Tag Archives: cardiovascular disease

Better Ways to Manage Blood Pressure

Better Ways to Manage Blood Pressure
Blood pressure management is getting worse, not better High blood pressure (aka hypertension) has the dubious distinction of being the most powerful risk factor for cardiovascular disease and all-cause death. Data from 51,761 participants with an average age of 48 years in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey showed that the proportion of Americans…
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A Companion Dog Can Enrich Your Life

A Companion Dog Can Enrich Your Life
Dogs as social catalysts In the latter part of the 20th Century, research suggested that dog ownership predicted better health and well-being. In particular, companion dogs seemed to function as social catalysts. In 2000, two British researchers conducted two experiments to clarify whether the social interactions depended on the attributes of the dog or the…
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Measures of Cardiovascular Health

Measures of Cardiovascular Health
Total cholesterol, LDL-cholesterol, apolipoprotein-B, apolopoprotein-A1, For years, the concentration of low-density lipoprotein (LDL-cholesterol) in blood serum has served as the go-to measure of cardiovascular disease risk. However, researchers have noted that LDL-cholesterol contains several constituents (small, dense vs. large, buoyant particles), which predict higher and lower risks for cardiovascular disease, respectively. More recently, researchers have…
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Walk Faster for Better Health

Walk Faster for Better Health
Walking speed: the sixth vital sign Walking speed predicts a host of health outcomes and it’s easily and reliably measured with minimal equipment and cost. Given the ability of walking speed to predict health, two physical therapy researchers called walking speed the sixth vital sign, accompanying the five routinely measured vital signs of blood pressure,…
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