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2025 Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics: A Report of US and Global Data From the American Heart Association

Circulation

Circulation, Ahead of Print.

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Heart Disease and Stroke Could Affect at Least 60% of Adults in U.S. by 2050, According to American Heart Association Advisories

DAIC

A projected rise in heart disease and stroke – along with several key risk factors, including high blood pressure and obesity – is likely to triple related costs to $1.8 trillion by 2050, according to two presidential advisories published in the AHA journal Circulation. Obesity rates are expected to climb from 43.1%

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The Role of Genetics in Heart Disease: Can You Prevent It?

MIBHS

Genes influence various biological processes, including cholesterol metabolism, blood pressure regulation, and the strength and structure of your heart and blood vessels. Common Heart Diseases with Genetic Links Coronary Artery Disease (CAD): CAD occurs when the arteries supplying blood to the heart become narrowed or blocked.

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Physiology Friday #215: Sitting Less Improves Blood Pressure

Physiologically Speaking

Prolonged sitting also leads to a bending of major arteries in our legs, leading to a blood flow pattern known as turbulent flow, blood pooling, impaired circulation, and endothelial dysfunction. They also had measures of body weight and circumferences and blood pressure assessed at these time points.

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Beating the Odds: Inside the Tribe with a Near-Zero Rate of Heart Disease.

Dr. Paddy Barrett

Subscribe now Blood Pressure Approximately 50% of all Western adults have high blood pressure 7. The majority of this high blood pressure is undiagnosed and, therefore, untreated. As a consequence, high blood pressure is the single most important risk factor for early death worldwide 8.

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Obese Male Mice Exposed to Early Life Stress Display Sympathetic Activation and Hypertension Independent of Circulating Angiotensin II

Journal of the American Heart Association

BackgroundWe have previously reported that male mice exposed to maternal separation and early weaning (MSEW), a model of early life stress, show sympathetic activation and increased blood pressure in response to a chronic high‐fat diet. After chronic treatment with enalapril (2.5 mg/kg

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Abstract 4125500: Obesity-Related Left Atrial Functional Change Becomes Apparent in Infancy

Circulation

Circulation, Volume 150, Issue Suppl_1 , Page A4125500-A4125500, November 12, 2024. Background:Impaired left atrial (LA) function is observed in obese patients, however, there is little information on when LA dysfunction begins to appear. kg/m2; obese (n=15), ≧20 kg/m2.

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