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Thursday, September 8, 2016

Novel heart valve replacement offers hope for thousands with rheumatic heart disease : eurekalert





As it stated in eurekalert

Novel heart valve replacement offers hope for thousands with rheumatic heart disease

Novel heart valve replacement offers hope for thousands with rheumatic heart disease
Novel heart valve replacement offers hope for thousands with rheumatic heart disease
Cape Town, South Africa 9 Sept 2016: A novel heart valve replacement method is revealed today that offers hope for the thousands of patients with rheumatic heart disease who need the procedure each year.The research is being presented at the SA Heart Congress 2016.The annual congress of the South African Heart Association is held in Cape Town from 8 to 11 September 2016 and is jointly organised with the annual congress of the World Society of Cardiothoracic Surgeons.Experts from the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) will present a special programme.1"Over the past decade heart valve surgery has been revolutionised by transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI)," said lead author Dr Jacques Scherman, a cardiac surgeon in the Chris Barnard Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Cape Town, South Africa.


besides cnn

Great sex linked to heart disease for older men but not women

Great sex linked to heart disease for older men but not women
Great sex linked to heart disease for older men but not women
(CNN) If you're an older man in a relationship and you have sex once a week or more, you may be twice as likely to have a heart attack, stroke or other cardiovascular event than a less sexually active man, according to a study released this week in the Journal of Health and Social Behavior.Especially if you enjoy it."Older men who found sex with their partner extremely pleasurable, or satisfying, had higher risk of cardiovascular events than men who did not feel so," said study author Hui Liu , associate professor of sociology at Michigan State University.The study analyzed survey data from 2,204 people enrolled in the National Social Life, Health and Aging Project in the United States.


let alone wtvr

Freqeunt sex linked to heart disease for older men but not women, study says

Freqeunt sex linked to heart disease for older men but not women, study says
Freqeunt sex linked to heart disease for older men but not women, study says
If you're an older man in a relationship and you have sex once a week or more, you may be twice as likely to have a heart attack, stroke or other cardiovascular event than a less sexually active man, according to a study released this week in the Journal of Health and Social Behavior.Especially if you enjoy it."Older men who found sex with their partner extremely pleasurable, or satisfying, had higher risk of cardiovascular events than men who did not feel so," said study author Hui Liu, associate professor of sociology at Michigan State University.The study analyzed survey data from 2,204 people enrolled in the National Social Life, Health and Aging Project in the United States.


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