A graph of how long Americans sleep forms a U-shaped pattern across our lives, with age 40 being the low point and hours of sleep starting to creep back up about age 50, Medical College of Georgia investigators report.
Credit: Kim Ratliff, Augusta University
Cardiovascular disease and cancer, the nation s top two killers, share common ground like obesity and chronic inflammation, as well as a disproportionate impact on Black Americans. A new American Heart Association-funded center at the Medical College of Georgia is working to better understand the bidirectional dynamic, including how to intervene when, for example, cancer treatment itself results in heart problems.
MCG, the state s public medical school, is one of four centers nationally funded by the $11 million AHA Strategically Focused Research Network on disparities in cardio-oncology, which also includes Boston University School of Medicine, the Medical College of Wisconsin and the University of Pennsylvania.