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It turns out that blood pressure can jump around a lot — as much as 40 points in one day in my case — which raises the question of which reading to trust.
Traditional cardiac risk models, developed by studying mostly white Americans, don’t fully apply to ethnic communities. This is a knowledge gap that must be filled in the coming years.
“Traditional research funding models are often incremental and piecemeal, making it difficult to study a long-term, multifaceted subject,” Andrew Conrad, CEO of the life sciences team at Google. “AHA and Google Life Sciences have committed to a bold new approach.”
Statins are the world’s leading cholesterol-lowering drugs, firmly established as safe and very effective at reducing the risk of heart attacks, strokes and deaths from atherosclerotic heart disease for most people.
For decades, health authorities have argued that the diet of people living in Mediterranean countries, with its emphasis on olive oil, nuts and fresh produce, is a driving force behind the region’s historically low rates of heart disease.
Cardiologists recently hailed early results of a study suggesting that many lives might be saved if people with high blood pressure got it down far below levels now recommended. They predicted swift changes in treatment practices. Patients rushed to call…
A new study of people who had an inexpensive heart scan found that half of those who were statin candidates actually had no signs of plaque in their heart and very little chance of having a heart attack in the next decade.