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TikTok Shows Kids 17 Junk Food Ads Per Hour, Survey Finds

Children are flooded with advertisements for junk food on social media, a new survey shows. Unicef Sweden and the Heart-Lung Foundation are demanding new laws that prohibit the marketing of unhealthy foods to children and young people.

TikTok Shows Kids 17 Junk Food Ads Per Hour, Survey Finds

Study Finds No Link Between Stroke and Vitamin D Deficiency

Lack of vitamin D does not lead to higher mortality in cardiovascular diseases during the dark winter months – which has previously been assumed. .

Study Finds No Link Between Stroke and Vitamin D Deficiency

World Championship Goalie Tobias Normann Diagnosed with Heart Defect

Frölunda's Norwegian World Championship goalie Tobias Normann, 23, has been diagnosed with a heart defect, WPW. .

World Championship Goalie Tobias Normann Diagnosed with Heart Defect

Few Asthma Patients Follow Medication Guidelines, Risk Chronic Condition

Only a few take their asthma medication as they should. A study from Umeå University shows that merely 27 percent of 30,000 patients followed the doctors' prescriptions.

Few Asthma Patients Follow Medication Guidelines, Risk Chronic Condition

Young Adults Face Rising Hypertension: A Silent Health Crisis Unfolds

In 20 years, the proportion of young adults suffering from high blood pressure – or hypertension – has doubled, according to statistics compiled by the Heart-Lung Foundation from the Public Health Agency. It's easy to think as a young adult that it's the older person's disease, says researcher Mattias Brunström.

Young Adults Face Rising Hypertension: A Silent Health Crisis Unfolds

Men develop atherosclerosis earlier than women

Men get atherosclerosis much earlier than women. There is a difference of over ten years between the sexes, shows a new Swedish study.

Men develop atherosclerosis earlier than women