Reducing salt in the American diet by as little as one-half teaspoon (or three grams) per day could prevent nearly 100,000 heart attacks and 92,000 deaths each year, according to a new study. Such benefits are on par with the benefits from reductions in smoking and could save the United States about $24 billion [...]

Men who have sex at least twice a week can almost halve their risk of heart disease, says new research from New England Research Institute in Massachusetts. The study found that men who indulge in regular lovemaking reduced their risk of developing life-threatening heart conditions by 45%.
For the study, researchers follwed 1,000 [...]

Eating salmon or other fatty fish just once a week helped reduce men’s risk of heart failure, adding to growing evidence that omega-3 fatty acids are of benefit to cardiac health.
Represent one of the largest studies to investigate the association, the study, led by researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) is reported [...]

Laughter Coupled With Standard Diabetic Treatment, Raises Good Cholesterol And May Lower Heart Attack Risk
The connection between the body, mind and spirit has been the subject of conventional scientific inquiry for some 20 years. The idea was popularized for many in the story of Norman Cousins. In the 1970s, Cousins, n a writer and magazine [...]

As the Obama administration begins the important task of reinventing the American health care system, this study points to another hole in current USA health care and the need for more regionalized emergency care options.
Although most Americans live close to some type of emergency room, as many as one in four Americans are more than [...]

About 5 million people in the United States suffer from heart failure (HF). While some reports indicate that changes to diet can reduce HF risk, few large, prospective studies have been conducted. In a new study researchers observed over 14,000 participants for more than 13 years and found that whole grain consumption lowered HF risk, [...]

Erectile dysfunction is best predictor of cardiovascular risk in men
Erectile dysfunction gives a two to three year early warning of a heart attack, warns expert Dr Geoffrey Hackett from the Good Hope Hospital in Birmingham.
The warning appears on the British Medical Journal web site.
According to Dr Hackett, the link between erectile dysfunction and the [...]

As athletes from around the world compete in the Beijing Olympics, many are on alert for respiratory problems caused by air pollution. They should also be concerned about its toxic effects on the heart and cardiovascular system, mounting research shows.
According to an article published the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC), air pollution [...]

Absence may make the heart grow fonder, but endurance exercise seems to make it younger, according to a study conducted at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
Older folks who did endurance exercise training for about a year got metabolically much younger hearts as a reward. By one metabolic measure, women benefited more than [...]

“This multicenter study was conducted to determine the effects of Xuezhikang (XZK), a partially purified extract of red yeast rice..” write researchers.  THe study found that the Chinese herbal remedy appeared to significantly reduce the risk of a repeat heart attack in heart patients.  The study is published in the American Journal of Cardiology
Researchers wrote, [...]