AHA News: While Home Recovering From COVID-19, She Saved Her Husband’s Life
THURSDAY, Feb. 23, 2023 (American Heart Association News) — One day last July, Mike Button settled into his home office, ready to start catching up on the backlog of things that had accumulated over his latest prolonged stretch away from work.In Apri…
Learn MoreAHA News: Give Me a Beet: Why This Root Vegetable Should Be on Your Plate
WEDNESDAY, Feb. 22, 2023 (American Heart Association News) — Meet the beet. Fans of “The Office” may know it as the mainstay of Schrute Farms. Others may have casually tossed them into conversation, remarking that someone has turned “beet red” from e…
Learn MoreAHA News: Understanding the Stroke-Depression Link – And What Survivors and Families Can Do
TUESDAY, Feb. 21, 2023 (American Heart Association News) — News that one of America’s best-known stroke survivors was being treated for depression highlights a common and serious connection between the two afflictions.Last May, Sen. John Fetterman ma…
Learn MoreAHA News: Active, Healthy, Pregnant … And In Need of a New Aortic Valve
TUESDAY, Feb. 21, 2023 (American Heart Association News) — Erin Kidwell had worked all day and needed a break.Exercise is her favorite release, so she did a few squats and jumping jacks, then headed out for a run.Instead of being home in Dallas, she …
Learn MoreAHA News: Next Feat For Doc Who Gave CPR to 2 Runners in 1 Race? Preventing More Hearts From Stopping.
MONDAY, Feb. 20, 2023 (American Heart Association News) — Running the Monterey Bay Half Marathon, Dr. Steven Lome kept his eyes locked on two runners ahead of him.They were his oldest kids, 16-year-old Jadyn and 14-year-old Ian. Both are on their hig…
Learn MoreAHA News: The Connection Between Menopause and Cardiovascular Disease Risks
MONDAY, Feb. 20, 2023 (American Heart Association News) — Hot flashes and night sweats – they are the hallmark symptoms of menopause.But there’s something else happening to women entering their late 40s and early 50s that they can’t see or feel and m…
Learn MoreAHA News: La menopausia y su conexión a los riesgos de enfermedad cardiovascular
LUNES, 20 de febrero de 2023 (American Heart Association News) — Los sofocos y los sudores nocturnos son los síntomas distintivos de la menopausia.Pero a las mujeres de 45 a 55 años les sucede algo más, que no pueden ver ni sentir, o que incluso ni s…
Learn MoreAHA News: To Make History, a Major Study on Black Heart Health Looked Beyond the Lab
THURSDAY, Feb. 16, 2023 (American Heart Association News) — A quarter-century ago, the foundations were laid for the Jackson Heart Study, one of the most significant research efforts in the history of heart health.As the largest single-site study of …
Learn MoreAHA News: Heart Problem Could’ve Ended His College Basketball Career Before It Began. It Didn’t.
WEDNESDAY, Feb. 15, 2023 (American Heart Association News) — When shooting guard King McClure showed up at Baylor University in 2015, he was one of the top recruits in the country. An NBA career seemed likely.But before he even made it to his first c…
Learn MoreAHA News: Mom’s Exposure to Air Pollution, Even Before Pregnancy, May Raise Baby’s Heart Defect Risk
TUESDAY, Feb. 14, 2023 (American Heart Association News) — Maternal exposure to air pollution may raise the risk for heart defects in an unborn child, according to new research from China that suggests the risks are just as high in the three months p…
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