A healthy heart is essential to a healthy life. These tips will help you improve your cardiovascular health.
The American Heart Association just added a new item to its checklist for measuring cardiovascular health.AHA President, Donald Lloyd-Jones, M.D. explains why the update is happening now.Plus, what you need to know about how sleep can affect your heart health.The American Heart Association just added an important new metric to measure heart health—and it could change how we consider cardiovascular health.
, president of the American Heart Association says the AHA felt it was time to look at the concept’s strengths and limitations and see how they could upgrade the My Life Check tool. He adds that research on sleep has come a long way and is being measured more routinely now, in studies, but also with the use of heart monitors on smartwatches and other wearable devices. “We just have better ways to understand how long we are sleeping for and to a certain extent, what the quality of that sleep is.
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