Sentences with phrase «on cardiovascular disease risk»

While there is a growing appreciation of the impact of child maltreatment on cardiovascular disease risk over the life course, 40 there has been a paucity of research to date that has explored the impact of family violence on obesity risk in early life.

Recent research shows that artificially lowering blood pressure with drugs has virtually no effect on cardiovascular disease risk, compared to lowering readings with natural fruit polyphenols, diet and physical activity.

The British Journal of Nutrition published a meta - analysis that revealed the effects of polyunsaturated fats on cardiovascular disease risk when used as an intervention for better health.

Studies on low - carbohydrate diets (which tend to be high in saturated fat) suggest that they not only don't raise blood cholesterol, they have several beneficial impacts on cardiovascular disease risk markers.

The impact of obesity on cardiovascular disease risk factors and subclinical vascular disease: the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis.

Influence of dairy product and milk fat consumption on cardiovascular disease risk: a review of the evidence.

Do trans fatty acids from industrially produced sources and from natural sources have the same effect on cardiovascular disease risk factors in healthy subjects?

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.

«It is therefore pivotal that we understand the positive impact diet can have on cardiovascular disease risk.

The effects of a whole grain - enriched hypocaloric diet on cardiovascular disease risk factors in men and women with metabolic syndrome.

Not exact matches

In one study that followed people from the Netherlands for 10 years, orange and yellow hued veggies, carrots in particular, were shown to significantly reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease when eaten on a regular basis.

«Taken together with previously established benefits of egg intake on HDL profiles, these findings further support the notion that eggs serve as a functional food to reduce cardiovascular disease risk in individuals with metabolic syndrome,» says Catherine Andersen, lead study author and PhD candidate at the University of Connecticut.

Full of fibre and vitamin A, and loaded with overwhelming evidence on their health benefits, including a reduction in cardiovascular and cancer disease risks.

Eating butter has no effect on raising cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk and may even have protective effects against diabetes, according to a review.

Bioactive lipids in metabolic syndrome: Scientific literature review on dietary fats and oils that help with decreasing metabolic disorders such as abdominal obesity, dyslipidemia, hypertension and insulin sensitivity that increase risk of cardiovascular disease.

Effects of Dietary Coconut Oil on the Biochemical and Anthropometric Profiles of Women Presenting Abdominal Obesity: Compared to soybean oil, coconut oil is more effective for reducing abdominal obesity and lowering risk of cardiovascular disease when deficiencies in mono - and polyunsaturated fats are absent.

This observation has precipitated numerous observational studies and randomized controlled trials of the effect of added sugars or SSB consumption on body weight and cardiovascular disease risk factors (6, 8, 9).

A dose - response study of consuming high - fructose corn syrup — sweetened beverages on lipid / lipoprotein risk factors for cardiovascular disease in young adults

Additionally, the study did not collect data on risk factors for cardiovascular disease before or during pregnancy that might determine breastfeeding or future cardiovascular disease risk.

Another recently published systematic review and meta - analysis found that eating on average one serving a day of beans, peas, chickpeas or lentils can also reduce «bad cholesterol» by five per cent and therefore lower the risk of cardiovascular disease.

HDL with a small proinflammatory protein called apolipoprotein C - III (apoC - III) on its surface may nearly double the risk of heart disease in healthy men and women, according to Frank Sacks, professor of cardiovascular disease prevention at the Harvard School of Public Health and senior author on a paper in the April Journal of the American Heart Association.

«Trans - fatty acids increase LDL cholesterol [our «bad» cholesterol], and they don't have much of an effect on HDL [our «good» cholesterol],» contributing to cardiovascular disease risk, says Alice Lichtenstein, a nutritional biochemist at Tufts University in Boston, who published a review on the topic in Current Atherosclerosis Reports in June 2014.

«While our study did not find additive benefits of calorie restriction and exercise on traditional risk factors for cardiovascular disease, much of the actual risk of developing cardiovascular disease can not be accounted for by traditional risk factors.

Dr. Fuster adds: «For our patients» lives and for the health of our global economies we need to improve our predictive measures for cardiovascular disease and can no longer just rely on traditional risk factors.

