Sentences with phrase «on hypertension study»

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Our analyses focused on five conditions that have been consistently associated with breastfeeding in observational studies that adjusted for parity as well as known or suspected confounders such as diet, physical activity, oral contraceptive use (in the case of cancer and hypertension), 6,7,18 and socioeconomic status (Table 1).

Of note, our models may underestimate the true maternal costs of suboptimal breastfeeding; we modeled the effects of lactation on only five maternal health conditions despite data linking lactation with other maternal health outcomes.46 In addition, women in our model could not develop type 2 diabetes mellitus, hypertension, or MI before age 35 years, although these conditions are becoming increasingly prevalent among young adults.47 Although some studies have found an association between lactation and rates of postmenopausal diabetes22, 23 and cardiovascular disease, 10 we conservatively limited the duration of lactation's effect on both diabetes and MI.

One study assessed incident disease in a population without data on dietary intake other than alcohol (4), and 2 studies measured prevalent hypertension, adjusting only for concurrent health behaviors (5, 11).

One way out of this dilemma, Daviglus notes, is to design a study in which patients suffering from hypertension get treatment, and doctors analyze the results based on how well the patients» blood pressure was controlled.

Earlier studies have demonstrated that cocoa flavanol intake improves the elasticity of blood vessels and lowers blood pressure — but, for the most part, these investigations have focused on high - risk individuals like smokers and people that have already been diagnosed with conditions like hypertension and coronary heart disease.

Black, non-Hispanic service members had a rate of 24.4 new diagnoses of hypertension per 1,000 person - years (p - yrs), nearly 50 percent higher than the rates among members of all the other racial and ethnic groups studied, according to the analysis published in the Medical Surveillance Monthly Report, a peer - reviewed journal on illnesses and injuries affecting service members.

In the new study, a team led by Neil Risch now at the University of California, San Francisco, profiled 3636 people living in 15 locations in the U.S., who were participating in a study on the genetics of hypertension.

While these studies were performed using a cellular model of hypertension, the implication of vitamin D3 on dysfunctional endothelium is much broader.

In the article «The effects of stair climbing on arterial stiffness, blood pressure, and leg strength in postmenopausal women with stage 2 hypertension,» results are provided from a study involving Korean postmenopausal women who trained four days a week, climbing 192 steps two to five times a day.

«When we use labels like «black» or «African», they are gross approximations,» agrees Charles Rotimi of the National Human Genome Research Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, who studies the influence of culture, lifestyle and genetics on patterns of obesity, hypertension and diabetes in African Americans.

To investigate the issue, a team led by Tracey Weissgerber, PhD and Vesna Garovic, MD (Mayo Clinic) analyzed information on 919 men and 1477 women from 954 sibships who participated in the Genetic Epidemiology Network of Arteriopathy study, which examined the genetics of hypertension in white, black, and Hispanic siblings.

«This study demonstrates how simple lifestyle interventions such as stair climbing can be effective in preventing or reducing the negative effects of menopause and age on the vascular system and leg muscles of postmenopausal women with hypertension,» says Dr. JoAnn Pinkerton, NAMS executive director.

«Although our hypothesis addresses the etiology of hypertension in footballers acutely, it could also have important implications on understanding the development of chronic disease long - term, and thus may improve the quality of football players» lives upon retirement from the game,» said Cameron G. McCarthy, M.S., study author from the Department of Physiology at Georgia Regents University in Augusta, Georgia.

«By knowing the population structure, we can use this information to facilitate our search for rare variants,» says Scott Williams of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, who worked on the new study and is investigating the genetics of hypertension in a population in Ghana.

Bhatt commented on the value of the study's cooperation between interventional and non-interventional blood pressure doctors, which demonstrated that a «good proportion» of patients with resistant hypertension in this study responded to expert medical therapy.

As the researchers have shown in various studies on mice, the widespread active ingredient sildenafil or a medication against pulmonary hypertension, for instance, can be used to reduce the number of white fat cells to the benefit of the brown fat cells and thus accelerate fat burning like a turbocharger.

The study, «Hypertension, Obesity, Diabetes, and Heart Failure - Free Survival: The Cardiovascular Lifetime Risk Pooling Project,» will be presented on March 14 at the American College of Cardiology's 64th Annual Scientific Session in San Diego.

The study comes at a time when hypertension and cardiovascular disease are already firmly on the Chinese government's agenda.

However, the impact of pre-transplant obesity, hypertension and coronary artery disease on post-transplant outcomes has received less attention and is the focus of our study.»

