On average 48 women die of heart disease in New Zealand every week. This makes Heart disease the single biggest killer of women in New Zealand, yet most women don’t know this.
I think that this because women tend to overrate the risk of dying from breast cancer and therefore ...
Continue Reading →A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association
Published: American Heart Association 22 April 2013
Many antihypertensive medications and lifestyle changes are proven to reduce blood pressure. Over the past few decades, numerous additional modalities have been evaluated in regard to their potential blood pressure–lowering abilities.
However, these nondietary, nondrug treatments, collectively called alternative approaches, have generally undergone fewer and less rigorous trials.
This American Heart Association scientific statement ...
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