In recent years when I'm running or mountain hiking, sometimes my left arm
will get the sensation of "going asleep" (as if from lack of circulation).
Sometimes after the exercise the left arm will also be slightly "palsied"
(slightly unresponsive and shaky).

Here is a excellent article on the state of links between infectious agents
and CAD.
http://circ.ahajournals.org/cgi/content/full/100/13/1366

Finally went to the doctor yesterday.
Got an EKG, doctor took my blood pressure (120/80).
He wants me to come back next week or an Echo and a Holter monitor.
Then the week after for a stress test.

Gauging Body Mass Index in a Changing Body
By GINA KOLATA
Published: June 28, 2005
Consider this example: A woman's weight has not changed over the years

Thousands of clinical trials in cardiology. Day by day, the numbers are
increasing and all the available words in the dictionaries are being
used as acronyms for these trials. Is it just a boom or is there a real
necessity for these studies to be carried out in such huge numbers?

I am convinst this product is influencing my hearbeat in a negatieve
way...I have permanent a-fib  but sicne i take this product my heart
get's crazy at night...  It took me a long time before realising this
product might be the trigger. (I first sudpected seretide and external

Is it correct that one of the symptoms that cardiologist look for is when
diagnosing heart disease is to look at the patients finger nails to see if
they are  dished or spoon shape nails.I cant see how this can mean anything,
but perhaps someone can tell me if i am correct . ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - High blood pressure can take years off both
life expectancy and time lived free of disease, according to a study
published Monday.
The research, based on data from a long-running U.S. heart-health study,

Cholesterol drug question
If low is good, is lower best?
Peter Battershill and Alan Cassels
Special to the Sun

Saw an ad on TV today for a new drug that contains simvastatin
as in Zocor and another statin as well.  The pitch was that
one of them lowers cholesterol caused by diet and the other
lowers cholesterol as a result of heredity.  Thus a double

I am a 44 year old man.  I recently had medicated stents placed and was
put on plavix, toprol and lipitor (40Mg).  Since about 1 week after the
first stent was place (I had two surgeries) I started to has short
bouts of tightness and almost a burning sensation in my chest.  I could

My last blood test showed that I had very high triglyceride levels.  I am
taking Lovastatin and have just recently added Zetia.  Is there anything
else I should be doing other than taking my medication to help lower my
triglyceriide levels?

I'm a healthy 36 year-old male and about three weeks ago I had four
drug eluting stents put in due to bad genetics. I powerlift three times
per week and either walk 3-5 miles or use my elliptical trainer when
I'm not lifting weights. My cholesterol was very high total was 385

     Study: Extra folic acid may protect brain
     WASHINGTON (AP) -- High-dose folic acid pills -- providing as much of
the nutrient as 2.5 pounds of strawberries -- might help slow the cognitive
decline of aging.

My ECG reading had a report. (D) Electrocardiogram (ECG) abnormal. ST
abnormality, possibly digitalis effect.
What does that mean?
Derek.