(South_agency/E+ via Getty Images) Lea en español Marcia Trenholm doesn’t need a scientific study to understand why volunteering is good for her. Two days a week, the retired insurance company auditor gives her time to the University of Massachusetts Boston Pension Action Center, helping clients track down lost benefits. Other times, she can be found…
Ventricular tachycardia survivor Sheena Fannin. (Photo courtesy of Goldenlight Creative) By the time Sheena Fannin and her two sons, ages 6 and 9, arrived home from soccer practice it was already getting late. She rushed to get them to bed. Her husband, Michael, was traveling, so she tucked them in alone. Sheena went downstairs to…
(adamkaz/iStock via Getty Images) Lea en español High blood pressure – sometimes referred to as “the silent killer” because it can do serious heart and brain damage before symptoms appear – is common in adults. But what about children? Among U.S. children and adolescents, up to 5% have high blood pressure – also known as…
Stroke survivor Shelley Davis. (Photo courtesy of Shelley Davis) Shelley Davis packed shorts, bathing suits and sunscreen for a weeklong cruise with her husband, Greg, and their 13- and 15-year-old daughters. The morning before boarding the ship in Port Canaveral, Florida, the family from Mesa, Arizona, soaked up the sunshine and played in an arcade….
(kupicoo/E+ via Getty Images) People who strongly adhere to a set of cardiovascular health metrics may live close to a decade longer than those who don’t, new research suggests. The study, published Monday in Circulation, found people with higher scores for cardiovascular health lived up to nine years longer on average than those with the…
(John Fedele/Tetra Images via Getty Images) More than half of all preeclampsia cases that occur near the end of pregnancy may be prevented by inducing birth or delivering the baby by cesarean section in the final weeks, new research suggests. The study, which relied on computer modeling to predict risk, was published Monday in the…
(SDI Productions/E+ via Getty Images) Health care teams and researchers need to do a better job of incorporating racial, ethnic, socioeconomic and sex-specific factors when evaluating heart disease risk in women, a new report says. A scientific statement from the American Heart Association, published Monday in its journal Circulation, said that although cardiovascular disease is…
Cardiac arrest survivor Heather Baker. (Photo courtesy of Heather Baker) Heather Baker was 28 and a school administrator in Pecatonica, Illinois, when she walked into a conference room for a meeting. She was chatting and joking with her colleagues when she was hit by a sudden wave of nausea. “The whole room was spinning,” she…
Josiemer Mattei is an associate professor of nutrition at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. (Photo courtesy of Kent Dayton) Lea en español Long before she was a nutrition professional, Josiemer Mattei was a girl living in Puerto Rico. “I had the advantage and amazing experience of growing up near a farm, where…
Cardiac arrest and dilated cardiomyopathy survivor LaNysha Adams with her family. From left: Husband David Foss, sons Davidson and Donovan, and LaNysha. (Photo courtesy of LaNysha Adams) LaNysha Adams of Silver Spring, Maryland, was lying on the sofa watching TV when her husband, David Foss, went out to pick up a pizza for dinner. When…