american heart association Archives

Children’s preferences for sweeter and saltier tastes are linked to each other

High salt intake equals fat teens

A quicker, cheaper way to detect staph in the body

Fetal alcohol syndrome heart defects may be caused by altered function, not structure

Gene expression changes with meditation

Blood growth factor boosts effect of exercise in peripheral artery disease

After heart attack, mental stress affects heart more in younger women

Stem cells help offset brain damage from stroke

Studies suggest new key to ‘switching off’ hypertension

Unexpected discovery of the ways cells move could boost understanding of complex diseases

Potentially life-saving cooling treatment rarely used for in-hospital cardiac arrests

New stats show America’s heart health needs improvement

America’s heart and blood vessel health is far from ideal, according to data in the American Heart Association’s “Heart Disease and Stroke Statistical Update 2012,” published in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.
The update provi…