Social isolation and loneliness are serious yet underappreciated public health risks that affect a significant portion of the older adult population. Approximately one-quarter of community-dwelling Americans aged 65 and older are considered to be socially isolated, and a significant proportion of adults in the United States report feeling lonely. People who are 50 years of age or older are more…
4 hours of interactive, online, self-paced nutrition CME/CEU for busy clinicians.
Patients with CAD and low emotional social support who express anger outwardly are at a highly increased risk of disease progression, independent of medication or…
Traditionally, innovations in cardiovascular medicine (including preventive therapies) have been assessed in terms of cause-specific morbidity and mortality. More recently, some have argued that such…
The risk factors for heart attacks and strokes among Asian American adults may be influenced at varying degrees by employment, housing and other social factors,…
Check out this great listen on Audible.com. The first sleep book by a leading scientific expert – Professor Matthew Walker, director of UC Berkeley’s Sleep…
Sleep is your life-support system and Mother Nature’s best effort yet at immortality, says sleep scientist Matt Walker. In this deep dive into the science…
This JAMA Pediatrics Patient Page describes the benefits of eating family meals together at home.
Understanding the effect of lifestyle and genetic risk on the lifetime risk of coronary heart disease (CHD) is important to improving public health initiatives. Our…
A growing number of programs in the U.S. give people batches of produce as a way to combat heart problems and obesity-related disease.
