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Study Highlights: Physically active healthcare providers are significantly more likely to advise their patients to be active. Improving physical activity among healthcare providers could help change behaviors among the general population.

Study Highlights: Energy drinks may increase blood pressure and disturb the heart’s rhythm. Researchers who analyzed seven previously published studies found an increase of 3.5 points in systolic blood pressure for those consuming energy drinks. Consuming energy drinks may increase the chances of developing an abnormal heart rhythm.

Study Highlights: Excessive sodium (salt) consumption caused nearly 2.3 million heart-related deaths in the world in 2010. Nearly one million of these deaths occurred in people 69 years and younger.

Study Highlights: Most pre-packaged meals and snacks for toddlers contain high amounts of sodium.Some toddler meals had as much as 630 mg of sodium per serving.

Study Highlights: Adults worldwide consume almost double the daily recommended amount of sodium (salt). The study is the first to provide information about sodium intake by country, age and gender.

Study Highlights: Sugar-sweetened beverages may be linked to about 180,000 deaths in the world each year. Countries in the Caribbean/Latin America had among the highest death rates from diabetes due to consumption of sugary beverages. About 25,000 deaths in the United States each year may be associated with sugar-sweetened drinks.

Tip Highlights: B vitamins may not prevent cognitive decline, impairment after stroke. Stroke risk high during aortic valve repair surgery.

Study Highlights: Survivors of small-artery strokes who lowered their systolic blood pressure below 130 mm Hg were less likely to suffer a hemorrhagic stroke (bleeding in the brain) than those who lowered it to between 130 mm Hg and 149 mm Hg. There was no significant difference in the likelihood of clot-caused stroke with lower blood pressure. The lower blood pressure target was safe, though it did lead to more episodes of fainting.

Study Highlights: In patients who had endovascular therapy added to intravenous clot-busting drugs to restore blood flow after a stroke within seven hours, every 30-minute delay in breaking up the blood clot causing a stroke was associated with a 10 percent decrease in the chances of a good outcome. Time proved to be a critical factor in minimizing brain damage from a stroke regardless of other important factors, including stroke severity and pre-stroke disability.

Study Highlights: Surgery to improve blood flow to the brain does not reverse cognitive problems associated with low blood flow in patients who have experienced a stroke or mini-stroke. Although cognitive problems were worse in those with poorer blood flow, patients who received medical treatment plus cranial bypass surgery did no better than those who received medical treatment for diabetes, high cholesterol and high blood pressure alone. New approaches are needed to treat this potentially reversible condition.