Sentences with phrase «dietary risk factors»

Environmental and dietary risk factors may also play a role in predisposing cats to hyperthyroidism, though the specific mechanisms are not known.

Dietary risk factors for the incidence and recurrence of colorectal adenomatous polyps.

After adjusting for major lifestyle and dietary risk factors, the HR per 10 % increment of animal protein intake from total energy intake was 1.02 (95 % CI, 0.98 - 1.05; P for trend =.33) for all - cause mortality and 1.08 (95 % CI, 1.01 - 1.16; P for trend =.04) for CVD mortality.

Dietary risk factors for inflammatory bowel disease: a multicenter case - control study in Japan.

accumulating evidence that a key component of the NCD risk attributable to a «nutrition transition» in India may be a decrease in the whole plant food content of the Indian vegetarian dietary pattern due to replacement with foods with known dietary risk factors (ie, processed foods, fried foods, unrefined carbohydrates).

After adjusting for lifestyle and dietary risk factors, a major study involving 131,342 participants found that for every 3 - percent increase in plant protein the participants worked into their diets, they saw their risk for death from causes including heart disease drop by 10 percent over a 32 - year period.

Nutrition imbalance and angiotoxins as dietary risk factors in coronary heart disease.

Among dietary risk factors, these investigators were most concerned about milk and dairy products, because the milk we drink today is produced from pregnant cows, in which estrogen and progesterone levels are markedly elevated.

Cardiologists are discovering that «high glycemic index» carbohydrates (sweet and starchy foods that cause blood sugar to rise rapidly) are, by far, the most important dietary risk factors in coronary artery disease.

Cardiologists are discovering that refined carbohydrates, such as sugar and flour, are the most important dietary risk factors in coronary artery disease.

«Using Multicountry Ecological and Observational Studies to Determine Dietary Risk Factors for Alzheimer's Disease,» a review article from the Journal of the American College of Nutrition presents the data.

The study calculated that not eating enough nuts and seeds was the third - leading dietary risk factor for death and disability in the world, killing more people than processed meat consumption, and potentially leading to the deaths of 15 times more people than all those who die from overdoses of heroin, crack cocaine, and all other illicit drugs combined.

Not exact matches

Intermittent fasting and dietary supplementation with 2 - deoxy - D - glucose improve functional and metabolic cardiovascular risk factors in rats

Intermittent Fasting is proving to be a simple and effective strategy for avoiding major dietary changes while achieving strong effects not just for one disease risk factor, but for an array of factors that constitutes the foundation for metabolic syndrome, cardiovascular disease, cancer, and possibly neurodegenerative diseases.

They explained that the decline in some crops could lead to massive global health problems «by changing the composition of diets and, with it, the profile of dietary and weight - related risk factors and associated mortalities.»

Yes, there are many dietary and environmental factors that affect breast cancer risk, most of which are presumed to act via increasing or decreasing the levels of estrogens or estrogen - like substances to which women are chronically exposed.

«Cancer prevention strongly acknowledges the importance of diet, as dietary factors are the most important environmental risk factors for cancer.

Low dietary intake of copper may also be associated with increased fecal free radical production and fecal water alkaline phosphatase activity, risk factors for colon cancer.

Due to its fatty acid and high dietary fiber content, chia seeds are considered in holistic medicine to be beneficial in reducing cardiovascular risk factors including diabetes, hypercholesterolemia, hypertension and inflammation.

Dietary strategies for managing weight and other risk factors of obesity - related chronic diseases such as type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease and depression.

The SRF sponsored its first CHD research project in 1965, a literature review published in the New England Journal of Medicine, which singled out fat and cholesterol as the dietary causes of CHD and downplayed evidence that sucrose consumption was also a risk factor.

Confounding by other known dietary factors was unlikely because the risk estimates were influenced only slightly by adjustments for covariates, eg, the amount of gluten consumed.

After adjusting to account for other CRC risk factors, including other dietary components, the researchers narrowed in on high fish and fruit and low soft drinks as the best combo for reduced odds of advanced colorectal polyps.

A systematic review and meta - analysis of all available clinical trials found that people felt 31 per cent fuller after eating on average 160 grams of dietary pulses compared with a control diet, according to senior author Dr. John Sievenpiper of St. Michael's Hospital's Clinical Nutrition and Risk Factor Modification Centre.

Dietary risks in aggregate top the rankings worldwide: In the U.S., too little fruit is the lead factor.

However, in a new review article, University of Southern California researchers found that increasing dietary potassium is as important to improving the risk factors for cardiovascular and kidney disease as limiting dietary sodium.

A high dietary salt intake is linked to high blood pressure, which is a risk factor for stroke, heart attacks, heart failure and kidney disease.

This would allow a more valid estimate of the association between different dietary factors (not only fruits and vegetables) and cancer risk,» he explains.

