Category Archives: Heart Health

Healthy veins make things easier on your heart. They allow blood to flow easily through the body each time your heart pumps. But did you know your blood isn’t always moving? Your blood pressure is a reading of two numbers: diastolic and systolic. Systolic pressure is the top number on the reading and is used ...click here to read more

Lowering high blood pressure can be intimidating. It may involve changing your diet, piling on exercise, or other measures that can leave you wondering how you’re ever going to do it. The answer is one step at a time. Literally. The most significant barriers to exercise are time constraints and fear. But the truth is ...click here to read more

Research shows how heart disease can be prevented or managed through lifestyle changes, including diet and exercise. One such study from McMaster University in Canada has found that eating oily fish regularly can help prevent cardiovascular disease (CVD) in high-risk individuals. The study involved an analysis of previous research involving 192,000 people from more than ...click here to read more

Most people only think of a stroke affecting the brain, but they can also affect the eyes. A rare form of acute ischemic stroke called central retinal artery occlusion (CRAO) occurs when blood flow is blocked from the eye’s main artery. CRAO is a cardiovascular event that many health care professionals misdiagnose as an eye ...click here to read more

If you have been diagnosed with high blood pressure, you may not know that you can make some easy lifestyle changes to help reduce your risk of heart disease. Before turning to medication, high blood pressure—which is also known as hypertension—should be managed by diet and exercise. By successfully following a healthy lifestyle, you may ...click here to read more

According to a new analysis from the University of Pittsburgh, women who accumulate abdominal fat during menopause are at greater risk of heart disease. This study indicates that measuring waist circumference during preventive health care appointments could be a better indicator of heart disease risk than weight or BMI. The senior author of the study, ...click here to read more

No matter what age, systolic blood pressure is the best way to predict future cardiovascular events and death. However, new research has found that diastolic blood pressure readings could still be a way to measure future health risks in younger people. In a blood pressure reading, the upper number—systolic pressure—measures how hard the heart pumps ...click here to read more

Is there a limit to exercise’s benefits to your heart? Results from a new study suggest there might not be. You’re not going to find much argument about the health benefits of exercise, particularly for heart health. While some studies have shown that the benefits can plateau and potentially cause damage, a new study shows ...click here to read more

It’s time to change the way you look at your gut and digestive system. Instead of just thinking about regularity and constipation, think big. Think about your heart. There is a vast amount of research to suggest your gut does a lot more than help you digest food and excrete waste. Instead, it could play ...click here to read more

Blood pressure should drop at night as your body begins to shut down and prepare for sleep. But it might not. If it doesn’t, there could be significant consequences for brain health. Everybody’s blood pressure varies, but it’s generally higher during the day than at night. In some, however, this is not the case; they ...click here to read more

Everyone knows that following a healthy lifestyle can be beneficial for health, but new research shows just how important it can be for cholesterol. The study published in eLife shows how combining healthy lifestyle interventions can reduce heart disease through beneficial effects on different lipoproteins and associated cholesterol. The fact that following a healthy lifestyle ...click here to read more

Blood pressure guidelines seem to be in the spotlight more than ever as the number of people who suffer from high blood pressure rises. But until now, the discussion around blood pressure seemed to focus on men and women as a whole. However, a new study from the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai shows that ...click here to read more

Stress is on the rise in America as people try to exist in a country that seems torn apart. The pandemic and the inequities it has further exposed, coupled with political upheaval and unrest, has many Americans feeling more stressed than usual. This can play a significant role in your mental health, but it can ...click here to read more

According to a study published in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, those who regularly exercise are less likely to die from a sudden heart attack. This study adds to the mounting evidence of the benefits of leading an active lifestyle. Heart disease is the leading cause of death globally, so prevention has become a ...click here to read more