Blog Topic: Heart Month

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  Show Your Heart Some Love & Know Your Numbers

  February 26, 2018

  Each February, the American Heart Association (AHA) encourages every American to celebrate Heart Month by learning about their risks for cardiovascular diseases and by taking steps to reduce those risks with a commitment to healthier, heart-conscious lifestyle choices.

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  Health System Collegiality Inspires Outpatient Treatment for Heart Failure

  February 14, 2018

  In an effort to answer that question, CCH launched an Outpatient Diuretic Program in November 2017. “This outpatient treatment solution was introduced to help prevent hospital readmissions and to also keep patients in their own environment while recovering.”

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  Tobacco Use and Heart Disease: A Growing Global Health Challenge

  February 12, 2018

  More than 1 billion people worldwide currently use tobacco products. While that may sound like a staggering number, tobacco use, particularly in the United States and Europe, is actually decreasing. But global health experts caution that this overall decline might be a bit of smoke and mirrors.

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  Crowdsourcing for CPR

  February 24, 2017

  The chance of a bystander stepping in to perform CPR on someone who goes into cardiac arrest out in public hovers around 40 percent. In Philadelphia, the numbers are far worse. Nonprofits like the American Heart Association are working hard to help turn that around with more CPR outreach, training, and better technological approaches. Yes, there’s an app for it.

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  New Ways on the Horizon to Fix a Broken Heart

  February 20, 2017

  During a heart attack, blocked arteries cause the heart muscle to become starved for oxygen, and eventually some muscle cells die. Many of the more than one million Americans who have heart attacks annually will survive—but the damage done to the heart is permanent, and causes survivors to be at increased risk for further maladies. We need new ways to repair and protect a broken heart.

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  Tackling Heart Disease on a Global Scale

  February 15, 2017

  Seventeen million people worldwide die from cardiovascular disease each year. Globally, it's the number one cause of death. Seventy percent of the U.S. population will experience it or have a family member experience it—and the numbers only get worse in low- and middle-income countries. So what can be done?

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  The Little Algorithm That Could

  February 01, 2017

  The Penn Medicine Heart Failure Solution has come a long way over the last two years; what started as an equation involving 30-some patient characteristics has been whittled down to an almost exact science. Today, that little algorithm has developed into a whole new strategy for managing heart failure patients—and it’s keeping them healthier and out of the hospital longer.

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  Pregnancy and Heart Disease – Expanding the SCOPE of our Understanding

  February 29, 2016

  Today marks the last day of Heart Month, an annual campaign raising awareness about cardiovascular disease, a condition including heart disease, stroke and high blood pressure that is responsible for one out of every three deaths, and is the leading cause of death in both men and women. In all...

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  Of Heartbreak, Octopus Traps, and One Fast Horse

  February 15, 2016

  February being American Heart Month just kinda makes sense. Cobwebs and carved pumpkins are, culturally, how we recognize October. Cornucopias and cooked turkeys are how we recognize November. Pretty lights and wintry decorations are how we recognize December (and also October and November). And in February, we put hearts absolutely...

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  The Plate Debate: Reducing the Risk of Heart Disease

  February 05, 2016

  In the past few months, there has been a lot of controversy over what Americans should be eating in order to protect themselves against cardiovascular disease (CVD), cancer and obesity. From the October 2015 World Health Organization (WHO) report that sent bacon-lovers into a tailspin and the latest US Department...

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