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Heart health
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Weight lost early in prediabetes still counted 34 years on
The Da Qing study followed 540 Chinese adults with impaired glucose tolerance for 34 years. Those who lost at least 5% of their weight in the first six years later had a third fewer deaths and half as many heart failure admissions.
Aug 14, 2026
A blood pressure spike on the treadmill depends on fitness
Across 5,087 people having an exercise stress echo, a high peak blood pressure came with a heavier heart muscle in the fit and the moderately fit, but not in the unfit. The unfit had the most adverse hearts anyway, at the same peak reading.
Aug 14, 2026
More fish was not better: the lowest deaths sat mid-range
A Japanese cohort of 90,944 adults found the lowest all-cause mortality in women eating the second-highest amount of fish, not the highest. In men the benefit appeared only for stroke deaths, and only for unsalted fish.
Aug 14, 2026
Early menopause plus high blood pressure raised heart risk
A Korean cohort of 1,168,791 postmenopausal women followed 11.5 years found menopause before 40 plus hypertension carried 1.64 times the rate of heart attack, stroke or cardiovascular death, against 1.42 for hypertension alone.
Aug 9, 2026