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Here’s what you can do to reduce and prevent excess pericardial fat.

Rasi BhadramaniGetty Images Having high pericardial fat volume—fat around your heart—can increase your risk of heart failure regardless of your bodyweight, a new study suggests. More than 6 million people in the U.S. are impacted by heart failure, a condition in which the heart can’t pump enough blood for the body’s needs. To reduce the risk of excess pericardial fat, experts recommend working toward habits that contribute to better heart health overall. Pericardial fat—the fat that...

Having excess pericardial fat—fat around the heart—increases the risk of developing heart failure, especially in women, according to new Mount Sinai...

IMAGEENS Raises 1.2Mn€ Seed Financing Round to Launch Its First Two Products LABEL, algorithmic solution for automatic classification and enhancement of medical imaging data IMAGEENS, a Paris-based medical Artificial Intelligence (AI) startup developing software solutions for the analysis of medical images, has secured 1.2Mn€ in seed financing. The round was led by Anaxago, with a participation from BADGE (Business Angels des Grandes Ecoles), COALESCENCE, and existing IMAGEENS investors. Th...

email article Immigrants to the U.S. who adopted conventional North American lifestyles tended to have worse cardiovascular health, according to data from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA). Greater acculturation was tied to a worse Cardiovascular Health Score based on the American Heart Associations criteria for seven modifiable risk factors (smoking, body mass index, physical activity, diet, cholesterol, blood pressure, blood glucose): U.S.-born participants were less like...

 E-Mail IMAGE: Axial chest CT examination in a 54-year-old participant. A, On the axial noncontrast chest CT image, the pectoralis muscle (PM) area was segmented and measured in the section above the... view more  Credit: Radiological Society of North America OAK BROOK, Ill. - Body composition information derived from routine chest CTs can provide important information on the overall health of people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), including their risk of all-cause ...

February 24, 2021 Compared with men, women have a lower range of optimal blood pressure and are therefore at higher risk for CV disease and events at systolic levels typically believed to be “normal,” new research concludes. “Weve been assuming up to this time that 120 is the number to worry about, and anything under 120 is totally fine and safe for both women and men,” said senior author Susan Cheng, MD (Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA). “It turns out its probably fine a...

Reducing the prevalence of obesity may prevent up to half of new Type 2 diabetes cases in the United States, according to new research published today in the Journal of the American Heart Association, an open access journal of the American Heart Association.

Up to Half of New Type 2 Diabetes Cases in U.S. Are Linked to Obesity, Study Finds Photo: Joerg Sarbach (AP) New research released Wednesday underscores the role of obesity in type 2 diabetes. It suggests that obesity plays a major factor in up to half of new diabetes cases that occur annually in the U.S. Advertisement The link between obesity and type 2 diabetes—a condition where blood sugar levels become uncontrollable and stay too high—is well established. But the authors say their new s...

Obesity drives up to half of all Type 2 diabetes cases in the United States, new research...