Sentences with phrase «stroke risk due»

Women and the elderly also appear more vulnerable to stroke risk due to air quality and heat - related diseases.»

Not exact matches

«Too many New Yorkers are at risk of high blood pressure, heart disease and stroke due to high sodium intake, and this saltshaker will help New Yorkers make better decisions about their diet — ultimately leading to a healthier and quite possibly a longer life.»

This is largely due to physical health disorders such as heart attack or stroke, for which type 2 diabetes is a major risk factor.

Such patients are at very high risk of stroke, heart attack and kidney failure due to uncontrolled high blood pressure and the need to find alternative ways of getting these patients» blood pressure under control is urgent.

After 50 years of being a mainstay cholesterol therapy, niacin should no longer be prescribed for most patients due to potential increased risk of death, dangerous side effects and no benefit in reducing heart attacks and strokes, writes Northwestern Medicine ® preventive cardiologist Donald Lloyd - Jones, M.D., in a New England Journal of Medicine editorial.

The study — which examined insurance claims data for more than 3,000 patients who were at risk for stroke due to atrial fibrillation, treated with anticoagulants, and later admitted to a hospital for bleeding — calls into question the current medical belief that the older drug is safer.

In fact, recent research from the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine tied both regular and decaf coffee consumption to a lower risk of death due to heart disease, cancer, stroke, diabetes, and respiratory and kidney diseases.

For example, the prescription combination known as Fen - Phen was linked to heart valve problems and removed from the market in 1997, and phenylpropanolamine (PPA) was an ingredient removed from weight - loss products in 2005 due to stroke risk.

He's concerned about this link, since a great deal of research has shown that people with major mental disorders tend to have a life expectancy that's shortened by 25 to 30 years, often due to premature heart disease (diabetes can raise the risk of heart attack and stroke).

And the FDA recently strengthened the warning on prescription and over-the-counter NSAIDs (Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs) due to the increased risk of heart attacks and stroke associated with their use, in both people with or without other risk factors.

The risk of stroke dramatically increases in the days following an attack, and the transient ischemic attack could present a chance to minimize the risk or find a cause in order to prevent the permanent neurologic damage that results due to a stroke.

I do not recommend this treatment due to the fact that estrogen replacement therapy, be it conventional or «natural» (50 % natural and 50 % synthetic hormones), is shown to increase risks of uterine cancer, breast cancer, stroke, heart attacks, blood clots, and even mental decline.

Knowledgeable doctors will encourage their patients to stay on bioidentical hormones due to many long term benefits such as maintaining bone density, reduce incidence of breast and uterine cancers and lower the risk of heart disease, strokes and dementia.

Of course there are many more symptoms and many of the more serious ones include risk of heart failure and stroke due to higher cholesterol levels and heart issues.

Due to ginger's cholesterol - lowering and anti-blood-clotting effects, ginger helps to reduce the risk of strokes and heart attacks.

Noted and most consistent health effects have been found for cardiovascular health, normal blood flow, lower risks of morbidity due to stroke and heart attack, reduction in blood pressure, improved inner blood vessel lining functioning, and others.

Nor was Meridia (sibutramine), which Abbott Laboratories voluntarily withdrew from the market in October due to an increased risk for heart attack and stroke.

Driving in Hazardous Conditions in New Mexico Driving always encompasses a certain amount of risk, but most often motorists are injured not by a stroke of bad luck but due to the negligence of another.

(Pen stroke risk refers to the uncertainty of government reimbursements due to potential legislation.)