March 25, 2020: Recent Findings
Haslam et al., 2020 find sugar sweetened beverages may raise triglycerides and lower HDL cholesterol Clinical Perspective What is New? In this cohort of US adults followed for a mean of 12.5 years, regular consumption of sugar‐sweetened beverages, which includes sodas and fruit drinks, was associated with adverse changes in lipoprotein concentrations and increased incidence […]
March 11, 2020: Recent Findings
FHS researchers quantified how time spent in good health affects you later in life. Key Points Question Is the length of time lived in ideal cardiovascular health in midlife associated with cardiometabolic outcomes or with all-cause mortality later in life? Findings in this cohort study, using data from 1445 middle-aged participants from the Framingham Heart […]
AHA News: Obesity, Other Factors May Speed Up Brain Aging
(American Heart Association News) — The brains of middle-age adults may be aging prematurely if they have obesity or other factors linked to cardiovascular disease, finds new FHS research, led by Dr. Rebecca Angoff, clinical fellow in medicine at Harvard Medical School’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. Read More.