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Practical, research-backed guidance for adults who want to age well.

Smoking & Alcohol

Smoking and heart disease: why even one cigarette a day is risky, and how fast your heart risk falls after…

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Smoking & Alcohol

Vaping vs smoking: what the evidence shows on toxic chemicals, heart and lung risk and quitting, and why less harmful…

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Smoking & Alcohol

What happens when you quit smoking, hour by hour and year by year, plus how many years quitting adds at…

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Smoking & Alcohol

The quit smoking methods with the strongest evidence, ranked: medicines, nicotine replacement, vaping and support, plus a quit plan and…

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Prevention

What statins do, how much they lower heart attack and stroke risk, who should take them under the 2026 guideline,…

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Prevention

What a coronary calcium score measures, who should consider a scan under the 2026 guideline, and what scores of 0,…

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Prevention

Lp(a) is an inherited heart risk factor about one in five people carry. What your Lp(a) test result means, who…

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Prevention

The lifestyle changes that lower blood pressure most, ranked by trial evidence: DASH, salt, potassium, exercise, alcohol and weight, with…

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Prevention

The numbers that matter for heart health in men, the new PREVENT risk score, which extra tests help, and the…

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Hormones

Enlarged breast tissue in men is common and usually harmless, but it can point to a hormone problem or a…

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