5 Benefits of Vitamin C Supplements
Vitamin C can be found in loads of foods, but supplementing with larger doses of the vitamin offers additional benefits.
April 5, 2021
Most people can get the vitamin C they need from food alone. For people with certain health conditions, supplements above and beyond the recommended daily allowance may be helpful.
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When you feel a cold coming on, have you ever reached for a vitamin C supplement to keep the sniffling and coughing at bay? You’re not alone. Taking vitamin C supplements is common in the United States, with about 35 percent of adults taking multivitamins that contain vitamin C and 12 percent taking a separate vitamin C supplement, according to the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
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DALLAS, April 6, 2021 A tsunami of chronic health conditions as a result of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, especially cardiometabolic disease, may produce an enormous wave of death and disability that demands immediate, comprehensive strategies. In addition, COVID-19 has disrupted cardiovascular science and medicine, yet it presents opportunities to transform and create novel approaches that can yield new successes. These are the opinions of two esteemed leaders in cardiovascular disease care, research and strategy, detailed in two new Frame of Reference articles published today in the American Heart Association s flagship journal
Circulation.
While COVID-19 has severely impacted everyone s daily lives, its societal and economic impact will be present for generations. It has prompted urgent responses in many sectors that could be models for rapidly developing real-world solutions that can improve efforts focused on prevention of chronic health conditions. Dramatic transforma
Maria Fabrizio for STAT
Weeks after it was scrubbed from the Journal of the American Medical Association’s website, a disastrous podcast whose host, a white editor and physician, questioned whether racism even exists in medicine is surfacing complaints that JAMA and other elite medical journals have routinely excluded, minimized, and mishandled issues of race.
Recent examples include research blaming higher death rates from Covid-19 in African Americans on a single gene in their nasal passages; a letter claiming structural racism doesn’t play a role in pulse oximeters working less well on patients with dark skin because machines can’t exhibit bias; and an article claiming that students of programs designed to increase diversity in medicine won’t make good doctors.
Healthy diet, exercise might be key to achieving optimal health in later years ANI | Updated: Apr 04, 2021 19:26 IST
Washington [US], April 4 (ANI): Researchers during a recent study found that following a routine of regular physical activity combined with a diet including fruits, vegetables, and other healthy foods may be the key to middle-aged adults achieving optimal cardiometabolic health later in life.
The new research that used data from the Framingham Heart Study, was published in the Journal of the American Heart Association, an open-access journal of the American Heart Association.
Cardiometabolic health risk factors include metabolic syndrome, a cluster of disorders such as excess fat around the waist, insulin resistance, and high blood pressure. The presence of metabolic syndrome may increase the risk of developing heart disease, stroke, and Type 2 diabetes.
Smoking increases CHD risk among Black adults
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Among Black adults, smoking was associated with elevated risk for CHD, according to research published in the