This can help healthcare providers determine the risk
of strokes and heart attacks — which means avoiding unnecessary surgery for many patients.
Even small improvements in the effectiveness of treatments that
prevent stroke and heart attack are important because cardiovascular disease is very common.
They lower the risk of
stroke and heart attacks by reducing blood pressure, making blood platelets less likely to clot, and improving blood flow to the heart and brain.
Noninvasive imaging of carotid artery plaque with MRI can accurately predict future cardiovascular events
like strokes and heart attacks in people without a history of cardiovascular disease, according to a new study published online in the journal Radiology.
Last year, the British government recommended that people cut their salt intake from 10 to 5 grams per day, estimating that this would prevent 34 000 deaths a year
from stroke and heart attack.
The Royal College of Physicians» Stephen Holgate said that air pollution had «a substantial impact on many chronic long - term conditions,
increasing strokes and heart attacks in susceptible individuals.»
Most recently he was senior author of a major BPLTTC report (Lancet 2014) highlighting the potential for a novel risk - based approach to the allocation of blood pressure lowering therapy that could treat less people but prevent
more strokes and heart attacks.
Like PM10 particles, they insinuate themselves inside the walls of blood vessels, which can trigger the formation of the artery - clogging plaques that are the culprits
behind strokes and heart attacks.
According to various studies over the years, several health conditions including
strokes and heart attacks become more prevalent after daylight saving time starts in the spring due to how changing clocks affects sleep patterns and overall health.
Researchers in South Korea used the National Health Insurance Service's «medical check - up» database to identify patients with newly diagnosed herpes zoster — or shingles,
stroke and heart attack using the relevant International Classification of Disease - 10 diagnostics codes.
The primary causes of blood pressure increasing over a lifetime can be modified and could be focused on to help prevent heart disease: even though high blood pressure often has no obvious symptoms, this condition could lead to life
threatening stroke and heart attacks, so a reduction in blood pressure is crucial for health.
Danish researchers, whose study looked at non-pregnant women ranging in age from 15 to 49 over 15 years, found that women taking birth control pills with low - dose estrogen mixed with different progestins
experienced strokes and heart attacks about 1.5 — 2 times more than women not taking hormonal contraceptions.
From this wise and witty offering, scientists and nonscientists alike can learn the ways in which chronic stress — the twenty first century's black plague — has become one of the leading proximal causes of death, leading to
strokes and heart attacks along with a variety of other sub-optimal outcomes, from decreased immunity to insomnia, anxiety, depression, addiction, obesity, heart disease, and serious memory loss.
Patients with shingles were more likely to be female and common risk factors
for stroke and heart attack, such as old age, high blood pressure, diabetes and high cholesterol, were also more commonly seen in these patients.
Published in Diabetologia, the five - year study of nearly 10,000 people with type - 2 diabetes also assessed fenofibrate's impact on a range of lipoproteins and triglycerides (circulating blood fats) that elevate the risk of cardiovascular events such
as stroke and heart attack, and the need for medical procedures such as coronary artery bypass graft surgery.
«Lowering «bad» cholesterol (LDL) with an optimal intensity of tolerated statins and adherence to healthy lifestyle changes remains the most effective approach to
prevent strokes and heart attacks for patients at risk of cardiovascular disease.»
OAK BROOK, Ill. — Noninvasive imaging of carotid artery plaque with MRI can accurately predict future cardiovascular events
like strokes and heart attacks in people without a history of cardiovascular disease, according to a new study published online in the journal Radiology.
It is recognised that living in a cold, damp home affects physical health and worsens respiratory conditions such as asthma and bronchitis; increases the incidence of colds; raises blood pressure which in turn may increase the risk
of strokes and heart attacks for some, and in extreme cases hypothermia / mild hypothermia may be an issue for very vulnerable households.
Some may think I should probably stick with veggie sticks and dips but we all know that cocoa and dark chocolate keep high blood pressure down and reduce the blood's ability to clot, thus the risk of
stroke and heart attacks may be reduced.
The Framingham study showed cardiovascular events (
strokes and heart attacks) increased when cholesterol dropped below 160 and went over 260, but was lowest between those values.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention note that consuming excess sodium can lead to high blood pressure, which is a precursor for
stroke and heart attack.