Here’s what you need to know about treatment if your elderly family member is diagnosed with pneumonia but has pre-existing heart failure. Pre-existing heart failure poses a significant risk of higher mortality when such patients [...]
Exercised legs are very important for chronic heart failure patients. Don’t assume that legs don’t matter just because they’re far from the heart. […]
If a doctor didn’t order IV fluids for a patient with acute decompensated heart failure, this was probably a very smart move… even though it would seem—from an intuitive standpoint—that IV fluids would be beneficial. [...]
Gaining weight over time can put you at risk for future heart failure. The "fat acceptance" subset of the body positive movement needs to understand this. Chronic heart failure should never be an "accepted" disease. [...]
It’s odd that with all the people so afraid of dying from cancer, these same individuals often don’t give heart failure a second thought. Though getting the “big C” may scare the daylights out of [...]
Following prostate cancer surgery, a man may experience twitching down there, or what seems like a kind of twitching within or near his manhood. This not only can be quite annoying to some patients, but [...]
It seems that the logical treatment for spinal stenosis is to repeatedly extend the back throughout the day or do sustained back extension exercises to “force” the lumbar region into a more upright position. [...]
“There are several possible causes for medial knee pain when deadlifting,” says Dr. Tom Carpenter, corrective exercise specialist, certified personal trainer and chiropractor, inventor of Stand Corrected™, a portable harness-like stretching tool that helps alleviate [...]
Causes and solutions for shoulder popping when you bring the bar down when bench pressing. ****** Bringing the bar down in the bench press can put more stress on the shoulder than the act of [...]
It’s supposedly a big achievement that the Barbie doll body now comes in a curvy or “realistic” version—yet her face remains totally unrealistic. […]
It would seem that most patients with advanced heart failure who are getting worse would be suitable candidates for a ventricular assist device. […]
If someone with chronic heart failure goes into acute decompensated mode triggering cardiorenal syndrome and dies, is there a sooner point in time for which medical intervention could have saved this individual? […]
How can doctors tell that ejection fraction has worsened over the course of a few days in someone admitted with acute decompensated heart failure if only one echo was taken on the day of admission? [...]
The contraindications for drug therapy in critically ill patients with acute decompensated heart failure with worsening renal function leave physicians in a very tough spot, because without these drugs, the patient is sure to die. [...]
What determines when drug treatment in the elderly with acute heart failure and worsening renal function can be helpful vs. harmful? Cardiorenal syndrome has no clear-cut cookie-cutter treatments. […]
Bad news for workout enthusiasts who watch a lot of TV: Your gym exercise may not cancel out the blood clot risk of sitting a lot in front of the TV. Now if you walk [...]
Is a fasting blood sugar that’s always in the 90 range as good as always in the 80’s or 70’s, or does this mean you’re at higher risk for eventually developing type 2 diabetes? [...]
There is good reason never to double up on a drug for high blood pressure if you miss a dose. “Double dosing on hypertension drugs can be potentially dangerous (even fatal), but most often, there [...]
It’s not health anxiety if you keep worrying about your fasting blood sugar being around 119. Because if you keep seeing 119, you’re in big trouble – and your excessive worrying is quite justified. [...]
A blood pressure reading of 135 over 90 is so very borderline for high, but don’t let that fool you because it’s dangerous! “Blood pressure is called the ‘silent killer’ for good reason,” says Stacy [...]
Been just diagnosed with prediabetes and are fearfully waiting—or calmly wondering—how long before you have type 2 diabetes? […]
Is Niaspan really more effective than a B3 supplement for coronary plaque reversal or is this the pharma industry’s way to a profit stream? […]
Beware if your A1C came back as 5.9. Though this doesn’t mean (yet) that you have diabetes, it means that type 2 diabetes is rapping hard on your door and you’d better up the ante [...]
This is about how to tell the difference between an irregular heartbeat and a twitching muscle in your chest. When a muscle twitches (fasciculates), it can be very rhythmic, kind of like the beat of [...]
Your blood pressure is impressive: always low, but dang, your baseline heart rate is always fast, like in the 90’s. “Every body is different; however, higher resting heart rates can be an indication of underlying [...]
Just how dangerous is a blood sugar reading in the 500’s? VERY. “Blood sugar in the 500’s is dangerous, especially if it stays there for any significant period of time (like hours),” says Stacy Mitchell [...]
Eeuuugh! What could be causing your belly button to stink and be oozing and bleeding? Could it be some form of cancer? […]
If you have a bad sinus congestion from a cold, what typically happens is that both eyes will be watery as a result. Epiphora is the medical term for excessive watering of the eyes. When [...]
While you’re lying in bed as sick as a dog with the flu and wondering if this is raising your blood pressure, you’re right. The flu -- even the common cold -- can actually cause [...]
Your diastolic (the lower number) blood pressure just jumps around so much whenever you have a blood pressure reading. One day it’s 80. Next day or even next hour it’s 68. A few days later [...]
Ever get that heavy feeling in your chest after eating and wonder if the food is triggering a heart attack or if some heart problem is responding to your meal? And the meal doesn’t necessarily [...]
You suddenly feel something squirming or thumping in your neck, stomach or leg: Is this a blood vessel throbbing or a muscle twitching? Sometimes, the “crawling” sensation occurs in multiple spots at the same time [...]
Are you a man who spends too much time inspecting the nipple that’s bigger than the other? Or perhaps you see it as one nipple being smaller than the other. […]
Do you ever get waves of suddenly feeling cold or chilly, despite the room temperature being 72 or even 75? Could this be low blood pressure? Not only do your hands feel cold, but you [...]
It’s not always increased awareness that makes you realize that your heart is beating pretty fast as you lie in bed to go to sleep at night. Though for some people, this explanation holds. “It [...]
Head injuries are very common, including among kids, so it’s crucial for an MRI to show a head injury. However, this isn’t always the case — in that this technology doesn’t always show trauma to [...]
Did you recently learn that an immediate family member has an aneurysm and are wondering if you should undergo yearly MRI screenings, what with all the anxiety this would cause? […]
Medical plans don’t include the mention of “routine” MRI screenings for a brain aneurysm. And this seems pretty odd, given that often, the first symptom of such an aneurysm is a thunderclap headache soon followed [...]
Though a rupturing brain aneurysm causes a thunderclap headache that’s the worst imaginable, can an unruptured aneurysm actually cause any kind of headaches, and if so, how does this happen if it has not ruptured? [...]
“Brain aneurysms can occasionally cause one-sided headaches,” says Farhan Siddiq, MD, a neurosurgeon with University of Missouri Health Care. […]
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