Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai's Focus on Healthy Aging (FHA)
Volume 28 • Number 2 • February 2025
A Healthy Heart Can Benefit Brainpower
Two recent studies add to evidence that following Life’s Essential 8™ (LE8)—a cardiovascular health metric developed by the American Heart Association (AHA)—benefits cognition. LE8 comprises eight healthy lifestyle components: diet, physical activity, smoking habits, body mass index (BMI, a relation of height to weight), cholesterol, fasting blood sugar (defined as …
Issue Highlights
- Loneliness and Dementia
- Polypharmacy Risks May Be Greater for People with AD
- Home Alone
- Exercise Has Benefits for Urinary Incontinence
- Weigh the Benefits and Risks of Prostate Cancer Treatment
- Experiencing Chronic Pain?
- Here’s to Helping Hands
- When Warfarin Makes Sense
- Preventing Foodborne Illnesses
- Ovarian Cancer Blood Test
- Cardiac Imaging Scans After Cancer
- Fruits vs. Vegetables
