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Comprehensive study exposes critical health risks of obesity, including diabetes, heart disease, and cancer, while offering ...

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Major heart health risk factors like obesity, diabetes and high blood pressure remain on the rise in the United States, ...

American Heart Association News Heart disease is once again the leading cause of death in the U.S., according to a new statistical report from the American Heart Association. Cardiovascular diseases, ...

Heart disease remains the leading cause of death in the U.S.

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From moving your body a bit more to cutting back on salt, even small but steady changes can improve heart health.

New moms who just have had twins run a high risk of heart disease in the next weeks and months, a new study suggests.

February is American Heart Month and a good time to raise awareness about heart disease, the nation’s leading cause of death.

Headway against heart disease is slowing because "trends in important cardiovascular risk factors are headed in the wrong direction, particularly for obesity, diabetes and high blood pressure ...