American Heart Association adds sleep to cardiovascular health checklist

Advisory Highlights:
- American Heart Association’s checklist to measure cardiovascular health is updated, now called Life’s Essential 8™, adding healthy sleep as essential for optimal cardiovascular health.
- Other health and lifestyle factors in the checklist, which were part of the previous, 7-item scoring tool, are […]
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Media Alert: AHA, ACC Release Standard Definition Set for Diagnosis and Treatment of COVID-19

WASHINGTON and DALLAS, June 23, 2022 — The American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association have released a comprehensive set of data standards to help standardize definitions and set the framework to capture and better understand how COVID-19 impacts cardiovascular health. […]