Share on PinterestResearch suggests an impaired blood clotting mechanism helps explain why some people have more severe forms of COVID-19.The conditions that raise the risk of COVID-19 severity are high blood pressure, diabetes, heart disease, cerebrovascular disease, respiratory conditions such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and conditions affecting the kidneys. Researchers are still investigating…
Can watching your blood sugar help fight COVID-19? Sugar is not only something that sweetens our food. It is also something that is an essential part of the proteins that make up our bodies. That led me to believe, as I wrote in the Journal of Medical Virology, that control of blood glucose by diet…
“We are now convinced that the CoVIg-19 Plasma Alliance has a real chance to save lives, at significant scale, and possibly much sooner than other approaches currently being developed,” Microsoft wrote.Eventually, Microsoft hopes to make the bot available through other web, social and search channels. It will first recruit donors in the US, where the…
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report from February 12 to March 28 showed that 9% of Covid-19 patients in the United States also self-reported a diagnosis of cardiovascular disease.High blood pressure is the most common type of heart disease and affects almost half of all American adults, according to the CDC. That's about 108 million Americans…
(CNN)As the novel coronavirus sweeps the globe, people with high blood pressure are among those who are at heightened risk for more severe complications should they contract Covid-19. "If you get an extraordinary viral disease that will damage your lungs, yo…
2 min read I JOINED MEN'S HEALTH'S style team in 2021, and in that time, a wave of new athleisure brands has flooded the market with moisture-wicking dress-shirts, stretchy chinos, and stink-fighting hoodies. But few can compete with lululemon. The Canadian brand has evolved far beyond its signature leggings, becoming our style team's go-to for
On a typical busy day at the Seminole Family Medical Clinic in Seminole, Texas (population, 7386), Leila Myrick, MD, PhD — who’d moved to the rural town 5 years earlier after graduating from Emory School of Medicine in Atlanta — was about to see her first real case of measles. Until then, she’d only seen
3 min read HAVING A HEART attack can be a scary and life-changing event. It's not something you would want to experience again. Fortunately, scientists agree. And they've found an ingenious way to torpedo the chances of a second heart event. Now we're not talking about eating a heart-healthy diet or getting enough exercise—though both