If causal, the small reduction in blood pressure associated with breastfeeding could confer important benefits
on cardiovascular health at a population level.
Not exact matches
My colleague Laura Entis spoke with Andrew Freeman, the director of
cardiovascular prevention and wellness
at National Jewish
Health in Denver, about which health fads are actually effective in heart health — not based on marketing, branding, or hype, but actual sc
Health in Denver, about which
health fads are actually effective in heart health — not based on marketing, branding, or hype, but actual sc
health fads are actually effective in heart
health — not based on marketing, branding, or hype, but actual sc
health — not based
on marketing, branding, or hype, but actual science.
Specifically, this study looked
at something called «central obesity,» meaning the amount of fat deposited around the mid-section which has been shown to have a direct impact
on cardiovascular health and lifespan.
Women with normal blood pressure during pregnancy and who breastfed their babies for
at least six months following birth had better markers of
cardiovascular health years later compared to women who never breastfed, based
on research presented
at the American College of Cardiology's 67th Annual Scientific Session.
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.
«All politicians and public
health people say we've got to do something about it,» says Graham MacGregor, professor of cardiovascular medicine at the Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine in London and director of World Action on Salt and H
health people say we've got to do something about it,» says Graham MacGregor, professor of
cardiovascular medicine
at the Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine in London and director of World Action
on Salt and
HealthHealth.
«The CASTLE - AF clinical trial represents a landmark in the history of
cardiovascular medicine because of its potential impact
on our patients who are suffering from heart failure,» said James Fang, M.D., Chief of
Cardiovascular Medicine
at the University of Utah
Health.
«We decided to investigate
cardiovascular risks of this therapy in a large
health care database since these previous studies were modest in size and only focused on men 65 and older,» said the study's senior author, Sander Greenland, a professor of epidemiology at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and a professor of statistics in the UCLA College of Letters and Sc
health care database since these previous studies were modest in size and only focused
on men 65 and older,» said the study's senior author, Sander Greenland, a professor of epidemiology
at the UCLA Fielding School of Public
Health and a professor of statistics in the UCLA College of Letters and Sc
Health and a professor of statistics in the UCLA College of Letters and Science.
«Poverty and the many stresses that come with social disadvantage have long been linked to
cardiovascular disease, but how we live, work, and play has a great impact
on heart
health for people from a broad range of economic and cultural backgrounds,» explains David Siscovick, MD, MPH, Senior Vice President for Research
at The New York Academy of Medicine and Chair of the American Heart Association's (AHA) Council
on Epidemiology and Prevention.
Women with normal blood pressure during pregnancy and who breastfed their babies for
at least six months following birth had better markers of
cardiovascular health years later compared to women who never breastfed, based
on research presented
at the American College of Cardiology's 67th Annual Scientific Session.
They also used World
Health Organization spreadsheets «that would tell us how many people would develop cardiovascular disease or mild mental retardation from those levels,» sayslead author Kevin Chatham - Stephens, a pediatrician at The Mount Sinai Hospital who focuses on environmental h
Health Organization spreadsheets «that would tell us how many people would develop
cardiovascular disease or mild mental retardation from those levels,» sayslead author Kevin Chatham - Stephens, a pediatrician
at The Mount Sinai Hospital who focuses
on environmental
healthhealth.
«It is common to meet people entering a cardiac rehab centre who are totally out of shape and whose exercise is irregular or non-existent, which has a harmful effect
on general and
cardiovascular health,» said Caru, who is also a doctoral student in psychology
at the University of Paris - Nanterre.
Depression, even when undiagnosed, can have many negative effects
on cardiovascular patients, including poor healthcare experiences, more use of healthcare resources and higher
health costs, according to preliminary research presented
at the American Heart Association's Quality of Care and Outcomes Research Scientific Sessions 2018, a premier global exchange of the latest advances in quality of care and outcomes research in
cardiovascular disease and stroke for researchers, healthcare professionals and policymakers.
At about a month before they embarked, the research team collected a wealth of data
on each subject's
cardiovascular health.
It is a single target that influences a great many aspects of aging: if we look
at just the cross-link-induced loss of elasticity in blood vessels alone, that has a major influence
on mortality through hypertension and consequent impact
on cardiovascular health.
The researchers concluded their study by noting that estimated fitness level — in consideration with other risk factors such as smoking status, alcohol consumption, and other
health conditions — could have a major impact
on identifying people
at risk for future
cardiovascular disease.
