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Sugar-Sweetened Beverages and Artificially Sweetened Beverages Associated with Cardiovascular Events and Mortality

While the consumption of carbonated soft drinks has decreased in most Western countries over the last 20 years,...

Statins in Primary Prevention: As Questioned as Aspirin?

This new review, recently published in BMJ, questions the benefit of statins in low-risk primary prevention patients....

Hours of Sleep and Myocardial Infarction Risk

This is one of the first studies to prospectively assess this association, and its outcomes support the...

Dietary Supplements and Diets Show No Impact on Cardiovascular Risk

Americans spend billions in dietary supplements every year but, in truth, this money is only wasted, according...

Is Alcohol Good, Bad, or Neutral for Cardiovascular Health?

In the 2018 Guidelines on Hypertension, commandment no. 6 states that we should make lifestyle interventions such...

In a decade, minimally invasive procedures will replace open-heart surgery entirely

Minimally invasive interventions allow us to respond to any complications related to the heart, so it is...

Cutting down on sleep impairs blood vessel functions

A new study found that reducing the duration of sleep for two consecutive nights leads to a...

The more time a person spends watching TV, the worse their vascular functions become.

There is a connection between the number of hours a person spends watching TV and his/her cardiovascular...