Heart Health

This news channel includes content on cardiovascular disease prevention, cardiac risk stratification, diagnosis, screening programs, and management of major risk factors that include diabetes, hypertension, diet, life style, cholesterol, obesity, ethnicity and socio-economic disparities.
 

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WHO adds personal listening habits to guidelines on how noise affects health

For the first time, the World Health Organization (WHO) has included ambient noise from leisure-time activities in its guidelines on how cumulative exposure to high volumes can lead to health problems, including stress, hypertension and heart disease.

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Obesity, diabetes could make for the worst flu pandemic we’ve ever seen

Rapidly growing rates of obesity and diabetes—already threats to global health—will likely have fatal consequences in the case of a future flu pandemic, the Telegraph reported this week.

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Faith-based health education lowers systolic BP in black patients

A report published in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes found a faith-based program in traditionally black churches was able to lower systolic blood pressure among attendants by an average 5.8 mm Hg—a result that more typical public education programs failed to replicate.

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Liraglutide reduces CV events in diabetics with and without CKD

As an adjunct to standard treatment for patients with type 2 diabetes, liraglutide appears at least as protective against cardiovascular events for patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) as for those without CKD, according to a subgroup analysis of the LEADER trial published in Circulation.

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Study links early onset menopause, type 2 diabetes

Women who experience menopause before age 40 are twice as likely to develop type 2 diabetes (T2D) than those who reach menopause at a more normal age, according to research presented at the European Association for the Study of Diabetes’ annual conference in Berlin last week.

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Appetite suppressant lorcaserin shrinks probability of incident diabetes

Lorcaserin, an appetite suppressant approved for chronic weight management in 2012, reduced overweight patients’ risk for developing type 2 diabetes (T2D) and improved remission of hyperglycemia in a study of more than 12,000 Massachusetts residents, researchers reported.

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3 days of home BP monitoring enough to confirm hypertension diagnosis

Three days’ worth of home blood pressure monitoring (HBPM) data is enough to confirm a diagnosis of clinical hypertension and initiate treatment, according to research published in the Journal of the American Heart Association.

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Southern diet singled out as top factor for racial gap in hypertension

Adherence to a “Southern diet” may be the biggest driver of racial disparities in hypertension rates among black and white adults in the U.S., according to a prospective cohort study published Oct. 2 in JAMA.