Dietary fat intake and risk of cardiovascular disease and all - cause mortality in
a population at high risk of cardiovascular disease.
A modelling analysis predicted that dark chocolate consumption in
populations at high risk of cardiovascular disease could potentially avert cardiovascular events over the long term owing to its antihypertensive and metabolic effects
Not exact matches
Similarly, only half
of the patients with OSA were categorized as being
at high risk for OSA on the Berlin Questionnaire, a sleep apnea screening tool, suggesting that these validated tools in the general
population may not be useful for patients with
cardiovascular diseases.
The latest Western guidelines increased target blood pressure to 140/90 mmHg for patients
at high risk of cardiovascular disease and renal failure, but this may be too
high for Asian
populations warn, the authors.
«While we don't know which comes first — depression or
cardiovascular disease — the consensus is that depression is a
risk marker for
cardiovascular disease, meaning if you have
cardiovascular disease, there is a
higher likelihood that you could also have depression, when compared with the
risk in the general
population,» said Victor Okunrintemi, M.D., M.P.H., a research fellow
at Baptist Health South Florida in Coral Gables, Florida, and lead author
of a pair
of studies that looked into different aspects
of depression and
cardiovascular disease.
«We have studied women over 65 as they are among the least active groups
of the
population,
at the same time as they run a
high risk of developing
cardiovascular disease,» says Fawzi Kadi, Professor
at Örebro University.
Researchers have long theorized that blacks are
at higher risk for developing Alzheimer's
disease due to genetics and
higher rates
of diabetes, obesity, and
cardiovascular diseases in this
population.
If
high cholesterol were the most important cause
of cardiovascular disease, it should be a
risk factor in all
populations, in both sexes,
at all ages, in all
disease categories, and for both heart
disease and stroke.