Healthy aging and drinking water: Fascinating findings from a new study. Staying hydrated by drinking enough water may improve healthy aging and help stave off illness. Nearly half of the people worldwide do not get the recommended daily total water…
More women than men suffer strokes, but many don’t realize the risk. Strokes kill more than 85,000 women each year. And Black women are particularly at risk. According to the American Stroke Association, a division of the American Heart Association,…
Studies in JAMA show that walking 10,000 steps can improve cardiovascular health and reduce risks of both dementia and cancer better than any pill or injection currently available. For more information please visit: https://www.kumc.edu/about/news/news-archive/jama-study-ten-thousand-steps.html To schedule an appointment, please visit…
'How Can I Prevent Heart Disease?' Docs Give Different Answers to Men, Women. Doctors give men and women different advice to head off heart disease, even though guidelines for both are the same. Men were 20% more likely to be…
Researchers have found in a new study that Morning walks significantly decrease cardiovascular incidents. The study underlines potential value of chronoactivity in cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevention as regardless of overall physical activity, morning exercise was linked to decrease the incidence…
New analysis of Medicare payment data shows that ambulatory surgery centers (ASC) reduced Medicare costs by $28.7 billion from 2011 through 2018 by providing services to beneficiaries that otherwise would have been provided in higher-cost hospital outpatient departments (HOPD), according…
Do antioxidant supplements and vitamin help out heart health? A large-scale study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology looked at this question in detail. The review of data suggested that the supplementation with n-3 fatty acids,…