Tag: Heart Patients

Toronto: Heart patients should engage in light physical activities such as standing up or walking at casual pace for about seven minutes after every 20 minutes of sitting at a computer or watching television, suggests new research. Previous research has shown that being sedentary for long periods could shorten life but taking breaks to move […]

London: Increasing the pace of walking may bring some added benefits as researchers have found that faster walking patients with heart disease are hospitalised less. “The faster the walking speed, the lower the risk of hospitalisation and the shorter the length of hospital stay,” said study author Carlotta Merlo, a researcher at the University of Ferrara […]

New York: Researchers have developed a clinical decision support application that monitors heart failure patients’ medical tests, health status and promptly notifies clinicians when their conditions have changed or when they require advanced disease therapies. The researchers found that the app led to significantly improved detection of disease advancements such as an increase in patients’ […]

New York: Intermittent fasting may sound like another diet fad but researcher have conclusively found that the practice of routinely not eating and drinking for short periods of time resulted in longer life in heart patients. In the study by Intermountain Healthcare Heart Institute in Salt Lake City, Utah, researchers found that heart patients who […]