Cardiology

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How PCSK9 Controls Cholesterol—and Why It Matters Health

How PCSK9 Controls Cholesterol—and Why It Matters

PCSK9, a protein discovered in 2003, determines how much 'bad' cholesterol stays in your blood by destroying the very receptors that clear it away. Un...

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How GLP-1 Drugs Work—and Why They Do More Than Expected Health

How GLP-1 Drugs Work—and Why They Do More Than Expected

GLP-1 receptor agonists like semaglutide mimic a gut hormone to curb appetite and lower blood sugar, but emerging research shows they may also protect...

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New Drug and Blood Test Could Transform Preventive Medicine Health

New Drug and Blood Test Could Transform Preventive Medicine

Baxdrostat shows breakthrough results for resistant hypertension in Phase 3 trials, while the Galleri multi-cancer blood test detects over 50 cancer t...

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What Is Resistant Hypertension and Why It Won't Drop Health

What Is Resistant Hypertension and Why It Won't Drop

Resistant hypertension affects millions whose blood pressure stays dangerously high despite three or more medications. New research points to hidden h...

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Cold Kills 20x More Hearts Than Heat, Major US Study Finds Health

Cold Kills 20x More Hearts Than Heat, Major US Study Finds

A landmark 20-year analysis of over 14 million U.S. cardiovascular deaths reveals cold weather causes roughly 40,000 excess heart-related deaths annua...

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What Is Erythritol and Why Scientists Are Worried Health

What Is Erythritol and Why Scientists Are Worried

Erythritol is a zero-calorie sugar substitute found in thousands of keto and diet products. Growing research links it to blood clots, stroke risk, and...

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What Is Sarcopenic Obesity and Why Is It So Dangerous? Health

What Is Sarcopenic Obesity and Why Is It So Dangerous?

Sarcopenic obesity combines excess body fat with declining muscle mass, creating a vicious cycle that raises mortality risk by up to 83%. Here is how...

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How Cold Weather Raises Heart Attack Risk Health

How Cold Weather Raises Heart Attack Risk

Cold temperatures trigger vasoconstriction, thicken the blood, and spike blood pressure — a cascade that kills roughly 40,000 Americans a year. Here i...

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Shingles Vaccine Cuts Heart Attack Risk by 46% in New Study Health

Shingles Vaccine Cuts Heart Attack Risk by 46% in New Study

A major study of nearly 250,000 U.S. adults presented at the American College of Cardiology found that the shingles vaccine reduced serious cardiac ev...

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How the Brainstem Controls Blood Pressure Science

How the Brainstem Controls Blood Pressure

Scientists have identified a brainstem region called the lateral parafacial area that drives high blood pressure by constricting blood vessels, openin...

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How Men Lose the Y Chromosome With Age—and Why Science

How Men Lose the Y Chromosome With Age—and Why

As men age, their blood cells increasingly shed the Y chromosome in a process called mosaic loss of Y (mLOY), which scientists now link to heart disea...

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New Pill Cuts 'Bad' Cholesterol by 60% in Landmark Trial Health

New Pill Cuts 'Bad' Cholesterol by 60% in Landmark Trial

Merck's experimental oral PCSK9 inhibitor enlicitide slashed LDL cholesterol by up to 60% in a phase 3 trial of nearly 3,000 patients, matching inject...

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