Sentences with phrase «percent had high cholesterol»

When the study began, 42 percent of the men smoked, 39 percent had high blood pressure and 51 percent had high cholesterol.

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Possible exceptions: Your child's doctor may recommend giving your child reduced - fat milk (2 percent) after age 1 if you're overweight or obese, or have a family history of obesity, high cholesterol, or cardiovascular disease.

Regarding vitamin D deficiency, consider the following from August 2009: «A whopping 70 percent of American kids aren't getting enough vitamin D, and such youngsters tend to have higher blood pressure and lower levels of good cholesterol than their peers, according to two new studies published this week in the journal Pediatrics.

According to the April 21 study, women who lactated for two years during their lifetime had a 13 percent lower risk for high blood pressure and a 20 percent lower risk for high cholesterol than women who never breastfed.

Researchers found that the breast - fed offspring were 55 percent more likely to have high HDL cholesterol in adulthood.

In one online tool, a sedentary 60 - year - old white male with a weight of 250 pounds, a total cholesterol of 225, no high blood pressure and no personal or family history of heart disease might have a 9 percent risk of having a heart attack in the next 10 years.

They also had 36 percent higher odds of high cholesterol.

They also had a 66 percent lower risk for heart disease factors such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol or type 2 diabetes.

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.

Read labels and try to track your daily saturated fat grams until you get an idea of how much your typical food choices contain; don't rely solely on the Percent Daily Values listed, since they're based on the diet of someone who doesn't have high cholesterol and thus can eat slightly more saturated fat.

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 found.

In one 2012 study out of San Diego State University, people who ate about an ounce and a half of dark chocolate (with 70 percent cocoa) daily for two weeks had lower levels of bad cholesterol and higher good cholesterol than those who nibbled on white chocolate, which contains zero cocoa.

In other words, every 30 mg you decrease cholesterol, you have a 22 percent higher chance of dying.

Many researchers, however, have rejected the saturated - fat - and - cholesterol theory as a cause of heart disease, because more than 60 percent of all heart attacks occur in people with normal cholesterol levels and the majority of people with high cholesterol levels never have heart attacks.

In a review of 72 studies researchers found that most heart attack patients» cholesterol levels did not indicate cardiac risk; in fact, 75 percent of them had normal, not high LDL («bad») cholesterol.

Many researchers, however, have rejected the saturated fat and cholesterol theory as a cause of heart disease because more than 60 percent of all heart attacks occur in people with normal cholesterol levels and the majority of people with high cholesterol levels never have heart attacks.

Those who eat the most subsidized foods had a 41 percent greater risk of being overfat, with higher risks for chronic inflammation and abnormal cholesterol.

The group with the monounsaturated fats saw higher good cholesterol levels two weeks into the diet, and, by the end of the month, they had a 12.5 percent increase in good cholesterol.

A study published in the journal Plant Foods for Human Nutrition found that rats that had consumed a high level of fructose and were then fed a quinoa diet reduced their LDL cholesterol by 57 percent.

367 D IETARY, FUNCTIONAL, AND TOTAL FIBER total cholesterol concentrations averaged 23 percent lower on the high fat, Bengal gram diet than on the high fat diet alone.

The researchers report that if men had total cholesterol of less than 200 milligrams / deciliter, they had a nearly 60 percent lower risk of developing high grade prostate cancer, the riskiest kind.

They found that cancer survivors were nearly twice as likely as their siblings to take medication for high blood pressure, 60 percent more likely to take cholesterol medication and 70 percent more likely to have diabetes.

Men in this group with high total cholesterol (defined as 250 mg / dL) have a 7 percent chance of suffering a heart attack during the next decade.