Sentences with phrase «although heart disease and stroke»

Although heart disease and stroke death rates among men have dropped steadily over the last 25 years, women's rates have fallen at a much slower rate.

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Specifically, they had a «reduced risk of death from heart disease, stroke, diabetes, neurological diseases and suicide, although not from cancer.»

Although the therapy often works, it can also cause cancer, heart disease, and stroke.

Dr Andersen said the study was important because, although there have been other studies looking at the effects of endurance exercise on various cardiovascular problems such as ischemic heart disease and stroke, there have been only a few, smaller studies of its effect on heart rhythm disturbances, and they have tended to look at people who are less physically active, or compared very sedentary people with those who were very active.

The study had also found that hormone replacement therapy hiked the risk of heart disease and stroke, although it cut chances of bone fractures and colorectal cancer.

«Although all states with high levels of predicted 10 - year CVD risk are in need of interventions, the states with the highest predicted risk need even more interventions to effectively reduce the disparities in CVD morbidity and mortality,» says Barbara A. Bowman, PhD, the director of the CDC's Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention, Atlanta, GA..

Although football players had lower blood pressure in the pre-season than a control group of undergraduates, stiffer arteries could potentially predict playersâ $ ™ future high blood pressure, a risk factor for stroke and heart disease later in life.

A link also exists between shift work and accidents, type 2 diabetes (relative risk range 1.09 - 1.40), weight gain, coronary heart disease (relative risk 1.23), stroke (relative risk 1.05), and cancer (relative risk range 1.01 - 1.32), although the original studies showed mixed results.