Sentences with phrase «coronary disease risk»

ON THE DAILY: The Australian Heart Foundation recommends about 500 mg / day of DHA and EPA and 2 g / day of ALA to lower coronary disease risk.

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.

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Various studies at the time suspected sugar was bad for the heart, and the latest JAMA suggests the Foundation paid the researchers to counter those arguments and «downplay early warning signs that sucrose consumption was a risk factor in [coronary heart disease].»

However, Burke and colleagues43 analyzed data from 514 Western Australian aborigines with almost 14 years of follow - up and found that risk of coronary heart disease increased in participants consuming eggs more than twice per week.

To date, the majority of prospective studies have found no significant association between egg consumption and risk of coronary heart disease or stroke.

Both almonds and pistachios have been found to help you burn fat and reduce your BMI while hazelnuts can reduce risk of coronary heart disease by increasing healthy HDL cholesterol levels.

Practical Tip: To lower your risk of cardiovascular and coronary heart disease, enjoy a handful of cashews or other nuts, or a tablespoon of nut butter, at least 4 times a week.

Intake of dietary fiber and risk of coronary heart disease in a cohort of Finnish men.

In a study that examined food intake patterns and risk of death from coronary heart disease, researchers followed more than 16,000 middle - aged men in the U.S., Finland, The Netherlands, Italy, former Yugoslavia, Greece and Japan for 25 years.

The benefits of wheat include control of obesity, protection against colon and breast cancer, risk reduction of type 2 diabetes, and protection against coronary heart disease.

Frequent consumption of nuts is associated with a lowered risk of sudden cardiac death and other coronary heart disease, as well as a lower risk of Type II diabetes in women.

Similarly, risk of coronary heart disease associated with an 1,800 - calorie diet emphasizing plant protein (93 grams) was found to be somewhat lower than the risk associated with a similar diet containing only 49 grams of plant - based protein.

In response to a petition submitted by the American Heart Association, the FDA has amended the regulation about the relationship between dietary saturated fat and cholesterol and the risk of coronary heart disease.

Research suggests that CLA in milk could lower the risk of coronary heart disease and prevent cancer cells from growing.

(See: Study: Saturated Fat Not Associated with Risk of Coronary Artery Disease, Coconut Oil and Dairy Fat Healthy and Big Pharma Study: USDA Dietary Guidelines on Fats are Wrong.)

[3] Study: Saturated Fat Not Associated with Risk of Coronary Artery Disease, Coconut Oil and Dairy Fat Healthy: http://healthimpactnews.com/2013/study-saturated-fat-not-associated-with-risk-of-coronary-artery-disease-coconut-oil-and-dairy-fat-healthy/

(See: Study: Saturated Fat Not Associated with Risk of Coronary Artery Disease, Coconut Oil and Dairy Fat Healthy)

Although early studies showed that saturated fat diets with very low levels of PUFAs increase serum cholesterol, whereas other studies showed high serum cholesterol increased the risk of coronary artery disease (CAD), the evidence of dietary saturated fats increasing CAD or causing premature death was weak.

Many people are also unaware of what compounds are available in coconut oil as no extensive studies have been conducted as in the case of olive oil which has been established as lowering the risk of coronary heart disease through the phenolic anti-oxidants it contains.

Research, meanwhile, also suggests that the non-lipid fraction contains compounds such as phenolic - antioxidants, which can reduce the risk of coronary heart disease.

Referring to the potential of anti-oxidants to reduce the risk of coronary heart disease, he says, it works by inhibiting the oxidation of Low Density Lipoproteins (LDL) or «bad» fats.

«Our research has proven that coconut oil in fact does contain, like many others such as olive oil, phenolic anti-oxidants which are known to reduce the risk of coronary heart disease,» says Prof. Kapila Seneviratne attached to the Department of Chemistry of the University of Kelaniya.

According to that study, replacing animal proteins with plant proteins can greatly reduce the risks of coronary heart disease.

A recent systematic review and meta - analysis reported no significant association between the consumption of saturated fatty acids (SFAs) and the risk of coronary heart disease (CHD)(1), but the study failed to specify the replacement macronutrient for saturated fat.

