Tag «cardiovascular disease»

NEW UAE HEALTH DRIVE SMASHES GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS TITLE

Holiday shoppers give One Heart Health Community perfect start to cardiovascular disease awareness campaign Dubai, UAE, 26 May 2014:  Holiday shoppers at The Dubai Mall have delivered a new Guinness World Records title for a UAE health drive launched to tackle heart-related illnesses, an initiative set up by Benchmark Middle East and Merck Serono Middle East …

Self-measurement screening for metabolic syndrome

Researchers at the University Medical Center (UMC) Utrecht have shown that apparently healthy people measuring their own waist circumference can be a reliable and feasible first step in screening for the metabolic syndrome. This finding could form the basis of a focused screening program for risk factors for diabetes and cardiovascular disease to be implemented …