Based on a recent, special compilation of 12 reports published in the scientific journal Cereal Foods World during 2014 - 2017, eating whole grains is actually beneficial for brain health and associated with reduced risk of diverse types of cancer, coronary disease, diabetes, hypertension, obesity and overall mortality.EL BATAN, Mexico (CIMMYT)-- A new, exhaustive review of recent scientific studies on cereal grains and health has shown that gluten - or wheat - free diets are not inherently healthier for the general populace and may actually put individuals at risk of dietary deficiencies.

High sodium diets are commonly used to study diet induced hypertension, since increasing levels of circulating sodium cause cells to release water (due to osmotic pressure) which elevates the pressure on blood vessel walls.

During this time, I have been actively engaged in clinical studies of participants that have been diagnosed with glaucoma or high - risk ocular hypertension, as well as in laboratory - based studies on experimental glaucoma models in rodents and non-human primates.

The deCODE study is the largest population genetic study ever carried out in patients with essential hypertension — high blood pressure without a known secondary cause — and reports the strongest genome - wide linkage of any research on this condition to date.

These studies evaluate magnesium's affect on everything from skin health to diabetes and hypertension.

A similar study was just reported at the American Society of Hypertension meeting in May, which found that the ring of a cell phone caused blood pressure to rise on average by 8 mmHg.

All the studies done on human and animal subjects have shown chia seeds» potential effectiveness in combating angina, allergies, enhancing athletic performance, preventing cancer, heart attacks, coronary heart disease, hyperlipidemia, hormonal or endocrine conditions, hypertension vasodilatation and strokes.

The July, 2015 study, Soybean Oil Is More Obesogenic and Diabetogenic than Coconut Oil and Fructose in Mouse: Potential Role for the Liver, is believed to be the first side - by - side study looking at the impact of saturated fat, unsaturated fat and fructose on obesity, diabetes, insulin resistance and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, which along with heart disease and hypertension, are referred to as the Metabolic Syndrome.

Many of the studies done on the supposed link between sodium intake and hypertension are used to justify a low - sodium diet, especially in cardiac patients.

Likewise, a 2013 review of 10 studies on HIIT in older subjects with conditions ranging from coronary artery disease, heart failure, hypertension, metabolic syndrome, and obesity was published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.

Data from a study on the characteristics of CKD patients, 55 percent of whom are male, found that typically, 18 percent of CKD patients are of normal weight (BMI < 25), 29 percent are overweight (BMI 25 - 30) and 53 percent are obese (BMI > 30), 84 percent have hypertension and 42 percent have diabetes.8 Obesity is a risk factor for CKD and hypertension, and is associated with increased sodium excretion.

While it is not practical to address all of the studies, I have reviewed two — the Trials of Hypertension Prevention7 (TOHP) and a 2016 study by Mills and others, 6 which looked at sodium intake and CKD — in the sidebars on pages 34 and 35.

These findings derived from studies on subjects with hypertension led to the theory that lowering sodium intake in nonhypertensive individuals would lower blood pressure in them as well and would thereby reduce the risk of heart disease.

RECENT STUDY ON ADVERSE EFFECTS OF LOW SODIUM INTAKE About the same time that U.S. health officials announced their new initiative to reduce salt intake, The Lancet published a large population - based study which showed persuasively that the risk of mortality and serious cardiovascular events increases significantly when salt intake drops below 3000 mg per day (two - thirds teaspoon) in an adult of average weight.3 The study also found that sodium intake in excess of seven grams per day (over three teaspoons salt) was associated with an increased risk in those with hypertension, but not in those without hypertenSTUDY ON ADVERSE EFFECTS OF LOW SODIUM INTAKE About the same time that U.S. health officials announced their new initiative to reduce salt intake, The Lancet published a large population - based study which showed persuasively that the risk of mortality and serious cardiovascular events increases significantly when salt intake drops below 3000 mg per day (two - thirds teaspoon) in an adult of average weight.3 The study also found that sodium intake in excess of seven grams per day (over three teaspoons salt) was associated with an increased risk in those with hypertension, but not in those without hypertenstudy which showed persuasively that the risk of mortality and serious cardiovascular events increases significantly when salt intake drops below 3000 mg per day (two - thirds teaspoon) in an adult of average weight.3 The study also found that sodium intake in excess of seven grams per day (over three teaspoons salt) was associated with an increased risk in those with hypertension, but not in those without hypertenstudy also found that sodium intake in excess of seven grams per day (over three teaspoons salt) was associated with an increased risk in those with hypertension, but not in those without hypertension.

