Sentences with phrase «likely die of heart disease»

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Pass it on: Taller people are more likely to die of cancer, while shorter people are more likely to die of heart disease.

There are already plenty of reasons to keep your caffeine addiction alive and kicking: habitual coffee drinkers are less likely to die of heart failure as those who don't indulge, and research has suggested that caffeine may help prevent cancer, diabetes, stroke, and Parkinson's disease.

A study from University College London suggested that those who complain of boredom are more likely to die young, and those who report high levels of tedium are much more likely to die from heart disease or stroke.

Women who die of heart disease are six times more likely than other women to have been bereaved in the past six months — and heart disease among widowers under 45 has been found to be ten times the rate among married men the same age.

Women are 75 times more likely to die of heart disease than of cervical cancer.

Eileen puts uterine rupture into perspective in a playful and understandable way, for example, you are more likely to be in a bicycle accident, to be murdered, to die of heart disease, to have a cord prolapse or to have twins.

However, during and after the treatment of breast cancer, having optimal control of heart disease risk factors is important, because older breast cancer survivors are more likely to die of heart disease than breast cancer,» Dr. Mehta said.

The skinny on fat: Too little is more dangerous than too much Overweight people are at no greater risk than normal - weight folks of dying from heart disease or cancer and are actually less likely to fall prey to some other causes of death, such as accidents and Alzheimer's, according to freshly analyzed data on 2.3 million adults 25 years and older as of 2004.

Among the adults in the study, even those with low coronary artery calcium scores of 1 - 99 were 50 % more likely to die of heart disease than adults with a calcium score of zero.

People in the fastest declining group were still 30 percent less likely to die of cancer when the results were adjusted to control for factors such as smoking, diabetes and heart disease, among others.

Adults with moderate scores of 100 - 399 were 80 % more likely to die from heart disease than those with a score of zero, and those with scores of 400 or more were three times more likely to die from heart disease, when compared to adults with no calcified plaque buildup, or a score of zero.

New research shows patients with a history of chest discomfort due to coronary artery disease — a build up of plaque in the heart's arteries — who are subsequently diagnosed with depression are much more likely to suffer a heart attack or die compared with those who are not depressed.

Compared with the general population, people with type 1 diabetes are 13 times more likely to die of heart disease.

Geneticists at the University of Utah found that test subjects with shorter telomeres were eight times more likely to die from disease and three times more likely to die from a heart attack [source: Biever].

Heart disease is the leading killer of both men and women, but men are more likely to develop it — and die from it — as early as their 30s and 40s.

Compared to those who watched less than two hours of TV per day, people who watched four hours or more were 80 % more likely to die from heart disease and 46 % more likely to die from any cause.

One study found that women who ate 2 - 3 servings of whole grain products daily were 30 % less likely to have a heart attack or die from heart disease compared with women who ate less than one serving a week.

At the other end of the spectrum, heart patients who consumed very little sodium were also more likely than those with average intake to die of heart disease or be hospitalized for heart failure.

One study found that heart disease patients who exercised and had positive attitudes were 42 percent less likely to die of all causes during a five - year follow - up period, compared to patients who were negative and didn't exercise.

Adults with diabetes are two to four times more likely to die of heart disease than people who do not have diabetes.

Since then, some studies have shown that those with the lowest cholesterol are more likely to die of heart disease (and vice versa).

Coffee drinkers were less likely to die from a heart disease than the non-coffee drinkers during the time the study was conducted and the larger the quantities of coffee they drank the lower their risk of mortality tended to be.

A huge new study published in the journal JAMA that reviewed medical history of more than 74,000 women found that those who had cataract surgery were able to see better, move more, and thus, were less likely to die of heart and lung disease, as well as cancer and infections — even when most had declining health to begin with.

Ironically, this means that statins, which many people take because they want to protect their heart, are actually quite likely to increase their risk of dying from heart disease.

«If you have too much sodium and too little potassium, it's worse than either one on its own,» said Dr. Thomas Farley, New York City's health commissioner, who has led efforts to get the public to eat less salt... «Potassium may neutralize the heart - damaging effects of salt,» said Dr. Elena Kuklina, one of the study's authors at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention... The research found people who eat a lot of salt and very little potassium were more than twice as likely to die from a heart attack as those who ate about equal amounts of both nutrients.

In Harvard research, women who ate the most whole grains, including popcorn, were one - third less likely to die of heart disease.

THE NUMBERS DO N'T LIE: They are 8 times LESS likely to die from coronary heart disease, 7 times LESS likely to die from prostate cancer, 6.5 times LESS likely to die from breast cancer, and 2.5 times LESS likely to die from colon cancer than an average American of the same age.

Another study of over 2,000 men with fasting glucose over 85 mg / dL showed that they were 40 percent more likely to die from heart disease than those in the optimal range.

A ten - year study found that just one serving of chocolate per week eaten by women over age 70 made them 35 percent less likely to die from heart disease, and a whopping 60 percent less likely to die from heart failure.

Lonely people are three times more likely to die young than people who feel like they belong to part of a tribe, and those who feel supported by their community have half the risk of heart disease compared to those who feel socially isolated.

It also may improve health, as it seemed to do in the recent study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association in which people eating 6 g / day (highest third of salt consumption) were only one - fifth as likely to die of heart disease as people eating less than 2.5 g / day (lowest third).

In the Rotterdam study, those who had the highest intake of Vitamin K2 were 52 % less likely to develop calcification of the arteries, and had a 57 % lower risk of dying from heart disease, over a 7 - 10 year period (9).

In fact, a nine - year study of 60,000 women showed women who drank two or more cans of diet soda a day were 50 percent more likely to die of heart disease.

Together, those in the study who consumed the greatest amount of whole grains in their diet were found to be less likely to die by approximately 9 % and less likely to die as a result of heart disease by 15 %, when compared to those who consumed less whole grains.

WEDNESDAY, May 16, 2012 (Health.com)-- Drinking a daily cup of coffee — or even several cups — isn't likely to harm your health, and it may even lower your risk of dying from chronic diseases such as diabetes and heart disease, a new study in the New England Journal of Medicine suggests.

Compared to happy people, those with low levels of psychological distress were 23 % more likely to die from accidents or injuries and 25 % more likely to die from heart disease, strokes, or heart failure.

Most recently, sugar in the diet has also been implicated in cardiovascular disease deaths: A large study led by Dr. Hu reported last year that adults who had the highest intake of sugar — consuming 25 percent of daily calories as sugar — were nearly three times more likely to die of heart disease over a 14 - year period, compared with those whose sugar intake was less than 10 percent of calories.

They are also at greater risk of developing heart disease, hypertension, diabetes, depression, anxiety disorders, and substance abuse later in life, and they are more likely to die at a younger age.

The study found that women who ate more foods with the B - vitamins folate and B - 6 were less likely to die from stroke and heart disease, while men who ate a diet high in these B - vitamins were less likely to die of heart failure.

Researchers have found that among nearly 16,000 middle - aged and older women followed for more than a decade, those who'd started menstruating before age 12 were 23 percent more likely to develop heart disease and 28 percent more likely to die of cardiovascular causes like heart attack or stroke.

Compared with women, men are up to three times more likely to die of coronary heart disease, twice as likely to die of skin cancer, three times more likely to commit suicide — and much less likely to visit the doctor.

He died of natural causes and was always likely to die suddenly due to chronic and serious heart disease, but he was entitled to die in peace, in the comfort of family and friends.