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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These aerobic exercises can help lower your blood pressure

Patients hoping to reduce their blood pressure through aerobic exercise certainly have many options to choose from. 

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'It does not need to be complicated': 10 steps to heart-healthy eating

The American Heart Association has shared a new scientific statement on the topic. 

New device could boost accuracy of noninvasive blood measurements

Early research suggests the wearable device can deliver consistent measurements, providing accuracy where other methods have struggled. 

Is fasting during Ramadan good or bad for your blood pressure?

Researchers looked at this question closely, performing a study of their own in addition to a meta-analysis.

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Specialists awarded $4M grant for diabetes research

The grant will support the development of smartphone apps, glucose monitoring devices and other technologies that manage diabetes.

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A lifetime of obesity can do serious heart damage before symptoms even occur

The new study highlights yet another reason that weight control is so important to a person's cardiac health. 

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Cigarette sales jumped during the pandemic

Before the COVID-19 pandemic, sales had actually been on the decline. 

Advanced age, hypertension among predictors of AFib in ESUS patients

The analysis included more than 5,000 patients who received care from December 2014 to January 2018 in one of 42 countries.