With chronic health conditions like obesity, metabolic syndrome, diabetes, heart disease, and hypertension on the rise, many weight - loss researchers are on the hunt for dietary patterns that are effective at reversing the root causes of these conditions.Most weight - loss studies -LSB-...]

In what appears to be the first study of yoga and stress in primary health care, Swedish researchers evaluated the effects on patients with a range of stress - related symptoms and diagnoses, from the pain of supraspinatus syndrome to hypertension to depression.

According to a study published in Hypertension, 50 patients with resistant hypertension (defined as high blood pressure that doesn't respond to taking three or more types of medication designed to lower blood pressure) who walked on a treadmill at a 3 percent grade three times a week for eight weeks were able to lower their systolic blood pressure (the number on the top of a blood - pressure reading) by 6 mm Hg (a measure oHypertension, 50 patients with resistant hypertension (defined as high blood pressure that doesn't respond to taking three or more types of medication designed to lower blood pressure) who walked on a treadmill at a 3 percent grade three times a week for eight weeks were able to lower their systolic blood pressure (the number on the top of a blood - pressure reading) by 6 mm Hg (a measure ohypertension (defined as high blood pressure that doesn't respond to taking three or more types of medication designed to lower blood pressure) who walked on a treadmill at a 3 percent grade three times a week for eight weeks were able to lower their systolic blood pressure (the number on the top of a blood - pressure reading) by 6 mm Hg (a measure of pressure).

In a new study published in Open Heart, a publication of the British Medical Journal, researchers argue that dietary guidelines should put the spotlight on reducing added sugar consumption — rather than salt — in order to really slash hypertension, heart disease and stroke rates.

This is because conventionally trained doctors are still relying on older studies which showed individuals with high sodium and low potassium intake have a higher risk for hypertension, and hypertension is related to cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk and mortality....

A 2012 study (5) done in Australia found that in «addition to the health benefits of a moderate - sodium Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension diet on blood pressure and bone health, this diet had a positive effect on improving mood in postmenopausal women.»

Hundreds of scientific studies prove that you can reduce the risk of hypertension and heart attacks by eating whole grains on a regular basis.

Scientists are reporting results today that might boil the blood of some people on the Atkin's and other low - carb diets: Vegetarian diets rank as superior in reducing the risk of high blood pressure, or hypertension, and subsequent heart damage, the study found.

According to one study on mice, NAC can thus cause pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) at high doses, a dangerous disease when the arteries in the lungs narrow and lung blood pressure rises.

Although direct studies on flaxseed and blood pressure are limited (and mostly confined to flaxseed oil versus ground flaxseed), numerous studies have shown the ability of increased omega - 3 fatty acid intake to help regulate blood pressure and to help reduce blood pressure in persons who have been diagnosed with hypertension.

The second study looked at a strain of salt - sensitive rats that reliably developed hypertension on high - salt diets.

We've talked a lot about stress over the last couple episodes, and stress is, maybe not just in my mind, but based on a lot of studies, stress could be a greater contributor to hypertension and heart disease than salt.

«DASH» stands for «Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension,» a clinical study that tested the effects of nutrients in food on blood pressure.

Randomized clinical trials and epidemiologic studies have shown that individuals who consume higher amounts of added sugar, especially sugar - sweetened beverages, tend to gain more weight7 and have a higher risk of obesity,2,8 - 13 type 2 diabetes mellitus,8,14 - 17 dyslipidemias, 18,19 hypertension, 20,21 and cardiovascular disease (CVD).14, 22 Most previous studies have focused on sugar - sweetened beverages but not total added sugar, and none of these studies has used nationally representative samples to examine the relationship between added sugar intake and CVD mortality.

Researchers looked at scientific studies showing a positive impact from pet ownership on infection control, cardiovascular disease, hypertension, cholesterol, allergies, stress, blood pressure and psychological issues, and concluded that further economic data was necessary before healthcare savings could be calculated.

Scientific research on meditation is accelerating with the growing awareness of meditation's numerous benefits, including a decrease in hypertension, heart disease, anxiety, depression, insomnia, and addictive behaviors.A groundbreaking study by Massachusetts General Hospital found that as little as eight weeks of meditation not only helped people feel calmer but also produced changes in various areas of the brain, including growth in the areas associated with memory, empathy, sense of self, and stress regulation.