Heart Attacks

Salt heart disease

Cutting your daily salt intake by 1 gram can reduce your heart disease risk, research shows

A sense of purpose can be hard to find, but it's linked to many health benefits

Sense of purpose

Free heart screenings available in Germantown this weekend

Rumph Heart Screening

Childhood health can predict risk of heart attack, stroke later in life

Making healthy lifestyle changes

Spikes in standing blood pressure could be a warning sign of a future heart attack for some young adults

Standing blood pressure

Heart disease is the top killer of U.S. women, but many don't know it

Heart Disease Women

A daily aspirin to protect the heart? That soon may be outdated advice

Heart attack risk nearly doubles for young adult marijuana users, study finds

Marijuana Heart Attack

Irregular blood pressure could be a sign of serious heart issues, study shows

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Women often don't receive aggressive care for heart attacks – unlike men

Women Heart Attacks Signs

To address gender disparities in heart failure studies, add more female researchers

Women Heart Failure Research

Americans fear hospital visits amid the COVID-19 crisis. The beach? Not so much

COVID-19 Hospital Fear

Statins can be the difference between life and death – but they remain underused

Stressful times are particularly dangerous for heart attack survivors, study finds

Times of stress can trigger a second heart attack, new study finds

Fish oil supplements may not protect against cancer – as previously believed

Fish oil supplements don't protect against -- may even increase prostate cancer risk

Brokenhearted over the death of a loved one? These heart medications could save your life, scientists say

Grief Broken Heart Health

Use it or lose it: How physical activity strengthens heart health

Heart benefits of aerobic exercise

Have a heart-healthy holiday season

Heart-healthy holidays

Can eating chili peppers improve your cardiovascular health?

Chili peppers reduces risk of death

Two apples a day may keep the heart doctor away

Apples Bad Cholesterol Heart Health

Cholesterol levels among U.S. adults are improving, but greater strides are needed

Cholesterol levels falling among U.S. adults

E-cigarettes are as dangerous to smokers' hearts as traditional cigarettes – maybe more so

e-cigarettes harm heart more tobacco

Is daylight saving time bad for our health?

daylight saving time health

Menopause before age 50 may increase a woman's risk for cardiovascular disease

Hot flashes menopause

Dog owners may have lower risk of dying from heart attacks, study says

Dogs pets reduce mortality

When tragedy strikes: Preventing sudden cardiac death in student-athletes

Sudden Cardiac Arrest Youth Sports

Hot flashes tied to heart attacks, strokes and cognitive decline, studies find

Hot flashes menopause

Naps may be good for your heart – but only a couple a week

Naps may reduce risk of stroke, heart attacks

Where there’s smoke, there’s fire: dispelling the safety myth of e-cigarettes, vaping

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Getting just the right amount of sleep can help prevent heart attacks

Sleep increase heart attack risk

Study: Sex increases chances of survival following a heart attack

sex improves survival

Doctor, is it OK if I use marijuana?

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Miracle machine makes heroic rescues – and leaves patients in limbo

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Children's Health

Most youth who suddenly die playing sports are middle schoolers, study finds

Youth Deaths Basketball Sudden Cardiac Arrest

Heart attacks can happen to young and fit women – as South Jersey mother learned

Heart Attack SCAD

Study links e-cigarette use to cardiovascular disease, heart attacks

Heart Healthy stethoscope

Pennsylvania high school basketball player mourned after fatal heart attack

JT Kuhn Big Spring High School

CVS offers free weekly heart health checks in February

Doctor takes a patient's blood pressure

Love, chocolate and your heart

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The slippery slope of fish oil supplements

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Will an aspirin a day keep a heart attack away?

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Spend one hour per week lifting weights and reap the heart health benefits

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