Take part in the RAMBLER II study (Role of Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring in General Practice). This text has been taken from this week’s Irish Medical Times. It follows an article, written by cardiologist Prof Eoin O’Brien, about the importance of using ABPM to monitor blood pressure. Background The clinical use of 24-hour blood pressure [...]

If you’re born in an adverse economic climate, you have, on average, 15 months less to live than people born in more favorable times, according to research from the Free University of Amsterdam and the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). Researchers found “a significant negative effect of economic conditions early in life on the [...]

Research shows that people with gum disease have a higher likelihood of heart attack and stroke, according to the Guardian. An unpublished study by New Zealand scientists claims that: the body’s defences overreact to the threat of gum disease and start to destroy other protective cells too. This, they claim, leads to atherosclerosis, a furring [...]

The Irish Heart Foundation’s website has listed a few dozen exercises you can do at your desk: shakers, steppers, and strengtheners. According to the Foundation, employees who are inactive double their risk of developing coronary heart disease and are nearly twice as likely to have a heart attack, than those who are active. Promoting physical [...]

Back at university, I used to swim competitively. I’d been at it for many years, since my pre-teens, and when I finally quit, I had truly burned out. I couldn’t even look at a pool without feel nauseated, panicked, and fatigued. When, years later, I tried to get back in the pool just to do [...]