Sentences with phrase «reduced coronary»

Another study, following over 500 post-menopausal women, found that high dietary vitamin K2 intake, but probably not vitamin K1 (phylloquinone,) was associated with reduced coronary calcification.

In an analysis of four large prospective studies on the health benefits of almonds, researchers determined that eating nuts at least 4 times a week reduced coronary heart disease risk by as much as 37 %.

«The message for regulators dealing with newly marketed «reduced risk» products is that any suggestion of seriously reduced coronary heart disease and stroke from using these products is premature.»

Walter Willett's dietary recommendations are similar in many ways to those advanced by another doctor - nutritionist, Dean Ornish, who pioneered an ultralow - fat, near - vegetarian regime that has been shown to halt or reduce coronary blockage in most heart patients.

And it's not clear if trying to get more sleep can reduce coronary artery calcification.

Despite the modest reduction in blood pressure, it could be significant as even a 2 mmHg diastolic blood pressure decrease has the potential to reduce coronary heart disease risk by 6 % and transient ischaemic attack and stroke risk by 15 %.

For example, vitamin E reduces coronary artery disease risk, and it can benefit people with confirmed cardiovascular disease.

The best diet to reduce coronary artery disease risk is a diet that dramatically restricts carbohydrates while providing lots of healthful fats.

Not exact matches

With fat considered the culprit in heart disease, it's no surprise the Dietary Guidelines for Americans in the 1980s suggested reducing total fat, saturated fat, and dietary cholesterol intake to prevent coronary heart disease.

Both almonds and pistachios have been found to help you burn fat and reduce your BMI while hazelnuts can reduce risk of coronary heart disease by increasing healthy HDL cholesterol levels.

Research, meanwhile, also suggests that the non-lipid fraction contains compounds such as phenolic - antioxidants, which can reduce the risk of coronary heart disease.

Referring to the potential of anti-oxidants to reduce the risk of coronary heart disease, he says, it works by inhibiting the oxidation of Low Density Lipoproteins (LDL) or «bad» fats.

«Our research has proven that coconut oil in fact does contain, like many others such as olive oil, phenolic anti-oxidants which are known to reduce the risk of coronary heart disease,» says Prof. Kapila Seneviratne attached to the Department of Chemistry of the University of Kelaniya.

According to that study, replacing animal proteins with plant proteins can greatly reduce the risks of coronary heart disease.

According to a study by the British Journal of Nutrition, cashews contain significant antioxidant levels which have been suggested to reduce the risk of cardiovascular and coronary heart disease.

In case you missed it, a recent landmark study published in the peer reviewed International Journal of Epidemiology found that risk for coronary heart disease, stroke, total cardiovascular disease and death other than from cancer was reduced with each 200g a day increase in fruit and vegetables up to 800g a day, and 600g a day for cancer.

That analysis of published large randomized trials calculated that each 77 - point drop in LDL cholesterol (a 2 millimole per liter drop) reduced the risk of a major cardiovascular event — heart attack, stroke or the need for a coronary - clearing procedure — by 45 percent.

ORLANDO, Fla. — Adding a pharmaceutical form of the B vitamin niacin — but not the drug ezetimibe — to a cholesterol - lowering statin drug appears to reduce artery plaque buildup in patients with coronary artery disease, according to much - anticipated results announced at a press conference November 15.

«We found that healthy food stores within one mile of their home was the only significant factor that reduced or slowed the progression of calcium buildup in coronary arteries,» said Ella August, Ph.D., co-lead author who initiated the study and clinical assistant professor of epidemiology at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

«We used different lines of evidence to show that ANGPTL3 deficiency is associated with a reduced risk of coronary artery disease,» said study co-author Kiran Musunuru, MD, PhD, MPH, an associate professor of Cardiovascular Medicine at Penn. «But ultimately we were able to identify that fact that carriers of this genetic mutation did in fact experience a benefit — with little other health risk.»

The coronary arteries supply blood to the heart muscle and no alternative blood supply exists, so a blockage in the coronary arteries reduces the supply of blood to heart muscle.

Vitamin D also reduces inflammation, an underlying mechanism for obesity related development of coronary artery disease, says Raed.

A targeted anti-inflammatory drug can reduce the risk of heart attacks or strokes, often brought on by narrowed coronary arteries (pictured), in high - risk patients.

A study by investigators at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) published this week in PLOS ONE identifies four factors that may account for sex differences in statin therapy among patients with coronary artery disease (CAD), pointing to interventions and additional research that will be needed to help overcome this sex disparity and reduce cardiovascular risk for women.

