by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Feb 23, 2023 | Heart Health
Researchers followed more than 110,000 people for nine years and found that the more free sugar a person takes in, the greater the risk for heart disease (BMC Medicine, Feb 14, 2023;21(34)). Each five percent increase in free sugar intake in a participant’s...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Feb 12, 2023 | Other Diseases & Conditions
Obesity in your 40’s-60’s increases risk for developing the dementia of Alzheimer’s disease later in life. Researchers analyzed brain scans of more than 1,300 people from the UK Biobank and found that people who were obese in midlife had already lost gray...
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 | Jan 23, 2023 | Other Diseases & Conditions
The National Health and Aging Trends Study from Johns Hopkins followed 2,413 community-dwelling participants aged 65 and older, and found that 10.3 percent suffered from dementia. Of those with dementia, 36.7 percent suffered mild hearing loss and and 29.8 percent had...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jan 7, 2023 | Other Diseases & Conditions
About 22 percent of North Americans ages 85-89 and 33 percent of those over 90 suffer some degree of dementia (JAMA Neurol, 2022;79(12):1242-1249). A study from the Chicago Health and Aging Project, which followed 2449 men and women over age 65, suggests that there is...
