Sentences with phrase «percent of heart disease deaths»

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

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

«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.

«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.

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.

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.

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.

They found a significantly lower rate of deaths from heart disease in the more recently diagnosed rheumatoid arthritis patients than in those diagnosed earlier: 2.8 percent and 7.9 percent, respectively.

There were also nine hospitalizations for hypertensive emergency (1.0 percent), eight for atrial fibrillation (0.9 percent), eight strokes (0.9 percent), six hospitalizations for new onset heart failure (0.7 percent), five heart attacks (0.6 percent), four deaths (0.4 percent) and two cases of new onset end stage kidney disease (0.2 percent) that were considered unrelated to the procedure.

Replacing saturated fats, refined carbohydrates (like simple sugars) or trans fats with an equal number of calories (2 percent — 5 percent of the total) from mono - unsaturated fatty acids from plants might lower the risk of heart disease deaths and death from any cause between 10 percent and15 percent.

Night - time hypertension, which increases the risk of heart disease, stroke and death, affected 42.5 percent of women in the study.

Fibrotic diseases, such as chronic kidney disease and failure, lung disease, heart failure and cirrhosis of the liver, are estimated to be responsible for up to 45 percent of deaths in the developed world.

Approximately 90 percent of Americans will develop high blood pressure at some time in their lives, putting them at significantly elevated risk for heart disease and stroke — the country's first and fourth leading causes of death.

Aim to eat fish several times a week, cooked in healthy ways: In a 2009 study, men who consumed the most omega - 3s each day from baked or boiled fish (as opposed to fried, dried or salted) cut their risk of death from heart disease by 23 percent, compared with those who ate the least.

The group who ate the most nuts, peanuts and peanut butter reduced their risk of early death from heart disease and all other causes by about 20 percent, compared to the group eating the least, she said.

Had he chosen a different set of countries, the data would have shown that increasing the percent of calories from fat reduces the number of deaths from coronary heart disease.

Of these deaths, 60 percent are due to stroke and heart disease — the conditions that I, as a cardiologist, am striving to prevent at all costs!

People who exercise regularly have up to a 35 percent lower risk of coronary heart disease and stroke, up to a 50 percent lower risk of type 2 diabetes, up to a 50 percent lower risk of colon cancer, up to a 20 percent lower risk of breast cancer, a 30 percent lower risk of early death, to name a few.

More than 70 percent of the rise in life expectancy is attributable to fewer deaths from cardiovascular disease, primarily heart attacks and strokes.

Those who ate the most chocolate had an 18 percent lower risk of heart attack, 23 percent lower risk of stroke, a 25 percent lower risk of heart disease, and a 45 percent lower risk of heart disease - associated death than those who ate the least amount.

Dr. James A. Levine of the Mayo Clinic also said that people who sit four or more hours a day have nearly 50 % increased death of any cause, as well as «about a 125 percent increased risk of events associated with cardiovascular disease, such as chest pain (angina) or heart attack.»

Meanwhile, those who ate an average of 7 to 100 grams of chocolate a day had an 11 percent lower risk of developing cardiovascular disease, a nine percent risk of heart disease - related hospitalization, and a 25 percent lower risk of heart disease - related death.

While heart disease caused no more than 10 percent of all deaths in the United States prior to the 1920s, by the 1950s it had risen to more than 30 percent.

That's because if you're consuming more than 21 percent of your daily calories from added sugars, you double your risk of death from heart disease compared to people who consume just 10 percent of their calories from added sugars.

And, while rates of some degenerative conditions, such as heart disease, have decreased since 2000, deaths from Alzheimer's disease have soared by an astonishing 89 percent — causing researchers and scientists to scramble... Read More»

According to one 2012 study, people who consumed 4,069 mg of potassium each day had a 49 percent lower risk of death from heart disease compared with those who consumed only about 1,000 mg of potassium per day.

Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States, affecting about 11 percent of the population.

Most recently, sugar in the diet has also been implicated in cardiovascular disease deaths: A large study led by Dr. Hu reported last year that adults who had the highest intake of sugar — consuming 25 percent of daily calories as sugar — were nearly three times more likely to die of heart disease over a 14 - year period, compared with those whose sugar intake was less than 10 percent of calories.

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.

Dirty air is associated with not only a number of cancers, but also heart disease, stroke, and respiratory disease, which together account for over 80 percent of deaths countrywide.

According to the study, about 30 percent of heart attacks, strokes and deaths from heart disease — the leading cause of death for men and women in the United States — can be prevented in people at high risk if they switch to a Mediterranean diet.