Cardiology News

A school-based nutrition, gardening and cooking intervention was associated with reductions in LDL and HbA1c in children who participated, researchers reported in JAMA Network Open.

Teens who feel happy, accepted and loved are more likely to maintain good cardiometabolic health as adults, and data show Black youths in particular were more harmed by fewer psychological assets, researchers reported.

Data suggest reducing sodium limits on prepackaged foods to comply with new WHO benchmarks could prevent nearly 1,800 deaths and thousands of related diseases on a population level in Australia per year, researchers reported.

Middle-aged adults with adequate hydration were less likely to develop chronic conditions and be biologically older than their chronological age, according to a study published in eBioMedicine.

A Kaiser Permanente Southern California quality improvement program reduced but did not entirely eliminate racial disparities in BP control between Black and white patients, researchers reported.

Researchers observed no association between urinary sodium excretion and salt intake and BP variability in a white general population, according to an analysis of two studies.

Biobank data suggest targeted polygenic risk score testing in younger adults with borderline or intermediate clinical risk may be a useful strategy for determining who will benefit most from initiating statin therapy, researchers reported.

For the sixth year in a row, the Mediterranean diet has been named the best overall diet by nutritional experts from U.S. News & World Report, the company announced.

Adults with elevated serum sodium in middle age, a marker of inadequate fluid intake, were more likely to be biologically older than their chronological age and develop chronic diseases compared with adequately hydrated adults, data show.

Women with greater adherence to the Mediterranean diet had a nearly 30% lower risk for preeclampsia compared with women with lower adherence, according to a new study published in JAMA Network Open.