Sentences with phrase «with known heart disease»

In other words, if you are a person with KNOWN heart disease who has a heart attack, you're not covered.

Hi, yes its strange to some but not to scientists.Actually there is not really that much connection between fat and heart disease at all.It was Ancel Benjamin Keys that came up with that dubious «Seven Countries» studies.My own view is that meat for people with established heart disease is probably not a good idea.The reason being is that people with established heart disease usually got there either by bad genetics, or by bad dietary and lifestyle choices over a number of years.Meat and fat is know to reduce blood flow and constrict the arteries which in healthy people may be of no immediate harm.However in someone with known heart disease any constriction and lack of blood flow to and from the heart is NOT a good idea obviously.

The study conducted by LA BioMed researchers examined 5,593 adults with no known heart disease risk or with minimal risk of heart disease, who had undergone coronary artery calcium screening by non-contrast cardiac computed tomography from 1991 - 2011.

«Normally, calcium scoring is only recommended for patients with known heart disease risks.

Previous studies had found that calcium scores were effective in predicting heart disease among adults with known heart disease risk factors, such as hypertension, diabetes, dyslipidemia, current smoking or a family history of heart disease.

«These findings give us reason to rethink how we manage prostate cancer in men with known heart disease,» said Anthony D'Amico, MD, lead author of the research paper and chief of genitourinary radiation oncology at Brigham and Women's Hospital..

Not exact matches

For all we know a scientist with nothing in his heart but the desire to end disease may bring about a chain of events that leads to incredible devastation.

I know about the acai berry and all of it's rockstar health benefits — like its amazing antioxidant properties, how it's packed with fiber, and that it also contains healthy medium chain fats (the kind that help reduce your risk for heart disease)...

The win / win benefits to not only the environment but also health care — with plant - based diets known to reduce heart disease, diabetes, several types of cancer, and obesity (currently at a shocking 23 per cent, with 60 per cent of Canadians overweight)-- make this negligence incomprehensible.»

According to the University of Maryland Medical Center polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs)-- also known as omega - 3 fatty acids — play a crucial role in human brain function, as well as normal growth and development, with research showing that they can also reduce inflammation in addition to helping lower the risk of chronic diseases such as heart disease, cancer, and arthritis.

The vain side of me (you know, the one that causes me to suck my stomach in every time I pass a mirror... tell me I'm not the only one) jumps for joy when I hear that the cardiovascular benefits related to cherries includes loss of belly fat, which is the type of fat most commonly associated with heart disease.

In addition, it is also made known that high levels of caffeine are not suitable for pregnant or lactating women or for people with heart disease.

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Your child won't know the difference once the pasta is mixed in with sauce or veggies, and using whole grains instead of the refined flour type on a regular basis has been linked to lower blood pressure and reduced risks of heart disease and type 2 diabetes.

An estimated 30,000 kids are living with cardiomyopathy, and there are countless kids who have this potentially life - threatening heart disease and do not know it.

Chronic exposure to BPA, as it is commonly known, has been associated with heart disease, cancer and other health problems.

Sometimes, if the outcome is common (for example heart disease in known diabetics who are taking medication for diabetes, as with Avandia) the signal from the drug gets lost in the background noise from the disease.

No, women who die in pregnancy are most commonly women with serious pre-existing medical illness (heart disease, kidney disease) or serious pregnancy complications (pre-eclampsia).

«Children with low levels of vitamin D were more likely to have high blood pressure and lower levels of high - density lipoprotein, also known as good cholesterol — two factors that are considered major risk factors for heart disease later in life «Children with low vitamin - D levels also had higher levels of parathyroid hormone than their counterparts with adequate vitamin D in their blood.

But the researchers wanted to know if the drug, when combined with statin treatment, could also reduce the risk of heart disease in people with type 2 diabetes.

You all of a sudden have to say, «no, we are not concerned about poverty and hunger anymore in Mexico or Chile or China, now we have to be concerned with obesity and heart disease and we are losing people from that and it's going to destroy our health system in another 10 years»» And some countries are really willing to take it on.

«We know that other mosquito - borne diseases, such as dengue fever and chikungunya virus, can affect the heart, so we thought we might see the same with Zika.

People with depression and schizophrenia are known to have a much higher risk of developing heart disease and diabetes, and elevated levels of IL - 6 have previously been shown to increase the risk of heart disease and type 2 diabetes.

The new research shows that when the atheronals interact with various blood cells, they produce some of the effects known to lead to heart disease, such as causing a malfunction in the cells that line arterial walls.

«I knew of an experimental technique that had not yet been done in humans, and I had a patient with no other options who was failing rapidly,» says William O'Neill, M.D., medical director of the Center for Structural Heart Disease at Henry Ford Hospital.

Wong and colleagues studied 2,018 adults (57 percent female) with diabetes mellitus but without known cardiovascular diseases who participated in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study, the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis or the Jackson Heart Study.

Dr. Berger and his colleagues found that people diagnosed with diabetes but without known heart disease are at a very high risk for developing peripheral vascular disease of the lower extremities or the carotid artery.

These findings, Dr. Berger says, highlights the need for physicians to think about PVD in people with diabetes even if they do not have known heart disease.

Several studies over the past decade have shown that a strong emotional shock can lead to sudden heart failure in people with no known risk factors for heart disease.

Among those age 25 to 49, about 23 percent know a woman with heart disease, compared to 37 percent of women aged 50 to 60.

