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5 stories tagged "heart-disease"
Heart Failure Admissions Ran 3.7 Percent Higher for Every Year the West Sold Legal Pot
Fifty million discharge records tie each year of Western dispensary sales to higher heart failure, heart attack and atrial fibrillation admission rates, while the federal rescheduling fight sits frozen before a DEA judge.
Metabolic & WeightTwenty Minutes of Lifting, Twice a Week: The Heart Workout We Filed Under Vanity
In a 12,591-person cohort, people who lifted weights once or twice a week had up to 72 percent fewer cardiovascular events, and the benefit held even for those who never met the aerobic exercise guidelines.
Metabolic & WeightThe Headlines Blamed Stress. The Data Blamed Belly Fat, Cigarettes, and Poverty.
In 488,079 UK adults, chronic inflammation tracked with a heart quietly remodeling into a smaller, stiffer pump. The loudest drivers were belly fat, cigarettes, and poverty. The paper points at a druggable inflammation pathway; its senior author discloses fees and grants from Bayer and Google's Cali
Metabolic & WeightThe Heart Scan Sold to Everyone Barely Beats a Free Calculator, Except for the Patients Insurers Won't Cover
The scan barely moved the needle over a free calculator for most adults, but inside the muddy middle of risk, calcium separated a 1.9 percent ten-year danger from a 14.3 percent one.
Metabolic & WeightFor Forty Years He Said the Standard Cholesterol Target Was Wrong. A Computer Finally Agreed.
A Northwestern model projects that the little-used apoB test would prevent more heart attacks and strokes than the LDL number your doctor chases. And non-HDL, a number already printed free on your standard lab report, beat LDL too. No trial has tested any of it on a patient.