The extent of abdominal aortic calcium deposits is an excellent predictor of disease events related to the blood vessels, including heart attack and stroke.... Read More
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Sleep Medicines and Dementia
The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) explains that over eight percent of adults regularly take medicines to help them sleep. Among older adults, sleep medicine use is higher — 12 percent of those over 65 rely on sleep medications.... Read More
Eliminating Visceral Fat
A simpler approach to evaluating your visceral fat (and its associated health risks) recognizes that approximately 10 percent of all body fat is visceral. If you calculate your total body fat and take 10 percent of it, you can get a rough estimate of your visceral fat amount.... Read More
Blood Test for Suicide
The study authors hypothesized that serum LDH might be a biomarker for major depression, given LDH reflects a reduced energy metabolic status in depressed individuals.... Read More
Drop Your Blood Pressure
Are you a heavy consumer of alcohol? If the answer is yes, cutting back to moderate drinking levels can lower your systolic (top number) blood pressure by about 5.5 mm Hg and diastolic (lower number) by approximately 4 mm Hg.... Read More
Breast Cancer Risk Dropping
Breast cancer is the most common non-skin malignancy and the second most common cause of cancer death in women in the United States. The disease accounts for nearly one in three (30 percent) cancers in women.... Read More