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10 Things You Can Do To Improve Your Heart Health

Dr. Paddy Barrett

Heart Disease Starts Early In Life. Most people think of heart disease as a problem for older people. While it is true that the older you are, the higher the risk of a heart attack, the process of plaque buildup starts early in life. Heart Disease Doesn’t Kill People. Heart Attacks Kill People.

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Why Exercise Is The Key To A Longer Life

Dr. Paddy Barrett

While I have covered many of these fitness measures individually in previous posts, I wanted to summarise these metrics and how they relate to living longer and preventing major diseases such as cardiovascular disease, cancer and dementia. A higher daily step count is also linked to significantly lower cancer, stroke and heart disease rates.

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Revolutionary Results: How Modern Weight Loss Medications are Changing the Game

Dr. Paddy Barrett

Many pharmacies ran out of stock, and access was often restricted to keep available supplies for diabetics where the drug class had originally been developed. The primary reason for managing risk factors is to reduce events, including heart attacks. Semaglutide and Cardiovascular Outcomes in Obesity without Diabetes.

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Does Stress Cause Heart Disease?

Dr. Paddy Barrett

But What About Stress & Heart Disease? When stress is included in the risk factor profile for a future heart attack, it comes in third on the list after abnormal cholesterol and smoking 1. Watching the World Cup is associated with a two-fold increased risk of dying from heart disease. The link is real.

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Rise of the Lysenkoist Cardiologists

Dr. Anish Koka

There may be no better study to symbolize the dysfunction that has invaded cardiology than the VIRGO trial, a study examining the outcomes of young patients (18-55) presenting to the hospital with a heart attack. Women also had more cardiovascular risk factors, including hypertension (66.6% versus 66.3%; P =0.004), older age (62.4±7.9

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Women and Heart Health: Unique Considerations and Risks

MIBHS

Heart disease is often perceived as a predominantly male issue, but the reality tells a different story. It’s the leading cause of death for women, claiming more lives each year than all forms of cancer combined. A key difference lies in how women and men experience heart attacks.

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WELCOME TO THE PRIMARY BANK OF ASPIRIN

Dr. Sanjay Gupta

This is called the Primary Bank because it is only for those people who have never had a heart attack or a stroke but are looking to prevent one from happening by taking Aspirin daily. heart attacks or strokes) if you have no previous history of vascular events? Today I welcome you to the Primary Bank of Aspirin.