Health Behavior

Consumption of certain teas and coffee may have positive effects on neural network maintenance that could bode well for the prevention of symptoms indicative of Alzheimer’s disease, according to research published in Nutrients.

NEW ORLEANS — With the use of cognitive behavioral therapy, a smartphone app helped patients with type 2 diabetes reduce HbA1c with less medication and insulation intensification vs. controls, a speaker reported.

In this Healio video exclusive, David D. McManus, MD, discusses ideas that were exchanged at the Heart Rhythm Society’s inaugural HRX meeting regarding the use of digital technology to promote health and wellness.

Adolescents who ate more candy, pastries and frozen desserts during the COVID-19 pandemic were more likely to increase consumption of other ultra-processed foods compared with teens reporting eating fewer ultra-processed foods, data show.

The use of marijuana and hallucinogens in 2021 reached an all-time high among U.S. adults aged 19 to 30 years, according to the annual Monitoring the Future panel study.

If all U.S. adults attained high CV health status, 2 million adult CVD events could be prevented annually, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Heart Association.

Among South Asian residents in the U.S., larger social network size, including family and nonfamily members, was independently associated with their likelihood of ideal CV health, researchers reported.

Suicide mortality among young adults was linked to sociodemographic factors, health behaviors and biological indicators, according to results of a nationwide cohort study published in Journal of Clinical Psychiatry.

In the U.S., changes in household income were significantly associated with subsequent incident CVD, with a strong link between drop in income and risk for CVD, according to a study published in JAMA Cardiology.