Such physical activity leads to a higher metabolism and better circulation, reducing the risk of conditions and diseases common in older age such as high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, coronary heart disease and strokes.

They found the drug combination reduces cardiovascular outcomes, increases bleeding and improves survival in stable coronary or peripheral artery disease.

The clear result of this clinical study — that the combination reduced strokes, heart attacks and cardiovascular death by practically 25 per cent compared to either drug alone in both patients with stable coronary or peripheral artery disease — caused the clinical trial to be stopped early, after 23 months, in February 2017.

In 1982 results came in from the Multiple Risk Factors Intervention Trial, which was designed to reduce the risk of coronary heart disease by counseling an experimental group to stop smoking, lower their blood pressure and cut back on saturated fat.

Previous results from the KIHD study have shown that frequent sauna bathing also significantly reduces the risk of sudden cardiac death, the risk of death due to coronary artery disease and other cardiac events, as well as overall mortality.

Use of the novel anticoagulant otamixaban did not reduce ischemic events compared with unfractionated heparin plus eptifibatide but increased bleeding among patients with non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes undergoing a percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI; procedures such as balloon angioplasty or stent placement used to open narrowed coronary arteries), according to a study published by JAMA.

The Nixon - era experiment had produced only a single journal paper, in 1989, which concluded that replacing saturated fats found in meat and dairy products with vegetable oils did not reduce the risk of coronary heart disease or death.

Bottom line: they reduce cholesterol, but not deaths from coronary heart disease or other causes.

Home visits by a cardiac surgery nurse practitioner (NP) following coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) surgery can dramatically reduce a patient's risk of hospital readmission and death 30 days after surgery, according to a study in the May 2014 issue of The Annals of Thoracic Surgery.

Rare errors in ANGPTL4 were associated with reduced risk of coronary artery disease.

But clinical trials have not shown that niacin reduced the risk of coronary heart disease or the broader cardiovascular disease specifically by raising HDL.

As with the omega - 3 fatty acids, walnuts can carry a label saying they may reduce an individual's risk of coronary heart disease.

Evidence suggests that treating children with elevated cholesterol reduces their risk of coronary heart disease later in life.

Cigarettes and atherosclerosis «A direct association has been established between cigarette smoking and coronary atherosclerosis, the condition in which fatty deposits build up in the arteries of the heart and reduce their interior diameter.

Researchers in Sweden sought to determine if use of tumor necrosis factor inhibitor drugs to treat RA would result in a reduced risk of acute coronary syndrome (commonly called ACS), defined as a diagnosis of a heart attack or unstable angina (the worsening or increasing cardiac symptoms)

Tumor necrosis factor inhibitor drugs (commonly called Anti-TNFs) modestly reduce the risk of acute coronary syndrome, such as heart attacks and angina, in rheumatoid arthritis patients whose inflammation places them at higher risk of developing coronary heart disease, according to new research findings presented this week at the American College of Rheumatology Annual Meeting in San Diego.

Rimm's study showed vitamin E reduced the risk of developing coronary - artery disease in healthy men ages 40 to 75.

Giving intravenous beta blockers before performing a coronary angioplasty in patients who had experienced the deadliest form of heart attack — ST - segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI)-- was safe but did not reduce heart attack severity or improve blood flow from the heart's main pumping chamber, according to research presented at the American College of Cardiology's 65th Annual Scientific Session.

Unlike heart attacks (myocardial infarctions), which are typically caused by clogged coronary arteries reducing blood flow to the heart muscle, sudden cardiac arrest is the result of defective electrical activity of the heart.

Within each genetic risk category, the presence of lifestyle factors significantly altered the risk of coronary events to such an extent that following a favorable lifestyle could reduce the incidence of coronary events by 50 percent in those with the highest genetic risk scores.

Young women with stable coronary heart disease are more likely than men to have reduced blood flow to the heart if they're under emotional stress, but not physical stress, according to research presented at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions 2014.

Dr. Goldie says that people with mental health disorders are less likely to receive risk - reducing drug therapies or undergo coronary procedures such as bypass surgery.

In a small, single - center clinical trial, Chadwick Miller, M.D., M.S., and colleagues found that evaluating older, more complex patients in the observation unit with stress cardiac MRI, as opposed to usual inpatient care, reduced hospital readmissions, coronary revascularization procedures and the need for additional cardiac testing.

«We believe that the results from our study underline the need for future research to further explore the relationship between shift schedules, individual characteristics and coronary health to potentially reduce CHD risk.»

â $ œThis benefit was specifically due to the reduced need of urgent revascularization due to acute coronary syndrome, a dramatic event for our patients.â $

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