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Obese kids have higher cardiovascular risks as adults, and sugary beverages are stoking that obesity epidemic.

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REDUCE - IT is the first multinational cardiovascular outcomes study evaluating the effect of prescription pure EPA therapy, or any triglyceride - lowering therapy, as an add - on to statins in patients with high cardiovascular risk who, despite stable statin therapy, have elevated triglyceride levels (150 - 499 mg / dL).

The heart - healthy Omega - 3 fat found in salmon is associated with a decreased risk of cardiovascular problems, such as heart attacks, strokes, heart arrhythmias, high blood pressure, and high triglycerides circulating in the blood.

This is important because high blood pressure is known to be a risk factor for cardiovascular problems such as heart attacks.

Studies have shown that among the many effects of physical abuse are depression, anxiety, cognitive and learning difficulties, even a lowering of IQ (especially verbal IQ), disordered sleep, flashbacks, loss of empathy, aggressive behavior, chronically high stress levels which can lead to chronic health effects such as high blood pressure and increased risk of cardiovascular disease, and inability to maintain relationships.

When infants are not optimally breastfed they are at risk for increased illness such as higher rates of gastrointestinal and respiratory infections, allergies, cancer, obesity, cardiovascular disease and diabetes and even death.

Hypertension, also known as high blood pressure (HBP), is a long - term medical condition and is a major risk factor for cardiovascular diseases.

People with type 2 diabetes are at high risk of cardiovascular - related events, such as heart attacks, stroke, and even death, often because their levels of triglycerides are so high, and their high - density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol levels are low.

Some have a higher risk of cardiovascular disease or diabetes, which is due both to lifestyle - related risk factors (such as eating unhealthily, smoking, being overweight and not taking enough exercise) as well as genetic predisposition (such as diabetes mellitus in migrants from Pakistan).

The trial included 501 patients with atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) and elevated LDL cholesterol (> 70mg / ml) despite maximum tolerated statin therapy and patients without ASCVD but with high cardiovascular risk conditions such as diabetes and familial hypercholesterolaemia in whom LDL cholesterol was > 100mg / dl despite maximally tolerated statin therapy.

One algorithm that studied retinal images from over 284,000 patients could predict cardiovascular health risk factors such as high blood pressure.

A new study led by researchers at the University of Granada has analysed the link between egg intake in adolescents and the main risk factors for developing cardiovascular diseases, such as lipid profile, excess body fat, insulin resistance and high blood pressure.

«However, studies have shown that HDL doesn't work as well in people at high risk for heart attacks, strokes and other cardiovascular diseases, and that the functional ability of HDL matters as much as its quantity,» said senior study author Montserrat Fitó, M.D., Ph.D., and coordinator of the Cardiovascular Risk and Nutrition Research Group at the Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute in Barcelona and at the Ciber of Physipathology of Obesity and Nutrition (CIBEROBN), Sprisk for heart attacks, strokes and other cardiovascular diseases, and that the functional ability of HDL matters as much as its quantity,» said senior study author Montserrat Fitó, M.D., Ph.D., and coordinator of the Cardiovascular Risk and Nutrition Research Group at the Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute in Barcelona and at the Ciber of Physipathology of Obesity and Nutrition (CIBEROBN), SpRisk and Nutrition Research Group at the Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute in Barcelona and at the Ciber of Physipathology of Obesity and Nutrition (CIBEROBN), Spain.

These behaviors give them a higher risk of cardiovascular disease, including high blood pressure and high cholesterol as well as diabetes.

People with Type 2 diabetes who eat a diet high in salt face twice the risk of developing cardiovascular disease as those who consume less sodium, according to a new study published in the Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.

Hawaii school - children rated by their teachers in the 1960's as less conscientious had worse global health status as adults and had significantly greater obesity, high cholesterol, and increased risk for cardiovascular disease.

Although the question can not be answered definitively, other analyses have linked lower dementia risk to better control of cardiovascular risk factors such as hypertension and high cholesterol, and by building up «cognitive reserve» with more education.

Like adults, severely overweight children and teens are at heightened risk for a host of physical and emotional problems, including cardiovascular disease (e.g., high cholesterol and blood pressure) and diabetes, as well as poor self - esteem and depression.

It's likely, as with high parathyroid hormone levels, patients at high risk for cardiovascular disease might benefit from higher doses, said Dong, noting that much work is needed to identify optimal dosing for specific conditions.

Similarly, only half of the patients with OSA were categorized as being at high risk for OSA on the Berlin Questionnaire, a sleep apnea screening tool, suggesting that these validated tools in the general population may not be useful for patients with cardiovascular diseases.

Another possible explanation is that existing treatments, such as statins, are already so effective at improving cardiovascular outcomes that it has become more difficult to further improve outcomes in high - risk patients.

However, results of the UI study found sit - stand desks could change that by offering «a sustainable approach for reducing sedentary behavior» for office workers whose inactivity puts them at risk for such conditions as cardiovascular disease, high blood pressure, and obesity.

This advice is particularly important for patients with high risk for cardiovascular disease, such as those with diabetes or a prior heart attack.»

For example, the authors suggest that hepatitis C - positive kidneys should be offered to uninfected patients who have a high risk of health deterioration if they continue dialysis — including elderly patients or those with serious co-existing conditions, such as cardiovascular disease — disadvantageous blood types or other conditions that would mean many years of waiting for an appropriate hepatitis C - negative kidney to become available.

