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Health
fromBusiness Insider
5 days ago

Stress can age you. A cardiologist explains 4 simple ways to protect your heart in 10 minutes a day.

Chronic stress is an underrated, preventable risk factor present in 90% of cardiac patients that significantly increases heart disease risk across all ages, particularly in young adults.
Public health
fromScienceDaily
1 week ago

American Heart Association warns 60% of US women will have cardiovascular disease by 2050

Cardiovascular disease in women will surge by 2050, with nearly 60% developing hypertension and one in three young adult women facing CVD, driven by rising obesity and diabetes rates.
US politics
fromwww.independent.co.uk
5 months ago

Scientists reveal best ways to protect yourself from heart disease

Adopting eight healthy habits from a young age can greatly reduce future heart disease risk, while neglect can increase heart attack or stroke risk up to tenfold.
fromwww.theguardian.com
6 months ago

Potassium-rich diet may cut risk of heart failure by 24%, study suggests

The senior study author, Prof Henning Bundgaard, a professor at Copenhagen University hospital, said: The human body evolved on a potassium-rich, sodium-poor diet when we were born and raised on the savannah and eating [fruit and vegetables]. We [now] tend to go to [a] modern diet that is processed foods and, the more processed, we see more and more sodium in the food and less potassium, meaning that the ratio between the two has changed from 10:1 to 1:2 a dramatic change.
Medicine
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