The sitting-to-rising test requires enough balance, muscle strength and flexibility to be able to sit down on the floor without using arms, hands or knees and then to stand up again just as unaided. The movement is a way to determine non-aerobic fitness, and it reveals potential problems that might be otherwise missed, according to the report published in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology on Wednesday.

• A diet low in fiber and high in red meat was linked to dangerous coronary plaques that are more likely to trigger heart attacks
• People with the poorest diets had 67% higher odds of having high-risk plaque features compared to those with the best diets
• The connection appears to work through metabolic factors like waist size, triglycerides, and blood pressure

The randomized CENTURY trial demonstrates that comprehensive integrated lifestyle modification and medical management towards goals with revascularization reserved for severely reduced CFC, significantly reduced risk factor scores, death, death or MI, and revascularization.

Heavily sweetened or creamed coffee did not show the same benefit, weakening the link between coffee and health. The findings suggest that how you take your coffee may be just as important as how much you drink.

Higher adherence to a healthy plant-based diet was inversely associated with elevated cTnI and higher adherence to an unhealthy plant-based diet was positively associated with elevated cTnI in a nationally representative sample of U.S. adults. Supporting access to and adoption of healthy plant-based diets may be a useful strategy for promoting population-level cardiovascular health.

New analysis of nearly 700,000 breast cancer cases reveals that statins may significantly improve patient outcomes, challenging earlier beliefs about their limited role in cancer care.

A new review reveals how financial conflicts of interest and strategic study design shape the narrative around the real impacts of red meat on cardiovascular health, prompting calls for more transparent, independent nutrition research.

Nearly 10% of men have a diagnosis of coronary heart disease (CHD), which is a term for clogged heart arteries causing angina chest pressure, a MI, and the need for heart stents and bypass surgery. Tragically, half of the men who die suddenly of coronary heart disease, hundreds of thousands, have no previous warning symptoms and no chance in the traditional medical model to be diagnosed before death. The key message of research statistics is that even if a man has no symptoms, he may still be at risk for CHD and heart death.