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My heart Sisters has been redeveloped. Founded in 2012 by Jeanee Andrewartha, it became at the time the leading source of information relating to peripartum/postpartum cardiomyopathy with stories used in medical research papers, flyers developed and distributed in Californian maternity hospitals and ranking on top in search engines. The
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We received a lovely email from Lindsey Rosman, Ph.D. Research Fellow, Cardiovascular Behavioral Medicine Department of Medicine Yale School of Medicine New Haven. The two research papers she completed with the help of heart sisters was Contraception and reproductive counseling in women with peripartum cardiomyopathy https://www.ncbi.nlm.
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Dr. Kim Williams, president of the American College of Cardiology and chief of cardiology at Rush University, advocates a plant-based diet. William says, "the most important things are plant-based nutrition, exercise, and weight loss. Most people will succumb to heart disease, diabetes, or hypertension on the standard American diet,
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PPCM Study information: East Carolina University has partnered with leading medical institutions to study quality of life issues in women diagnosed with Peripartum Cardiomyopathy (PPCM). Our team of physicians and researchers has developed the Peripartum Cardiomyopathy Quality of Life Registry (PC-QoL Registry) to help medical professionals learn more about women’
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PPCM It's been a huge year and a long time coming with an update. I hope everyone is doing well. The website is now ranked on page one for terms such as PPCM, Postpartum Cardiomyopathy and Peripartum Cardiomyopathy, a dream come true which means that anyone googling those
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Takotsubo cardiomyopathy is similar to Peripartum Cardiomyopathy but it is thought that the stress of a medical procedure such as spinal anesthesia, general anesthesia, and surgery, or an emotional and physical stress of the delivery could have induced the disease and caused left ventrical enlargement, as opposed to myocardial inflammation
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A speech shared at Annual Remembrance Service Hope Bereavement, Geelong West Town Hall 2nd December 2013 Our son, Jasher died on the 10th July 2011 at home and a few days later, I was diagnosed with postpartum cardiomyopathy, a life threatening form of heart failure that happens as a result
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Magnesium is indisputably essential for the proper functioning of the heart, calming the nervous system and relaxing the body. It was first shown to be beneficial to the treatment of cardiac arrhythmias in 1935 and also reduces blood pressure. Since then, there has been numerous studies showing that magnesium is
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In 2007, Denise Hilfiker-Kleiner, a German researcher, showed that a prolactin fragment known as 16K-PRL which is produced in the heart, attacks the blood vessels and the heart tissues. One treatment to reduce the risk of death in women affected by peripartum cardiomyopathy has been to prevent the production of
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The California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative and Stanford University is conducting a study on women's experiences with severe physical complications in pregnancy. Recruitment is limited to those women who live in the United States. The injuries may have been diagnosed at the time of delivery or may not
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We all know that pregnancy uses up a woman's stores of minerals. The old saying, "a tooth for every baby" says how much a growing fetus can take from a mother. Iron stores, calcium, vitamin D, zinc, etc can all be depleted during pregnancy and whether
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Most women who develop PPCM are told that they are not able to have any more babies. This is because the initial study on post PPCM pregnancies was done on 16 Haitian women, and the study did not distinguish between women who had normal heart function and those who didn&