Sentences with phrase «terms of heart disease»

In terms of heart disease, this product assists by keeping sodium intake very low.

We have discussed saddle thrombus in terms of heart disease so far but it turns out there are other ways to get an aortic thromboembolism.

But I suspect (middle class) affluence might actually shorten LE also — in terms of heart disease, obesity, diabetes etc..

Another study examining the effects the different lipids in terms of heart disease risk found that «triglyceride concentration was not independently related with CHD risk after controlling for HDL - C, non — HDL - C, and other standard risk factors, including null findings in women and under nonfasting conditions.21, 22 Hence, for population - wide assessment of vascular risk, triglyceride measurement provides no additional information about vascular risk given knowledge of HDL - C and total cholesterol levels, although there may be separate reasons to measure triglyceride concentration (eg, prevention of pancreatitis).»

In terms of heart disease, Drs. Ingenbleek and McCully have shown sulfur deficiency not only leads to high homocysteine levels, but is the likeliest reason some clinical trials using B6, B12 and folate interventions have proved ineffective for the prevention of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.

These findings provide evidence for the timing hypothesis, also supported by animal studies, as an explanation for the results seen in younger women, especially in terms of heart disease and stroke.

Not exact matches

Factors predictive of long - term coronary heart disease mortality among 10,059 male Israeli civil servants and municipal employees.

It speaks of Tocquevillian individualism in terms of literal heart disease.

Even though alcoholism ranks as one of the country's three major health problems, along with cancer and heart disease; even though it accounts for approximately 98,000 deaths every year; even though it is the root cause of most pastoral - care crises (suicides, auto fatalities, child abuse, divorces, hospital admissions, accidental deaths and home violence); even though it costs the nation $ 120 billion annually in terms of lost work time, health and welfare benefits, property damage, medical expenses, insurance and lost wages; and even though its effects impair the educational process of every child in every classroom, still the church acts as though alcoholism does not exist.

But experienced over the longer term, these adaptations also cause an array of physiological problems: They tend to lead to a compromised immune system, metabolic shifts that contribute to weight gain, and, later in life, a variety of physical ailments, from asthma to heart disease.

Child maltreatment harms people and society, contributing to costly long — term health problems ranging from heart disease and obesity to depression and anxiety, making this type of prevention study critical.»

In addition, the long - term effects of sleep deficiency have been linked to the escalation of chronic health problems, such as heart disease, kidney disease, hypertension, diabetes, stroke, obesity, and depression.

Ensuring people diagnosed with diabetes are able to manage their diabetes effectively in order to reduce their risk of developing long term complications such as heart disease, stroke, kidney failure, blindness and amputation should also be the long term goal of the health service.

Badly managed blood glucose levels can increase the risk of long term complications, such as heart disease, stroke, kidney disease, blindness and amputation, and short term complications, such as diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) 3 and hypoglycaemia4 (hypo).

This together with a healthy lifestyle will reduce the chances of developing the long - term complications of diabetes such as blindness, heart disease, amputation, kidney failure and nerve damage.

In human terms, the costs of lives and families damaged by heart disease, strokes, cancer and lung disease are incalculable.

«The long - term effects of inhaling nicotine vapor are unclear, but there is no evidence to date that it causes cancer or heart disease as cigarette smoking does,» Drs. Taub and Matarasso write.

The long - term side effects of HIV drug treatment, such as increased cholesterol and heart disease, that crop up after 10 or 15 years will still occur.

Being overweight raises the risk of diseases like heart attacks, strokes and cancer, and takes a financial toll in terms of healthcare costs and lost work days.

Long - term exposure to air pollution has been linked to an increased risk of heart disease, but the biological process has not been understood.

The U.S. study testing the long - term benefits and risks of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) was halted after an interim analysis found that the drugs — a combination of estrogen and progestin — increased the risk of breast cancer, stroke, and heart disease, and that those risks outweighed reduced risks of colorectal cancer and bone fractures (ScienceNOW, 9 July).

However, although people are living longer, they are not necessarily healthier than before — nearly a quarter (23 %) of the overall global burden of death and illness is in people aged over 60, and much of this burden is attributable to long - term illness caused by diseases such as cancer, chronic respiratory diseases, heart disease, musculoskeletal diseases (such as arthritis and osteoporosis), and mental and neurological disorders.

