American Heart Association

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Study: Heart failure drug guidelines often ignored

AP News 37 days ago

Heart failure patients often sent home without drugs recommended by guidelines, study says Most hospitalized heart failure patients are sent home without widely recommended inexpensive pills, despite a program to get more doctors to follow treatment guidelines, a study suggests. Only one-third ...

Food Industry Seeks To Maintain Junk-Food Marketing In Schools

consumeraffairs.com 62 days ago

Bill seeks thorough study of school-based marketing Despite rising public concern over childhood obesity, food companies, through an industry-funded self-regulatory group, have proposed a set of "principles" by which the companies can use a variety of approaches to market junk food to ...

Fructose tied to higher blood pressure: study

Reuters US Online Report Health News 64 days ago

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A diet high in a form of sugar found in sweetened soft drinks and junk food raises blood pressure among men, according to research likely to mean more bad news for beverage companies and restaurant chains. One of two ...

Bad habits take a decade off life: study

AFP Global Edition 69 days ago

Middle-aged male smokers with high cholesterol and blood pressure die, on average, a decade sooner than peers without any of these heart disease risk factors, according to a study published on Friday. Many studies have shown that not smoking, eating healthily and ...

Triple heart threat cuts decade off lifespan: study

AFP European Edition 69 days ago

Middle-aged male smokers with high cholesterol and blood pressure die, on average, a decade sooner than peers without any of these heart disease risk factors, according to a study published Friday. Many studies have shown that not smoking, eating healthily and exercising ...

Patients on drug cocktail not at higher risk

AP Features 87 days ago

Heart patients taking a commonly prescribed cocktail of blood thinners and heartburn drugs may not be at increased risk of heart attacks or other problems, a new study says. That contradicts research published last year that suggested a dangerous interaction between the ...

Heart group draws hard line on sugar intake

Reuters US Online Report Domestic News 94 days ago

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Americans need to cut back dramatically on sugar consumption, the American Heart Association said on Monday in a recommendation that is likely to rile food and beverage companies. The group said women should eat no more than 100 calories ...

Heart group: Cut back _ way back _ on extra sugar

AP Features 94 days ago

A spoonful of sugar? Americans are swallowing 22 teaspoons of sugar each day, and it's time to cut way back, the American Heart Association says. Most of that added sugar comes from soft drinks and candy — a whopping 355 calories and ...

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