«Doctors or other healthcare professionals can measure grip strength to identify patients with major illnesses such as heart failure or stroke who are at
particularly high risk of dying from their illness.»
Not exact matches
The problem is getting a handle on what exactly this means,
particularly when these same changes seem to have no effect on lipid levels, and the
risk of dying from cardiovascular disease is at best weakly associated with
high salt consumption (15 % increase in
risk).
High cortisol levels, which are
particularly stressful for the heart, increase the
risk of dying from cardiovascular disease by five-fold, even among people with no previous
risk factors for heart disease.