We've helped thousands of people apply for term life insurance, and many of
those people had high cholesterol.
So possibly as I theorized, when
a person has high cholesterol, when they run, they put lot more strain on the heart as if they had lower amounts of plaque on the arteries.
Not exact matches
But the night before, I eat a meal very
high in saturated fat and
cholesterol — I'll
have the double portion of rib eye — to facilitate testosterone production, which helps mental acuity as much as physical performance, something a lot of
people don't realize.
Truth:
People tend to avoid whole eggs because of their
high cholesterol content, but recent research suggests that the
cholesterol from our diets doesn't
have much of an effect on the level of
cholesterol in our blood.
While many companies provide health insurance to
people with pre-existing conditions such as
high blood pressure or
high cholesterol, most
people with these maladies wouldn't get coverage if they suddenly lost their job.
In contrast,
high cholesterol levels are positively correlated with longevity in
people over 85 years old, and in some cases
has been shown to be associated with better memory function and reduced dementia.
Any
person with
high or borderline
cholesterol should
have it supervised by a
He compares it to a
person being told to stop eating hamburgers because they
have high cholesterol and might get a heart attack.
«We found that Amish
people with this mutation
have defects in fat storage, increased fat in the liver,
high triglycerides, low «good» (HDL)
cholesterol, insulin resistance and increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes,» says the study's senior author, Coleen M. Damcott, Ph.D., an assistant professor of medicine in the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Nutrition and member of the Program for Personalized and Genomic Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.
A University of South Florida professor and an international team of experts
have found that older
people with
high levels of a certain type of
cholesterol, known as low - density lipoprotein (LDL - C), live as long, and often longer, than their peers with low levels of this same
cholesterol.
«
People with psoriasis, particularly those with more severe disease,
have an increased risk for a variety of other health problems, including obesity, diabetes,
high blood pressure,
high cholesterol, stroke and heart attack,» says board - certified dermatologist Jashin J. Wu, MD, FAAD, director of dermatology research at the Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center.
«They were not developed for cancer, they were manufactured for
people with hypercholesterolemia [chronic condition where patients
have very
high level of
cholesterol in their blood], but it will be interesting for us to test them with cancer patients and see if there is improvement.»
It is possible that medical advances over the past few decades in the treatment of type 2 diabetes, hypertension and
high cholesterol levels
have had a greater impact on
people who are overweight — which increases the risk for these conditions — whereas the effect was much smaller in those of normal weight.
Cardiovascular disease is a leading cause of death among homeless
people, probably because they
have a
high rate of traditional risk factors such as smoking or undiagnosed or untreated hypertension, diabetes or
high cholesterol, combined with the stress and low socio - economic status associated with homelessness.
After adjusting the data for age, sex, race, education, smoking, alcohol use, blood pressure, diabetes,
high blood pressure medication,
cholesterol levels, statin use and body mass index, the researchers found that those
people who met both the recommended activity levels and
had vitamin
D levels above 20 nanograms per milliliter experienced about a 23 percent less chance of
having an adverse cardiovascular event than those
people with poor physical activity who were deficient for vitamin
D. On the other hand,
people who
had adequate exercise but were vitamin
D deficient didn't
have a reduced risk of an adverse event.
«One possibility,» Huang said, «is that statin use can be a marker of
people who
have high cholesterol which itself may be associated with lower PD risk.
A
person meets the criteria of the metabolic syndrome if they
have three or more of the following metabolic abnormalities: blood pressure at 130/85 mm Hg or above; fasting glucose of 100 mg / dL or
higher; waist circumference 40 inches or more in men and 35 inches in women; triglyceride levels at 150 mg / dL or more, and
high - density lipoprotein
cholesterol (HDL - C) greater than 40 mg / dL in men and 50 in women.
The
people with MS
had higher rates of all of the conditions except
high cholesterol.
It is characterized in
people who
have at least three of five common issues that raise health concerns — excess abdominal fat,
high blood pressure, low «good»
cholesterol, and / or
high levels of blood sugar and triglycerides.
Extra note: see this recent ECCRI paper on circulating progenitor cells in
people who
have inherited very
high cholesterol.
In March 2008, a 15,000 -
person study comparing Crestor (rosuvastatin) against placebo in two groups of outwardly healthy
people with low levels of LDL
cholesterol and
high levels of CRP was stopped early — a «stunning» outcome, the lead researcher said at the time — because the reduction in cardiac events was so marked among the participants taking the drug that to continue the trial and deprive the placebo group of the drugs benefits
would have been unethical.
There is also some research to support the idea that
people with congestive heart failure might
have low levels of CoQ10, and studies
have also shown that supplementing might benefit
people with
high cholesterol and
high blood pressure.
My go - to herbalist, author and American Herbalist Guild member David Winston of Broadway, New Jersey, says in his book, Herbal Therapy and Supplements: A Scientific and Traditional Approach, that animal and test - tube studies are convincing enough to recommend eating maitake regularly as part of a treatment plan for
high cholesterol,
high blood pressure, insulin resistance, and even hepatitis B. (Placebo - controlled studies in
people have yet to be conducted.)
