Eating healthy is a staple of advice for those with cardiovascular disease. Doctors will tell you to fill your diet with fruits, vegetables, high-fiber and low-protein foods, but how big a difference does nutrition make? A new study can give a very specific answer, as least as it related to blueberries. The cardiovascular benefits of … Continue reading Lower Cardiovascular Risk With Blueberries
There’s new evidence that people taking hormones for gender transition may have a higher risk of cardiovascular problems. Hints from previous hormone studies Previous research has indicated that hormone therapy in general raises cardiovascular risk. For example, menopausal women taking estrogen and progestin had a 41% greater risk of stroke, a 29% greater risk of … Continue reading Gender Transition Hormones May Harm Heart
If you’re looking for a free, fast way to measure your risk of cardiovascular risk, just do some pushups. A new study from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health has found that physically active men who can do at least 40 pushups may have a lower risk of cardiovascular diseases compared to physically … Continue reading Assess Cardiovascular Risk With Pushups
The safety of e-cigarettes has been a topic of debate over the past few years. If you’ve had trouble getting a definitive answer, a new summary of evidence may finally offer some insight. A new review from a team at the Aberdeen Royal Infirmary found both good news and bad news. The good news People … Continue reading The Debate Over the Safety of Vaping
About 1 in 11 Americans get kidney stones, which can be incredibly painful for some people. Worse still, they can reoccur. Obviously, any tool to help predict the likelihood of another painful bout would be helpful, especially if it helps encourage those at high risk to do more to prevent them. Crunching the kidney stone … Continue reading Updated Tool to Predict More Kidney Stones
High blood pressure, often referred to as “hypertension,” affects approximately 75 million adults in the United States. It increases the risk of other serious health conditions, such as stroke, heart attack, kidney disease and chronic heart failure. Despite the fact that more than hundreds of thousands of people die each year from problems caused by … Continue reading New Approach to Managing High Blood Pressure
There’s new evidence that adults who experience the flu or flu-like symptoms may have a greater risk of stroke. The new study supports earlier research that found similar results in adults and also in children. While those previous studies were smaller, the new research from a team at New York’s Columbia University is the largest … Continue reading Stroke Risk Increases After Flu-like Symptoms
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