Sentences with phrase «risk of stroke»

In addition, a study found a high intake of white fruits and vegetables are linked to a greatly reduced risk of strokes.

If you have a kid that is sensitive to sugar, he's probably also experiencing more inflammation when he has it, therefore slightly increasing risks of stroke as an adult.

Another study found that Japanese women who ate a lot of plant compounds from soy - based foods like miso soup had a lower risk of stroke (31).

The results from a new study suggest that people who were emotionally neglected as children may have a higher risk of stroke in later adulthood.

And with coffee, researchers found just one cup per day was also associated with about a 20 percent decreased risk of stroke during a 13 - year follow - up period.

There's a greater risk of stroke Salt, a main ingredient in many inexpensive processed foods, does more than just add flavor.

This in turn substantially increases the long term risk of stroke.

The people who slept the most had a 46 % higher than average risk of stroke when the researchers accounted for other variables that could contribute to risk.

Women with type 1 diabetes also face a greater excess risk of strokes (37 %) and are 44 % more likely to die from kidney disease than men with the disorder.

A heightened risk of stroke was similarly linked to increasing aircraft noise exposure, but this was not statistically significant, possibly because of the small number of cases involved, suggest the researchers.

Here's the awful truth: People with diabetes have considerably elevated risks of stroke and heart attack.

To minimize risk of stroke, the following appear to be helpful: sleep 7 hours a night, drink green tea, and eat a potassium - rich plant based diet.

Coffee is just one small way to get more antioxidants in your diet for increased health and less risk of stroke.

The results support the idea that cognitive decline, regardless of whether a person has dementia, may predict risk of stroke, researchers explained.

Men who ate diets higher in potassium - rich foods, as well as foods high in magnesium and cereal fiber, had a substantially reduced risk of stroke.

Although we do need some salt in our diet, too much is linked to various health problems including increased risk of stroke and cardiovascular disease.

Vitamin D has been associated with a lower risk of stroke and heart attack risk in previous research.

It is now well known that the mineral potassium is crucial to heart function — in fact, individuals with low potassium levels are at higher risk of stroke and hypertension.

Studies have shown a positive correlation between potassium intake and bone mineral density; increased potassium intake is also linked to a decreased risk of stroke.

The findings suggest a link between long - term exposure to road traffic noise and deaths, as well as a greater risk of stroke, particularly in the elderly.

Sleep deprivation can lead to an elevated risk of stroke, heart disease, high blood pressure, depression, loss of sex drive and diabetes.

«And, next time you visit your doctor, be sure you understand your own risk of stroke by discussing your personal risk factors and how best to manage them.»

FRIDAY, Sept. 2, 2016 (HealthDay News)-- Excessive alcohol consumption and age may increase risk of stroke in people with a common heart rhythm disorder called atrial fibrillation, a new study finds.

Stroke Risk and Bioidentical Hormones Research from the French E3N study shows no higher risk of stroke among women who use bioidentical hormones.

Patients who have atrial fibrillation after surgery are at risk of stroke in the postoperative period.

Recent studies reveal the link between melatonin and brain health — showcasing the potential of melatonin to delay and even reverse neurodegenerative diseases like dementia, while cutting risk of stroke.

«Previous stroke, vascular disease: Seniors at higher risk of stroke after heart surgery.»

Mothers who breastfed each of their babies for 2 years or more had a 18 % (HR = 0.82, 95 % CI 0.77 - 0.87) lower risk of CHD and a 17 % (HR = 0.83, 95 % CI 0.79 - 0.87) lower risk of stroke compared with women who had never breastfed, they wrote online in the Journal of the American Heart Association.

Some research has indeed claimed that the increase in pressure caused by the Valsalva maneuver could have negative health implications (increasing risk of stroke for example).

«Linking these findings with other results from the same population suggests that persons living in a more polluted part of town may have a 2 percent higher risk of stroke as compared to people in a less polluted part of the same metropolitan area,» Adar said.

Higher intakes of glutamic acid and cysteine has also been associated with a decreased risk of stroke mortality and incidence in women (18, 19).

For women, those who smoked one cigarette per day had 31 % of the excess risk of heart disease and 34 % of the excess risk of stroke associated with smoking 20 cigarettes per day.

We showed previously in the «EXPRESS Study» that urgent medical treatment with a «cocktail» of different drugs could reduce the one - week risk of stroke from about 10 % to about 2 %, but we didn't know which component of the «cocktail» was most important.»

The brain may continue to hemorrhage or form blood clots, putting the patient at risk of a stroke if surgical action is not taken.

In one study it showed the link between high DHA supplementation and a declined risk of both stroke, cognitive decline and dementia, again later in life.

Women with preeclampsia are at higher risk of stroke during pregnancy and after delivery.

«Type 2 diabetes is growing rapidly all over the world and we need drugs that not only deal with glucose levels, but that also protect the many millions of people from the very real risks of stroke and heart attack.»

Its long - term monitoring of a large group, or cohort, of people in a Massachusetts town has yielded landmark results on everything from the link between cholesterol and heart disease to the genetic risk of stroke.

«Our data strongly suggest that the incremental risks of stroke and bleeding associated with mechanical prosthetic valve replacement should also be a major consideration in any discussion of prosthesis choice.»

Kathryn Rexrode, MD, MPH, with Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, who wrote an accompanying editorial, noted that the lower risk of hemorrhagic stroke did not mean that overweight and obese women had a reduced risk of stroke overall.

People at risk of stroke often take aspirin to reduce their risk of having another stroke; however, a percentage of patients may be insensitive, or resistant, to aspirin, which in turn may negate the aspirin's effect of lowering stroke risk.

In these people, commonly prescribed antipsychotics can be particularly damaging, quadrupling risk of stroke and death.

He says close follow - up throughout the lives of patients with atrial fibrillation can help prevent risk of stroke.

Frankel's BIOSIS research team is using blood samples from these same patients to continue learning more about the molecular biology of stroke to predict risk of a stroke occurring in the future.

How to read below chart: Vertical black line means average risk of stroke.

People with healthy blood pressure — less than 120/80 — have about half the lifetime risk of stroke as those with high blood pressure, or hypertension.

Women who consumed the highest amounts of orange and grapefruit as well as juices from these fruits had much better blood circulation, as well as a 19 percent lowered risk of stroke related to blood clotting as compared with women who didn't eat much citrus fruit.