Cardiovascular Disease is everywhere
New article in Circulation suggests that nearly half of all American adults have some sort of cardiovascular disease.
Preventable cardiac deaths
New CDC report suggests that over 400,000 Americans dead of cardiac deaths that were preventable From Time: Heart problems that were “largely preventable” killed around 415,000 Americans in 2016, new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says, highlighting the importance of proactive interventions. Under its new Million Hearts campaign, which aims […]
Less Heart Disease in Immigrants
This is no surprise. Once immigrants are exposed to our tasty but high fat diets, they then should have the same risk of stroke and heart disease as native Americans. I suspect that the children of immigrants have the same heart and stroke risk as the American general population. From Reuters: People living in the […]