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Statin Commonly Used Cholesterol Lowering Medicine: Statin initiation in older U.S. veterans free from atherosclerotic CVD at baseline reduced the risk for CV and all-cause mortality, researchers found in a…

The latest guidelines have made the importance of maintaining lower blood pressure numbers abundantly clear. Indeed, now nearly half of American adults are considered to have high blood pressure, with…

Coronaviruses are a large family of viruses found in both animals and humans. Some infect people and are known to cause illness ranging from the common cold to more severe…

1. Artificially sweetened beverages and stroke, coronary heart disease, and all-cause mortality in the Women’s Health InitiativeResearchers investigated how self-reported consumption of artificially sweetened beverages (ASB) is associated with stroke…

Dietary factors linked to high proportion of deaths from stroke, heart disease and type 2 diabetes Reported in JAMA, this is an interesting study that showed how dietary factors contributed…

1. Exercise improves cognition. A new University of Connecticut analysis of years of previous research suggests there is ample evidence that exercise may delay the decline in cognitive function associated…

HORMONE THERAPY AFTER MENOPAUSE DOES NOT INCREASE RISK OF CARDIOVASCULAR OR CANCER MORTALITY:A recent study addressing risks involved with harmone therapy after menopaus dispels concerns about increased incidence of breast…

Maryam Hamid M.D. The number of people living with hypertension (high blood pressure) is predicted to be 1.56 billion worldwide by the year 2025. In the US, about 75 million…

Maryam Hamid M.D. The Latest Dietary Guidelines from Departments of Health and Human Services (DHHS) and Agriculture (USDA): We have been told many times that regular exercise and consumption of…

It has been well engrained in our psych by years of emphasis by doctors that exercise is always good and more the better. It is no doubt, there is abundance…