Blood Pressure: Understanding Your Numbers and What Actually Lowers Them
Hypertension affects 1.3 billion people and is the leading modifiable risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Most cases are preventable and reversible.
Cardiovascular health and prevention.
Hypertension affects 1.3 billion people and is the leading modifiable risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Most cases are preventable and reversible.
What HRV measures, why it predicts health and recovery better than resting heart rate alone, and how to improve yours.
Heart disease remains the leading cause of death globally — yet most risk is preventable. Here is what the evidence says about the highest-leverage interventions.
Obstructive sleep apnoea affects an estimated 1 billion people worldwide - most undiagnosed. Its cardiovascular consequences are serious and largely preventable with treatment.
Exercise after a heart attack or cardiac procedure is not dangerous - it is one of the most effective interventions available. Cardiac rehabilitation has some of the strongest evidence in all of cardiovascular medicine.
Multiple lifestyle interventions have clinically meaningful, evidence-backed effects on blood pressure. Understanding which are strongest - and by how much - helps you prioritise where to focus.
The JUPITER trial changed cardiovascular medicine by showing that CRP - a marker of inflammation - predicts heart attacks in people with normal LDL. Here is what this means for prevention.
LDL cholesterol is important but incomplete. Understanding the full lipid panel - including particle size, Lp(a), and remnant lipoproteins - gives a much more accurate picture of cardiovascular risk.