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Foods that are bad for heart health — what to avoid, why they damage your cardiovascular system, and what to eat instead.

Diabetes and Heart Disease: How They’re Linked and Managed

How Type 2 diabetes damages the heart and blood vessels, the specific cardiac complications it causes, and evidence-based management combining newer diabetes medications with lifestyle intervention.

Circadian Rhythms and Heart Health: What Your Body Clock Means

How circadian biology, sleep quality, exercise timing, and meal patterns affect cardiovascular risk — and what you can do each day to protect your heart.

Normal Blood Pressure by Age: Chart and Guide

Normal blood pressure by age — what the numbers mean, when to worry, and evidence-based lifestyle changes that lower blood pressure naturally.

Heart Palpitations: When to Worry and When Not To

Heart palpitations explained: common benign causes, warning signs that require urgent evaluation, and when to seek cardiology care in India.

Maja Zayeri

Maja Zayeri covers heart health and cardiovascular risk for HealthCoachJP, including blood pressure, cholesterol, sodium and prevention. She works from AHA, CDC and NHLBI guidance and cites the source behind every number, including the sodium limits used across the site's nutrition pages. She is a health writer, not a cardiologist, and nothing she writes should be used to start, stop or change treatment. Talk to your doctor first.