It seems that Americans are in the midst of a raging mental illness epidemic. According to Marcia Angell, former editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine, a shocking 46 percent of Americans fit a diagnosis for at least one mental illness. Today, the vast majority of Americans who are diagnosed and treated for a […]
The statement, published in the American Heart Association journal Circulation, gives an overview of what is currently understood regarding sleep problems and cardiovascular-related risk factors. It also asks if improving sleep would decrease these risk factors and, therefore, the risk of heart disease. Risk factors that are associated with both sleep irregularities and heart disease […]
The study, conducted by Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), observed that older people who were considered cognitively normal and had a lower body mass index (BMI) had more widespread deposits of the beta-amyloid protein in the brain. Beta-amyloid is a protein that is the primary component of plaques characteristic of […]