TUESDAY, May 16, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Lured by promises of bigger muscles and better performance on the field, many athletes and bodybuilders turn to anabolic steroids despite their well-known side effects, including increased risk for heart disease and mood issues. Now, two new studies show these harms may persistContinue Reading
TUESDAY, May 16, 2023 (American Heart Association News) — Lower your blood pressure. Get your heart rate up. Know your numbers. When it comes to heart health, understanding all the numbers involved – and which should be up or down and when – can be confusing. But experts say it’sContinue Reading
MONDAY, May 15, 2023 (American Heart Association News) — Cécile Boynton texted Mark, her husband of five months, that she was on her way home from work. They would then head over to their personal trainer for a workout session. The two had met a few years earlier at aContinue Reading
FRIDAY, May 12, 2023 (American Heart Association News) — With her suitcase in tow, Kathy Wilson-Gold dropped off her 6-year-old twins, Michael and Megan, at school on a sunny Monday in October, then drove to the airport for a business trip to New Jersey. The health care executive and registeredContinue Reading
FRIDAY, May 12, 2023 (American Heart Association News) — Women who have high blood pressure before they become pregnant may be twice as likely as those who don’t to develop cardiovascular disease within a decade of giving birth, new research finds. And if their pregnancies involve complications, they are upContinue Reading
FRIDAY, May 12, 2023 (HealthDay News) – Millions of Americans take cholesterol-lowering drugs called statins, but a new study finds Black and Hispanic adults get the drugs less often than white people do. “This adds to the known racial and ethnic disparities already highly prevalent in heart disease,” said leadContinue Reading
THURSDAY, May 11, 2023 (American Heart Association News) — Everyone knows that on Mother’s Day, Mom’s needs come first. But the rest of the year, mothers often put their health care on hold to focus on others. “A lot of times as women, we tend to put ourselves last,” saidContinue Reading
THURSDAY, May 11, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Poor sleep brought on by sleep apnea may ultimately undermine the brain health of older men and women, new research suggests. The concern stems from a new brain scan investigation that involved 140 sleep apnea patients. “Sleep apnea is a medical condition inContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, May 10, 2023 (American Heart Association News) — Many Hispanic people in the United States face socioeconomic disadvantages and lower access to affordable health care. Despite these and other challenges to their health, they generally tend to live longer than other racial or ethnic communities – a health phenomenonContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, May 10, 2023 (American Heart Association News) — One hot day last June, Elmar Uy and his girlfriend, LJ Jennings, were gardening outside their home in Hudson, New Hampshire, when something strange happened. Everywhere Uy looked, he saw crescent-shaped spots. Jennings thought Uy might be dehydrated. She got himContinue Reading
TUESDAY, May 9, 2023 (HealthDay News) — There are many medications for type 2 diabetes, but one class may stand out for protecting the heart, a new study suggests. The study, of thousands of U.S. veterans with diabetes, found that those who added drugs called GLP-1 receptor agonists to theirContinue Reading
TUESDAY, May 9, 2023 (American Heart Association News) — Kyme Holman-Williamson was always close to her older brother, Eddie. So when she learned he needed a heart transplant, she immediately prepared a room for him in her Maryland home, where she could care for him after his surgery. What sheContinue Reading
MONDAY, May 8, 2023 (American Heart Association News) — Just as the term “Asian American” encompasses a vast number of people and cultures, the idea of an “Asian diet” oversimplifies differences in what they eat, a new report on heart health says. Understanding those differences is important for the UnitedContinue Reading
FRIDAY, May 5, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Researchers think they’ve figured out why the COVID vaccine causes heart inflammation in an extremely small number of teenage boys — and what might be done to avoid it. The second dose of COVID vaccine appears to promote a severe inflammatory response inContinue Reading