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| Health Tip: How to Lower Your Risk of Stroke |
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A healthy lifestyle -- including diet and exercise -- is key |
| An Orange a Day May Lower Women's Stroke Risk |
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Compound found in citrus fruits seems to have protective benefits. |
| Desk Jockeys Urged to Take Small Steps to Get Exercise |
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Expert offers tips for those whose jobs require sitting all day |
| Even for the Overweight, Exercise Helps the Heart |
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Study finds changes in physical fitness affect disease risk at any weight |
| Health Tip: Set Exercise Goals |
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Here are suggestions for what to do |
| Health Tip: Before You Start an Exercise Program |
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Review with a doctor your medical history |
| Health Tip: Seniors Need Exercise, Too |
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Strength training could offer many benefits |
| Exercise a Defense Against Dementia: Study |
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Odds of dying from brain deterioration were less for physically fit individuals |
| Exercise in Pregnancy Safe for Baby, Study Finds |
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Moderate to vigorous activity is recommended, but check with your doctor first |
| Any Exercise Benefits Kids' Heart Health: Study |
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Better blood pressure, cholesterol, weight accompanies activity, regardless of sedentary time |
| Dr Urman and Dr Caren Make US News Top Doctors List |
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Both have been selected by peer-nominated process to the prestigious Castle and Connolly Top Doctors list |
| Switching to Water, Diet Drinks Linked to Modest Weight Loss |
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People who substituted for high-calorie beverages lost about 5 pounds in study |
| Health Tip: Offer Healthy Breakfast Choices |
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Here are some suggestions |
| When Prodded, Restaurant Diners Often Opt for Smaller Portions |
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Study found power of suggestion worked, even when smaller meal was not discounted |
| How to Keep From Overeating When Eating Out |
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Try ordering a la carte and skipping foods that aren't your favorites. |
| FDA Advisers Back Weight-Loss Drug Qnexa |
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Drug had been previously rejected because of concerns about possible heart problems, birth defects |
| Everyday Foods Add Up to Major Salt Problems: CDC |
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Ten food types, including bread, account for higher risk of heart disease, stroke |
| Big Drop in Americans' Blood Levels of Trans Fats, CDC Says |
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New findings focus on whites but studies on other groups underway |
| No Cancer Benefit From Vitamin B, Omega-3 Supplements in Heart Patients |
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Taking different doses of either did not alter cancer incidence, death rates significantly |
| Pregnancy Complications May Predict Heart Trouble Later |
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Mom-to-be's high blood pressure, diabetes boost risk for cardiovascular disease |
| Study Links 'Body Clock' to Sudden Cardiac Death |
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Discovery might lead to new ways to prevent or treat the fatal heart problem |
| New Guidelines Seek to Prevent Sudden Death in Young Athletes |
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They recommend all teams have emergency action plans, quick access to defibrillators |
| Family Tree May Aid Treatment of Inherited Heart Disorders |
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Archived data may help pinpoint age range when genetic heart rhythm disorder death risk rises |
| Aspirin as Good as Plavix for Poor Leg Circulation: Study |
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Both work equally well in condition that causes pain while walking |
| Circulatory Disorder Not Studied Enough in Women, Experts Say |
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Gender-specific research on peripheral artery disease may help prevent strokes, heart attacks |
| Poor Lung Function Linked to Heart Failure in Study |
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Findings strengthen hypothesis that airway disorders affect heart's ability to pump blood |
| Heart Failure, Osteoporosis Go 'Hand-in-Hand': Researchers |
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Cardiac condition raises the risks of falls and may contribute to bone-density loss |
| Stem Cell Treatment Might Reverse Heart Attack Damage |
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Patients' own cardiac stem cells reduced scarring in preliminary study from the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute |
| For 59-year-old heart attack patient, TV news leads to role in clinical trial |
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Read about one of 17 heart attack patients who received an infusion of their own cardiac stem cells in the Cedars-Sinai clinical trial |
| Heart Stem Cell Research: Past, Present and Future |
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| Irregular Heartbeat May Predict Mental Decline in Some |
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Abnormal heart rhythm linked to brain function problems in heart disease patients |
| What is atrial fibrillation? |
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Learn more about the most common arrythmia as we age |
| Health Tip: Is Your Blood Pressure Too Low? |
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Here are possible explanations |
| Omega-3 Fatty Acids May Protect the Aging Brain |
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Those who consumed the most did better on tests of mental functioning |
| More Doubt on Link Between a Blood Chemical and Heart Disease |
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Researchers say prior tie between homocysteine, cardiovascular woes was due to faulty data |
| Hard Drug Use in Middle Age Could Prove Fatal, Study Finds |
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Those who continue to 'dabble' into their 50s tend to be at greater risk for bad outcomes in general |
| Scientists May Be Closer to Developing 'Red Wine' Drug |
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Resveratrol's secrets revealed in work with mice |
| Heart Disease Still is the Number One Killer of Americans. What Is Your Risk? |
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