Peripheral artery disease is marked by leg pain or fatigue that develops after a person has been walking or climbing stairs for a few minutes. Treatment involves walking to increase blood flow to the smaller arteries in the legs.
For people with high blood pressure, beta blockers are no longer a first line of defense.
Surgery is not always necessary to relieve knee pain. The first line of treatment is three months of physical therapy.
It appears that men and women are much more likely to make positive changes in health behavior if their partners also change their health behavior during the same period.
Nonadherence to medication regimens is a major public health problem. Strategies to solve it include finding more affordable medications and implementing ways to remember to take them.