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Encouraging News for Sedentary Folks

If you spend most of your time sitting, take heart: Adding exercise, even 5 minutes a day, will do good things for your blood pressure. >

How Safe Is Your Community's Water?

Even modest levels of arsenic increase your risk of heart disease. Community water supplies are the key route by which we are exposed. >

Habits to Keep You Healthy

Your lifestyle in the middle of your life makes a big difference in how healthy your brain is later in life. Here's what to keep in mind. >

Male Stereotypes Put Men's Hearts at Risk

Norms that encourage men to believe they should be self-reliant and avoid seeking help can mean their cardiovascular disease goes untreated. >

Is That Blood Pressure Reading Accurate?

If your BP is taken with your arm in the wrong position, it is going to read higher than it actually is. Unnecessary treatment may follow. >

Think Vaping is Safer? Think again.

Vaping nicotine does as much harm to the heart and cardiovascular system as smoking traditional cigarettes -- just in a different way. >

Long Live Weekend Warriors

You don't have to go the gym five days a week to reap the major health benefits of exercise. Being a weekend warrior can work just as well. >

Blood Pressure, A Numbers Game that Young Adults Need to Play

Millions of young adults have hypertension and don't know it. You know your height and weight; check your BP to get it under control early. >

Women and Heart Disease: Playing the Long Game

A simple blood test can predict a heart attack or stroke in women long before it happens, paving the way for early treatment. >

High Blood Pressure Raises Your Risk of Alzheimer's

Keeping your BP low or under control is one of the best things you can do to reduce your risk of developing Alzheimer's and other dementias. >

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