Atkins peaked in 2003. Detox is on the way out. Remember Macrobiotics from the 80s? What about Mediterranean eating? The Mediterranean diet was popular in the 1970s thanks to Ancel Keys. It faded for a couple decades then started a…

“Routine use of . . . LDL subfraction tests to estimate cardiovascular disease risk is premature,” according to a recent review in the Annals of Internal Medicine. Huh? What the . . . ? I’m starting to see advertisements for…

Did you know that there are better blood tests than total cholesterol and LDL cholesterol to predict future risk of heart problems such as coronary heart disease? After all, the Centers for Disease Control says that half of all heart…

The American Heart Association offers a free, anonymous, online calculator that give you a rough idea of your chance of a heart attack or dying from heart disease over the next 10 years. That should settle the question in the…

Coronary artery calcium scoring, increasingly popular in emergency departments, could misdiagnose four of every 100 patients with significant blockages in their heart arteries, according to the latest research. Chest pain is one of the most common reasons for an emergency…

Only one out of three heart failure patients is sent home from the hospital with instructions to take a specific drug proven to prolong life and reduce hospitalization rates, according to the latest research. In 2007, the American Heart Association…

Metabolic Syndrome affects nearly four of every 10 adults in the U.S., yet most people aren’t familiar with it. The syndrome itself is without symptoms. The problem is that Metabolic Syndrome increases your risk of type 2 diabetes by five-fold,…

Up to 50% of women with heart disease symptoms do not have the typical blocked heart arteries seen in men. Instead the problem seems to lie in the small arteries of the heart not even seen on traditional angiograms, according…