A new Swedish-led study found that Europe’s top football clubs need better treatment equipment and procedures in order to save lives of spectators who have heart attacks in large crowded venues while watching a sporting event…
Archive for the ‘Cardiovascular / Cardiology’ Category
Heart Attacks Among Spectators: Top Football Clubs Could Do Better
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010
Sudden Cardiac Death In Young Athletes May Be Prevented By Adding ECG To Health Exams
Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
Each year, two in every 100,000 young athletes succumb to sudden cardiac death, fueling a debate over what constitutes a comprehensive health screening prior to sports participation...
News From Annals Of Internal Medicine, March 2, 2010
Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
1. Early Release: Decreasing U.S. Population Sodium Intake Could Prevent Heart Attacks, Extend Lives, and Save Billions of Dollars in Health Care Costs: Collaboration with Food Industry May Help Americans consume 3,900 mg of sodium per day, 75 percent of which comes from processed food...
Prolonged TV Viewing Linked To Higher Risk Of Death Even In Regular Exercisers
Tuesday, January 12th, 2010
Researchers in Australia found that prolonged television viewing was linked to an increased risk of death, even in people who exercised regularly, and recommended more be done to encourage people to spend fewer hours sitting still in front of the TV...
Healthy Older Adults Not At Risk From Exercise-Linked Ventricular Tachycardia
Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
Healthy, older adults free of heart disease need not fear that bouts of rapid, irregular heartbeats brought on by vigorous exercise might increase short- or long-term risk of dying or having a heart attack, according to a report by heart experts at Johns Hopkins and the U.S. National Institute on Aging (NIA)...