Sentences with phrase «percent of heart disease»

According to the Colorado State University Veterinary Teaching Hospital, canine mitral valve disease accounts for 75 percent of heart disease in dogs, affects between five and seven million dogs in the United States, and is the leading cause of death and disability in dogs.

(and, I couldn't agree more with that statement) In fact, Dr. Kahn asserts that almost 80 percent of heart disease is preventable... Read More»

Research shows that as much as 80 percent of heart disease and stroke, 80 percent of type 2 diabetes, and 40 percent of cancer can be prevented.

Look at heart disease: The INTERHEART study of 30,000 men and women in 52 countries showed that at least 90 percent of heart disease is lifestyle related; a European study of more than 23,000 Germans showed that people with healthier lifestyles had an 81 percent lower risk.

Eating too much saturated fat instead of healthier fats accounted for roughly 4 percent of heart disease deaths — about 250,000 deaths that might be prevented with decreased saturated fat intake.

And, about 8 percent of heart disease deaths were estimated to be due to an excess of trans fats, the researchers said.

Not exact matches

The company's shares fell as much as 8.1 percent in after - market trading as sales of its premium non-invasive device, used to replace diseased aortic valves without open - heart surgery, is its biggest growth driver.

A giant new study, reported in the New York Times, found that people who drank between three and five cups of coffee a day had a 15 percent lower risk of dying young from heart disease and several other medical conditions.

In the survey, almost 75 percent of Caucasians, 82 percent of Asians and 92 percent of Indians had at least one risk factor for diabetes or heart disease.

20 percent of vehicle crashes are linked to driving while drowsy and inadequate sleep is a contributing cause for a litany of health horrors, including heart disease, diabetes, and depression, continuing right down to simple irritability.

He found that «men who reported more than 23 hours a week of sedentary activity had a 64 percent greater risk of dying from heart disease than those who reported less than 11 hours a week of sedentary activity,» according to NPR.

Both groups had a 60 percent increase in the amount of insulin circulating in their blood, as well as an increase in heart disease risk factors, including a seven percent average increase in abdominal fat.

... heart disease causes at least 40 percent of all U.S. deaths.

PETA — whose motto reads, in part, that «animals are not ours to eat» — notes that going vegan reduces diners» chances of developing heart disease by a whopping 32 percent, according to a large - scale study conducted by Oxford University.

Those that had ate the highest levels of CLAs experienced a 36 percent decrease in their risk of developing heart disease.

This move has been decried by many health advocates, including the American Heart Association, which said in a press release, «Children who eat high levels of sodium are about 35 percent more likely to have elevated blood pressure, which can ultimately lead to heart disease or stHeart Association, which said in a press release, «Children who eat high levels of sodium are about 35 percent more likely to have elevated blood pressure, which can ultimately lead to heart disease or stheart disease or stroke.

More than 75 percent of island residents are overweight or obese, they're more likely to smoke than other New York City dwellers and they're 33 percent more likely to have heart disease, Borough President James Oddo said.

More than 75 percent of residents are overweight or obese, 33 percent are more likely to have heart disease than elsewhere in the city and Staten Islanders are more likely to smoke, according to health department figures.

Watching TV an average of two more hours per day increases the risk of diabetes and heart disease by 20 and 15 percent, respectively.

The men and women whose levels of HDL with apoC - III were in the top 20 percent had a 60 percent higher risk of developing heart disease than those in the bottom 20 percent.

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.

Guidelines released in 2013 by the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology say that people between the ages of 40 and 75 should take a statin if their risk of cardiovascular disease is 7.5 percent or higher over the next 10 years.

«Sepsis is the leading cause of death in intensive care units in the United States, and patients with the diagnosis of sepsis have a minimum of a 30 percent chance of dying of their disease; if their vital organ systems — brain, heart, lungs, liver, kidneys — are affected, they have a 70 percent chance of dying.

Men who reported they skipped breakfast had a 27 percent higher risk of heart attack or death from coronary heart disease than those who reported they didn't.

Participants who ate peanuts or tree nuts two or more times per week had a 13 percent and 15 percent lower risk of cardiovascular disease, respectively, and a 15 percent and 23 percent, lower risk of coronary heart disease, respectively, compared to those who never consumed nuts.

Congenital heart disease occurs in nearly one percent of live births.

In other words, a drop of 10 °C in the average temperature over seven days, which is common in several countries because of seasonal variations, is associated with an increased risk in being hospitalized or dying of heart failure of about 7 percent in people aged over 65 diagnosed with the disease..

«The most obvious benefit was a reduction of 29 percent in deaths from heart disease — the major killer of people in America,» said Charles S. Fuchs, MD, MPH, director of the Gastrointestinal Cancer Center at Dana - Farber, who is the senior author of the report.

