AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION DALLAS, March 27, 2019 — Despite national guidelines indicating that statins can lower risk of heart attack and stroke, many patients who could benefit do not take them. More than half of eligible patients say they were never offered the cholesterol-lowering drugs; the experience of side effects or fear of side effects were reasons for stopping or refusing statins, according to new research in Journal of the American Heart Association, the Open...
Tag: <span>Physical medicine</span>
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Skip this important habit–23% of people do–and you’re worse off than if you were a chronic smoker, or had heart disease or diabetes
Skip this important habit—23% of people do—and you‘re worse off than if you were a chronic smoker, or had heart disease or diabetes. In fact, we’ve seen before that a certain type of exercise can make your body act like it’s nine years younger. But a brand new study out of the Cleveland Clinic reveals that pure workaholics–many of whom are the type of people who never find the time to exercise–are creating worse...
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Resistance training and exercise motivation go hand-in-hand
A recent study conducted in the University of Jyväskylä suggests that resistance training improves exercise motivation and contributes to making exercise planning among older adults. Exercise motivation and exercise self-efficacy are key factors in continuing resistance training. Credit: University of Jyväskylä Resistance training can maintain and increase muscle strength and functional capacity when aging and...