Thursday, August 12, 2010
New research suggests that those of us who drink a lot of tea, or coffee in moderation, are less likely to die from heart disease than those who don’t drink these beverages. This finding adds to a growing body of evidence that suggests tea and coffee can help with preventing heart disease, [...]
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
When it comes to causes of high blood pressure, we know that a diet too high in sodium can push those readings into the danger zone, now experts have found that eating too many sweets, or drinking too much soda, might just have the same effect. A new study finds that those [...]
These numbers are hard to ignore. A large international study published in The Lancet has found that there are ten risk factors that account for a staggering 90% of stroke risk. In the U.S., strokes are the third largest cause of death (behind heart disease and cancer), and bring a heartbreaking, life [...]
New research finds that avoiding drinking soda and other sugary drinks may help reduce blood pressure. Earlier studies had linked sugary drinks to lots of troublesome conditions – obesity, type 2 diabetes and metabolic syndrome (a cluster of risk factors that up the risk for heart disease and diabetes), but until now, [...]
High blood pressure patients take note… findings released in March 2010 at the American College of Cardiology (ACC) annual meeting in Atlanta have some pretty important implications for those who are trying to manage their condition.
A large five-year study finds that fluctuations in blood pressure over time may be a key indicator [...]
Good news for high blood pressure patients. The results of a recent manufacturer sponsored clinical trial published in an online edition of The Lancet suggest that combining a new blood pressure lowering drug with an existing one offers some pretty impressive benefits.
The drug, Novartis’s AHU377 is a member of a new [...]
New research finds that the more overweight you are, the more likely you are to have a stroke.
Using data from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study, the team followed 13,549 middle aged (45-65 years) Americans for nearly 20 years, looking to see if ischemic stroke risk was associated with several measures of obesity; body mass [...]
Thursday, January 14, 2010
No doubt you’ve heard all the “heart healthy” claims made by many foods and diet plans, yet a review conducted by Andrew Mente, Ph.D. of the Population Health Research Institute and colleagues shows only some of these plans back up those claims with strong evidence of actually lowering your heart disease risk.
Until this work, there [...]
Thursday, December 31, 2009
A woman who is lacking vitamin D before she enters menopause may have a higher risk of developing high blood pressure in her later years according to new research presented at the American Heart Association’s 63rd High Blood Pressure Research Conference in Chicago. Only recently have researchers come to recognize that deficiencies of this vital [...]
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
A new and surprising cause of high blood pressure has been discovered.
People who live within earshot of traffic noise – loud engines running, constant honking horns and the scream of screeching brakes – have an increased risk of high blood pressure according to work that appears in the September 9, 2009 issue of the open access journal Environmental Health.