Enthusiasts say HRT can stave off heart disease and osteoporosis without increasing the risk of breast cancer, but Tom Meade, director of the MRC's Epidemiology and Medical Care Unit in London and chief architect of the HRT trial, says the long - term effects of HRT are largely unknown.

Those who scored in the top - third in terms of adherence to the Mediterranean diet, indicating they closely followed the diet, were 47 percent less likely to develop heart disease over the 10 - year follow - up period as compared to participants who scored in the bottom - third, indicating they did not closely follow the diet.

«If sustained with longer term treatment, these improvements in sleep blood pressure, vascular response to stress and vagal control of the heart could reduce risk of heart disease in this high risk group,» West said.

And they go on to say: «These findings suggest that in patients with stable [coronary heart disease], long term mortality risk is related to the cumulative burden of psychological distress.»

Williams said, the long - term follow up allowed authors to examine dietary patterns and analyze the effect of gradual adherence to a plant - based diet through reduced animal food intake and increased plant food intake on heart disease risk.

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.

All the participants were part of the Long Term Intervention with Pravastatin in Ischaemic Disease Trial and had had a heart attack or been admitted to hospital for unstable angina in the preceding three to 36 months.

Lloyd - Jones and colleagues examined long - term data on more than 5,200 men and women aged 28 to 62 who were free of cardiovascular disease at the time of their enrollment in the Framingham Heart Study, a decades - long cardiovascular study.

The drop in hormone use dates back to July 2002, when the Women's Health Initiative, a 15 - year study tracking the health of more than 160,000 women, abruptly ended its long - term study of estrogen - progestin hormone replacement therapy because women taking the drugs faced an elevated risk of invasive breast cancer and heart disease.

Patients in the stent group got about 1.5 times the number of heart attacks long - term, compared to the bypass group, but for those patients whose stents successfully opened all of their diseased arteries, there was no significant increase in heart attacks.

In terms of diagnostics, it has six tests on the market, based on research in Iceland, that aim to measure risk of diseases such as heart attack and prostate cancer.

«In terms of things that kill people, heart disease is number one in this country,» he notes, which makes any link with apnea a crucial line of research.

High blood pressure during pregnancy is a risk factor for future hypertension and cardiovascular disease, but it's not clear if this increased risk is because these women are more likely to have a family history of heart disease or if elevated blood pressure during pregnancy causes long - term metabolic and vascular abnormalities.

Metabolic syndrome is the term for a group of factors that raise a person's risk for heart disease and other health problems, such as diabetes and stroke.

Acute coronary syndrome — an umbrella term the American Heart Association uses to define diseases, such as heart attack or angina, where blood to the heart is blocked — occurred in 4.1 %, 6.6 % and 7.4 % of treated, untreated and uninfected patiHeart Association uses to define diseases, such as heart attack or angina, where blood to the heart is blocked — occurred in 4.1 %, 6.6 % and 7.4 % of treated, untreated and uninfected patiheart attack or angina, where blood to the heart is blocked — occurred in 4.1 %, 6.6 % and 7.4 % of treated, untreated and uninfected patiheart is blocked — occurred in 4.1 %, 6.6 % and 7.4 % of treated, untreated and uninfected patients.

Over the last two years, the Women's Health Initiative, a series of long - term studies funded by the National Institutes of Health, revealed that taking an estrogen - progestin combination slightly increases the risk of stroke and blood clots and may also increase the risk of heart disease, breast cancer, and dementia.

Of the dozen of these metabolites that were measured in cohorts from the longitudinal Framingham Heart Study (the long - term 1948 study to identify the common contributive factors of cardiovascular disease by following its development in a large subject group) levels of glycerol turned out to be «significantly correlated» with resting heart rate, another indicator of fitness, as measured in the studOf the dozen of these metabolites that were measured in cohorts from the longitudinal Framingham Heart Study (the long - term 1948 study to identify the common contributive factors of cardiovascular disease by following its development in a large subject group) levels of glycerol turned out to be «significantly correlated» with resting heart rate, another indicator of fitness, as measured in the studof these metabolites that were measured in cohorts from the longitudinal Framingham Heart Study (the long - term 1948 study to identify the common contributive factors of cardiovascular disease by following its development in a large subject group) levels of glycerol turned out to be «significantly correlated» with resting heart rate, another indicator of fitness, as measured in the sHeart Study (the long - term 1948 study to identify the common contributive factors of cardiovascular disease by following its development in a large subject group) levels of glycerol turned out to be «significantly correlated» with resting heart rate, another indicator of fitness, as measured in the studof cardiovascular disease by following its development in a large subject group) levels of glycerol turned out to be «significantly correlated» with resting heart rate, another indicator of fitness, as measured in the studof glycerol turned out to be «significantly correlated» with resting heart rate, another indicator of fitness, as measured in the sheart rate, another indicator of fitness, as measured in the studof fitness, as measured in the study.

