What Causes Heart Attacks
Tom Cowan In this article, I lay out the case that the spectrum of heart disease that includes angina, unstable angina, and myocardial infarction (heart attack) is better understood from the perspective of events happening in the myocardium (heart) as opposed to events in the coronary arteries (the arteries that supply the heart). As we […]
Nattokinase: A Promising Alternative in Prevention and Treatment of Cardiovascular Diseases
Hongjie Chen et al. Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death in the world and our approach to the control and management of CVD mortality is limited. Nattokinase (NK), the most active ingredient of natto, possesses a variety of favourable cardiovascular effects and the consumption of Natto has been linked to a reduction […]
Cardiovascular Manifestation of the BNT162b2 mRNA COVID-19 Vaccine in Adolescents
Suyanee Mansanguan et al. This study focuses on cardiovascular manifestation, particularly myocarditis and pericarditis events, after BNT162b2 mRNA COVID‐19 vaccine injection in Thai adolescents … We enrolled 314 participants; of these, 13 participants were lost to follow‐up, leaving 301 participants for analysis. The most common cardiovascular signs and symptoms were tachycardia (7.64%), shortness of breath […]
