Cardiovascular Fitness - A Powerful Predictor of Health and Longevity
If you're looking to lower your risk of heart disease as you age, there is great news ahead! Research indicates you can lower your risk by improving your cardiovascular fitness, even as you age.
Take a Free Heart Health Risk Assessment
The most important step you can take to protect your heart is understanding your own individual risks for heart disease. These risks differ for all of us depending on our age, diet, physical conditioning, and smoking status, just to name a few.
Does Inflammatory Arthritis Worsen in the Winter?
Could your aches predict the weather? You may have heard that when it rains or is cold out, arthritis pain worsens. Is this true?
Prediction: Obesity Will Surpass Smoking As Most Preventable Cause of Cancer
It's no secret that being overweight or obese can affect your overall health.
Cardiovascular Genetics Clinic
Our highly specialized clinic provides comprehensive diagnostics, treatment and management of inherited cardiac disease. At the clinic, you will meet with a cardiologist, geneticist and genetic counselor to treat both pediatric and adult patients who have or may be at risk for genetic cardiac diseases. Our comprehensive team of cardiologists, electrophysiologists, and geneticists collaborate to develop a risk assessment, make screening recommendations, and identify other family members who may be at risk for cardiovascular genetic diseases.
Give a Charley Horse the Boot
Most of us have experienced the pain of a muscle cramp or "charley horse." Muscle cramps - involuntary muscle contractions - are common. But even though they can be quite painful, they don't usually cause damage.
Don't Make a New Year's Fitness Resolution
If you're getting ready to make New Year's fitness resolutions - don't. Instead, design a yearlong fitness plan to make sure that you have effective lifestyle changes in place.
Use our 12-month plan to improve your health each month.
Slow Roasted Chicken
Simple yet delicious. This recipe was a winner in our Simply Slow Cookin' contest. Congratulations to Lori Granger, UMass Memorial Health Care, Worcester, MA
Serves 8
