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TUESDAY, Feb. 7, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- That feeling of crushing pain in your chest can be a medical emergency, but it can also be angina pectoris, or “stable angina” — a symptom of coronary heart disease that can be managed with medication.Angina can be stable, unstable, variant or refractory, so it’s important for people having chest pain to see a doctor to determine what needs to be done.“It turns out, there are lots of different kinds of chest pain. In fact, almost everything in the chest can hurt in one way or another. Some of the causes are really nothing more than a minor inconvenience. Some of them though are quite serious, even life-threatening,” Dr. Alan Greene said recently about stable angina, noting chest pain can be caused by everything from asthma to a...

TUESDAY, Feb. 7, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Kidney disease patients on dialysis are 100 times more likely to contract a dangerous blood infection than people not receiving the treatment -- and that risk is borne primarily by Hispanic and Black Americans, U.S. government health officials say.Hispanic patients are 40% more likely than white patients to develop a staph bloodstream infection while on dialysis, according to a new Vital Signs report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.Likewise, Black people are 10% more likely than white folks to get a blood infection through dialysis, the study said.“A comprehensive approach to preventive care that recognizes racial, ethnic and socioeconomic disparities is needed,” the report concluded.More than 800,000 people in the...

TUESDAY, Feb. 7, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Want to stay healthy well into your golden years? Grab a bag of clubs and hit the green, new research suggests.Golfing beat walking or even Nordic walking (a full-body workout that consists of walking using specialized poles) when it came to improving several key measures of heart health in the small study.“The results of this study are meant to encourage older adults to spend more time on the golf course and play by walking,” said study author Julia Kettinen, a doctoral researcher at the Institute of Biomedicine/Sports and Exercise Medicine at the University of Eastern Finland in Kuopio. “Golf is a great way to exercise, as it motivates individuals to move, often without even realizing the distance they've walked during the game.”For...

TUESDAY, Feb. 7, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- People who get COVID-19 are at risk for long-term health consequences, but a healthy lifestyle may protect against long COVID, a new study suggests.Women who maintained six healthy habits -- a healthy weight, didn't smoke, exercised regularly, slept and ate well, and drank alcohol in moderation -- cut their risk of long COVID by about 50%, compared with women without those healthy habits, researchers found."If all people adhere to all six healthy lifestyle factors in our cohort, 36% of long COVID could have been avoided," said lead author Dr. Siwen Wang, a research fellow at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health."Also, those with a healthier pre-infection lifestyle had a 30% lower risk of having symptoms that interfere with their daily...