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.
 

Hypertension cases skyrocket around the globe

More than 1.2 billion adults around the world are currently living with hypertension.

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Keto diet linked to potential nutritional, cardiovascular issues—do risks outweigh benefits?

Is following a keto-like diet good for a person's health? The team behind this latest analysis reviewed years of research, sharing their findings in Frontiers in Nutrition.

Lignans, found in many plant-based foods, lower the risk of coronary heart disease

The benefit may be even more significant if the individual also eats plenty of fiber.

Mediterranean diet benefits coronary heart disease patients

A Mediterranean diet outshines a low-fat diet when it comes to decreasing atherosclerosis progression, researchers reported in Stroke.

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Microcalcifications on mammograms tied to elevated risk of cardiometabolic disease, death

“Our results strengthen the notion that a combination of mammographic features and other breast cancer risk factors could be a novel and affordable tool to assess cardiometabolic health in women attending mammographic screening,” researchers said.

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Plant-centered diet tied to lower risk of CVD in young adults, older women

Two different studies, both published in the Journal of the American Heart Association, examined the benefits of a diet high in healthy plant-based foods. 

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ARBs associated with fewer side effects than ACE inhibitors

Physicians and patients may want to consider selecting ARBs instead of ACE inhibitors as an initial treatment for hypertension, based on a new analysis in Hypertension.

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How a woman’s heart health can affect pregnancy outcomes

According to this new analysis, the risk of pregnancy-related complications increases incrementally with the number of cardiovascular risk factors present before the pregnancy.