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Depending on where people live their ability to do a simple exercise like walking can be greatly affected. How they choose to incorporate walking into their lives can go a long way in determining their overall health.

Students around the world are taught the benefits of healthy eating but sometimes that message does not always reach its desired audience effectively. Because of that new efforts are underway to better get the message across.

The Fat Fibre Sodium Score was created using the top three most predictable cardiovascular risk-reducing food categories and offers a quick, easy way to evaluate nutrition changes during post-cardiac rehabilitation.

The significant others of patients undergoing implantable cardiac defibrillators (ICDs) have long been concerned about continuing sexual activity following the implantation.

Heart disease is the number one killer of US women, but a national survey found cardiovascular health is not on most women's radar.

For overweight adults with type 2 diabetes, study results show that even light walking was linked to an average 10-point drop in blood pressure.

There are many anti-thrombotics available. An industry study showed apixaban had the best record of dissolving clots without causing major bleedign.

A recent study assessed whether a mobile app for the Android can promote better eating and exercise habits which can lead to improved heart health.

Tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) can dissolve lethal clots in the lungs but also carries a risk of excessive bleeding. Tennessee researchers reported on a new approach that worked better in a mouse study.

Type 2 diabetes drug empagliflozin significantly diminished the incidences of hospitalizations and even death from heart failure.

Previous studies have shown that less than one-third of patients discharged from the hospital for acute coronary syndrome actually remain abstinent from smoking.

Iron buildup in the brain may be related to the development of neurodegenerative diseases. Researchers have found the mechanism leading to this iron accumulation, at least in mice.

Study results show PCSK9 inhibitor alirocumab reduces cholesterol by increasing the fractional clearance rate of IDL and LDL.

Reducing the risk that stroke patients face of falling can be a matter of chosing proper oral anticoagulants.Researchers said edoxaban is less risky than warfarin.

The scoring system known as CHA2DS2-VASc is commonly used as a clinical guideline for assessing ischemic stroke risk in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF). A research team from Santiago, Chile found it can also predict vascular dysfunction and cardiovascular events in high-risk patients who do not have AF.

Independent of cardiac risk factors, including chronological age and blood pressure preserved telomere length "represents healthy cellular aging," Dhananjay Vaidya and colleagues at Johns Hopkins University reported in an abstract.

The world of medicine is changing and because of that organizations need to change as well. The American College of Allergy, Asthma, & Immunology is no exception to that trend.

It is a changing landscape for everyone in the healthcare field and those who work in allergy and immunology are no exception. How they react to these changes can determine how successful their practices are going forward.

Despite being a well known condition with many treatment options on the market many patients with asthma still struggle to manage their symptoms on a daily basis. New approaches to treatment are working to address these issues and more.

A New York City research team believes that clinical SLE disease is associated with microbiome imbalances, specifically with decreases in the diversity and blooms of specific operational taxonomic units in the intestine.

Patients who had bariatric surgery and lost weight were likely to also see improvement in symptoms of psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis, NYU Langone researchers report.

Estimates on the prevalence of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) in the US vary widely. To remedy that situation, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention supported four health departments and the Indian Health Service in efforts to get better data.

A Swiss team found that tocilizumab (Actemra/Genentech) was effective in treating newly diagnosed or relapsed patients with giant cell arteritis.

A UK team reporting at the American College of Rheumatology Annual Meeting in San Francisco, CA said it found that adalimumab (Humira/AbbVie) helped patients who had active JIA-associated uveitis

Study results show treatment with tofacitinib imrpveos symptoms in patients with ankylosing spondylitis.

A multinational group known as GRAPPA has compiled a new set of treatment recommendations for psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis.

Giant cell arteritis is effectively treated with glucocorticoids, but they have side effects and patients tend to relapse. Researchers evaluated abatacept combined with prednisone and saw fewer relapses.

A research team in the UK looked at how well rituximab (Rituxan/Genentech) improved the Sjogren's Syndrome symptoms of fatigue and dry mouth.

Even with the combination of inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) and long-acting beta agonists (LABAs), about 46% of young patients still suffer from poorly controlled asthma. A new analysis found that an add-on inhaler may be just what patients need to reach improved lung function.

Peanut allergies are a common concern in the public, especially in regards to children. While the number of children and adults with this allergy continues to grow the work to help keep them and the people around them safe also has increased in recent years.