Sentences with phrase «coronary health»

Dr. Mel can listen for murmurs and other irregular heart beat patterns that could indicate poor or failing coronary health.

According to the piece, the Sugar Research Foundation funded studies in the 1960s that downplayed the maleffects of sugar and its link to poor coronary health and positioned fat as Public Health Enemy # 1.

They analyze the impact on coronary health, etc... of a typical diet (containing copious grains and other refined carbohydrates) versus a typical diet PLUS saturated fats.

In fact, one of the most famous studies on fat and coronary health showed that yes, a diet lower in saturated fat will, in fact, lower your cholesterol, BUT lowered cholesterol does not ensure a long life!

An important antioxidant that encourages coronary health and energy production at the cellular level.

«We believe that the results from our study underline the need for future research to further explore the relationship between shift schedules, individual characteristics and coronary health to potentially reduce CHD risk.»

These women also reported on their coronary health, indicating whether they had an angiogram that confirmed CHD - related chest pain, a heart attack, or cardiovascular procedures such as angioplasty, coronary artery bypass graft surgery or stents.

Not exact matches

The company is selling a thing (the kit) by saying it can provide «health reports on 254 diseases and conditions,» including categories such as «carrier status,» «health risks,» and «drug response,» and specifically as a «first step in prevention» that enables users to «take steps toward mitigating serious diseases» such as diabetes, coronary heart disease, and breast cancer...» Most of the uses «listed on your website, a list that has grown over time,» the FDA writes, «are medical device uses [for the] Personal Genome Service.»

Potassium is a vital factor in achieving optimal health because it regulates heart rate and blood pressure, which offers protection against stroke and coronary heart disease.

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.»

All products must also meet government regulatory requirements for making a coronary heart disease health claim.

Di Stéfano has had several health scares in recent years and underwent a quadruple aorta - coronary bypass with a pacemaker implanted in December 2005 after suffering a myocardial infarction.

Your child's nutritional status will have long - term health implications like obesity, coronary heart disease and osteoporosis later in life.

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.»

FDA talk paper: FDA approves new health claim for soy protein and coronary heart disease.

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.

Public Health England has also said that if all Londoners met the 20 minute figure there would be an 11 % drop in coronary heart disease and an 18 % fall in fatalities every year.

According to the US Department of Health, «low - risk patients scheduled for diagnostic [coronary artery] procedures sometimes have to wait all day or even be rescheduled for another day.»

«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 Shealth 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 SHealth and Associate Professor of Medicine at the Harvard Medical School.

«We used different lines of evidence to show that ANGPTL3 deficiency is associated with a reduced risk of coronary artery disease,» said study co-author Kiran Musunuru, MD, PhD, MPH, an associate professor of Cardiovascular Medicine at Penn. «But ultimately we were able to identify that fact that carriers of this genetic mutation did in fact experience a benefit — with little other health risk.»

Richard J. McManus, F.R.C.G.P., of the University of Oxford, and colleagues randomly assigned 552 patients with hypertension and a history of stroke, coronary heart disease, diabetes, or chronic kidney disease to self - monitoring of blood pressure combined with an individualized self - titration algorithm or a control group (patients received usual care consisting of seeing their health care clinician for routine blood pressure measurement and adjustment of medication if necessary).

Health professionals should routinely include screening for mental distress in the care provided to patients with coronary heart disease, he suggests.

They acknowledge some study limitations, but say their paper is the first to combine results across many studies covering both coronary heart disease and stroke, «making it a valuable reference that can be used to strengthen public health campaigns, and provide a strong health incentive for smokers to stop completely (particularly women).»

Women who have PCOS also face a higher risk of developing other health problems, including diabetes and coronary heart disease.

The research team explored data from more than 100,000 participants in the Nurses» Health Study (NHS), looking at rates of cardiovascular disease, specifically incidence of coronary heart disease and stroke.

«Metabolic syndrome in women may be more closely related to coronary artery disease than other cardiovascular outcomes,» noted Elizabeth Barrett - Connor, MD, corresponding author and Distinguished Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Public Health at UC San Diego School of Medicine.

The study showed that women under 46 who had both ovaries removed experienced a significantly elevated risk of multiple chronic health conditions that included depression, hyperlipidemia, cardiac arrhythmias, coronary artery disease, arthritis, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and osteoporosis.

«Type 2 diabetes accompanied by an acute coronary syndrome needs much more attention, especially in order to prevent yet another major cardiac event,» says Principal Investigator Dr. William B. White, a professor in the Pat and Jim Calhoun Cardiology Center at UConn Health.

Earlier this year, Christopher Ramsden of the US National Institutes of Health and colleagues re-worked the 1970s Minnesota Coronary Experiment, using the whole data set.

«The Mediterranean and DASH diets have been shown to be protective against coronary artery disease and stroke, but it seems the nutrients emphasized in the MIND diet may be better suited to overall brain health and preserving cognition,» Cherian said.