However, the long - term effects of e-cigarettes on liver disease, diabetes, heart disease or stroke are unknown.

«The good news is that when you lose weight long - term, you just don't move to a smaller dress size, you are actually moving these risk factors markedly and likely reducing your risk of heart disease and diabetes,» Thomson said.

In terms of other adiposity measures, the less fat, especially around their abdomen, they have, the lower the risk of future heart disease.»

Dr. Romero emphasized that the cost of preeclampsia goes beyond the short - term health care expenditures as women affected by this disorder are at an increased risk for early onset cardiovascular diseases, such as heart attacks and hypertension, years and decades after delivery.

Influenza remains a major health problem in the United States, resulting each year in an estimated 36,000 deaths and 200,000 hospitalizations.4 Those who have been shown to be at high risk for the complications of influenza infection are children 6 to 23 months of age; healthy persons 65 years of age or older; adults and children with chronic diseases, including asthma, heart and lung disease, and diabetes; residents of nursing homes and other long - term care facilities; and pregnant women.4 It is for this reason that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recommended that these groups, together with health care workers and others with direct patient - care responsibilities, should be given priority for influenza vaccination this season in the face of the current shortage.1 Other high - priority groups include children and teenagers 6 months to 18 years of age whose underlying medical condition requires the daily use of aspirin and household members and out - of - home caregivers of infants less than 6 months old.1 Hence, in the case of vaccine shortages resulting either from the unanticipated loss of expected supplies or from the emergence of greater - than - expected global influenza activity — such as pandemic influenza, which would prompt a greater demand for vaccination5 — the capability of extending existing vaccine supplies by using alternative routes of vaccination that would require smaller doses could have important public health implicdisease, and diabetes; residents of nursing homes and other long - term care facilities; and pregnant women.4 It is for this reason that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recommended that these groups, together with health care workers and others with direct patient - care responsibilities, should be given priority for influenza vaccination this season in the face of the current shortage.1 Other high - priority groups include children and teenagers 6 months to 18 years of age whose underlying medical condition requires the daily use of aspirin and household members and out - of - home caregivers of infants less than 6 months old.1 Hence, in the case of vaccine shortages resulting either from the unanticipated loss of expected supplies or from the emergence of greater - than - expected global influenza activity — such as pandemic influenza, which would prompt a greater demand for vaccination5 — the capability of extending existing vaccine supplies by using alternative routes of vaccination that would require smaller doses could have important public health implicDisease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recommended that these groups, together with health care workers and others with direct patient - care responsibilities, should be given priority for influenza vaccination this season in the face of the current shortage.1 Other high - priority groups include children and teenagers 6 months to 18 years of age whose underlying medical condition requires the daily use of aspirin and household members and out - of - home caregivers of infants less than 6 months old.1 Hence, in the case of vaccine shortages resulting either from the unanticipated loss of expected supplies or from the emergence of greater - than - expected global influenza activity — such as pandemic influenza, which would prompt a greater demand for vaccination5 — the capability of extending existing vaccine supplies by using alternative routes of vaccination that would require smaller doses could have important public health implications.

Cardiologists led by Quyyumi have a recent paper in Journal of the American Heart Association looking at troponin as a long - term cardiovascular disease biomarker.

Long - term exposure to higher levels of environmental arsenic has been linked to cancer, heart disease, and other health problems and ingestion of large doses can be lethal.

Therefore, a lack of testosterone is not only a serious obstacle on your road to great muscles — if left untreated, low testosterone levels can have grave long - term negative effects on your health, ranging from osteoporosis and diabetes to an increased risk of death from heart disease.

According to older beliefs dietary cholesterol is the cause of heart disease and other health problems, but recent studies have shown that dietary cholesterol has a low and short - term effect on blood cholesterol.

A patient's ability to recover may have as much to do with his state of mind as the health of his heart, according to a long - term study of heart disease and depression at the University of California, San Francisco.

The study was done on 30 adult participants who had been diagnosed with metabolic syndrome, which is a group term for health conditions which increase the risk of developing stroke, heart disease and diabetes.