Browsing: Heart Health

This month, we celebrate what makes Hispanic heritage wonderful and unique. We’d like to bring up another way to acknowledge…

Prescription heart medications are so common — millions of Americans currently take at least one to treat everything from high blood pressure and high cholesterol to heart failure and stroke — that it’s easy to assume that they are easy on your system, that the side effects must be minor because so many people take them. Not so. One of the two top reasons patients give for not taking heart drugs as prescribed is “fear of side effects.”