heart disease

Check the Mirror: 4 Signs of Heart Disease Risk

Posted on 11/7/2012 by | Personal Health and Well-being | Comments

Bulletin Today | Personal HealthApparently, looks really do matter, at least when it comes to health. A new study finds that if you look old for your age, it could signal that your heart is aging too quickly as well. Research presented this week at the American Heart Association’s scientific meeting in Los Angeles found that people who have three to four distinctive aging signs — a receding hairline at the temples, baldness at the crown of the head, an earlobe crease, or bumpy …

Even Fit Boomers Have Heart Disease Risk

Posted on 11/6/2012 by | Personal Health and Well-being | Comments

Bulletin Today | Personal HealthIf you’re 45 and fit — meaning you don’t smoke and don’t have diabetes, high blood pressure or high cholesterol — don’t feel too smug. You still have a one in three chance of developing heart problems, including stroke, by the time you’re in your 80s or 90s, new research finds. On the other hand, you may live up to 14 years longer free of heart ailments than do those who are not so fit. For boomers who are less …

Bypass Better for Diabetics With Heart Disease

Posted on 11/5/2012 by | Personal Health and Well-being | Comments

Bulletin Today | Personal HealthOlder diabetics with more than one blocked artery were much less likely to die within five years or have another heart attack if they chose bypass surgery instead of stents to treat their condition, a major new study found. Researchers said the five-year study of 1,900 patients (average age: 63) with diabetes found that those who underwent bypass surgery to improve blood flow to the heart were 30 percent less likely to die or suffer a heart attack than were …

Surprise Ending: Huge Diabetes Study Stops Early

Posted on 10/22/2012 by | Personal Health and Well-being | Comments

Bulletin Today | Personal HealthFor overweight or obese patients with type 2 diabetes, the oft-repeated advice is to get some exercise and lose some weight to lower the increased risk of heart disease. But a large federal study designed to prove this advice really works has ended early because weight loss and moderate exercise didn’t have the expected benefit. Details of the massive study have yet to be published, but the National Institutes of Health (NIH) pulled the plug on the study two years …

Despite Progress, Heart Disease Remains the #1 Killer of Women

Posted on 10/12/2012 by | AARP Blog Author | Comments

Personal HealthThe following is a guest post from The Heart Truth®, a national awareness campaign for women about heart disease by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.   A decade ago, research revealed a fatal misconception:  American women believed that heart disease was a man’s disease.  At that time, heart disease was the leading cause of death in the United States, causing 1 in 3 deaths in women. The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute launched The Heart Truth® campaign in September …

Modeling After 50, Pacemaker And All

Posted on 10/9/2012 by | AARP Blog Author | Comments

Beauty & Fashion | Your LifeThe following is a post from Kim Sedmak, Executive Producer of AARP’s “Your Life Calling TODAY” with Jane Pauley. Earlier this year, both Jane Pauley and our colleagues at TODAY suggested we profile a 50+ model as part of our series. It sounded like an interesting idea to me. However, we could never seem to find someone who had reinvented their life to become a professional model and who also had a substantive story. That was, until we discovered Dawn …

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