Diets high in fruits and vegetables are associated with lower risks of obesity and chronic conditions such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes and some cancers.

The increased risk occurred regardless of reported diet quality, physical activity, body weight and other cardiovascular risk factors, such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol and diabetes.

The authors say that the higher risk of type 2 diabetes associated with decreasing coffee intake may represent a true change in risk, or may potentially be due to reverse causation whereby those with medical conditions associated with risk for type 2 diabetes (such as high blood pressure, elevated cholesterol, cardiovascular disease, cancer) may reduce their coffee consumption after diagnosis.

A diet high in saturated fat results in chronic low - grade inflammation in the body that in turn leads to the development of metabolic syndrome, a serious condition associated with cognitive dysfunction and dementia as well as being a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes.

We are now potentially seeing the results of improvements in prevention and treatment of key cardiovascular risk factors such as high blood pressure and cholesterol reflected in the risk of developing dementia.»

«As risk factor prediction gets better, we'll be able to screen more intelligently and use more intensive treatments in those individuals who face a higher risk of cardiovascular events.»

Traffic - related air pollution may increase cardiovascular disease risk by lowering levels of high - density lipoprotein (HDL), commonly known as «good» cholesterol, according to new research in the American Heart Association's journal Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology.

After 12 weeks on the high sugar diet, the men with a high level of liver fat — a condition known as non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD)-- showed changes in their fat metabolism that are associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease, heart attacks and strokes.

It is the leading cause of death for children under the age of five, and babies who survive are at much higher risk of developing a number of health conditions including chronic lung disease, cardiovascular disease and metabolic diseases such as Type 2 diabetes.

«If further studies can confirm our report the treatment of periodontal disease may become reducing means by which to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease, especially in high risk populations such as Indigenous Australians.»

«We have studied women over 65 as they are among the least active groups of the population, at the same time as they run a high risk of developing cardiovascular disease,» says Fawzi Kadi, Professor at Örebro University.

As expected, the study conducted by the Department of Sport, Exercise and Health at the University of Basel, the Institute of Stress Medicine, and Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Gothenburg illustrates that stressed individuals exhibit higher values of most cardiovascular risk factors.

It also raises the likelihood of cardiovascular risk factors such as high blood pressure and an unfavorable blood lipid profile.

Impaired penile microcirculation may serve as an early marker of endothelial dysfunction, indicating higher cardiovascular risk.

However, heavy smokers tend to have more adverse cardiovascular risk factors than light smokers (such as higher body mass index and central adiposity and poorer diet).858687 Therefore, light smokers should have characteristics that are more protective against cardiovascular disease, compared with heavier smokers.

When the researchers examined the relationship between other risk factors such as high blood pressure, overweight, obesity, poorer physical fitness, and household crowding in childhood, they found that infection was associated with the highest magnitude of cardiovascular disease risk in the first three years post-infection.

A potential explanation for the secular trend may be that while improved treatment for cardiovascular risk factors or complicating diseases has reduced mortality in all weight classes, the effects may have been greater at higher BMI levels than at lower BMI levels.12 Because obesity is a causal risk factor for hypertension, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and dyslipidemia,15,19 - 22 obese individuals may have had a higher selective decrease in mortality.18 Indirect evidence of this effect is seen in the findings as the deaths occur at similar time periods in the 3 cohorts, but cohorts recruited at later periods have an increase in the BMI associated with the lowest mortality, possibly suggesting a period effect related to changes in clinical practice, such as improved treatments, or general public health status, such as decreased smoking or increased physical activity.

Even further, studies on high - fat diets show that increased consumption of saturated fat has beneficial impacts on cardiovascular disease risk markers, including decreasing the level of triglycerides, fasting glucose, blood pressure, as well as increasing HDL cholesterol blood levels.

A CRP test specifically designed to measure the risk for cardiovascular disease, known as a high - sensitivity C - reactive protein assay (hsCRP), was approved by the FDA in 1999, and the test has become nearly as routine as the cholesterol test.

Just as people with psoriatic arthritis are at a higher risk for cardiovascular disease, they're also more likely to develop type 2 diabetes.

Next Page: Treatment options [pagebreak] Implications for treatment Though the exact role of inflammatory markers is yet to be determined, if your CRP test uncovers high levels of CRP (defined by the American Heart Association as over 3 mg / L), it is probably a sign that you should address your risk for cardiovascular disease, even if you have normal cholesterol.

Zachary T. Bloomgarden, MD, an endocrinologist at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City who specializes in diabetes, prescribes these drugs to most of his patients, particularly those with hypertension, cardiovascular disease, or risk factors for heart disease, such as high cholesterol.

And it turned out, dying from cardiovascular disease during the study period was as strongly associated with depression as it was with several of the classic «big five» heart disease risk factors: obesity, high cholesterol, diabetes, high blood pressure, and smoking.

In a British study, scientists also found that people who are consistently sleep deprived (defined as sleeping five hours or less a night) are at greater risk for high blood pressure and cardiovascular problems.

Undiagnosed or mistreated hypothyroidism can put people at risk for serious conditions, such as: depression, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, type 2 diabetes, insulin resistance, cardiovascular disease, osteoporosis, gynecological issues (infertility / miscarriages / fibroids / PCOS etc.), hormonal imbalances, adrenal fatigue, anemia, and other diseases.

Increased consumption of sugar contributes to obesity and higher risk of cardiovascular disease mortality, as for high sodium intake, it's associated with increased risk of hypertension and stoke.