High cholesterol is associated with cardiovascular diesease, but a healthy
person can
have around 300 milligrams of
cholesterol a day.
For years
people have thought a diet
high in eggs leads to unhealthy levels of
cholesterol.
These
people usually
have high cholesterol or fatty liver.
Those who
had high cholesterol, hypertension, diabetes, or another heart - related risk factor were twice as likely to progress to Alzheimer's compared to
people with no risk factors.
Female night owls, compared with their early bird counterparts, tended to
have more belly fat and a greater risk of metabolic syndrome — a cluster of conditions (like
high blood pressure,
high blood sugar, and
high cholesterol) that increase a
person's risk for heart disease and diabetes.
Well, for one, the residents of the top five cities
have significantly lower rates, on average, of a handful of diseases (from diabetes to
high cholesterol to depression) compared to
people living in cities with low scores.
If the FDA adopts the panel's recommendation — the agency isn't required to do so, but typically does in such cases — it
would mark the first time that a statin was approved for heart - disease - free
people with healthy
cholesterol levels but other risk factors, including
high levels of C - reactive protein (CRP), a marker of inflammation.
«Depression is common in older adults and more frequent in
people with memory problems, vascular risk factors such as
high blood pressure or
high cholesterol, or
people who
have had a stroke,» Cherian explained in an AAN news release.
In the meanwhile, a big number of studies
have shown that consuming a moderate amount of full - fat diary products instead their low - fat versions can reduce the risk of developing heart disease and diabetes, while in healthy
people over 60 years of age, a
higher cholesterol has been associated with a lower risk of mortality.
Taking lots of daily medications can become confusing, especially if you're among 3 out of 5
people with diabetes who also
have high cholesterol,
high blood pressure or both — and you're taking medicines for those conditions.
In fact, the lower a
person's levels, the
higher their risk of death and
high cholesterol levels
have more recently been correlated to longevity.
The unfortunate result
has been that some
people with
high LDL but with low risk were subject to «
cholesterol limbo» (how low can you go!)
People who regularly eat a morning meal tend to
have lower rates of heart disease,
high cholesterol, and
high blood pressure, according to a scientific statement from the American Heart Association.
About 80 % of
people who
have heart attacks
have at least one of the main risk factors, such as
cholesterol,
high BMI, or diabetes.
Then there are plenty of
people with
high cholesterol who do nt
have heart attacks.
This time lag can make it difficult for some
people to see the benefits of treating
high cholesterol just as aggressively as they
would a heart attack, says Dr. Fonarow.
Check immune markers such as your white blood cell count and
high sensitivity c - reactive protein, as well as
cholesterol, to see what impact it
has on these markers — for some
people the positive effects are astounding.
the shocking fact that elderly
people with the lowest
cholesterol have the
highest risk for dementia
People aged 85 to 94 with good brain function whose cholesterol was above normal had a 32 percent lower risk for mental decline over the next 10 years compared with people aged 75 to 84, who had a 50 percent higher risk of developing dementia, researchers
People aged 85 to 94 with good brain function whose
cholesterol was above normal
had a 32 percent lower risk for mental decline over the next 10 years compared with
people aged 75 to 84, who had a 50 percent higher risk of developing dementia, researchers
people aged 75 to 84, who
had a 50 percent
higher risk of developing dementia, researchers found.
Obesity as well as other risk factors linked to metabolic syndrome are also on the increase in younger
people; over 70 % of teenagers in the study
had 1 or more of the 5 metabolic syndrome risk factors, namely
high blood levels of sugar and fat,
high blood pressure, low good
cholesterol levels and a large waistline (metabolic syndrome is classified as
having 3 or more of the risk factors).
«We don't think that
having a
high cholesterol becomes a good thing — it's just that you're likely to be the kind of
person for whom
cholesterol doesn't matter,» he explained.
A 2014 study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association discovered that
people with
high levels of bad
cholesterol and low levels of good
cholesterol had a
higher chance of developing a build - up of beta - amyloid proteins in their brain, which are indications of Alzheimer's disease and dementia.
Low levels of HDL
cholesterol and
high levels of triglycerides can also increase fat build - up in the arteries and cause heart disease, especially in
people who are obese or
have diabetes.
Many
people believe that eating
cholesterol - containing foods does not increase your blood
cholesterol, but this is only the case in
people who already
have high cholesterol.
Any studies that
have tried to prove the connection between
high cholesterol and poor health
have now been dismissed and disproved and seen by any intelligent
person as pure fraudulent quackery.
That's how many
people have some form of heart disease, including atherosclerosis,
high cholesterol, and coronary artery disease.
Metabolic syndrome describes an obese
person with central or abdominal obesity (a fat stomach) who also tends to
have a poor
cholesterol profile,
high blood sugar and insulin and the attendant insulin resistance,
high blood pressure, and clogged arteries.