According to a study by the British Journal of Nutrition, cashews contain significant antioxidant levels which have been suggested to reduce the risk of cardiovascular and coronary heart disease.

In addition to regulating the GI tract (in both directions, if you get my gist), it is also established to decrease the risk of coronary heart disease.

In case you missed it, a recent landmark study published in the peer reviewed International Journal of Epidemiology found that risk for coronary heart disease, stroke, total cardiovascular disease and death other than from cancer was reduced with each 200g a day increase in fruit and vegetables up to 800g a day, and 600g a day for cancer.

Marion Nestle, a professor of nutrition, food studies and public health at New York University, wrote an editorial accompanying the new paper in which she said the documents provided «compelling evidence» that the sugar industry had initiated research «expressly to exonerate sugar as a major risk factor for coronary heart disease.»

Early warning signals of the coronary heart disease (CHD) risk of sugar (sucrose) emerged in the 1950s.

After adjusting for known risk factors, no significant association between estimated gluten intake and the risk of subsequent overall coronary heart disease was found.

From the file of Rather Obvious News, this study from the University of Michigan Medical School: children who consume foods purchased from school vending machines, school stores, snack bars and other sales that compete with the federal school lunch program are «more likely to develop poor diet quality — and that may be associated with being overweight, obese or at risk for chronic health problems such as diabetes and coronary artery disease.»

We considered the cost of hypertension alone plus the cost of hypertension as a risk factor for other cardiovascular disease, 41 subtracting out that portion resulting from coronary heart disease.42, 43 We used a direct annual cost of $ 998 and indirect annual morbidity cost of $ 98.

Trans fats — fats that are partially hydrogenated, making them more shelf - stable — have been linked to higher levels of bad cholesterol and elevated risk of coronary heart disease.

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.

Additionally, the U.S. Nurses» Health Study found only women with a lifetime duration of breastfeeding of 2 years or more had a significantly lower risk of coronary heart disease than those who never breastfed.

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).

The study identified yet another mutation — albeit a rare one — in the SCARB1 gene, also associated with elevated HDL levels, that raised coronary heart disease risk by a whopping 80 percent.

«Routinely measured lipids show contrasting associations with risk of coronary artery disease, diabetes.»

But beyond simply lowering cholesterol, the 82 people with inactive copies also had about half the risk of coronary heart disease as people with two functional copies of the gene.

The scientists now know of 62 such hereditary risk factors for CAD, a disease in which the coronary arteries are narrowed.

So we think that increased haemolysis and increased risk of coronary heart disease are affected by the same biological pathways.

What they found was that a third of the 62 SNPs were associated with traditional risk factors for coronary artery diseases, e.g., high blood pressure or cholesterol values.

An analysis using genetics finds that increased low - density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL - C), high - density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL - C), and possibly triglyceride (TG) levels are associated with a lower risk of diabetes, and increased LDL - C and TG levels are associated with an increased risk of coronary artery disease, according to a study published online by JAMA Cardiology.

Additional analysis of UK Biobank data from 112,338 people of European ancestry revealed that a specific form of rs9349379 known as the G allele, which was present in 36 % of these individuals, was associated with an increased risk of coronary artery disease.

He carried one genetic mutation that in modern humans raises the risk of coronary heart disease by 40 per cent, and two others that made him prone to a build - up of fat in the linings of his arteries.

«Our study group has spent decades studying the health effects of diet quality and composition, and now this new data also suggests overall dietary habits can be important to lower risk of coronary heart disease,» said Eric Rimm, Sc.D., senior author and Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health and Associate Professor of Medicine at the Harvard Medical School.

«Skipping breakfast may increase coronary heart disease risk.»

Earlier studies have demonstrated that cocoa flavanol intake improves the elasticity of blood vessels and lowers blood pressure — but, for the most part, these investigations have focused on high - risk individuals like smokers and people that have already been diagnosed with conditions like hypertension and coronary heart disease.

Men who reported they skipped breakfast had a 27 percent higher risk of heart attack or death from coronary heart disease than those who reported they didn't.