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2024 24 Jul

  Physician-scientists from the University of Alabama at Birmingham Marnix E. Heersink School of Medicine conducted a nationwide study to evaluate the predictive value of cardiovascular health scores for mortality. Published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology: Advances, the study compares two cardiovascular health metrics developed...Read more

2015 21 Sep

According to current estimates, one in four middle-aged adults who live to age 85 will develop heart failure. Health experts advocate intervention programmes to improve lifestyles but the question is: do these lifestyle change interventions really work? Investigators in U.S. and Taiwan evaluated  independent programmes designed to reduce cardiovascular...Read more