Cardiometabolic Health
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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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Losing Weight Can Promote Heart Health Even if Some Weight Is Regained
It’s no secret that excess weight is a killer. Overweight and obese people are at increased risk for high cholesterol and high blood pressure, two ...
Celiacs Have an Increased Risk of Cardiovascular Disease
People who have celiac disease may face higher odds of developing cardiovascular disease — even though they often lack the “traditional” risk factors for heart ...
Micronutrients That Do and Don’t Help Your Heart
Researchers have pinpointed specific antioxidant supplements that offer heart-protective benefits, according to a meta-analysis published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. Healthy ...
Not Everyone Benefits From High HDL
A National Institutes of Health-supported study found that high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol, known as “good cholesterol,” may not be as effective as scientists once believed ...
Iron Fuels Chronic Heart Failure
A multi-institution study published in Nature Communications reveals that iron drives fatty tissue formation in the heart and leads to chronic heart failure in roughly ...
High Blood Pressure and Dementia – There Is a Strong Link
Controlling high blood pressure later in life slashes the risk of dementia, according to a study in the European Heart Journal. While other trials have ...
Lipid Energy Model
A large body of evidence supports the use of very low-carbohydrate ketogenic diets for weight loss, reversing metabolic syndrome, putting type 2 diabetes into remission, ...
Cocoa Capsules Lower Blood Pressure
For people with existing hypertension, capsules containing cocoa flavanols helped reduce blood pressure and arterial stiffness, according to a small study in Frontiers in Nutrition. ...
For Heart Patients, Too Little Salt Isn’t Always a Good Thing
When it comes to diet advice for heart health, we’ve all heard the same thing — reduce your sodium intake. Turns out, that may not ...
Eggs Lower Heart Disease Risk
An egg a day may keep the heart doctor away. That’s the conclusion of researchers who recently published a study in eLife journal. These new ...
