'Life's Simple 7' and diabetes care program reduce risk of heart failure
Monday, September 14, 2015 - 13:00
in Health & Medicine
One in four middle-aged adults who survive to age 85 will develop heart failure, according to current estimates. Intervention programs to improve lifestyles are widely advocated, but do they actually work? Investigators in the US and Taiwan independently examined programs that may reduce cardiovascular risk and concluded that both programs will reduce lifetime risk of heart failure.