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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Why does juice get a pass in the battle against sugary drinks?

Three pediatrics professors teamed up for an editorial in The New York Times imploring readers to lump juice into the unhealthy beverage category alongside soda.

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Dietary policies in schools could prevent 22K annual US deaths

School programs that provide fresh fruits and vegetables and limit the availability of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) could prevent an estimated 22,383 deaths due to cardiometabolic disease each year in the U.S., researchers calculated in a study published July 6 in PLOS One.

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Mother’s lifestyle influences child’s obesity risk

In a study of nearly 25,000 children, those whose mothers adhered to five healthy lifestyle factors carried a 75 percent lower risk of obesity than children whose mothers had none of those habits.

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Renal denervation can reduce BP, severity of sleep apnea

Patients with resistant hypertension and obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) experienced significant drops in blood pressure and improvements in OSA severity following renal denervation, according to a small randomized trial published June 25 in Hypertension.

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Severe preeclampsia associated with right ventricular strain in 39% of women

According to a new study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, women with preeclampsia with severe features (PEC) have higher right ventricular (RV) systolic pressure (RVSP) and decreased global right ventricular longitudinal systolic strain (RVLSS), among other adverse cardiovascular events, compared to women not exhibiting preeclampsia during pregnancy.

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Insomnia, poor sleep quality tied to increased risk of CVD in women

Sleep disturbances, including poor sleep quality and insomnia, are associated with increased blood pressure and vascular inflammation in women, according to a June 9 study in the Journal of the American Heart Association.

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Consider exercise habits when prescribing BP medication

A new study published in Hypertension suggests tailoring blood pressure (BP) treatment to a patient’s exercise level may help, because people with elevated but controlled hypertension saw an increase in BP during physical activity.

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Routine binge drinking linked to higher BP, cholesterol in young men

Frequent binge drinkers—particularly men—are more likely to have cardiovascular risk factors such as hypertension and high cholesterol, according to a new study published in the Journal of the American Heart Association.