Some patients with diabetes develop a serious condition known as diabetic cardiomyopathy, which is slow and cannot be directly attributed to hypertension or other cardiovascular disorders. This often ...
HEART DISEASE IS the No. 1 cause of death for men (and women) in the U.S.—but not everyone knows that. Almost half of adults have some kind of cardiovascular disease, including coronary heart ...
The majority of children who started smoking tobacco at age 10 years or in their later teens continued to smoke until their mid-twenties. Continuous smoking from childhood significantly increased the ...