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Preventing Heart Disease | Medi-Station Urgent Care Miami
Heart disease is a silent predator that doesn’t discriminate by age, often striking without warning. It can affect both the young and the old, therefore, prevention is the key to a healthy heart. In this comprehensive guide, brought to you by Medi-Station Urgent Care, we delve into preventive measures tailored for different age groups. Whether you’re in your twenties or your golden years, understanding the unique challenges and interventions for your age can significantly impact your heart health. Read more: https://www.medistationurgentcare.com/a-comprehensive-guide-to-preventing-heart-disease-at-every-age
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Ultraprocessed foods linked to heart disease, diabetes, mental disorders and early death, study finds
Eating ultraprocessed foods raises the risk of death from cardiovascular disease by 50% and contributes to developing other adverse health conditions, a study found.
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7 Alarming Ways Statins Can Cause Harm
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Recor Medical and Otsuka Medical Devices Announce First FDA-Approved Renal Denervation System for the Treatment of Hypertension - Recor Medical
Approval of the Paradise™ Ultrasound Renal Denervation system makes innovative hypertension treatment available for the first time in the U.S. Palo Alto, Calif. – November 7, 2023 – Recor Medical, Inc. (“Recor”) and its parent company, Otsuka Medical Devices Co., Ltd. (“Otsuka Medical Devices”) today announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Recor’s Paradise™ Ultrasound...
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Your pacemaker and open source software
Using embedded medical technology, such as a pacemaker, defibrillator, or insulin pump? What's running inside is a complete mystery
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NEW STUDY Proves it's BMI not Butter that increases Cholesterol on Low-Carb Diets
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Heart Failure - Do statins help or hurt?
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This salt alternative could help reduce blood pressure. So why are so few people using it?
Potassium-enriched salt tastes like regular salt and you don’t need to change how you cook or season your food. You just need to switch the type of salt you buy.
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Heart health in young adults tied to later mental function
Young adults with healthy blood pressure go on to have better thinking and memory skills in midlife than their peers with higher blood pressure, according to a new analysis. Previous studies have linked poor fitness and heart health in middle age to declining mental function and dementia around age 70 or 80
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Depression May Seriously Increase The Risk of Heart Failure
Though we’ve known about the connection for some time, a large-scale study hints at the degree to which depression may increase the risk of future heart disease. Looking at data from almost 63,000 people in Norway, and following up over 11 years, the researchers found that mild depression was linked to a 5% increase in the risk of heart failure in the future. Moderate to severe depression was linked to a surprisingly high 40% rise in the risk.
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The Questionable Link Between Saturated Fat and Heart Disease
The new study's conclusion shouldn't surprise anyone familiar with modern nutritional science, however. The fact is, there has never been solid evidence for the idea that these fats cause disease. We only believe this to be the case because nutrition policy has been derailed over the past half-century by a mixture of personal ambition, bad science, politics and bias.
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Too Much High-Intensity Exercise Could Hurt Heart Health
On the heels of research suggesting too much running could lead to an earlier death, two new studies say too much high-intensity exercise could lead to heart problems.
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Obesity on pace to trump smoking as heart disease risk
Obesity is on track to overtake smoking as the most common risk for heart disease in Canada by 2015, according to a study published Tuesday. “Obesity is a major problem in Canada, affecting nearly one in five adults,” said lead author and Ottawa Hospital Research Institute senior scientist Dr. Doug Manuel.
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Bacteria help explain why stress, fear trigger heart attacks
Scientists believe they have an explanation for the axiom that stress, emotional shock, or overexertion may trigger heart attacks in vulnerable people. Hormones released during these events appear to cause bacterial biofilms on arterial walls to disperse, allowing plaque deposits to rupture into the bloodstream, according to research published in published in mBio®, the online open-access journal of the American Society for Microbiology.
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Is it bad to bottle up your anger?
Feeling angry? Let it all out, punch a pillow, blow off steam, but don’t keep it in, right?
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Low carb diets more than low fat ones may help protect against heart disease
Study finds that people who reduced carbs saw bigger drop in risk factors for heart disease.
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Doctors Revive and Transplant Dead Hearts
Twice now, surgeons in Australia have revived a dead heart—a heart that had stopped beating—and brought it back to life before transplanting it into a new person. It’s a huge breakthrough that could potentially save 30 percent more lives compared to ordinary heart transplants, according to the surgeons who performed this feat.
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The "No Pulse" Bionic heart set to save lives in as soon as 3 years
A ground-breaking bionic heart without a pulse is hoped to be saving lives within three years. The world-first device was designed by Brisbane engineer Dr Daniel Timms, who instigated the project in 2001 while studying at the Queensland University of Technology. It recently passed its biggest test when it was successfully transplanted into a live and healthy sheep, and Dr Timms now wants it ready for human trials by 2018.
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See Inside The Human Heart Like Never Before
This award-winning 3-D model of the heart isn't just a feat of science, it'll help you better understand your own body.
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'Sandman Slim' Is Urban Fantasy With Brains, Guts And A Blackened Heart
This trip in the NPR Books Time Machine, we're rewinding Richard Kadrey's hardboiled supernatural noir series about a half-angel, half-human man who fights crime and occasionally saves the world.
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