«Since women who report knowing another woman with heart disease are more apt to express concern and importantly — bring up this issue with their doctor — awareness of heart disease is crucial,» said lead author C. Noel Bairey Merz, M.D., director of the Barbra Streisand Women's Heart Center and professor of medicine at Cedars - Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, Califoheart disease are more apt to express concern and importantly — bring up this issue with their doctor — awareness of heart disease is crucial,» said lead author C. Noel Bairey Merz, M.D., director of the Barbra Streisand Women's Heart Center and professor of medicine at Cedars - Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, Califoheart disease is crucial,» said lead author C. Noel Bairey Merz, M.D., director of the Barbra Streisand Women's Heart Center and professor of medicine at Cedars - Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, CalifoHeart Center and professor of medicine at Cedars - Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California.

A 2014 nationally representative survey of 1,011 adult women found that those who know another woman with heart disease are 25 percent more likely to be concerned about it for themselves and 19 percent more likely to bring up heart health with their doctors.

Participants included patients with and without known heart or blood vessel disease.

The study published online in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, found smokers are more likely to be hospitalized for leg events, heart attack and coronary heart disease related to atherosclerotic peripheral artery disease, known as PAD, than non-smokers with PAD.

Aspirin, which was already known to help people with heart disease, seems to work primarily by reducing inflammation.

As a result, experts in the Linus Pauling Institute at Oregon State University say that a huge number of Americans may be chronically deficient in vitamin E, which could compound the wide range of diseases known to be associated with metabolic syndrome, including heart disease, diabetes, Alzheimer's disease and cancer.

With growing evidence that a measurement of the buildup of calcium in coronary arteries can predict heart disease risk, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute (LA BioMed) researchers found that the process of «calcium scoring» was also accurate in predicting the chances of dying of heart disease among adults with little or no known risk of heart diseWith growing evidence that a measurement of the buildup of calcium in coronary arteries can predict heart disease risk, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute (LA BioMed) researchers found that the process of «calcium scoring» was also accurate in predicting the chances of dying of heart disease among adults with little or no known risk of heart disewith little or no known risk of heart disease.

These findings suggest that calcium scoring can be an effective tool for assessing heart disease risks in adults with no known risk factors so that they can make the lifestyle and other changes that can help them avoid heart disease in the future.»

«Given all that is known about preventing heart disease, it is critical that public health communities work with local communities to support efforts to improve heart health,» said public health researcher Mark Ommerborn, lead author of the study.

After 12 weeks on the high sugar diet, the men with a high level of liver fat — a condition known as non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD)-- showed changes in their fat metabolism that are associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease, heart attacks and strokes.

Although the new ACMG recommendations suggest a patient could opt out of — or go forward with — the list as a whole, geneticists and bioethicists are already discussing scenarios where patients may approach such decisions more like a menu, saying they want to know about increased risk of heart disease but not cancer, for example.

Current guidelines recommend heart bypass for patients with substantial narrowing of two or more arteries due to extensive plaque buildup, a condition known as multivessel coronary artery disease.

11/19/2008 American Heart Association Bestows Award on UC San Diego Pioneer in Peripheral Artery Disease Little - known condition strongly associated with heart attack and stroke University of California, San Diego Professor Michael Criqui, M.D., M.P.H., has been awarded the American Heart Association's 2008 Distinguished Achievement Award, sponsored by... MoHeart Association Bestows Award on UC San Diego Pioneer in Peripheral Artery Disease Little - known condition strongly associated with heart attack and stroke University of California, San Diego Professor Michael Criqui, M.D., M.P.H., has been awarded the American Heart Association's 2008 Distinguished Achievement Award, sponsored by... Moheart attack and stroke University of California, San Diego Professor Michael Criqui, M.D., M.P.H., has been awarded the American Heart Association's 2008 Distinguished Achievement Award, sponsored by... MoHeart Association's 2008 Distinguished Achievement Award, sponsored by... More...

It's impossible to know every possible medical use of stem cells because scientists haven't been able to conduct extensive research with them, but researchers claim that they may be the key to treating a host of diseases and conditions, including Parkinson's disease, diabetes, heart disease, multiple sclerosis, baldness and spinal cord injuries.

The risk of cardiovascular related illness and death is known to decrease after smoking cessation in patients with coronary heart disease, 40 reducing dramatically over the first three years, 41 but reducing the risk of developing lung cancer after smoking cessation generally takes longer.9 41 This review has found evidence that after lung cancer has been diagnosed, reductions in risk of developing a second primary or recurrence were associated with quitting within seven years, suggesting that, even at this stage, the prognostic outlook can be improved by smoking cessation.

Chocolate with cacao content of 80 percent or higher is rich in theobromine, a powerful antioxidant known to support cellular aging and reduce the risk of heart disease.

«We've known for years that chronic, low - grade inflammation is associated with heart disease,» Stein said.

I know 90 - year - olds who have the energy and stamina of 20 - somethings, women turning 50 who look and feel 30, and sadly, younger women who come in with conditions such as diabetes, heart disease, and aches and pains that you'd expect to see in someone much older.

Most people with diabetes unaware of heart risk If you didn't know the strong link between heart disease and diabetes, you're not alone.

Hispanic and Latino Americans, for example, are more likely to have diabetes than non-Hispanic whites, yet only one in four Hispanic / Latinos with diabetes know they are at risk for heart disease, says the National Diabetes Education Program.