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New Risk Factors for Afib, Duration of Anticoagulation for AVR

  We have two new risks for atrial fibrillation and an intriguing study on the duration of anticoagulation after bioprosthetic aortic valve. So first up is a study from the women's health initiative that, as we know, randomized women to receive estrogen, with or without progesterone, depending on whether they did or did not have had a hysterectomy. And this analysis looked over about a six-year follow-up period. To see the incidence of new atrial fibrillation that they found was modestly increased by about twelve percent overall, and this sum is a new finding, combined with other risks that have previously been seen of pulmonary, embolism, VTE and indeed cardiovascular events and so another factor to consider. When thinking about estrogen replacement therapy, next up is a study from the Framingham risk study looking at low magnesium, that was also seen to be a  risk factor for incidence of atrial fibrillation  looking at the lowest quartile. That is less than one point: s...

Benefits of Garlic Powder to Treat Heart Disease

The arts of medicine were divided into three branches: Diet therapy, drug therapy and surgical treatment. And garlic, as Hippocrates wrote, was one of those therapeutic foods, But it was used to treat a nonexistent condition called uterine separation, This was the most ancient knowledge could access. Those who eat more than one clove of garlic daily, Their arterial functions look better than those who eat less. But we cannot be certain that there is a causal relationship between the two things before this is tested. Some heart patients were randomly chosen and given either garlic powder Or counterfeit tablets twice a day for three months. Arterial functions improved for those lucky enough to be in the garlic group, Significantly, as job efficiency increased by 50% They only eat 800 grams of garlic powder daily. This is equivalent to a quarter of a teaspoon of garlic powder, Arterial function efficiency improved by 50% and at a cost less than one penny per day. ...