Higher temperatures and an increased risk of drought on the U.S. west coast result in nitrogen by - products that cause cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, especially among the region's rural and urban poor

Another recently published systematic review and meta - analysis by Dr. Sievenpiper's research group found that eating on average one serving a day of beans, peas, chickpeas or lentils can also reduce «bad cholesterol» by five per cent and therefore lower the risk of cardiovascular disease.

In patients with chronic kidney disease who are not on dialysis, ACEIs and ARBs slow the progression of diabetic nephropathy and reduce cardiovascular risk.

The small study, based on a survey of 236 cardiologists and internal medicine physicians and trainees at a large tertiary academic medical center, found that although physicians rate nutrition to be as important as statins in terms of reducing the risk of cardiovascular disease, only 13.5 percent agreed or strongly agreed that they were adequately trained to discuss nutrition with patients.

«Specifically, we are looking at the effects of these early factors on later levels of C - reactive protein (CRP), a biomarker associated with risk for cardiovascular and metabolic disease,» Metzger said.

Obesity puts a large burden on the health care system and increases an individual's risk for a number of diseases including diabetes, cardiovascular disease and cancer.

A second Mayo Clinic task force provided a perspective on the new ACC / AHA guideline for assessing cardiovascular risk in patients who do not have heart disease, also released in 2013.

«The field of occupational travel medicine needs to expand beyond its current focus on infectious disease, cardiovascular disease risks, violence and injury to bring more focus to the behavioral and mental health consequences of business travel.»

«Based on our findings, additional prospective cohort studies examining potential cardiovascular disease risk associated with calcium supplement use are needed,» said Paik.

A smattering of studies have linked the condition, known as obstructive sleep apnea, to a host of serious health risks, such as cardiovascular disease, obesity and even accidents — but long - term, population - based data on mortality overall have been lacking.

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.

We investigated the effects of coffee and tea on CV mortality and non-CV mortality in a large French population at low risk of cardiovascular diseases.»

Previous research has shown that being sedentary increases the risk of cardiovascular disease but until now its effect on patients with established heart disease was unknown.

In addition, the survey found that healthcare providers more often focused on a woman's weight rather than other cardiovascular disease risk factors, compared to men who were more likely to be told their cholesterol or blood pressure is too high by their doctors.

Appel and Sacks led three earlier clinical trials that tested ways to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease and diabetes, providing volunteers with carefully designed diets and measuring the effects on key health indicators.

The study sheds new light on the overall role of physical fitness in the development of cardiovascular risk factors in patients with cardiovascular disease.

The study shows that even low physical fitness, up to 20 % below the average for healthy people, is sufficient to produce a preventive effect on most of the risk factors that affect people with cardiovascular disease.

The results showed that normal physical fitness, even up to 20 % below the population average, is sufficient to have a preventive effect on five of the eight risk factors affecting people with cardiovascular disease — abdominal circumference, diabetes, hypertension, obesity, and excess weight.

«But for those who do well and are able stick to the 5:2 diet, it could potentially have a beneficial impact on some important risk markers for cardiovascular disease, in some cases more so than daily dieting.

Armed with the knowledge that tooth loss in middle age can signal elevated cardiovascular disease risk, adults can take steps to reduce the increased risk early on, he said.

«Scientific findings from the past two decades that focused on the prevention of cardiovascular diseases continue to show that among people who are at risk of dying from heart disease, the potential benefit of omega - 3 fish oil supplements is still useful for people who have had a recent heart attack, which is consistent with the 2002 statement,» Siscovick said.

Public health researchers seeking to determine an individual's risk of developing cardiovascular disease (CVD), coronary heart disease (CHD), or stroke have previously relied on national US data, such as that provided by the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES).

Globorisk measures cardiovascular risk in individuals aged 40 or older by factoring in the person's smoking status, blood pressure, diabetes status, and total cholesterol level, whilst adjusting for the effects of sex and age on cardiovascular disease between countries.

The panel concluded, among other things, that yoghurt and cheese have a different and more beneficial effect on bone health, body weight, the risk of developing cardiovascular diseases, than would be expected on the basis of their saturated fat and calcium content.

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.

Based on the new findings, these people are at 50 % higher risk for heart attack than those with no copies, and they face up to a 40 % greater risk of cardiovascular disease.