heart Disease

Drugmakers Moderna and AstraZeneca are partnering up to develop a “mRNA therapeutic” to treat life-threatening cardiovascular disease such as heart failure. “We are collaborating with @AstraZeneca on an mRNA therapeutic (AZD8601) that encodes for VEGF-A to promote recovery of cardiac function through tissue regeneration,” Moderna said in a Twitter post Thursday. The biotechnology company included…


Eat More Yellow Veggies, Coffee to Zap Inflammation, Heart Disease Risk

Findings highlight the pro- or anti-inflammatory potential of the food you eat, particularly in promoting or fighting cardiovascular disease and stroke. Yellow vegetables, green leafy vegetables, coffee, tea and even red wine appear particularly beneficial Certain diets have been shown to increase inflammation in your body, which then sets the stage for heart disease and…


A Simple Thought May Help Lower Your Blood Pressure

Valentine’s Day is just around the corner. This is a time of love and romance. Everywhere you look, you see the color red, hearts, chocolate, flowers, and all sorts of stuffed animals to spark the romance. Although performing romantic gestures for the ones we love can make us feel good, new research suggests simply thinking…


Medical Experts Call for Monitoring to Reduce Rheumatic Heart Disease, Fever

The Medical Journal of Australia (MJA) is calling for a patient register and control program in Victoria to help reduce morbidity caused by rheumatic heart disease (RHD) and acute rheumatic fever (ARF), according to a new publication. ARF is an inflammation of the heart, joints, and blood vessels that can arise due to an untreated…


Self-Compassion Linked to Lower Heart Risk Among Women

During the pandemic, the stressors in life have become amplified, leaving many at risk for cardiovascular disease. Previous research has shown that chronic stress and other negative factors can impact cardiovascular health. But a new study shows how being kind to oneself may help lower these risks. The research published in Health Psychology found that…


New Study Finds Social Isolation Increases Heart Problems

An Australian study has found that older adults with poor social health—who also have low social support and are isolated—were 42 percent more likely to develop cardiovascular disease (CVD), and twice as likely to die from it. The study’s authors define low social support as having a circle of four or less relatives or close…