Exposure to a Western diet high in refined sugars, salt and saturated fat can have a permanent impact on the body’s immune system even if the diet is later changed, new research published in Cell suggests.

A generation of unfit Army recruits could be posing threats to not just their own health but the country’s national security, researchers reported in the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice this week.

The stress put upon Latinas by increased police presence in their communities, threats of deportation and shifting federal immigration law could be leading to poor cardiovascular health in minority communities across the U.S., a study published this week in Annals of Behavioral Medicine suggests.

Severely obese teens who underwent bariatric surgery saw vast improvements in cardiovascular risk factors in the latest installment of the Teen-LABS study, researchers reported this week in Pediatrics.

A pair of cardiologists wrote an editorial expressing concern with the updated blood pressure guidelines released by the American College of Cardiology and American Heart Association in November.

Pharmacy programs allowing Medicare beneficiaries with cardiovascular disease (CVD) to pick up all of their medications at once were associated with a boost in adherence, particularly for those with low baseline adherence, according to a study published in the January edition of Health Affairs.

Several risk factors for cardiovascular disease are well-known and commonly tested in routine checkups: blood pressure, cholesterol levels and body mass index, to name a few.

Misshapen mitochondria could explain the two- to five-fold increased risk of heart failure in diabetics, according to research out of the University of Iowa.