Sitting for long periods increases
heart failure risk in men, even for those who exercise regularly, according to new research published in the American Heart Association journal Circulation: Heart Failure.
«Exercising more, sitting less reduces
heart failure risk in men.»
«Timing of menopause onset may increase
heart failure risk in women: Shorter reproductive duration, never giving birth among factors influencing risk.»
Not exact matches
In fact, the link was so strong that for every additional cup of coffee people drank, their
risk of suffering
heart failure or stroke went down 8 percent, compared to non-coffee drinkers.
«Eating red meat was associated with decreased
risk of
heart failure and stroke in the Framingham Heart Study,» the heart association press release
heart failure and stroke
in the Framingham
Heart Study,» the heart association press release
Heart Study,» the
heart association press release
heart association press release says.
Harvard researchers studying the effects of whole grain cereal consumption on
heart failure risk followed 21,376 participants
in the Physicians Health Study over nineteen years.
Since consumption of whole grain products and dietary fiber has been shown to reduce the
risk of high blood pressure and
heart attack, Harvard researchers decided to look at the effects of cereal consumption on
heart failure risk and followed 21,376 participants
in the Physicians Health Study over a period of 19.6 years.
CKD patients
in stage three to five are unable to manage potassium levels
in the blood, putting them at
risk of
heart failure and death.
Responding to research published
in the journal
Heart, linking the consumption of sugar - sweetened drinks to an increased risk of heart failure, Australian Beverages Council CEO, Geoff Parker, st
Heart, linking the consumption of sugar - sweetened drinks to an increased
risk of
heart failure, Australian Beverages Council CEO, Geoff Parker, st
heart failure, Australian Beverages Council CEO, Geoff Parker, states:
Ensuring people diagnosed with diabetes are able to manage their diabetes effectively
in order to reduce their
risk of developing long term complications such as
heart disease, stroke, kidney
failure, blindness and amputation should also be the long term goal of the health service.
Atrial fibrillation, diagnosed
in 3.4 million Americans and the most common
heart rhythm condition
in the United States, is marked by irregular and sometimes extremely rapid
heart rates that cause fatigue and shortness of breath, and significantly increase the
risk of
heart failure and stroke.
Lifestyle and dietary modifications to maintain vascular health or reduce disease
risk might help protect patients»
heart health, but there are currently limited diet - based therapeutic approaches to counteract cardiovascular disease
in patients with kidney
failure.
Breast cancer patients may be at an increased
risk of cardiovascular diseases including
heart failure and may benefit from a treatment approach that weighs the benefits of specific therapies against potential damage to the heart, according to a new scientific statement from the American Heart Association published in its journal Circula
heart failure and may benefit from a treatment approach that weighs the benefits of specific therapies against potential damage to the
heart, according to a new scientific statement from the American Heart Association published in its journal Circula
heart, according to a new scientific statement from the American
Heart Association published in its journal Circula
Heart Association published
in its journal Circulation.
«Our study suggests that
in patients with
heart failure and atrial fibrillation, catheter ablation is an effective alternative treatment that can help patients avoid or discontinue this drug to reduce the
risk of these long - term side effects.»
«Higher
risk of
heart failure in cold weather.»
Short total reproductive duration was associated with an increased
risk of
heart failure, which was found to be related to an earlier age at menopause and was more pronounced
in women who experienced natural, rather than surgical, menopause.
In other words, a drop of 10 °C in the average temperature over seven days, which is common in several countries because of seasonal variations, is associated with an increased risk in being hospitalized or dying of heart failure of about 7 percent in people aged over 65 diagnosed with the disease
In other words, a drop of 10 °C
in the average temperature over seven days, which is common in several countries because of seasonal variations, is associated with an increased risk in being hospitalized or dying of heart failure of about 7 percent in people aged over 65 diagnosed with the disease
in the average temperature over seven days, which is common
in several countries because of seasonal variations, is associated with an increased risk in being hospitalized or dying of heart failure of about 7 percent in people aged over 65 diagnosed with the disease
in several countries because of seasonal variations, is associated with an increased
risk in being hospitalized or dying of heart failure of about 7 percent in people aged over 65 diagnosed with the disease
in being hospitalized or dying of
heart failure of about 7 percent
in people aged over 65 diagnosed with the disease
in people aged over 65 diagnosed with the disease..
Postmenopausal women who reached menopause at an earlier age or who never gave birth are at a higher
risk for
heart failure, according to research published today
in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
«One
in four patients develop
heart failure within four years of first
heart attack:
Risk factors include older age, socioeconomic deprivation, and diabetes.»
