by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Feb 12, 2023 | Heart Health
The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) recommends that you get your blood pressure below 140/90 mm Hg (Am Fam Physician, Nov 10, 2022;106(6):721-722). Taking medication to reduce blood pressure below that did not further reduce your chances of dying overall...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jan 23, 2023 | Heart Health
The MARC-2 study followed 291 older men for 6.3 years with a test called Coronary Artery Calcification (CAC), and found that the amount of calcium in the arteries leading to the heart increased most in men who exercised at the highest intensity, even more than those...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Dec 19, 2022 | Heart Health
Researchers analyzed data from 3865 adults and found that more than 50 percent said that they did not know that alcohol increases cancer risk (Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, Dec 1, 2022). The people who incorrectly thought that alcohol doesn’t cause...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Dec 5, 2022 | Heart Health
Two blood tests that are done during routine physical exams can be used to predict whether you are at increased risk for diabetes (Front Endocrinol (Lausanne), Feb 24, 2022;13:828581) and heart attacks (J of Clin Hypertension, Jan 13, 2016). It’s called the...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Dec 4, 2022 | Heart Health
If you have high blood pressure in the winter, you are at increased risk for a heart attack, even if your blood pressure is normal in the summertime (Hypertension Research, Sept 6, 2021;44:1363-1372). Blood pressure is often higher in winter and lower in summer (J...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Nov 17, 2022 | Heart Health
A study of supplements that claim to lower cholesterol followed 199 patients at the Cleveland Clinic for 28 days. Participants were given either a supplement (fish oil pills, red yeast rice, cinnamon, garlic, turmeric or plant sterols), a statin drug (rosuvastatin,...
