FRIDAY, May 25 (HealthDay News) — Investigating indigenous Amazonian or African peoples who still follow a hunter-gatherer or forager-horticulturist lifestyle is giving new insights into how diet and lifestyle affect the heart as humans age.
Two new studies found that these types of hunter-gatherer or foraging peoples have lower increases in blood pressure related to their age and are less likely to have hardening of the arteries than people with more modern lifestyles.
WEDNESDAY, May 23, 2012 (Health.com) — Calcium supplements, widely taken by older people to prevent bone fractures, may be doing more harm than good, a large new study suggests.
Researchers tracked nearly 25,000 European adults for 11 years, and found that people who reported regularly taking calcium supplements were more than twice as likely to have a heart attack as those who didn’t use any supplements. Read More
MONDAY, May 21, 2012 (Health.com) — The proportion of U.S. adolescents with diabetes or borderline diabetes has jumped dramatically since the late 1990s, raising the possibility that this generation of young people may face high rates of heart disease and other complications as adults.
As of 2008, 23% of adolescents between the ages of 12 and 19 had diabetes or the precursor condition known as prediabetes, up from just 9% in 1999, according to a new analysis of national survey data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Read More
By Serena Gordon
HealthDay Reporter
MONDAY, May 21 (HealthDay News) — Many American teenagers, including some with a normal, healthy weight, already have one or more risk factors for heart disease, researchers say.
About 22 percent of today’s teens have borderline-high or already high LDL cholesterol — that’s the bad type. And 15 percent have pre-diabetes or diabetes, according to the new research based on data spanning from 1999 to 2008.
WEDNESDAY, May 16 (HealthDay News) — Heart palpitations and high blood pressure are strong risk factors for a common heart rhythm disorder called atrial fibrillation, a new study reports.
Atrial fibrillation increases a person’s risk of heart attack, stroke and death. It was already known that high blood pressure is a risk factor for atrial fibrillation, but, according to the researchers, this is the first study to make a connection between atrial fibrillation and palpitations, which are commonly felt as a rapid or strong irregular heartbeat.
By Steven Reinberg
HealthDay Reporter
WEDNESDAY, May 16 (HealthDay News) — The widely prescribed antibiotic azithromycin may slightly raise the risk of death in patients with heart disease, a new study suggests.
Several antibiotics have been tied to an increased risk of sudden death among heart patients, and recent reports have suggested azithromycin (Zithromax) might be part of that group, said the researchers, from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.
MONDAY, May 14 (HealthDay News) — For nonsmokers, exposure to low levels of secondhand smoke for just 30 minutes can cause significant damage to the lining of their blood vessels, the results of a new study indicate.
The findings could have major public health implications because this type of damage has been associated with atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries), which can lead to heart attack or stroke.
TUESDAY, May 8, 2012 (Health.com) — Are you sick of your commute to work? Bad news: It might actually be making you sick.
According to a new study in three car-centric Texan cities, the longer your daily commute, the more likely you are to have high blood pressure, an oversized waistline, and other health problems that increase your risk for chronic diseases. Read More
By Serena Gordon
HealthDay Reporter
FRIDAY, May 4 (HealthDay News) — No longer an adults-only issue, heart health has become increasingly problematic for American children.
An array of factors has been deemed key to a healthy heart by the American Heart Association, including maintaining a healthy weight, being physically active on a regular basis, eating a healthy diet, not smoking and keeping blood pressure, cholesterol and glucose levels normal.
FRIDAY, May 4 (HealthDay News) — Managing your blood pressure is the most important thing you can do to help lower your risk of stroke, the fourth leading cause of death in the United States, experts say.
Yet many people don’t realize they’re at risk of having high blood pressure, according to the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association.
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