Even though the inter-reliance of muscle function and cardiovascular health has long been understood, it is primarily limited to aspects of muscle strength on heart capacity. While muscle loss ...

A higher level of intramuscular fat infiltration in the thighs was associated with a higher risk of developing heart failure, in a new study. The association was independent of other cardiometabolic ...

Heart disease is the number one killer in the United States, causing one in five deaths. Several conditions, including high blood pressure, high blood cholesterol, diabetes, overweight and obesity ...

If you have fat tissue tangled around your muscles, then you could be at risk of a heart condition - Shutterstock Hiding in plain sight, fat can be notoriously difficult to spot. It doesn’t always ...

A groundbreaking medical discovery is changing how experts think about heart disease risk, and it has nothing to do with the usual suspects like high blood pressure or cholesterol. Scientists at ...

Another potential warning sign for diets high in ultra-processed foods: It can lead to arthritis. Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, studied the MRI scans of the thighs of 666 ...

Incidence and prognosis of multiple organ involvement at gastric MALT lymphoma. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2019 Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium. This abstract does not include a full ...

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