Sentences with phrase «less plaque in their arteries»

Using a mouse model of atherosclerosis, Ley inoculated animals with the vaccine and observed approximately 50 % less plaque in their arteries compared to arteries from unvaccinated mice.

Put people on a plant - based diet for a year, and their clogged arteries literally get cleaned out — 20 % less plaque in their arteries at the end of the year than at the beginning.

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Tissue samples from arteries showed that plaques from people with two C versions had a lot less COX - 2 protein than those from volunteers carrying two G versions, supporting the idea that less COX - 2 translates to less inflammation and lower rupture risk, the team reports in the 12 May Journal of the American Medical Association.

Specifically, women who reported consuming the most fruits and vegetables (eight to nine servings a day for a 2,000 - calorie diet) in their 20s were 40 percent less likely to have calcified plaque in their arteries in their 40s compared with those who ate the least amount (three to four servings a day) during the same time period.

Among participants in the BioImage study, both genetic and lifestyle factors were independently associated with levels of calcium - containing plaque in the coronary arteries, and healthy lifestyle factors were associated with less extensive plaque within each genetic risk group.

The two types of cholesterol are low - density lipoprotein (LDL), or the bad cholesterol because it contributes to plaque, a hard deposit that can clog arteries, making them less flexible, and high - density lipoprotein (HDL), the good cholesterol which is able to reverse the effects of LDL cholesterol in the body.

Called «bad» cholesterol, LDL can build up in the arteries, forming plaque that makes them narrow and less flexible, a condition called atherosclerosis.

People with large, buoyant LDL are said to have Pattern A, which is typically considered less artherogenic, meaning less likely to cause plaque buildup in the arteries.

Another theory proven in the lab: Flavanols may also stabilize plaque in the arteries, making it less likely to dislodge or travel and cause a stroke or heart attack as a result.

It can build up in the arteries, forming plaque that narrows the arteries and makes them less flexible (atherosclerosis).

They had 20 % less atherosclerotic plaque in their arteries at the end of the year than at the beginning.

This MD in Australia talks about cholesterol and the fact that the way it is tested today is incomplete and does not tell the whole story when you just look at A1c, LDL, HDL, and Triglycerides, this diet raises your cholesterol but there is a small dense LDL that is not accepted by the liver for servicing but rejected and ends up in your arteries as plaque... and this is what needs to be included in a Lipid panel because this diet pre-diet shows a lipid panel that is not to bad but when you look at the SDLDL it is at 20 which is very high, and when on this diet for 6 or more weeks your lipid panel is higher but the SDLDL is 0 Zero... so your doctor flips out and yells at you but in fact you are much less prone to heart failure...