Topic: Netherlands

City cyclists breathe in twice as much soot: study

New York (Reuters Health) - Urban cyclists may be exposed to more than twice as much black carbon from vehicle exhaust as pedestrians, a small new study suggests.By examining airway cells in sputum samples from ten people, researchers in London found black ...

Mummified princess had coronary heart disease

The diagnosis is more than 3,500 years late, but no less stunning for all of that. An Egyptian princess who lived between 1580 and 1550 BC has become the earliest person in human history to be diagnosed with coronary heart disease, according ...

Heartbreak Puts Brakes on Heart

Waiting for another person's opinion of you will slow your heart, and its rate will dip even further if you get rejected, a new Dutch study has found. "Unexpected social rejection could literally feel 'heartbreaking,' as reflected by a transient slowing of ...
Researchers at the University Medical Center, Utrecht, and the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment in the Netherlands, have just completed an extensive, thirteen year study involving thousands of participants on the effect of tea drinking and heart disease. As ...

Do It Yourself Heart Bypass

Let me explain, I amnot a doctor or medically qualified but I do know many doctors in severalcountries in Europe. I collapsed in a heap one day whilst talking to a friend.Now I am certainlynot what you would call fit, I do ...

Heartbreak Puts Brakes on Heart

Waiting for another person's opinion of you will slow your heart, and its rate will dip even further if you get rejected, a new Dutch study has found. "Unexpected social rejection could literally feel 'heartbreaking,' as reflected by a transient slowing of ...

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Social rejection doesn't just feel heartbreaking, it makes your heart rate drop, a new study shows. Scientists in the Netherlands say the disappointment of feeling you're not liked can cause the heart rate to slow for a moment, or even longer. Researchers ...
The quality of care a patient receives immediately after orthopedic surgery has a major impact on long-term heart health, a new study shows.. A team of French researchers checked troponin levels in 378 patients for three days after they had orthopedic surgery, ...
The quality of care a patient receives immediately after orthopedic surgery has a major impact on long-term heart health, a new study shows.. A team of French researchers checked troponin levels in 378 patients for three days after they had orthopedic surgery, ...
In patients aged 70 and older with heart failure, diabetes is associated with a worse prognosis, and nebivolol is less effective in patients with diabetes than in those without it, according to research published in the July 1 issue of the American ...
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