This loss means that more blood stays
in the
heart, and ultimately increases a person's
risk of
heart failure.
One
in four patients develop
heart failure within four years of a first heart attack, according to a study in nearly 25,000 patients presented today at Heart Failure 2016 and the 3rd World Congress on Acute Heart Failure by Dr Johannes Gho, a cardiology resident at the University Medical Center Utrecht, in Utrecht, the Netherlands.1 Risk factors included older age, greater socioeconomic deprivation, and comorbidities such as diab
heart failure within four years of a first heart attack, according to a study in nearly 25,000 patients presented today at Heart Failure 2016 and the 3rd World Congress on Acute Heart Failure by Dr Johannes Gho, a cardiology resident at the University Medical Center Utrecht, in Utrecht, the Netherlands.1 Risk factors included older age, greater socioeconomic deprivation, and comorbidities such as di
failure within four years of a first
heart attack, according to a study in nearly 25,000 patients presented today at Heart Failure 2016 and the 3rd World Congress on Acute Heart Failure by Dr Johannes Gho, a cardiology resident at the University Medical Center Utrecht, in Utrecht, the Netherlands.1 Risk factors included older age, greater socioeconomic deprivation, and comorbidities such as diab
heart attack, according to a study
in nearly 25,000 patients presented today at
Heart Failure 2016 and the 3rd World Congress on Acute Heart Failure by Dr Johannes Gho, a cardiology resident at the University Medical Center Utrecht, in Utrecht, the Netherlands.1 Risk factors included older age, greater socioeconomic deprivation, and comorbidities such as diab
Heart Failure 2016 and the 3rd World Congress on Acute Heart Failure by Dr Johannes Gho, a cardiology resident at the University Medical Center Utrecht, in Utrecht, the Netherlands.1 Risk factors included older age, greater socioeconomic deprivation, and comorbidities such as di
Failure 2016 and the 3rd World Congress on Acute
Heart Failure by Dr Johannes Gho, a cardiology resident at the University Medical Center Utrecht, in Utrecht, the Netherlands.1 Risk factors included older age, greater socioeconomic deprivation, and comorbidities such as diab
Heart Failure by Dr Johannes Gho, a cardiology resident at the University Medical Center Utrecht, in Utrecht, the Netherlands.1 Risk factors included older age, greater socioeconomic deprivation, and comorbidities such as di
Failure by Dr Johannes Gho, a cardiology resident at the University Medical Center Utrecht,
in Utrecht, the Netherlands.1
Risk factors included older age, greater socioeconomic deprivation, and comorbidities such as diabetes.
The findings published
in the New England Journal of Medicine found the drug canagliflozin reduced the overall
risk of cardiovascular disease by 14 per cent and reduced the
risk of
heart failure hospitalisation by 33 per cent.
«These findings are important because, while both obesity and
heart failure are major public health problems
in the U.S., little has been known about whether substantial weight loss would decrease the
risk of
heart -
failure - related adverse events.»
In the meantime, physicians should recognize this increased cancer
risk for
heart failure patients and follow guideline recommended surveillance and early detection practices.»
In a related editorial comment, Paolo Boffetta, M.D., M.P.H., associate director for population sciences at The Tisch Cancer Institute and chief of the Division of Cancer Prevention and Control of the at Mount Sinai in New York, addressed whether the increased risk of cancer in this group of heart failure patients warranted additional screening beyond what was recommended for the general publi
In a related editorial comment, Paolo Boffetta, M.D., M.P.H., associate director for population sciences at The Tisch Cancer Institute and chief of the Division of Cancer Prevention and Control of the at Mount Sinai
in New York, addressed whether the increased risk of cancer in this group of heart failure patients warranted additional screening beyond what was recommended for the general publi
in New York, addressed whether the increased
risk of cancer
in this group of heart failure patients warranted additional screening beyond what was recommended for the general publi
in this group of
heart failure patients warranted additional screening beyond what was recommended for the general public.
In this new study, they looked at cancer risk in patients who developed heart failure after their first heart attac
In this new study, they looked at cancer
risk in patients who developed heart failure after their first heart attac
in patients who developed
heart failure after their first
heart attack.
People who develop
heart failure after their first
heart attack have a greater
risk of developing cancer when compared to first - time
heart attack survivors without
heart failure, according to a study
in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
Researchers chose to compare those with and without
heart failure after
heart attack because these patient groups have a lot
in common, including atherosclerosis,
risk factors, treatments received and follow - up routines.
