Home air filters may improve elders' heart health
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NEW YORK  - When high-efficiency particle air (HEPA) filters were used for just 48 hours to clean the air in the apartments of 21 older couples, their blood vessel function improved by about 8 percent, Danish researchers have shown.
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TUESDAY, Nov. 6 (HealthDay News) -- Alzheimer's disease may progress faster in patients with high blood pressure or a type of irregular heartbeat called atrial fibrillation, a new study found.
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NEW YORK  - A smog-filled sky can make it hard to breathe, but air pollution in the home may also be hard on people with lung disease, researchers have found.
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NEW YORK  - People with hypertension who  practice slow breathing with the aid of a regulating device  find their blood pressure drops, according to a new study from  Rush University Medical Center in Chicago.
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Better oral hygiene, including good regular toothbrushing, may lessen nursing home residents&#39; chances of developing pneumonia, according to a study
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[Health India]: Washington, Nov 8 : A study presented at one of the scientific sessions of the American Heart Association has suggested that air pollution is hazardouz for your heart.
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A daily dose of Vitamin E may be able to help the elderly ward off the common cold, a study said.
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NEW YORK  - The American Heart Association  has updated its 1993 guidelines on blood pressure (BP)  measurement, putting more emphasis on home monitoring.
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Air pollution might help cause heart  disease and strokes in older women, U.S. researchers reported  on Wednesday.
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People aged 75 and older can  withstand the rigors of surgery to treat chest pain, and feel  better sooner than if they are treated with gentler drug  regimens, Swiss researchers reported on Monday.
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Treatment with statins, the  widely prescribed class of cholesterol-lowering drugs, appears  to slow the age-related decline in lung function in elderly  individuals, even among those who smoke, according to a report  in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care  Medicine.
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Cold snaps and air pollution can  trigger heart deaths, and breathing dirty air day in and day  out may help heart disease develop in the first place,  researchers said on Sunday.
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MONDAY, March 12 (HealthDay News) -- If you&#39;re the child of parents who lived to 85 or more, your risk for heart disease in middle age is significantly lower than children of parents who died earlier, researchers report.
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THURSDAY, Sept. 28 (HealthDay News) -- Living next to heavy industry may boost lung cancer risk, suggests new research.
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MONDAY, Oct. 29 (HealthDay News) -- Maintaining normal zinc concentrations in the blood may help prevent pneumonia in elderly nursing home residents, a new study shows.
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NEW YORK  - Treatment with statins, the widely prescribed class of cholesterol-lowering drugs, appears to slow the age-related decline in lung function in elderly individuals, even among those who smoke, according to a report in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.
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NEW YORK  - Over the last decade, the use  of angioplasty and coronary artery bypass grafting to treat  elderly heart patients has increased, and outcomes of these  procedures have improved.