About one third of cancer cases are estimated to be linked to dietary and other modifiable risk factors, especially for obesity - related cancers such as breast, colorectal, ovarian, endometrial, kidney, gallbladder, esophageal, and pancreatic cancers.

The reputations of milk, cheese and many other dairy products have taken a bit of a hit in recent years for their constituting a major dietary source of saturated fats — a risk factor for cardiovascular disease.

The dietary habits of 2,332 men aged between 42 and 60 years were assessed at the baseline of the Kuopio Ischaemic Heart Disease Risk Factor Study, KIHD, at the University of Eastern Finland in 1984 - 1989.

«We are now beginning to connect the dots between these dietary factors and one's risk of developing colon cancer risk,» he said.

The review focused on fat and cholesterol as the dietary causes of coronary heart disease and downplayed sugar consumption as also a risk factor.

December 19, 2017 — NIH findings with potential for enhancing human health include understanding how dietary factors influence disease risk, combatting the epigenetic effects of outdoor air pollution, and methods to detect prions in blood and skin.

We understand now that most of the risk for developing age - related macular degeneration (AMD) comes from environmental causes, particularly our diets and nutrition; however, we don't know why these dietary factors change the risk of AMD or how they affect our bodies.

Previously, Kearns and her UCSF colleagues had uncovered a cache of industry documents revealing that the sugar industry began working closely with nutrition scientists in the mid-1960s to single out fat and cholesterol as the dietary causes of coronary heart disease, downplaying evidence that sucrose consumption was also a risk factor.

Nightingale's comprehensive blood biomarker analysis also supports the study of molecular signatures for risk factors, as well as the effects of dietary and drug interventions.

Background: While dietary fat has been established as a risk factor for colorectal cancer (CRC), associations between fatty acids (FAs) and CRC have been inconsistent.

Authors of the new study noted that prediabetes risk did decline when they included factors such as other dietary sources of sugar and how much body fat a person had.

Infections are just one factor that researchers are examining as potential players in the growth of prostate cancer, and others — such as dietary choices — are thought to influence prostate cancer risk as well.

After controlling for lifestyle as well as some other dietary factors like omega - 3 fatty acid and magnesium intake, which could counteract the mercury effects, the study determined the association between levels of mercury and risk of type 2 diabetes.

After making adjustments for lifestyle, dietary and clinical factors, results revealed that trans fat intake was linked to a greater risk of lacunar infarction.

''... increased dietary [refined] salt intake might represent an environmental risk factor for the development of autoimmune diseases through the induction of pathogenic TH17 cells».

More specifically, controversy continues to surround the theories that 1) dietary fat, saturated fat, and cholesterol cause heart disease, obesity, diabetes and cancer and should be replaced in the diet with polyunsaturated vegetable oils; 2) a diet high in carbohydrates will reduce the risk of chronic disease; and 3) excessive sodium intake is the primary variable in the etiology of hypertension, a risk factor for heart disease.

While you can't control for everything, this study controlled for dietary fat, total calorie intake, age, smoking status, BMI, and other risk factors for heart disease.

While a detailed critique of this study is beyond the scope of this section, suffice it to say for now that the China Study was a) an epidemiological study, and therefore incapable of proving that any dietary factor caused or prevented any health problem; and b) did not take refined carbohydrate into account as a potential risk factor for chronic disease.

In Save Your Brain from Alzheimer's and Dementia, Dr. Passero and I break down the research to make it easy for you to identify your cognitive health risk factors so you can protect and restore optimal brain function — with specific dietary and lifestyle changes that anyone can easily embrace.

Selenium deficiency is another dietary factor that has been linked with increased risk of goiter.

Consuming too much sodium in the presence of other disorders or dietary factors might increase your risk of stomach cancer, kidney stones or osteoporosis.

Some important studies include: • Beneficial effects of a high carbohydrate, high fiber diet on hyperglycemic diabetic men (1976) • Response of non-insulin-dependent diabetic patients to an intensive program of diet and exercise (1982) • Diet and exercise in the treatment of NIDDM: The need for early emphasis (1994) • Toward improved management of NIDDM: A randomized, controlled, pilot intervention using a low fat, vegetarian diet (1999) • The effects of a low - fat, plant - based dietary intervention on body weight, metabolism, and insulin sensitivity (2005) • A low - fat vegan diet improves glycemic control and cardiovascular risk factors in a randomized clinical trial in individuals with type 2 diabetes (2006) • A low - fat vegan diet and a conventional diabetes diet in the treatment of type 2 diabetes: a randomized, controlled, 74 - wk clinical trial (2009) • Vegetarian diet improves insulin resistance and oxidative stress markers more than conventional diet in subjects with Type 2 diabetes (2011) • Glycemic and cardiovascular parameters improved in type 2 diabetes with the high nutrient density (HND) diet (2012)