Heart disease: Last News

Carly Pearce is sharing a health update after she was diagnosed with a heart condition called pericarditis.The 34-year-old singer detailed her “intense” symptoms during an appearance on “Today.”“I had a really debilitating chest pain that was only relieved if I bent over like this (leaning forward), and that’s a classic symptom of pericarditis,” she explained on the morning show. “And then when you lay back, it gets way worse because that wall is kind of inflamed around your heart.”Pericarditis is an inflammation of the pericardium, a sac-like structure with two thin layers of tissue that surround the heart to hold it in place and help protect it from damage from infection and malignancy, according to the American Heart Association.

The New York Times of Arakawa, who was seemingly the Oscar-winner’s sole caretaker prior to his shocking death. Maintenance workers discovered Hackman and his wife’s bodies at the couple’s Santa Fe, New Mexico home on February 26 after they were unable to get in touch with the couple.

Sam Rubin suffered a fatal heart attack following his hospitalization in May, a coroner’s report revealed Tuesday.The 64-year-old Hollywood reporter’s death was determined as “ischemic heart disease due to atherosclerotic coronary artery disease,” the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s Office announced Tuesday.His death was ruled as natural.Atherosclerotic coronary artery disease is described as a lethal heartbeat due to a lack of blood and oxygen flowing to the heart.Ischemic heart disease, also known as Coronoary Heart Disease, is classified as a leading cause of death around the world, according to the National Institutes of Health.About 126 million people are affected by the disease worldwide, with nine million deaths being attributed to it.Men are more commonly affected than women.The longtime KTLA personality had gone to a local hospital the morning of May 10 with stomach pain after calling 911 on the advice of his doctors.He was pronounced dead inside the emergency room at 11:03 a.m. the medical examiner added.An autopsy was performed on May 13, and the full examiner’s report is expected to be released by the end of the week.Rubin, a founding member of the Broadcast Film Critics’ Association, received several accolades during his career.

emergency heart surgery.On Sunday, the 60-year-old country music star was hospitalized before undergoing emergency quadruple bypass surgery, according to an Instagram post shared by his team on Wednesday.“Mark Chesnutt, one of the most signatured country music voices of the 90s and a honky tonk mainstay for more than three decades, experienced a heart health issue over the weekend that hospitalized him Sunday evening, June 16; Mark underwent emergency quadruple bypass surgery,” the post read.“The recuperation time will make it necessary to cancel show dates. Please respect the privacy of the family during this difficult time of recovery.”In the same caption, Chesnutt offered his own words and expressed his gratitude.

Arnold Schwarzenegger turns more into a “machine” every day. The 76-year-old “Terminator” star, who had a congenital heart defect, revealed on his “Arnold’s Pump Club” podcast that he was fitted for a pacemaker last week after previously undergoing three open heart surgeries. “Last Monday, I had surgery to become a little bit more of a machine.

celebrities like Jennifer Aniston, Heidi Klum and Jennifer Lopez has been shockingly connected to a severely increased risk of cardiovascular death, via a newly published study.Users of the so-called 16:8 diet — in which one eats only during an eight-hour window and fasts for the other 16 hours in a day — are at an increased 91% risk of dying from heart disease compared to those who eat over 12- or 16-hour periods, South West News Service reports.“Our findings encourage a more cautious, personalized approach to dietary recommendations, ensuring they are aligned with an individual’s health status and the latest scientific evidence,” senior author Dr. Victor Wenze Zhong said in a statement.“We were surprised to find in our study that people who followed an eight-hour, time-restricted eating schedule were more likely to die from cardiovascular disease,” added Zhong, a professor and chair of the department of epidemiology and biostatistics at China’s Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine.Those with a cardiovascular illness who ate in a window of time lasting between eight and 10 hours a day have a 66% higher risk of dying from heart disease or stroke, according to the data.Researchers analyzed the eating habits of more than 20,000 US adults — with an average age of 49 — over a median period of eight years.The research was presented Monday at the American Heart Association’s Epidemiology and Prevention│Lifestyle and Cardiometabolic Scientific Sessions 2024 in Chicago.

longtime love Farrah Fawcett at the Westwood Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles — two weeks after his death at the age of 82 from congestive heart failure. According to the Daily Mail, the Oscar nominee’s intimate funeral drew about 25 people, including ex-wife Leigh Taylor-Young, whom he was married from 1967-74; their son Patrick O’Neal, 56; and Fawcett’s best friend, Alana Stewart, 78.Fawcett — who died of cancer in 2009 at the age of 62 — began her tumultuous on-and-off-again love affair with O’Neal in 1979 after being introduced by her then-husband, Lee Majors.

cause of death one year ago this month has now been revealed.Liotta, 67, died from pulmonary edema and acute heart failure in his sleep while working on a movie in the Dominican Republic on May 26 of last year, according to documents obtained by TMZ, due to a condition that affects half of Americans over the age of 45: atherosclerosis.Dubbed a “silent killer,” atherosclerosis is marked by the slow buildup of plaque in your arteries, complications of which include both pulmonary edema and acute heart failure.Experts describe plaque as a sticky byproduct in the blood that’s made up of a combination of fat, cholesterol, calcium and other deposits. As plaque clogs the walls of the vascular system, arteries become hard and narrow.

death of iconic comedian Gilbert Gottfried, who was just 67 when he passed on Tuesday.His family called him “the most iconic voice in comedy” as they confirmed the devastating news in a statement on Tuesday afternoon, saying, “We are heartbroken,” and sharing only that he’d died following a “long illness.”Gottfried’s representative, Glenn Schwartz, has since shared that the actor succumbed to a heart abnormality called recurrent ventricular tachycardia, an arrhythmia caused by myotonic dystrophy Type 2.Myotonic dystrophy (DM) is a genetic disorder marked by progressive muscle wasting and weakness which predominantly affects the limbs and face but can create increasingly dire complications for respiratory, skeletal and cardiac muscles.People with DM are at a higher risk of irregular heartbeat, including ventricular tachycardia, an arrhythmia in the lower chambers of the heart (ventricles) that causes the heart to beat faster. A sustained sped-up rhythm can cause a fatal drop in blood pressure.Gottfried’s heart condition has been publicly known for some time.

 The Swedish-British model wrote in The Sun: “I can say with my hand on my reasonably shaped heart, that without that exposure and without that positive contact from families, parents and children who took the trouble to share their stories with me – who took the trouble to put pen to paper and impart their ­experiences – I seriously don’t know if I would have made it through.“And if I hadn’t made it, perhaps my girl would not be ­turning 21 next week. “I am here and Bo is here to give hope to those experiencing similar things.”Ulrika previously shared a heartbreaking picture of her daughter Bo after undergoing open-heart surgery as a baby.Bo was born with a double inlet left ventricle defect, a congenital defect that affects the valves and

Bill Withers, the soulful voice behind R&B classics such as  “Lean On Me,” “Ain’t No Sunshine,” “Lovely Day” and “Just the Two of Us,” died Monday from heart complications in Los Angeles. He was 81.

unanticipated open heart surgery.”The singer took to Instagram on Sunday where she revealed the scar from her procedure. The 59-year-old previously shared she had a heart condition called partial anomalous pulmonary venous return (PAPVR) since birth but was only recently discovered by her doctor.WARNING: THE IMAGE BELOW IS GRAPHIC“I know there is so much going on in the world right now,” the “Baby, Baby” star captioned her photo.