Dr. Bradley Serwer | Source | Chief Medical Officer, VitalSolution - Cardiology at VitalSolution

Providers feel it’s essential to change that to improve the lives of patients with heart disease. Still, the study had its limitations. “This study relied on a food recall questionnaire to determine sodium intake. This method can be very imprecise,” says Dr. Bradley Serwer, MD, an interventional cardiologist and chief medical officer at VitalSolution, who was not involved in the study. “Patients are expected to know exactly what and how much they ate. Unless they wrote it down and measured the food directly, their response is an estimation at best. The gold standard is to collect urine for 24 hours and measure the sodium levels, but this is difficult and cumbersome.” Still, Serwer believes the data holds weight and is a call to action for healthcare professionals. “We have to be persistent and repetitive to relay how important a low sodium diet truly is to your cardiac health,” Serwer says.

"Air pollution affects the heart by damaging blood vessels, so they are unable to deliver adequate blood supply, increasing the risk of blood clots, increasing blood pressure and disrupting the electrical activity of the heart," says Dr. Bradley Serwer, MD, a cardiologist and Chief Medical Officer at VitalSolution. If all of this information seems terrifying, we understand that. But experts say the study has its flaw. "It is important to note that this very well-thought-out observational, longitudinal study generated results that were eye-opening," Dr. Orfanos says. "However, the study could not prove causality between artificial light at night and cerebrovascular events or air pollutants and cerebrovascular events, as it...was not a randomized, interventional study by design."

Dr. Bradley Serwer, a cardiologist and chief medical officer at VitalSolution, a Cincinnati, Ohio-based company that offers cardiovascular and anesthesiology services to hospitals, was not involved in the study but noted the importance of physical activity for heart health."Regular exercise can help improve cardiovascular fitness by improving peripheral circulation, improving vascular tone, and controlling comorbidities such as high blood pressure, diabetes and hypercholesterolemia," he told Fox News Digital.