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Association between “Life's Essential 8” cardiovascular health and apparent treatment-resistant hypertension among US adults from the NHANES, 2005 to 2018

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

Physical activity (PA), body mass index (BMI), and blood glucose were associated with aTRH (all p-values<0.05), while diet, nicotine exposure, sleep, and blood lipids were not significantly associated with aTRH. Compared to the low LE8 group, the ORs for the high LE8 group were 0.46 (95% CI, 0.28 to 0.76) and 0.07 (95% CI, 0.02

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Physiology Friday #202: Should You be Taking a Multivitamin for Cognitive Health? A New Study Suggests Yes.

Physiologically Speaking

It’s also likely that most people aren’t getting all of the nutrients they need from their diet even if they think they are. While using a more targeted supplement strategy is best, adding a multivitamin to your diet may be an insurance policy for your brain as you age. Nutritional insurance? Thanks for reading.

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Physiology Friday #197: Do Morning Workouts Maximize the Cardiometabolic Benefits of Exercise?

Physiologically Speaking

link] Of course, diet is an important component of metabolic health, but exercise also plays an indispensable role. Not only does exercise help to maintain a healthy weight and/or promote weight loss, but it can also keep cardiometabolic risk factors in check in the absence of weight loss.

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Physiology Friday #197: Do Morning Workouts Maximize the Cardiometabolic Benefits of Exercise?

Physiologically Speaking

link] Of course, diet is an important component of metabolic health, but exercise also plays an indispensable role. Not only does exercise help to maintain a healthy weight and/or promote weight loss, but it can also keep cardiometabolic risk factors in check in the absence of weight loss.

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How To Reverse Diabetes.

Dr. Paddy Barrett

However, for those who used both nutrition AND exercise as their strategy, the risk of death from any cause fell by 28% 5. As the line goes: “You can’t outrun a bad diet, and you can’t out diet not exercising.” All of these patients had a BMI >27. But What Diet Should I Use To Lose The Weight?

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How You Can Reduce The Risk Of Heart Disease Without Losing Weight.

Dr. Paddy Barrett

Being overweight is a major risk factor for heart disease and also an early death. But even if you have excess weight, there are many things you can do to seriously reduce that risk without focusing on weight loss itself. So, if you struggle with excess weight, you need to know what else you can do to reduce your future risk.

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Expert Perspective: The Obesity Paradox with Salvatore Carbone, PhD

Cardiometabolic Health Congress

Salvatore Carbone, PhD: First, I’d like to point out that obesity is a major risk factor for cardiometabolic disease. There are significant data that show that if you have obesity, you have a high risk of developing coronary heart disease, heart failure, type 2 diabetes (T2D) or risk factors such as hypertension and dyslipidemia. [1]

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