Heart Health Blog

Having served as a member of the American Heart Association (AHA) Council on Lifestyle and Metabolic Health and the American College of Cardiology Nutrition & L...

When it comes to face-to-face (or teleconference) discussions with your physician/health care professional as it relates to risk factors for heart disease, it i...

Recently, my former college classmate and long-standing colleague, Dr. Annabelle Rodriguez, published an intriguing review on the paradox of high HDL that detai...

If you’ve had COVID-19, the one uniform recommendation from CDC is to wait at least 90 days if you’ve received treatment with monoclonal antibodies or convalesc...

If you love baseball like I do and grew up during the ’60s and ’70s, you would have known that New York and Chicago were the 2 best cities to live in because bo...

If you love baseball like I do and grew up during the ’60s and ’70s, you would have known that New York and Chicago were the 2 best cities to live in because bo...

This past week, a state-of-the art review entitled “Cardiovascular Aging and Longevity” was published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. As I...

With the COVID-19 pandemic serving as the most physically and emotionally distressing health event of 2020, there are a number of reasons for optimism that new ...

After writing numerous blogs throughout 2020 on ways to protect yourself from COVID-19, the cruel irony was being diagnosed with COVID last month. But in my c...

A paper published earlier this week provides further support for the beneficial role of flavonoids in vascular health. These plant-derived chemicals with potent...

One of my first experiments as a young researcher was to compare how different fatty acids were processed. After feeding 3 different types of fatty acids to hum...

A new study presented at the American Heart Association Annual Scientific Sessions (conducted virtually in 2020), found that consuming chili peppers on a regula...