Sentences with phrase «women have higher cholesterol»

Not exact matches

According to the April 21 study, women who lactated for two years during their lifetime had a 13 percent lower risk for high blood pressure and a 20 percent lower risk for high cholesterol than women who never breastfed.

Their babies often did not get proper nutrition because the breast milk of women with less nutritious diets was likely to have high levels of cholesterol and fat.

Research has shown women have poorer adherence to taking their statin medication to treat high cholesterol, perhaps due to somewhat dissimilar pharmacological properties in a woman's body than a man's.

Men are also reported to have smaller low - density lipoprotein particles than women, whereas men and postmenopausal women have higher levels of serum cholesterol and triglyceride sub-classes compared with premenopausal women.

Men had greater reduction in LDL cholesterol compared with women, perhaps because their diets are poorer and cholesterol levels are higher and benefit more markedly from a healthier diet.

Although Tofu is high in calcium and has no cholesterol, most of these women didn't eat it for its healthy qualities.

A person meets the criteria of the metabolic syndrome if they have three or more of the following metabolic abnormalities: blood pressure at 130/85 mm Hg or above; fasting glucose of 100 mg / dL or higher; waist circumference 40 inches or more in men and 35 inches in women; triglyceride levels at 150 mg / dL or more, and high - density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL - C) greater than 40 mg / dL in men and 50 in women.

A 67 - year - old woman had sky - high levels of the form of cholesterol long seen as protective against heart disease, and yet her arteries were lined with plaque.

Besides having lower levels of cholesterol and glucose, women with larger butts have higher levels of Omega 3 fatty acids as well.

About one - third of women have high total cholesterol.

(One exception would be for very high - risk women with genetically determined high cholesterol who are on birth control, he says.)

A total cholesterol of 6.3 mml / l (or 240 mg / dl) is just on the borderline of «high» but in an older woman with no history of heart disease this is not associated with risk and may have some benefit.

In particular, women with a total cholesterol below 195 mg / dL have a higher risk of mortality compared to women with cholesterol above this cut - off (Petrusson, Sigurdsson, Bengtsson, Nilsen, & Getz, 2012).

We also know that women with the syndrome have more inflammation as shown by higher C - reactive protein (CRP) levels and have more dyslipidemia (high triglycerides and low HDL the «good» cholesterol).

Yet in 1992, researchers at the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute looked at every study that had been published about the risk of having high or low cholesterol and concluded that mortality was greater in women with low cholesterol than with high cholesterol.

(See Good Calories Bad Calories, by Gary Taubes, and Chapter 9 of my book, Deep Nutrition) The chance of this woman, who has no other risk factors for heart disease aside from high LDL cholesterol (a poor predictor by itself), benefitting from Crestor's ability to prevent heart attacks is less than one in a thousand.

A study published in the Journal of Human Reproduction found that when compared to other women with PCOS at similar ages and weight, Hispanic women were found to have more central body fat, insulin resistance, high cholesterol, and overall, increased risk for metabolic syndrome.

Overweight women with PCOS may also have low levels of HDL cholesterol and high levels of triglycerides.

In women with PCOS scientist has found higher triglycerides and VLDL - cholesterol (1).

Take a hard look at your health: Because heart problems can sneak up on women (64 % of women die suddenly during their first heart attack without any warning signs at all, and 90 % of those women had at least one risk factor that could have been addressed), it's important to get an annual checkup and be aware of CVD risk factors: high blood pressure, high blood cholesterol, diabetes, tobacco use or second - hand exposure, obesity, and being overweight.

There was one study previously that suggests women with endometriosis have a poor lipid profile — high «bad» cholesterol and low «good» cholesterol,» Missmer said.

A few weeks after an Orlando woman had her doctor perform some routine tests, she received a letter from a drug company promoting a treatment for her high cholesterol.

We have also helped people with epilepsy, pacemakers, on medication for high blood pressure or cholesterol, pregnant women, and people on medication for anxiety, depression, or bipolar disorder.

Pregnant women are also at risk for developing gestational diabetes, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol, all of which would increase the amount they pay for life insurance.

Additionally, women have a naturally higher cholesterol level than men, so many insurers have one standard for each sex.