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Heart disease mortality among younger women is on the rise. With all that we know and all the accessible forms of information and treatment this is really a sad finding.
Smoking, obesity, prevalence of diabetes, lack of activity and negative lifestyle changes all contribute to increased cardiac disease and death in women below the age of […]
Fa-la-la-la-la…la-la-la-la……. The holidays are here and with them comes stress, anxiety and overall worry. Did I get all the shopping done? Have I finished the cookies? Did I send the cards out yet? “I forgot my cousin twice removed from my step fathers side of the family- he needs a gift!!!!!!!”
Yup- that pretty much sums […]
The study, published in the journal Hypertension, revealed women who slept five hours or less were twice as likely to suffer from hypertension as women who slept seven hours or more a night. There was no difference between those men sleeping less than five hours and those sleeping seven hours or more.
Well great! You […]
Cardiac disease deaths fall while obesity and diabetes are on the rise.
So, that’s surprising? How can the amount of diabetics rise and yet cardiac disease among the very same people is decreasing. Bizarre? No…
Epidemiologists at the University of Liverpool and the Heart of Mersey have found that approximately half the recent […]
What came first, the chicken or the egg? That is a question I often ask myself while “taking care of” my cardiac patients. As a nurse, my mind often wanders to the thought of, “what if they had taken better care of themselves years ago”? Now, I know that genetics and family […]
Obesity is undoubtedly one of the major risk factors for heart disease. Scientists recently identified a DNA variation near the INSIG2 (insulin-induced-gene 2) gene that is more common in obese people. Learn more at Genetics and Health.
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Yesterday’s mention of regulatory control over people’s food choices and the possible effect on obesity and heart disease reminded me of a post public health blog Effect Measure made last year - Weighing in on obesity. Revere discusses the difference between “structural” and “choice” issues.
Ordinary people don’t know they are now carrying around substantial body […]
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