Research, advocacy, education urged to improve diet-related health conditions through Food Is Medicine programs
Advisory Highlights:
- Preliminary evidence demonstrates that health care systems could incorporate healthy foods into a patient’s care, with resulting improvements in health outcomes, reduced health care utilization and improved cost-effectiveness.
- Food Is Medicine interventions represent a paradigm shift focused on incorporating food and nutrition […]
Experimental nasal spray may offer quick, easy remedy for treating rapid heartbeat
Research Highlights:
- In a new study, etripamil, a rapid- and short-acting investigational medication formulated to be delivered via nasal spray, restored a normal heart rhythm in less than 30 minutes in most users with intermittent rapid heartbeats, sparing them a trip to the […]
Job strain combined with high efforts and low reward doubled men’s heart disease risk
Research Highlights:
- Men exposed to stressful working conditions who also felt that they put forth high effort but received low reward had twice the risk of heart disease compared to men who were free of those psychosocial stressors.
- The impact of job strain and […]
Socioeconomic status may be an uneven predictor of heart health
White adults benefit the most from high socioeconomic status compared […]
National awards recognize 19 students, schools, and educators’ commitment to health
The American Heart Association hosts annual Kids Heart Challenge™ and […]
1 in 2 patients had better blood pressure control after using remote, bilingual program
Research Highlights:
- More than half of adults (55%) with uncontrolled blood pressure who enrolled in a digital monitoring program that connected patients with clinical advice and included a bilingual app paired with at-home blood pressure monitors had controlled final blood pressure measurements after […]
Community-based, self-measured blood pressure control programs helped at-risk patients
Research Highlights:
- Community health centers participating in the National Hypertension Control Initiative (NHCI) that introduced self-measured blood pressure interventions to their patients — including individuals from Black, Hispanic and American Indian/Alaskan Native populations, who are disproportionately impacted by hypertension and by the COVID-19 […]
Cold weather may pose challenges to treating high blood pressure
Research Highlights:
- An analysis of electronic health records for more than 60,000 adults in the United States found that systolic, or top-number, blood pressure rose slightly during the winter compared to summer months. The health records were of adults being treated for high […]
Almoosa Specialist Hospital is first to be certified as a Comprehensive Chest Pain Center in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
DALLAS and Al Mubarraz, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, September 7, 2023 — Almoosa Specialist Hospital, in Al Ahsa, Saudi Arabia has been recognized by the American Heart Association, the world’s leading nonprofit organization focused on heart and brain health for all, as […]
High blood pressure while lying down linked to higher risk of heart health complications
Research Highlights:
- An analysis of data from a long-running study of more than 11,000 adults from four diverse communities in the United States has found that adults who had high blood pressure while both seated upright and lying supine (flat on their backs) […]