Tag: heart
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New Study Inspires Researchers to Hit the Road
A new $21.4 million RURAL study will examine rural, southern U.S. communities to find out why people there have more disease, shorter lives. Traveling in a mobile examination van, researchers will examine 4,000 study participants over the course of six years in 10 rural counties across Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana. Vasan Ramachandran, who leads the Framingham…
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Be Heart Healthy in February!
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), one out of every four female deaths in 2013 was due to cardiovascular disease, yet only 54 percent of women recognize that heart disease is the leading cause of death among them. “Having uncontrolled blood pressure, which has no symptoms, can result in cardiovascular disease,…