Metabolic syndrome is a group of health conditions that increase a person's risk of coronary artery disease, stroke and type 2 diabetes.

To investigate, Csaba Kovesdy, MD (Memphis VA Medical Center and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center) and his colleagues examined information from the national VA research database and looked for associations between blood pressure and various clinical outcomes — coronary heart disease, stroke, kidney failure, and death — in more than 300,000 patients with CKD.

«Heart disease patients who sit a lot have worse health even if they exercise: Patients with coronary artery disease spend an average of 8 hours each day sitting; men were more sedentary than women.»

For the health care system, the researchers estimated the change in risk of diabetes, colorectal cancer and coronary heart disease due to the healthier diets and the subsequent effect on both health care costs and greenhouse gas emissions.

Articles focus on topics including how healthy relationships early in life affect physical and mental health in childhood and beyond; the role of intimate relationships in coronary heart disease; the need to focus on partners when treating someone with chronic disease; and the increasingly complex biological pathways involved linking relationships to health.

Dr. Goldie says that people with mental health disorders are less likely to receive risk - reducing drug therapies or undergo coronary procedures such as bypass surgery.

«We were looking at the optimum way to evaluate people with chest pain and focusing on those patients who are generally older, have many risk factors for coronary disease or may have had prior health problems, basically the intermediate to higher risk population,» Miller said.

Adult studies, like the Nurses» Health Study and Prospective Army Coronary Calcium study, have provided conflicting evidence of its cardiovascular impact.

Public health researchers seeking to determine an individual's risk of developing cardiovascular disease (CVD), coronary heart disease (CHD), or stroke have previously relied on national US data, such as that provided by the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHhealth researchers seeking to determine an individual's risk of developing cardiovascular disease (CVD), coronary heart disease (CHD), or stroke have previously relied on national US data, such as that provided by the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHHealth and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES).

UC San Diego Health surgeons perform the region's first off - pump coronary artery bypass surgery, a technically challenging procedure that lowers patients» risk of stroke.

Based on a recent, special compilation of 12 reports published in the scientific journal Cereal Foods World during 2014 - 2017, eating whole grains is actually beneficial for brain health and associated with reduced risk of diverse types of cancer, coronary disease, diabetes, hypertension, obesity and overall mortality.EL BATAN, Mexico (CIMMYT)-- A new, exhaustive review of recent scientific studies on cereal grains and health has shown that gluten - or wheat - free diets are not inherently healthier for the general populace and may actually put individuals at risk of dietary deficiencies.

The finding has far - reaching implications in understanding and treating low - oxygen health conditions such as coronary artery disease and tumor growth.

In the June 2007 issue of Health Services Research, a University of Chicago - based research team reports that a relatively inexpensive national effort to improve the process of care at selected clinics was able to make enough difference in its first four years that, if sustained, it could reduce patients» lifetime risk of blindness, end - stage kidney disease and coronary artery disease — all common complications of diabetes.

A new study from Karolinska Institutet shows, for the first time, an association between coronary heart disease and oral health in women.

Among the 50 trials, 30 were primary prevention trials (general populations, smokers and workers exposed to asbestos, patients with oesophageal dysplasia, male physicians, patients with non-melanoma skin cancer, postmenopausal women, patients undergoing chronic haemodialysis, patients with end stage renal disease, ambulatory elderly women with vitamin D insufficiency, patients with chronic renal failure, older people with femoral neck fractures, patients with diabetes mellitus, elderly women with a low serum 25 - hydroxyvitamin D concentration, health professionals, people with a high fasting plasma total homocysteine concentration, or kidney transplant recipients), and 20 were secondary prevention trials (patients with cardiovascular disease, coronary heart disease, acute myocardial infarction, unstable angina, transient ischaemic attack, stroke, angiographically proved coronary atherosclerosis, vascular disease, or aortic valve stenosis).

Obesity increases the risk of many adverse health conditions including type 2 diabetes, coronary heart disease, stroke, and high blood pressure.

An article and an editorial in The BMJ both address the issue of trans fats public health, with the article reporting that bans or labelling or food with trans fats would reduce deaths from coronary heart disease, inequality from mortality and save money.

The research, published in The British Medical Journal, found that a reduced intake of saturated fats can lower one's risk of coronary heart disease, while swapping in unsaturated fats (from good - for - you sources like vegetable - based oils, nuts, seeds, avocados, and seafood) actually works to boost heart health.

You know, one that promotes a chained - to - your desk lifestyle, which has been linked to a slew of health problems like coronary heart disease?

The World Health Organization and the National Research Council claim that out of 16 industrialized nations, the United States has the highest chance that a child will die before age 5, the highest rate of women dying due to complications of pregnancy and childbirth and the second - highest rate of death by coronary heart disease and lung disease.