You don’t need to get more sleep or head to bed earlier than usual — but hitting the pillow at the same time every night could lower and control blood pressure levels, experts say. Nearly half of ...

In this post, we will show you how to change the Normal Template (Normal.dotm) in Word on a Windows 11/10 PC. Normal.dotm (or Normal.dot in older versions) is the default Microsoft Word Macro-Enabled ...

Our female subjects were slightly older than the male subjects (72.8 ± 7 vs. 67.4 ± 3.3 years of age, p = 0.002) ( Table II). One half of our male subjects had normal diastolic function, whereas mild ...

A 21-year-old male collegiate football player presents for an annual physical examination with blood pressure (BP) elevated to 147/82 mm Hg. He is counseled on lifestyle modifications, including the ...

Introduction There are structural and functional modifications that occur to the neonatal heart immediately after birth. While a number of studies recently have assessed cardiac function in the ...

Introduction: Diastolic dysfunction may prognosticate adverse cardiovascular outcomes post-liver transplantation (LT). However, the impact of diastolic dysfunction on post-transplant outcomes has not ...

While cardiovascular disease (CVD) is more common in young men than in young women, the risk of CVD increases for postmenopausal women, making them nearly as susceptible as men. Menopause typically ...

MR angiograms (top row) of the right coronary arteries in two persons living with HIV (PLWH) show location of cross-section (dotted lines) of coronary vessel wall image (bottom row) and the ...

Diastolic blood pressure is a measure of the force exerted by blood on the walls of arteries when the heart is at rest between beats. It is the lower value in a blood pressure reading and indicates ...

Understanding blood pressure readings can be tricky. While most people know they don't want their blood pressure to get too high (hypertension) or too low (hypotension), many people don't know how to ...

Describes the nature of a clinical study. Types include: Observational study — observes people and measures outcomes without affecting results. Interventional study (clinical trial) — studies new ...