Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD): Early Symptoms You Shouldn’t Ignore
Verified By KIMS-SUNSHINE Specialist, 01 November, 2025 The human heart is a wonderful organ that keeps working throughout your life and never stops at all, unless there is some problem. It pumps blood all over the body using specialized blood vessels- the arteries and
How Air Pollution Impacts Your Heart, Lungs, And Brain Over Time
Verified By KIMS-SUNSHINE Specialist, 21 October, 2025 Air is an essential element required by all living beings for the purpose of survival. Worsening air pollution in countries like India has dangerous ill effects on healthy individuals. Heart, lungs and brain require maximum amount
Endocarditis: How a Simple Infection Can Turn Life-Threatening for the Heart
Verified By KIMS-SUNSHINE Specialist, 05 October, 2025 The heart is composed of three distinct layers of cells- called the inner endocardium, middle myocardium and outer epicardium respectively. There is an additional layer of tissue for greater protection - which is the thick pericardium.
Pulmonary Hypertension: Why High Pressure in the Lungs Affects the Heart
Verified By KIMS-SUNSHINE Specialist, 04 October, 2025 We all know that hypertension is a condition where blood pressure is high and the heart and arteries work overtime to ensure that blood reaches all parts of the body. Pulmonary hypertension is more local and is
Heart Valve Regurgitation: When Your Heart Valves Leak Blood Backward
Verified By KIMS-SUNSHINE Specialist, 03 October, 2025 There are 4 important valves or delicate tissue like structures in your heart- that are designed to help blood flow in one particular direction only. When these valves leak, blood can flow backwards and this can cause
Aortic Dissection: The Deadly Tear You Shouldn’t Ignore
Verified By KIMS-SUNSHINE Specialist, 02 October, 2025 An aortic dissection is a dangerous condition where the aorta- the main artery that supplies the oxygen rich blood from the heart to the rest of the body gets torn, causing blood to leak or even gush
Myocarditis: Inflammation of the Heart Muscle and Its Warning Signs
Verified By KIMS-SUNSHINE Specialist, 01 October, 2025 The suffix “-itis” is used in medical terms to denote some form of inflammation. So, myocarditis means the myocardium or the muscles of the heart are inflamed. This can cause your heart to stop working normally- it
Silent Heart Attacks: Why They Go Unnoticed and How to Detect Them Early
Verified By KIMS-SUNSHINE Specialist, 26 September, 2025 Silent Heart Attacks are literally very quiet or silent in nature- which means you will not notice any particular symptoms. The problem is that you may have had such a cardiac event, but will not know
Heart Attack vs Cardiac Arrest: Spotting the Difference
Verified By KIMS-SUNSHINE Specialist, 13 September, 2025 Most of us associate heart related problems with one supposedly universal sign- chest pain that makes you clutch at your chest. While chest pain is a common symptom, it is important to remember that it is
Broken Heart Syndrome (Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy): Stress and Your Heart
Verified By KIMS-SUNSHINE Specialist, 05 September, 2025 The term ‘Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy’ was first coined in Japan in the early 1990s, when doctors found that individuals who were very stressed had a higher risk of suffering from this condition, where the left ventricle of the
Heart Health After 40: What You Should Do Today
Verified By KIMS-SUNSHINE Specialist, 27 August, 2025 Heart Health Tips For Adults Over 40 The decade after 40 becomes not just about earning more or doing more, but about slowing down just enough to listen to the signals within and by taking proactive steps not
How To Read Your Lipid Profile Like A Doctor
Verified By KIMS-SUNSHINE Specialist, 08 August, 2025 How To Read Lipid Profile Report Like A Doctor? When you open a lipid profile report, it may look like a sheet filled with numbers and strange abbreviations, but to a doctor it reads like a diary of
