Cardiometabolic Health
Resource Center
Today’s Practitioner’s Cardiometabolic Health Resource Center provides clinical research, expert insights, and practical guidance on cardiovascular and metabolic health, including dyslipidemia, hypertension, insulin resistance, obesity, diabetes, inflammation, nutrition, lifestyle interventions, and emerging therapies.
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Green Tea May Outperform Metformin for Fasting Glucose and Healthy Lipids
Both green tea and metformin are used as adjuvants to treat and prevent complications associated with obesity; however, studies comparing their action and interaction in ...
Natural Strategies to Address Cardiovascular Health in Women
Cardiovascular disease remains the leading cause of death in women, yet it continues to be underdiagnosed, misunderstood, and undertreated in female patients. Women experience different ...
Resveratrol: A Versatile Anti-Inflammatory Agent Across Multiple Conditions
A quick dive into PubMed yields numerous human studies on resveratrol in the past year alone. These recent studies show benefits for patients with osteoarthritis, ...
The Aging Female Heart: Beyond the Male Model of Cardiovascular Care
Heart health remains a universal concern, but women face a distinct set of structural, biological and psychosocial influences that drive cardiovascular risk. As female patients ...
Heart Health eBook… Food, Nutrients & Top Wellness Tips
Cardiovascular disease remains the leading cause of death in the U.S., yet much of its risk is modifiable through targeted lifestyle and nutritional interventions. This ...
Research Spotlight: Cocoa Flavanols, Nitric Oxide, and Blood Pressure
Kuna Indians in Panama who consume very high amounts of flavanol-rich cocoa appear to have lower blood pressure and reduced risk of several chronic diseases. ...
Cardiovascular Health & Omega-3 Fatty Acids
The journal Current Atherosclerosis Reports has published a synthesis of the latest evidence of the role of omega-3 fatty acids in cardiovascular health, specifically research published between 2020 to ...
Precision Medicine & CBC Setpoints
A retrospective analysis published in the journal Nature suggests that among healthy adults, the CBC (complete blood count) remains stable and fluctuates only very narrowly around individual-specific setpoints. Rather ...
Aortic Pulse Wave Velocity (AoPWV): The Most Reliable Biomarker of Vascular Aging and Cardiovascular Risk
Abstract Aortic Pulse Wave Velocity (AoPWV) quantifies the propagation speed of the arterial pressure wave through the aorta. As arterial stiffness increases, AoPWV rises — ...
Questioning LDL Targets
“Clinical guidelines have progressively lowered the recommended LDL-C target for high-risk CVD patients to below 70 mg/dL, but scientific support for this target is arguably ...
