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Why your late teens and early 20s are crucial times for lifelong heart health

Many young adults don’t realize that high cholesterol, obesity, high blood pressure and lack of physical activity are early heart disease risk factors. Kmatta/Moment via...

Women are at a higher risk of dying from heart disease − in part because doctors don’t take major sex and gender differences into account

Rates of heart disease and cardiac events in women are often underestimated. eternalcreative/iStock via Getty Images by Amy Huebschmann, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus...

Diet-related diseases are the No. 1 cause of death in the US – yet many doctors receive little to no nutrition education in med school

Nearly 60% of respondents to one medical school survey said they received no nutritional education at all. Peter Dazeley/The Image Bank via Getty Images by...

Black women twice as likely to die from a stroke as White women

Adobe Stock Photo AHA gives 7 things to know by Michael Merschel American Heart Association News Stroke can be devastat­ing for anyone. But the risks and symptoms of...

High blood pressure before 35 may triple Black women’s stroke risk

Nurse checking a patients blood pressure. Adobe Stock Photo by American Heart Association News Black women treated for high blood pressure in their 30s and 40s...

Alcohol use disorder can be treated with an array of medications – but few people have heard of them

Drugs used to treat alcohol use disorder have been on the market for decades but are rarely prescribed. Krit of Studio OMG/Moment via Getty...

What happens when I stop taking a drug like Ozempic or Mounjaro?

Diva Plavalaguna/Pexels by Natasha Yates, Bond University Hundreds of thousands of people worldwide are taking drugs like Ozempic to lose weight. But what do we actually...

Ben Jealous: Big polluters vs. our kids

Adobe Stock Photo (TriceEdneyWire.com)—Far too often, big polluters feed us the lie that we have to choose between clean air or a healthy economy. Last...

Sitting all day is terrible for your health – now, a new study finds a relatively easy way to counteract it

by Keith Diaz, Columbia University The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea To reduce the harmful health effects of sitting,...

How do pacemakers and defibrillators work?

Electrocardiograms, or ECGs, record the electrical activity of your heart. Randy Faris/The Image Bank via Getty Images  A cardiologist explains how they interact with the electrical...

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