Gerontology is the study of old age, stressing the social and behavioral looks of aging. Although aging is a lifelong process and changes in its effects on individual people, old age has been generally stated as beginning at the age of 65.
Researchers may have come up with another reason to eat well. A new study suggests diets rich in fruits, vegetables and dairy foods can prevent the disabilities that often come with age.
Mom may have been right when she said breakfast is the most important meal of the day. A small study suggests that skipping that morning meal may be a bad move for the heart, and possibly the waistline.
Heart disease affects women of all racial and ethnic groups, as well as women with other illnesses, such as diabetes.
Swedish researchers reported drinking wine, but not beer or other alcoholic beverages, helps keep a woman’s heart healthy.
Heredity sometimes influences where fatty deposits develop in a coronary artery, researchers reported in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.
A new rating scale can help physicians predict whether patients will feel better if their clogged heart arteries are opened non-surgically or with a major bypass operation, researchers report in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.
A previously undescribed population of adult human stem cells, derived from bone marrow, is capable of forming three different cell types and of self-renewal.
For people with low levels of “good” (HDL) cholesterol and coronary disease, treatment aimed at increasing HDL levels is worthwhile, researchers report.
More expensive pacemakers that pace the heart?s upper and lower chambers are worth the extra cost because they can reduce the risk of hospitalization and disability in patients with heart disease, according to a study published in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.