Professor Marco Metra, director of the Institute of Cardiology at the University and Civil Hospital of Brescia, Italy and co-principal investigator of RELAX - AHF, said: «We have reported that all of these adverse effects of a worsening
heart failure event are related to increased overall mortality and that a worsening
heart failure event itself is related to a two-fold increased
risk of dying
in 180 days.»
This group of researchers previously looked at increased
risk of cancer among
heart failure patients and showed a 70 percent increase
in risk.
Sekendiz suggests that health and sports facilities must face up to their responsibilities
in order to avoid problems associated with irresponsive practice, such as the low but catastrophic
risk of new users suffering
heart failure, for instance, when given an overly vigorous workout.
Importantly, compared to placebo, treatment with FCM was also associated with a significant 61 % reduction
in the
risk of hospitalisation due to worsening
heart failure (hazard ratio [HR] 0.39; p = 0.009).
The study is the first to examine the link between
heart failure risk and sedentary time, said Deborah Rohm Young, Ph.D., lead researcher and a senior scientist at Kaiser Permanente
in Pasadena, Calif..
Heart failure risk more than doubled
in men who sat for at least five hours a day and got little exercise compared to men who were very physically active and sat for two hours or less a day.
CSA is a comorbidity
in approximately 35 % of
heart failure patients and doubles the
risk of death.
We get heavily hyped drugs like Avastin, which shrank tumors without adding significant time to cancer patients» lives (and increased the incidence of
heart failure and blood clots to boot); Avandia, which lowered blood sugar
in diabetics but raised the average
risk of
heart attack by 43 percent; torcetrapib, which raised both good cholesterol and death rates; and Flurizan, which reduced brain plaque but failed to slow the cognitive ravages of Alzheimer's disease before trials were finally halted
in 2008.
Hospitalized
heart failure patients
in all age groups within the study and with all levels of ejection fraction had significantly lower rates of survival after five years and a higher
risk of re-hospitalization than people
in the United States without
heart failure.
In the present study we aimed to clarify whether IBD patients had an increased risk of heart failure, and secondly whether this risk was correlated to periods of activity or «flares» in the IBD.&raqu
In the present study we aimed to clarify whether IBD patients had an increased
risk of
heart failure, and secondly whether this
risk was correlated to periods of activity or «flares»
in the IBD.&raqu
in the IBD.»
Researchers assigned each type of physical activity an intensity score and determined walking or bicycling just 20 minutes per day was associated with a 21 percent lower
risk of
heart failure and accounted for the largest difference
in heart failure free survival.
While the study suggests both low and high levels of physical activity, compared to more moderate levels, could increase the
risk of
heart failure in men, study authors cautioned that the link between physical activity and
heart disease is not fully understood.
Dr Kristensen continued: «We found an increased
risk of hospitalization for
heart failure in IBD patients of all ages, not just older patients.
Gastroenterologists and other health professionals need to be aware of the increased
risk of cardiovascular diseases, including
heart failure,
in their daily handling of patients with IBD.
Dr Kristensen said: «It will be interesting to see if these medications, which are increasingly used
in IBD, lead to a reduction
in the
risk of
heart failure and other cardiovascular diseases.
• Systolic blood pressure levels above 140 mmHg were linked with higher
risks of coronary
heart disease, stroke, kidney
failure, and death
in patients with CKD of all ages, but the magnitude of these associations diminished with more advanced age.
Several studies over the past decade have shown that a strong emotional shock can lead to sudden
heart failure in people with no known
risk factors for
heart disease.
«This research is important
in that it may advance the application of widely available cardiac biomarkers to identify CKD patients at the highest
risk of developing
heart failure, the most common cardiovascular complication
in this patient population,» said Dr. Bansal.
This analysis included 8,838 participants from the Atherosclerosis
Risk in Communities Study who were initially free of coronary
heart disease (CHD) and
heart failure (HF) and who had hs - cTnT measured twice, 6 years apart.
The new study, a post-hoc analysis, follows the main WARCEF study published
in 2012
in the New England Journal of Medicine, finding neither aspirin nor warfarin superior for preventing a combined
risk of death, stroke, and cerebral hemorrhage
in heart failure patients with normal
heart rhythm.
This is supported by the recent characterisation of trimethylamine N - oxide (TMAO), a metabolic product of gut bacteria, as an independent
risk factor for the mortality rate
in patients with
heart failure.
The study, «Hypertension, Obesity, Diabetes, and
Heart Failure - Free Survival: The Cardiovascular Lifetime
Risk Pooling Project,» will be presented on March 14 at the American College of Cardiology's 64th Annual Scientific Session
in San Diego.