And according to the findings of a report recently presented at the American College of Cardiology conference in New Orleans, report that people who fast regularly have a 58 % lower risk of
coronary disease compared with those who never fast.
Not exact matches
In a cohort of nearly 300,000 women in China, mothers who breastfed their babies,
compared with women who had never breastfed, had a significantly lower risk of cardiovascular
disease, with adjusted hazard ratios of 0.91 (95 % CI 0.84 - 0.99) for
coronary heart
disease (CHD) and 0.92 (95 % CI 0.85 - 0.99) for stroke, reported Zhengming Chen, MBBS, DPhil, of the University of Oxford in England, and colleagues.
Compared with women who had never breastfed, those who breastfed between 0 - 6 months, 6 - 12 months, 12 - 18 months, 18 - 24 months, or over 24 months, respectively, had a 1 %, 7 %, 11 %, 13 %, and 18 % lower risk of
coronary heart
disease, with each additional 6 months of breastfeeding per child associated with 4 % lower risk (P < 0.001).
In women, aortic calcification appears earlier than
coronary artery calcification, and thus may be a more sensitive indicator of subclinical cardiovascular
disease than
coronary artery calcification.25 However, a previous Dutch study26 found no significant association between
coronary calcification and whether a woman had ever
compared with never breastfed.
In the now published study, scientists
compared genomes of 42,335 people with
coronary artery
disease and 78,240 healthy people with 5,000 commonly occurring SNPs.
The study, called the Bypass Surgery Versus Everolimus - Eluting Stent Implantation for Multivessel
Coronary Artery
Disease (BEST) trial, is one of only two randomized controlled trials to
compare bypass to angioplasty since the introduction of everolimus - eluting stents, a new generation of drug - eluting stent.
People who regularly eat nuts, including peanuts, walnuts and tree nuts, have a lower risk of developing cardiovascular
disease or
coronary heart
disease compared to people who never or almost never eat nuts, according to a study published today in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
Researchers also included a human genetics study of approximately 188,000 people, which found that carriers of mutations that disable ANGPTL3 had nearly 40 percent fewer incidents of
coronary artery
disease as
compared to those with fully functioning ANGPTL3.
Participants who ate peanuts or tree nuts two or more times per week had a 13 percent and 15 percent lower risk of cardiovascular
disease, respectively, and a 15 percent and 23 percent, lower risk of
coronary heart
disease, respectively,
compared to those who never consumed nuts.
Among these was the discovery from another large population sample that carriers of ANGPTL3 - inactivating mutations had a 34 percent lower rate of
coronary artery
disease compared to non-carriers.
The clear result of this clinical study — that the combination reduced strokes, heart attacks and cardiovascular death by practically 25 per cent
compared to either drug alone in both patients with stable
coronary or peripheral artery
disease — caused the clinical trial to be stopped early, after 23 months, in February 2017.
To find out if complications of pregnancy might be associated with the risk of early
coronary heart
disease, the researchers
compared 153 patients with acute
coronary syndrome, which includes heart attack and angina, with the same number of healthy people matched for age and sex.
Compared to Americans of European - ancestry, African - Americans» increased hypertension prevalence contributes to a greater risk of stroke,
coronary heart
disease, and end - stage renal
disease.
When
compared to women who did not have migraine, these results show that women who reported a migraine had a greater risk for major cardiovascular
disease, including heart attacks, strokes and angina /
coronary revascularization procedures.
Newer drug - coated stents that keep arteries open have similar long - term rates of death
compared with traditional bypass surgery for patients with more than one
diseased coronary artery.
Among the 2000 - 07 diagnosis group, 1.2 percent died of
coronary artery
disease, paralleling the general population,
compared with 4.7 percent of those diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis in the 1990s.
For example,
compared to a 5ft 6inch tall person, a 5 foot tall person on average has a 32 % higher risk of
coronary heart
disease because of their relatively shorter stature.
New research shows patients with a history of chest discomfort due to
coronary artery
disease — a build up of plaque in the heart's arteries — who are subsequently diagnosed with depression are much more likely to suffer a heart attack or die
compared with those who are not depressed.
In a new study from Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) published in the April 26 issue of JAMA, researchers found that women who work more than 10 years of rotating night shift work had a 15 to 18 percent increased risk of developing
coronary heart
disease (CHD), the most common type of heart
disease, as
compared with women who did not work rotating night shifts.
In a Cox proportional hazards model adjusting for age, examination years and all other predictive
coronary disease risk factors, blood donors had a 88 % reduced risk (relative hazard = 0.12, 95 % confidence interval 0.02 - 0.86, p = 0.035) of acute myocardial infarction,
compared with non-blood donors.
Eligibility criteria for selecting studies Prospective cohort studies with at least 50 events, reporting hazard ratios or relative risks (both hereafter referred to as relative risk)
compared with never smokers or age specific incidence in relation to risk of
coronary heart
disease or stroke.
Finally, we
compared phenotypic versus genotypic ORs to estimate whether apolipoprotein (a) isoform size, lipoprotein (a) concentration, or both were causally associated with
coronary heart
disease.
When a group of individuals replaced animal fats with omega -6-rich safflower oil, their cholesterol levels decreased, however, the rates of death from cardiovascular
disease and
coronary artery
disease increased significantly as
compared to those consuming the animal fats.
It was found that individuals with a higher consumption of dietary magnesium had a 12 % reduced risk of stroke, a 10 % reduced risk of
coronary heart
disease, and a 26 % reduced risk of type - 2 diabetes when
compared with individuals that had the lowest consumption of dietary magnesium.
I often ask patients to
compare their
coronary artery
disease to a house fire.
In a Harvard study of over 40,000 male health professionals, researchers found that a high total dietary fiber intake was linked to a 40 % lower risk of
coronary heart
disease,
compared to a low - fiber intake.
Their statistical analysis of the results implied a 24 % reduction in the rate of
coronary heart
disease in the group taking the drug
compared with the placebo group; however, nonheart
disease deaths in the drug group increased — deaths from cancer, stroke, violence and suicide.7 Even the conclusion that lowering cholesterol reduces heart
disease is suspect.
People who replaced saturated fat in their diet with polyunsaturated fat (omega 3/6) reduce their risk of
coronary heart
disease by 19 percent,
compared with control groups of people who do not.
Also, a randomized trial of estrogen plus medroxyprogesterone acetate (Provera) found no prevention of
coronary heart
disease in postmenopausal women
compared to placebo 1.
We can talk about risk factors all we want, but
compared to the veg group, did the
coronary heart
disease of the patients following the Atkins - like diets improve, worsen, or stay the same?
One study reported a 24 % increase in
coronary heart
disease in Finnish postmenopausal women using calcium supplements (with or without vitamin D)
compared with non - users.37 Non-fatal myocardial infarction in US men using calcium supplements
compared with non-users did not increase significantly, although the relative risk for each fifth of supplement intake ranged between 1.02 and 1.07.38
Compared with women, men are up to three times more likely to die of
coronary heart
disease, twice as likely to die of skin cancer, three times more likely to commit suicide — and much less likely to visit the doctor.