Heart Health

As the market for leadless pacemakers grows in India, doctors point out definite advantages of the technology for heart disease patients but also call for more data and analyses on its long-term effects. At the same time, researchers have written about the lack of a national registry tracking pacemaker implants, including conventional ones. A pacemaker helps a heart patient control an irregular heartbeat. In November, Abbott, the US-based healthcare and medical devices company, introduced the AVEIR VR single-chamber ventricular leadless pacemaker in India for treating patients having slow heart rhythms. The device has been approved by the Central Drugs Standard Control Organization, Abbott said in a statement. The AVEIR VR device is implanted directly into the heart's right lower chamber (ventricle) through a "minimally invasive, catheter-based procedure from the groin", thereby requiring no surgical cuts to the chest or wires, it said. Doctors consider a 'leadless' pacemaker an

Healthtech firm Dozee's AI-powered system alerted patients' health deterioration about 16 hours in advance and continuous monitoring saved 10% of healthcare practitioners' time

The cost of coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) has risen from Rs 2.1 to Rs 4.2 lakh in 2018-2019 to Rs 3 to Rs 6 lakh in 2023-2024

Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Day is devoted to raising awareness about the most recognized type of birth defect influencing babies globally. The day aims to raise issues of the CHDs patients

World Heart Day is marked every year on September 29 to bring issues to light about heart illness and preventive measures that can assist with preventing cardiovascular diseases

Dr Vijay Bang of CSI said that too often, people go to the Internet and try to apply half-baked information, solutions for their heart conditions that end up doing more harm than good

Poor sleep is associated with up to seven years worth of increased heart disease risk and even premature death, according to a study. The research, published in the journal BMC Medicine, analysed data from more than 300,000 middle-aged adults from the UK Biobank. Researchers from the University of Sydney in collaboration with Southern Denmark University found that different disturbances to sleep are associated with different durations of compromised cardiovascular health later in life compared to healthy sleepers. In particular, men with clinical sleep-related breathing disorders lost nearly seven years of cardiovascular disease-free life compared to those without these conditions, and women lost over seven years, they said. The study found that even general poor sleep, such as insufficient sleep, insomnia, snoring, going to bed late, and daytime sleepiness is associated with a loss of around two years of normal heart health in men and women. "Our research shows that, over time, .

It would be a major breakthrough if something like the Apple Watch could detect it passively or help diagnose it, the report added

E-cigarettes and marijuana may have harmful effects on the heart similar to those caused by tobacco cigarettes, opening the door to abnormal heart rhythms, according to a study conducted in mice. E-cigarettes and heated tobacco products have become popular because the public perceives them as being less harmful than smoking, the researchers said. Similarly, legal recreational marijuana has become more common in recent years, and is also frequently viewed by the public as being safer than smoking tobacco, they said. "We found that cigarettes, e-cigarettes, and marijuana greatly interfere with the electrical activity, structure, and neural regulation of the heart," said study lead author Huiliang Qiu, a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) in the US. "Often, any single change can lead to arrhythmia disease. Unfortunately, these adverse effects on the heart are quite comprehensive," Qiu said. The study, published in the journal Heart Rhythm, expo

Brain stroke, heart-related issues have been on an uptick after the Covid-19 infectios, experts have said

This small wearable device checks your blood pressure, heart rate and sleep quality, apart from monitoring your workouts

The researchers added that women have larger social networks than men, so separation, divorce, or the death of a partner may disadvantage men more.

Dog owners are known to engage in more physical activity and are more likely to have regular exercise habits than those without dogs

Total intake of two or more servings of full-fat dairy food was associated with a 22 percent lower risk of heart disease

Researchers found that people with low grip strength had weaker hearts that were less able to pump blood