Insulin resistance in skeletal muscles - not belly fat - is the first step in developing metabolic syndrome, and it can be countered by exercise.
HHMI News - Abdominal fat, the spare tire that many of us carry, has long been implicated as a primary suspect in causing the metabolic syndrome, a cluster of conditions that […]

New portable device warns emergency room immediately by cell phone as text message if you are about to have a heart attack.
Inderscience - A Bluetooth heart monitor could text message your local hospital if you are about to have a heart attack, according to research published today in Inderscience’s International Journal of Electronic Healthcare. The […]

UIUC.edu - Although a number of studies have suggested that regular exercise reduces inflammation - a condition in the body linked to cardiovascular illness and other diseases, such as diabetes - it’s still not clear whether there is a definitive link. And if such a connection exists, the nature of the relationship is by no […]

Can adopting a healthier lifestyle later in life really improve my long-term health, or is it too late?
In a study published in the July 2007 issue of The American Journal of Medicine, researchers from the Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston found that people 45 to 64 years of age who added healthy lifestyle behaviors […]

Wyeth Pharmaceuticals - Younger menopausal women (aged 50 to 59) who received a standard dose of oral conjugated estrogens had significantly less coronary artery calcification at the end of the study period compared with those taking placebo. Coronary artery calcification is a marker of plaque in the arteries and a predictor of future cardiovascular events. […]

Scientists from the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of the University of Granada have shown that feeding chickens a high cholesterol diet causes changes in the gene expression of the smooth muscle cells of the (chicken) aorta at the early stages of atherosclerosis. This study links cholesterol intake with the expression of genes that […]