Sentences with phrase «smoking on cardiovascular disease»

In the most comprehensive study ever on the impact of smoking on cardiovascular disease in older people, epidemiologist Dr. Ute Mons from the German Cancer Research Center (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, DKFZ) analyzed 25 individual studies, compiling data from over half a million individuals age 60 and older.

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Former studies have already proven that smoking during pregnancy can harm the unborn child: Newborns from smoking mothers have shown low birth weights and impaired lung functions; later on in life respiratory diseases, diabetes type II, asthma or cardiovascular diseases were also more common.

They found that the age of smokers who die from cardiovascular disease is, on average, five and a half years younger than people who have never smoked in their lives.

Globorisk measures cardiovascular risk in individuals aged 40 or older by factoring in the person's smoking status, blood pressure, diabetes status, and total cholesterol level, whilst adjusting for the effects of sex and age on cardiovascular disease between countries.

Results: Although cigarette smoking has long been linked to cardiovascular disease, scientists are still on the lookout for insights into how smoking causes this disease.

The researchers concluded their study by noting that estimated fitness level — in consideration with other risk factors such as smoking status, alcohol consumption, and other health conditions — could have a major impact on identifying people at risk for future cardiovascular disease.

But for the last word on smoking and cholesterol, we turn to a 2009 study in Risk Analysis that examined five changeable risk factors for cardiovascular disease: smoking, egg yolk consumption, exercise, BMI, and diet.

We know that dietary factors along with smoking and alcohol use have an impact on who gets cardiovascular diseases.

Smoking's unhealthy effect may «overwhelm the influence of coffee intake on early cardiovascular disease,» Miranda reasoned.

On the baseline questionnaires, we requested information about age; weight and height; smoking status; physical activity; history of diabetes in first - degree relatives; use of postmenopausal hormone therapy; use of oral contraceptives; and personal history of diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, and cancers.

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Michaels was listed as an academic member on the ESEF's March 1998 working paper titled «Environmental Tobacco Smoke Revisited: The reliability of the evidence for risk of lung cancer and cardiovascular disease.»