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Using app-based bilingual program may improve blood pressure control
A bilingual program that connected people and health care workers via an app and at-home monitoring showed the potential of such an effort to manage high blood pressure, new research shows. More than half of patients with uncontrolled high blood pressure brought it under control after participating in the program,...
AHA News' most-read summer stories of 2023
Heat and hydration were among the most popular topics on American Heart Association News as many people in the U.S. experienced a sweltering summer. These five stories topped the list:. 1. Are you getting enough omega-3 fatty acids?. Found in seafood, nuts and plant oils, omega-3 fatty acids may help...
Caregiving a concern as Hispanic community in U.S. ages faster
Caregiving has been part of María Aranda's life since she was a young girl, when her Puerto Rican grandmother and namesake lived with her family in the Los Angeles area. She remembers watching her mother and other family members care for her grandmother for years before she died of heart disease.
Here's the latest on dietary cholesterol and how it fits in with a healthy diet
For more than half a century, scientists have debated the role of dietary cholesterol in a healthy diet. Because it was often associated with saturated fat, limiting dietary cholesterol – especially by restricting egg consumption – seemed to benefit heart-health efforts. More recently, accumulating data has caused researchers...
Her heart stopped during a procedure to treat her stroke
Holly Page was having a great day. She got her hair done, then enjoyed a long dinner catching up with friend Lisa Stillings. They were walking out of the restaurant when something strange happened. Page tried to speak but couldn't. "When I got under a streetlight, I slowed down and...
COVID-19 may be more likely to cause high blood pressure than the flu
COVID-19 may increase the risk of developing high blood pressure, even more so than the flu, new research suggests. The analysis, published Monday in the American Heart Association journal Hypertension, may be the first to examine the development of and risk factors for high blood pressure in people infected with COVID-19 versus the flu, a similar respiratory virus.
Thanks to his wife's quick reaction, postal worker fully recovered from a stroke
Levan Singletary's alarm buzzed at 5:15 a.m., telling him to move the car for street sweeping. It was dark when Singletary, who goes by "Van," left the apartment he shares with his wife, Angela. They live in Aliso Viejo, California, near Laguna Beach. He trotted down the two flights of stairs and strode about 200 yards to the car, moved it across the street and went back upstairs.
His heart stopped while watching TV. His wife kept him alive.
After a seven-hour drive back home with his family to Woodbury, Minnesota, Dave Ogle planned to do what he always did: haul his suitcases upstairs to unpack and do laundry. "Dave, please, let's just relax and leave it for tomorrow," said his wife, Kris Patrow. He reluctantly agreed and joined...
Head back safely to school sports with this expert advice
Sure, the end of summer vacation makes many kids groan. But many will also be cheering the return of fall sports. That's a good thing, experts say. Exercise habits form early and pay off for life, said Dr. Benjamin Levine, director of the Institute for Exercise and Environmental Medicine at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas. For kids to see that payoff, though, he said exercise "has to become part of your personal hygiene, like brushing your teeth, taking a shower or changing your underwear."
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