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How Does Exercise Prevent Heart Disease?

All About Cardiovascular System and Disorders

Exercise in a regular pattern is one of the important life style modifications which everyone can adopt to prevent or delay cardiovascular disease. Exercise helps in various ways for prevention of cardiovascular disease. Higher HDL levels decrease the risk of cardiovascular disease.

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Highlights of ACC 2024

Cardiology Update

Investigators assessed if empagliflozin could lower the risk of hospitalization for heart failure (HF) or death from cardiovascular disease (CVD). These patients were identified to have non-flow-limiting vulnerable coronary plaques through intracoronary imaging.

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Sugar-sweetened beverages linked with about three hundred and forty thousand deaths from type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease globally – Study

All About Cardiovascular System and Disorders

A study published in Nature Medicine evaluated the burden of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease attributable to sugar sweetened beverages in 184 countries [1]. In case of cardiovascular disease, the corresponding figure was 1.2 Inflammatory cytokines causing unstable plaques lead on to cardiovascular events [1].