Research suggests that a 10 - minute sweat session with 1 minute of high - intensity exercise (think sprints,
on foot or a stationary bike) can lead to the same benefits — including improved
cardiovascular health, increased endurance, and fat percentage loss — as exercising
at a moderate pace for 45 minutes.
He taught me a lot about evolutionary medicine and nutrition in general, opened many doors and introduced me (directly and indirectly) to various players in this field, such as Dr. Boyd Eaton (one of the fathers of evolutionary nutrition), Maelán Fontes from Spain (a current research colleague and close friend), Alejandro Lucia (a Professor and a top researcher in exercise physiology from Spain, with whom I am collaborating), Ben Balzer from Australia (a physician and one of the best minds in evolutionary medicine), Robb Wolf from the US (a biochemist and the best «biohackers I know»), Óscar Picazo and Fernando Mata from Spain (close friends who are working with me
at NutriScience), David Furman from Argentina (a top immunologist and expert in chronic inflammation working
at Stanford University, with whom I am collaborating), Stephan Guyenet from the US (one of my main references in the obesity field), Lynda Frassetto and Anthony Sebastian (both nephrologists
at the University of California San Francisco and experts in acid - base balance), Michael Crawford from the UK (a world renowned expert in DHA and Director of the Institute of Brain Chemistry and Human Nutrition,
at the Imperial College London), Marcelo Rogero (a great researcher and Professor of Nutrigenomics
at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil), Sérgio Veloso (a cell biologist from Portugal currently working with me, who has one of the best
health blogs I know), Filomena Trindade (a Portuguese physician based in the US who is an expert in functional medicine), Remko Kuipers and Martine Luxwolda (both physicians from the Netherlands, who conducted field research
on traditional populations in Tanzania), Gabriel de Carvalho (a pharmacist and renowned nutritionist from Brazil), Alex Vasquez (a physician from the US, who is an expert in functional medicine and Rheumatology), Bodo Melnik (a Professor of Dermatology and expert in Molecular Biology from Germany, with whom I have published papers
on milk and mTOR signaling), Johan Frostegård from Sweden (a rheumatologist and Professor
at Karolinska Institutet, who has been a pioneer
on establishing the role of the immune system in
cardiovascular disease), Frits Muskiet (a biochemist and Professor of Pathophysiology from the Netherlands, who, thanks to his incredible encyclopedic knowledge and open - mind, continuously teaches me more than I could imagine and who I consider a mentor), and the Swedish researchers Staffan Lindeberg, Tommy Jönsson and Yvonne Granfeldt, who became close friends and mentors.
Researchers have looked
at a variety of
cardiovascular problems — including heart attack, ischemic heart disease, and atherosclerosis — and found preliminary evidence of an ability
on the part of cruciferous vegetables to lower our risk of these
health problems.
«Diet has tremendous effects
on our short - and long - term
health, especially when it comes to obesity, diabetes, and heart disease,» says Dariush Mozaffarian, MD, associate professor of
cardiovascular medicine
at Harvard Medical School.
A 2013 study
on rats
at the University of Michigan
Health System suggests tart cherries provide similar benefits as a class of drugs called PPAR agonists, which are medications prescribed for metabolic syndrome, a group of symptoms that present a
cardiovascular risk.
This study, supported by The National Institutes of
Health, looked
at a group of 148 men and women, without
cardiovascular disease or diabetes, and placed them either
on a low - fat diet or low carbohydrate diet.
You can read the report abstract
at: The technical report
on sodium intake and
cardiovascular disease in low - and middle - income countries by the joint working group of the World Heart Federation, the European Society of Hypertension and the European Public
Health Association.
Doses of 600 mg per day of D - chiro - inositol have been shown to improve insulin and androgen levels in lean women with PCOS (Luorno et al. 200231), while doses of 1000 mg per day have been effective
at improving a range of metabolic and
cardiovascular health indicators
on a more representative PCOS population (Lagana et al. 201522).
After reviewing the latest scientific literature
at length, it seems fairly certain that both myo - inositol and D - chiro - inositol supplements can have a positive effect
on our
cardiovascular and metabolic
health to some extent or other.
The Third National
Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III) looked
at the effect of high sodium intake
on the risks of
cardiovascular disease mortality; including hypertension risk.
But if we look
at the correlation between fast food consumption and the effect it has
on the
health of your
cardiovascular system.
Kathy Smith has stood
at the forefront of the fitness and
health industries for more than thirty years with a collection of books, videos, audios and DVD's
on walking,
cardiovascular health, nutrition