When the November 2020 news broke that two vaccines had proven to be highly effective in preventing COVID-19 or minimizing its impact, people everywhere began talking about seeing a light at the end of the tunnel. But many public health experts were talking, too, about another bright spot – the vast numbers of participants from racial and ethnic...
When the November 2020 news broke that two vaccines had proven to be highly effective in preventing COVID-19 or minimizing its impact, people everywhere began talking about seeing a light at the end of the tunnel. But many public health experts were talking, too, about another bright spot – the vast numbers of participants from racial and ethnic...
When the results from a landmark heart health study of American Indians were published in 1999, they shattered the health care community’s erroneous assumption that this population rarely got heart disease—that somehow they were naturally protected from it. Indeed, the study highlighted the exceedingly high rate of heart disease and its risk...
A meta-analysis reviewed the activity patterns of 44,000 people and found 30-40 minutes of exercise each day that gets your heart beating faster and leaves you a little breathless correlated with lower rates of premature death in comparison to adults who were the least active and most sedentary.
Researchers found losing fat mass, instead of lean muscle mass, and reducing waist circumference correlated with a reduced risk of heart failure for adults with type 2 diabetes.
A study of 80,000 postmenopausal women found sedentary behavior, such as sitting or lying down most days, correlated with increased risks for hospitalization due to heart failure.
A Mediterranean-style diet correlated with a reduced diabetes risk in the Women’s Health Study and with mild reductions in blood pressure among adults in New York.