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Credit: CC0 Public Domain In a new study from Monash University, researchers found moderate carbohydrate intake and not saturated fat could provide a heart health benefits to women. Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death in women. Poor diet is recognized as both an independent CVD risk factor
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Credit: CC0 Public Domain In a new study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, researchers found metoprolol, a drug widely used to treat heart disease, is beneficial when administered to COVID-19 patients. The study is from Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares. One author is Dr. Borja
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Credit: CC0 Public Domain Exposure to high blood cholesterol over a lifetime can increase the risk for heart attack or stroke, and new scientific guidelines say managing this waxy, fat-like substance in the blood should be a concern for all ages. The guidelines, published Saturday in the journal Circulation, are meant
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Credit: Photo by Luze Images Their young sons in bed, Lucy Henglefelt and her husband, Adam, were cleaning their Sioux Falls, South Dakota, home to put it on the market. A real estate agent was coming the next day to take pictures. But Lucy reached a stopping point. She occasionally
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Credit: CC0 Public Domain In a recent study published in The Lancet, researchers found a combination therapy of aspirin, statins and at least two blood pressure drugs can cut the risk of heart disease and stroke by more than half. The fixed-dose combination (FDC) therapies were examined both with and
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Credit: Brooks Rehabilitation. Near the end of her second pregnancy, Amanda Moreland sliced open her knee. She applied pressure with a towel but couldn’t fully stop the bleeding. The next day, the Jacksonville, Florida, woman had a cesarean section to welcome her new daughter, Maddie. But Amanda doesn’t remember it.
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Credit: CC0 Public Domain To stay healthy, don’t just watch what you eat – watch when you eat it. New research is driving that point home by looking at the impact of changes in meal timing from day-to-day and from weekday-to-weekend. Those changes were associated with several important heart health
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Credit: Photo courtesy of Jon Dorenbos Jon Dorenbos was swimming with sharks in Bora Bora when he realized he kept losing his breath. During his 14-year NFL career, he’d never experienced anything like this. “It felt like I would drown,” Jon said. A month later, in August 2017, Jon was
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Credit: CC0 Public Domain In a new study from Johns Hopkins Medicine, researchers found that a drug first developed to treat Alzheimer’s disease, schizophrenia and sickle cell disease reduces obesity and fatty liver in mice and improves their heart function—without changes in food intake or daily activity. Currently, there isn’t
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Credit: CC0 Public Domain Atrial fibrillation is the most common type of abnormal heart rhythm, causing the heart to contract irregularly and, sometimes, too quickly. It is estimated to affect 33 million people worldwide and can lead to blood clots, stroke, heart failure and other heart-related complications. According to the
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Credit: CC0 Public Domain In a new study from Monash University, researchers found moderate carbohydrate intake and not saturated fat could provide a heart health
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Credit: CC0 Public Domain In a new study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, researchers found metoprolol, a drug widely used
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Credit: CC0 Public Domain Exposure to high blood cholesterol over a lifetime can increase the risk for heart attack or stroke, and new scientific guidelines
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Credit: Photo by Luze Images Their young sons in bed, Lucy Henglefelt and her husband, Adam, were cleaning their Sioux Falls, South Dakota, home to
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Credit: CC0 Public Domain In a recent study published in The Lancet, researchers found a combination therapy of aspirin, statins and at least two blood
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Credit: Brooks Rehabilitation. Near the end of her second pregnancy, Amanda Moreland sliced open her knee. She applied pressure with a towel but couldn’t fully
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Credit: CC0 Public Domain To stay healthy, don’t just watch what you eat – watch when you eat it. New research is driving that point
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Credit: Photo courtesy of Jon Dorenbos Jon Dorenbos was swimming with sharks in Bora Bora when he realized he kept losing his breath. During his
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Credit: CC0 Public Domain In a new study from Johns Hopkins Medicine, researchers found that a drug first developed to treat Alzheimer’s disease, schizophrenia and
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Credit: CC0 Public Domain Atrial fibrillation is the most common type of abnormal heart rhythm, causing the heart to contract irregularly and, sometimes, too quickly.
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