A dietary supplement derived from tomatoes may help treat moderately elevated blood pressure, the results of a small study suggest. Researchers in Israel found that a daily dose of tomato extract helped lower blood pressure among 31 men and women with mild hypertension.
Though we all love satiating our taste buds by eating all the goodies available, especially so in this festive season, we should be, at the same time, careful enough to choose what is right.
Healthy gums may be the key to a healthy heart. A new study has revealed that the treatment of gum disease may reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease.
Obesity has long been linked to heart disease, high blood pressure, and diabetes. Now, researchers are adding kidney failure to the list of ailments, as a new research has found that obese people have up to a seven times greater risk of developing end-stage renal disease, more simply known as kidney failure, than normal weight people.
Having a sibling with a history of cardiovascular disease carries the same or greater risk as having a parent with a history of the disease, according to a new report from the long-standing Framingham Heart Study conducted by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), a part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Personal risk of having a cardiovascular event, such as a heart attack, stroke, or peripheral artery disease, may be raised by as much as 45 percent in middle-aged people whose brother or sister has had such an event.
In a major study funded by the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), a part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), women with either inactive or stable systemic lupus erythematosus (lupus) – a disease in which the body’s immune system mistakenly attacks and damages healthy tissues of the skin, joints and internal organs – were able to take oral contraceptives without increased risk of flares, or periods of increased disease activity, that characterize the disease.
As part of its continuing initiative to provide Americans with the information they need to make healthy nutritional choices about foods and dietary supplements, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today announced that whole grain barley and barley-containing products are allowed to claim that they reduce the risk of coronary heart disease (CHD).
Normal blood pressure now doesn’t mean you won’t have a problem later. In fact, even a healthy person with a normal blood pressure at age 55 has a 90 percent lifetime risk of developing hypertension. So anything you can do to control blood pressure and prevent hypertension is to your advantage.
Working with heart attack-stricken mice, a team of University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists has shown embryonic stem cells can help heal heart tissue. A research team led by UW-Madison stem cell researcher Timothy Kamp reports embryonic stem cells transplanted into mouse hearts damaged by experimentally induced heart attacks, morph into functional forms of the major types of cells composing the healthy heart.
A 20-year study of people with type 1 diabetes shows that tight control of blood sugar levels cuts their risk of heart disease by more than half. The new research, published in the Dec. 22 New England Journal of Medicine, is “a landmark study,” according to Dr. William T.