In Willett's view, things began to go awry in the mid-1980s, when a National Institutes of Health conference decreed that to prevent heart disease, all Americans except children under 2 years old should reduce their fat intake from 40 percent to 30 percent of their total daily calories.

Previous studies have found that cardiovascular disease accounts for 45 percent of deaths of on - duty firefighters nationwide, in contrast to 15 percent of deaths among those with conventional occupations, with heart attack being the number one cause of death.

Willett calculated that replacing 5 percent of saturated fat calories with unsaturated would cut the risk of heart attack or death from heart disease by 40 percent.

The Nurses» Health Study revealed a «very strong link» between walking and protection against heart disease: Women who walked an average of three hours a week were 35 percent less likely to have a heart attack over an eight - year period than those who walked less.

Only 16 percent of women reported being told by a doctor that they have or are at risk for heart disease, while 34 percent reported being told to lose weight.

Although nearly three - quarters of women taking a recent survey had one or more risk factors for heart disease, a startlingly small proportion — just 16 percent — had actually been told by their doctors that these factors put them at risk for heart disease, according to a study scheduled for presentation at the American College of Cardiology's 65th Annual Scientific Session.

Adults who closely followed the Mediterranean diet were 47 percent less likely to develop heart disease over a 10 - year period compared to similar adults who did not closely follow the diet, according to a study to be presented at the American College of Cardiology's 64th Annual Scientific Session in San Diego.

Of the 373 who had earlobe creases, 74 percent developed heart disease, while only 16 percent of those without creases did sOf the 373 who had earlobe creases, 74 percent developed heart disease, while only 16 percent of those without creases did sof those without creases did so.

Overall, nearly 20 percent of the men and 12 percent of the women who participated in the study developed or died from heart disease, a suite of conditions that includes stroke, coronary heart disease caused by the buildup of plaque in the heart's arteries, acute coronary syndromes such as heart attack, and other diseases.

Those who scored in the top - third in terms of adherence to the Mediterranean diet, indicating they closely followed the diet, were 47 percent less likely to develop heart disease over the 10 - year follow - up period as compared to participants who scored in the bottom - third, indicating they did not closely follow the diet.

A total of 5,011 deaths recorded during the follow - up period included 1,938 deaths (39 percent) from cancer, 1,040 (21 percent) from heart disease, and 1,418 (29 percent) from other natural causes, including diseases of the circulatory system (excluding heart disease) and diabetes.

Of these children, 25 percent have critical congenital heart defects, requiring one or more cardiac surgeries in the first year of life, according to the Centers for Disease ControOf these children, 25 percent have critical congenital heart defects, requiring one or more cardiac surgeries in the first year of life, according to the Centers for Disease Controof life, according to the Centers for Disease Control.

The incidence of heart disease was 22.6 percent in twins with PTSD (177 individuals) and 8.9 percent in those without PTSD (425 individuals).

Roughly 5 percent of patients laid low by strokes experience heart attacks soon afterward, sometimes without any prior known history of cardiac disease.

Using the scale as a benchmark, patients without a history of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, congestive heart failure, coronary artery disease, or cirrhosis have only a 3.1 percent probability of developing late, serious complications following joint replacement surgery.

In the largest study of its kind to evaluate the relationship between vitamin D levels and coronary artery disease, vitamin D deficiency (20ng / mL) was observed in 70.4 percent of patients undergoing coronary angiography — an imaging test used to see how blood flows through the arteries in the heart.

Overall, the two groups had statistically indistinguishable rates of colon cancer and heart disease and just a marginal reduction in breast cancer risk of 9 percent, although chance could have accounted for that outcome.

In both groups, participants consuming more than two servings a week of yogurt had an approximately 20 percent lower risks of major coronary heart disease or stroke during the follow - up period.

Wong and colleagues studied 2,018 adults (57 percent female) with diabetes mellitus but without known cardiovascular diseases who participated in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study, the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis or the Jackson Heart Study.

The good news is that those in the heart studies who did control all three factors had a 62 percent lower risk of developing cardiovascular disease, according to Nathan D. Wong, lead author of the UCI report, which appears online in Diabetes Care.

We get heavily hyped drugs like Avastin, which shrank tumors without adding significant time to cancer patients» lives (and increased the incidence of heart failure and blood clots to boot); Avandia, which lowered blood sugar in diabetics but raised the average risk of heart attack by 43 percent; torcetrapib, which raised both good cholesterol and death rates; and Flurizan, which reduced brain plaque but failed to slow the cognitive ravages of Alzheimer's disease before trials were finally halted in 2008.

Then in 2002 a large study seemed to prove that the therapy increased the risk of heart disease by 29 percent.