It doesn’t matter if you exercise every day or squeeze it all into the weekend. If you do the recommended 150 minutes of moderate to vigorous physical activity a week, you’ll get heart benefits, a new study finds. Both regimens protect you from atrial fibrillation (a-fib), heart attack, heart failure and stroke, compared with inactivity,… read on > read on >
Shootings are the leading cause of death among U.S. children, surpassing even car crashes. But a new study suggests there may be a sensible way to reduce those firearm tragedies. Researchers found that kids who had watched a one-minute gun safety video were more likely to make a safe choice when they came upon an… read on > read on >
TUESDAY, July 18, 2023 (American Heart Association News) — Crystal Cuadra-Cutler lives for soccer. And soccer has added a lot to her life. The Gilroy, Calif., resident is a chapter president for the American Outlaws, a group known as “U.S. Soccer’s craziest fans.” Whether it’s her local Major League Soccer team or U.S. national team… read on > read on >
Dr. Dan Iosifescu’s patient had a history of depression and had done well for a number of years. But the illness returned with a vengeance. “They truly tried to get better with a series of different medications, and none of them did anything. If anything, they were experiencing a lot of side effects,” Iosifescu said,… read on > read on >
Older adults who begin using opioid painkillers after a dementia diagnosis have a significantly greater risk of death — about 11-fold within the first two weeks, according to new research. The risk of death continued beyond two weeks, but at a lower rate, said researchers in Denmark. They found a doubled death risk within 90… read on > read on >
If you’re hard of hearing and at higher risk for dementia, hearing aids could be a win-win. New research, published July 18 in The Lancet, finds hearing aids might reduce thinking declines in older adults –but only in those at higher risk of dementia. “These results provide compelling evidence that treating hearing loss is a… read on > read on >
Patients could find lifesaving benefits in using a home blood pressure cuff. New research finds that home blood pressure monitoring saves lives and cuts costs. It also reduces health care disparities in racial and ethnic minorities and rural residents. Furthermore, regular self-testing better controls high blood pressure, especially in underserved patients, reducing the risk of… read on > read on >
In areas where Black Americans have been historically affected by discriminatory housing practices, there is higher heart failure risk, according to new research. Researchers studying more than 2.3 million U.S. adults between 2014 and 2019 found that heart failure today was linked to “redlining,” which began in the 1930s. Heart failure risk for Black people… read on > read on >
While nursing home residents are at high risk for bad outcomes if they get COVID-19, use of antiviral treatments, such as monoclonal antibodies, was low through most of 2021 and 2022. The authors of a new study, led by Brian McGarry, a health services researcher at the University of Rochester Medical Center in New York,… read on > read on >
A new study offers the first-ever county-level estimates of Alzheimer’s disease in the United States. It shows that the East and Southeast have the highest prevalence of Alzheimer’s dementia, which researchers said may owe in part to the higher percentages of older people, and Black and Hispanic residents in those regions. The study covered all… read on > read on >
