Air pollution deaths – How to protect yourself and your family!
Air pollution has been linked to a number of serious health problems, including cardiovascular diseases, stroke, chronic respiratory diseases and cancers.
Sep 29, 2016, 14:24 PM IST
Air pollution can harm your heart, vascular system: Expert
Dr Upendra Kaul, Executive Director and Dean Cardiology at Fortis Escorts Heart Institute in New Delhi said that medical studies have shown that air pollution can trigger heart attacks, abnormalities of rhythm of heart and paralytic strokes, with very small particles found in smoke and haze the culprits of greatest concern.
Sep 28, 2016, 12:39 PM IST
Healthy heart - Best yoga poses, diet tips! (Watch video)
Yoga is also good for heart health. Studies have shown that adding yoga to the treatment of patients improved their heart health as well as enhanced the overall quality of their life.
Sep 28, 2016, 11:39 AM IST
India accounts for 75% of air pollution casualties in South East Asian Region: WHO
The WHO report released Tuesday said air pollution is killing nearly 8,00,000 people a year in the South East Asian Region with India alone accounting for at least 75% of the casualties caused by cardiovascular diseases and lung cancer.
Sep 28, 2016, 09:26 AM IST
Five ways to reduce your risk of heart disease!
Heart disease, coronary heart disease or CHD, has now become the leading cause of mortality in India. Heat disease is a class of diseases that involve the heart or blood vessels.
Sep 26, 2016, 07:39 AM IST
Passive smoking more toxic for children
The high level of toxicity in the smoke that comes from the end of a burning cigarette -- side stream smoke -- is a major component in passive smoking that damages the children's blood vessels, the study said.
Sep 13, 2016, 12:45 PM IST
Meditation, yoga, vegetarian diet linked to decline in risk of cardiovascular diseases
During the study participants were kept in a six-day Ayurvedic-based well-being program that provided a vegetarian diet, meditation, yoga and massages experienced measurable decreases in a set of blood-based metabolites associated with inflammation, cardiovascular disease risk and cholesterol regulation.
Sep 12, 2016, 17:21 PM IST
Five reasons why you should take a brisk walk every single day!
Here are some health benefits that you'll get from walking.
Aug 29, 2016, 11:07 AM IST
Heart attack and stroke prevention: Ways to reduce your risk!
There are steps you can take to help prevent a heart attack or a stroke. These steps involve taking medications and making heart-healthy lifestyle changes.
Aug 29, 2016, 09:40 AM IST
Physical inactivity adding to India's NCD burden: Report
Major NCDs including cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), chronic respiratory diseases, diabetes, and cancers are primarily caused by exposure to tobacco, harmful use of alcohol, unhealthy diet, and very little exercise.
Jul 25, 2016, 17:31 PM IST
Five reasons to eat more garlic everyday!
Here are five health benefits of garlic that are supported and proven by research studies.
Jun 09, 2016, 16:49 PM IST
Five ways smoking affects your health!
Five ways smoking affects your health!
May 31, 2016, 09:53 AM IST
'Simple' methods to prevent heart attack, stroke found
The three methods examined included two forms of therapy - statins, a group of cholesterol-lowering drugs, and antihypertensives, a class of drugs used to treat high blood pressure.
Apr 03, 2016, 12:22 PM IST
Football cuts risk of heart disease, diabetes
The findings showed that after 4 months' football training, the cardiovascular fitness scores improved by 15 percent, interval work capacity increased by 43 percent and functional capacity by 30 percent.
Genes linked to peripheral artery disease identified
In addition to limb pain and difficulty in walking, peripheral artery disease (PAD) can lead to major cardiovascular and cerebrovascular events.
Oct 22, 2015, 13:26 PM IST
30 minutes of daily walk curbs death risk from heart diseases
Doing less than 600 MET/min/week was responsible for 20 percent (4 907) of deaths from IHD and 13 percent (2,371) of stroke deaths.
Oct 15, 2015, 21:03 PM IST
Hypertension rising steeply in India
It's a red alert for the country. Hypertension is rising very steeply in India to the extent of 20 to 40 percent annually.
Oct 15, 2015, 20:48 PM IST
Kerala smokers spend Rs.226 crore on heart ailments
Kerala smokers spend a staggering Rs.226 crore for treating cardiovascular diseases, said a study.
Sep 28, 2015, 20:17 PM IST
'Over 60 percent of urban Indian women vulnerable to heart disease'
Over 60 percent of women in urban India are at risk of heart diseases, said a study released on Monday.
Sep 28, 2015, 20:09 PM IST
