DID YOU KNOW? Coronary Heart Disease in Women Is Often Missed or Dismissed. WHAT’S HAPPENING: While chest pain or discomfort is the most common sign of a heart attack in both sexes, women who have heart attacks are far less likely than men to have any chest pain at all. WHAT IT IS: Women often […...

DID YOU KNOW? Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) contributes to the risk of heart attacks. WHAT’S HAPPENING. Weight loss can reduce the need for CPAP therapy. WHAT IT IS: an 8-week interdisciplinary weight loss and lifestyle intervention significantly improved OSA severity. WHY IT MATTERS: At 8 weeks,...

DID YOU KNOW? Sleep deprivation can cause weight gain. WHAT’S HAPPENING: The fat accumulates around the abdominal organs (belly fat). WHY IT MATTERS: Belly fat is metabolically active and can signal diabetes, high triglycerides, and turn on inflammatory factors associated with heart attack. BOT...

WHAT’S HAPPENING: Ibuprofen, a common over-the-counter pain medication sold as Motrin or Advil, can react with blood-pressure medications such as ACE (angiotensin converting enzyme) inhibitors or ARBs (angiotensin receptor blockers). They were associated with a 31-percent increased risk of kidney...

ONE BIG THING: 6.9 percent (22 million) of the U.S. population suffers from Long Covid. WHAT’S HAPPENING: Common symptoms include brain fog (58 percent), post-exertional malaise (72 percent), and fatigue (78 percent). About 50 percent of those surviving hospitalization from Covid-related causes w...

WHY IT MATTERS: Eating two avocados weekly reduces the risk of heart attack or stroke. WHAT’S HAPPENING: a report of 110,000 men and women followed for 30 years was published in the on-line March 30 edition of the Journal of the American Heart Association. BOTTOM LINE: Avocados are a great repl...