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

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

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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

Study Finds No Link Between Stroke and Vitamin D Deficiency

Study Finds No Link Between Stroke and Vitamin D Deficiency

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

World Championship Goalie Tobias Normann Diagnosed with Heart Defect

World Championship Goalie Tobias Normann Diagnosed with Heart Defect

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

Few Asthma Patients Follow Medication Guidelines, Risk Chronic Condition

Few Asthma Patients Follow Medication Guidelines, Risk Chronic Condition

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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

Young Adults Face Rising Hypertension: A Silent Health Crisis Unfolds

Young Adults Face Rising Hypertension: A Silent Health Crisis Unfolds

2 MIN READ

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

Men develop atherosclerosis earlier than women

Men develop atherosclerosis earlier than women

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