Tag Archives: Cardiovascular disease

High-fiber diet helps prevent heart diseases

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Research supports the idea that high fiber diets help to fight against the cardiovascular disease risk and may also result in longer and healthier lives. High fiber diets are a good way to keep your...

25 Year-Blood Pressure Trajectory Predicts Heart Risk

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Everyone knows that blood pressure is one of the most important measurements of cardiovascular risk. Less well known is that most studies of blood pressure have relied on single or isolated...

Minority Report: Five Guideline Authors Reject Change In Blood Pressure Goal

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It didn’t seem possible but the guideline situation just got even more confusing. Last December, after  years of delay and other twists and turns, the Eighth Joint National Committee (JNC 8)...