Tag: Heart disease
Beer and spirits have more detrimental effects on the waistline and...
Brittany Larsen, Iowa State University
The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.
The sex of your cells matters when it comes to heart...
Brian Aguado, University of California San Diego
Most mammals, including humans, have two sex chromosomes, X and Y. One...
Exercise as therapy: its surprising potential to treat people with multiple...
Alessio Bricca, University of Southern Denmark and Søren T. Skou, University of Southern Denmark
Hundreds of millions of people of all ages worldwide live with...
Heart transplant doctors could help more people by accepting donations from...
Leora Yarboro, University of Virginia and Elizabeth D. Krebs, University of Virginia
Heart disease is the top cause of death in the U.S. For some...
Can sitting less decrease your risk of heart disease?
Gautam Ramesh, University of California San Diego; Andrea LaCroix, University of California San Diego, and John Bellettiere, University of California San Diego
Too much sitting...
Let them eat more fat? Researcher argues that a balance of...
Heidi Silver, Vanderbilt University
Public health guidelines, such as the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, have long emphasized reducing dietary fat intake, but nutritionists and other...
Arrested development: Can we improve cardiac arrest survival in hospitals?
Brahmajee Nallamothu, University of Michigan
Each July brings residents – recent graduates from medical schools – to the inpatient wards of major teaching hospitals across...
The latest blood pressure guidelines: What they mean for you
John Warner, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Updated blood pressure guidelines from the American Heart Association mean that many more Americans, notably older people, are now...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
