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Category: Heart and Disease

  • Heart and Disease

Heart and Disease: What Can Lower Your Risk of Atrial Fibrillation?

  • Posted on November 27, 2014
  • by Bonnie Liebman

Staying active and lean may lower your risk of atrial fibrillation, irregular heart rhythms that are linked to a higher risk of stroke. And if you already have atrial fibrillation,…

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  • Heart and Disease

What to Eat: Chocolate and Cardiovascular Disease

  • Posted on November 25, 2014
  • by David Schardt

Take people who are free of cardiovascular disease and ask them what they eat. Then, years later, find out if they’ve had a heart attack or stroke or have high…

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  • Heart and Disease

Vitamin Supplements: Multivitamins for Your Heart

  • Posted on November 1, 2014
  • by David Schardt

Will a multivitamin cut your risk of disease? For heart disease and stroke, the answer appears to be no. [HT] “In the Physicians’ Health Study II, we found no evidence…

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  • Heart and Disease

Heart and Disease: Decoding the Heart Claims on Cereal Boxes

  • Posted on October 28, 2014
  • by Jayne Hurley

Heart claims—explicit or implied—are all over cereal boxes. You may be surprised to find out why: Whole grain. A cereal (like General Mills Oatmeal Crisp) that’s at least 51 percent…

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  • Heart and Disease

Heart and Disease: TMA Uh-Oh

  • Posted on September 17, 2014
  • by Bonnie Liebman

Researchers have zeroed in on TMAO, trimethylamine-N-oxide, as a new culprit in heart disease. “We’ve long recognized that two individuals could have the same LDL—or bad—cholesterol, yet one goes on…

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  • Heart and Disease

Heart and Disease: Risk Rises Before Your Blood Pressure is "High"

  • Posted on September 2, 2014
  • by Bonnie Liebman

Doctors consider prescribing drugs when your blood pressure is high—that is, it’s at least 140 over 90. But it’s a threat to your blood vessels before it crosses that line.…

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  • Heart and Disease

Heart and Disease: Keep Blood Pressure Low to Prevent Strokes

  • Posted on August 23, 2014
  • by Bonnie Liebman

“An optimal blood pressure is less than 115 systolic over 75 diastolic,” says Norm Campbell, professor of medicine, community health sciences, and physiology and pharmacology at the University of Calgary…

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  • Heart and Disease

Why are Triglycerides Linked to Heart and Disease?

  • Posted on June 24, 2014
  • by Bonnie Liebman

When you eat fat, it first shows up in the bloodstream as chylomicrons—lipoproteins that are triglyceride-rich. A lipoprotein is a particle that consists of some protein and some lipid like…

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  • Heart and Disease

What Can People Do to Protect Their Heart?

  • Posted on May 9, 2014
  • by Bonnie Liebman

Replacing saturated fat with polyunsaturated fats is important for protecting your heart, but it’s not the only precaution you should be taking. “This may sound surprising, but saturated fat is…

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  • Heart and Disease

Should You Eat More Beans for a Healthier Heart?

  • Posted on May 2, 2014
  • by Bonnie Liebman

Researchers examined eight trials on 554 people (with or without high blood pressure) who were told to eat either beans (about a cup a day) or other foods with the…

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