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Stroke Risk Increases As Weight Goes Up

Thursday, March 11, 2010

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 [...]

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Not All Diets Are Good For The Heart

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 [...]

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Vitamin D Protects Against High Blood Pressure

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 [...]

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A Surprising Cause of High Blood Pressure

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.

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Reducing High Blood Pressure Help Thinking

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

A new study in the August 25, 2009 issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology, tells of the importance of reducing high bloodpressure and links high blood pressure to loss of cognitive function in those over 45 years old.
Every 10-point increase in diastolic (bottom number) blood pressure [...]

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