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Prevalence of coronary heart disease or stroke among workers aged
Abstract Cardiovascular disease accounts for one in three deaths in the United States each year, and coronary heart disease and stroke account for most of those deaths. To try to prevent 1 million heart attacks and strokes by 2017, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services launched the Million Hearts initiative, promoting proven and effective interventions in communities and clinical settings. In workplace settings, cardiovascular disease can be addressed through a Total Worker Health program, which integrates occupational safety and health protection with health promotion. To identify workers likely to ben...
Source: MMWR Morb Mortal Wkl... - August 1, 2014 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Luckhaupt SE, Calvert GM, Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations, and Field Studies, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, CDC Tags: MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep Source Type: research

Bowel Movement Frequency, Laxative Use, and Mortality From Coronary Heart Disease and Stroke Among Japanese Men and Women: The Japan Collaborative Cohort (JACC) Study.
CONCLUSIONS: Constipation could be a marker of exposure to CVD risk factors, and laxative use could be a risk factor for mortality from coronary heart disease and ischemic stroke. PMID: 26725286 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Journal of Epidemiology - January 16, 2016 Category: Epidemiology Tags: J Epidemiol Source Type: research

Soy Consumption with Risk of Coronary Heart Disease and Stroke: A Meta-Analysis of Observational Studies
Conclusion: There was limited evidence to indicate that soy consumption was inversely associated with the risk of stroke and CHD, although further studies, with prospective designs that use validated questionnaires and control for important confounders, are warranted.Neuroepidemiology 2016;46:242-252
Source: Neuroepidemiology - March 14, 2016 Category: Epidemiology Source Type: research

Association of vegetable, fruit, and Okinawan vegetable consumption with incident stroke and coronary heart disease.
CONCLUSIONS: This study demonstrated that consumption of total vegetable and fruit, total Okinawan vegetables, and specific Okinawan vegetables in Japanese residents of Okinawa was not associated with risk of incident stroke and coronary heart disease. PMID: 30643101 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Journal of Epidemiology - January 16, 2019 Category: Epidemiology Tags: J Epidemiol Source Type: research

Long- and Short-term Weight Change and Incident Coronary Heart Disease and Ischemic Stroke: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study
Weight gain increases the prevalence of obesity, a risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Nevertheless, unintentional weight loss can be a harbinger of health problems. The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study (1987–2009) included 15,792 US adults aged 45–64 years at baseline and was used to compare associations of long-term (30 years) and short-term (3 years) weight change with the risks of coronary heart disease (CHD) and ischemic stroke. Age-, gender-, and race-standardized incidence rates were 4.9 (95% confidence interval (CI): 4.6, 5.2) per 1,000 person-years for CHD and 2.5 (95% CI: 2.3, 2.8) per 1,...
Source: American Journal of Epidemiology - July 16, 2013 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Stevens, J., Erber, E., Truesdale, K. P., Wang, C.-H., Cai, J. Tags: RESEARCH-ARTICLE Source Type: research

Vital signs: avoidable deaths from heart disease, stroke, and hypertensive disease - United States, 2001-2010.
Conclusions: Nearly one fourth of all cardiovascular disease deaths are avoidable. These deaths disproportionately occurred among non-Hispanic blacks and residents of the South. Persons aged <65 years had lower rates than those aged 65-74 years but still accounted for a considerable share of avoidable deaths and demonstrated less improvement. Implications for Public Health Practice: National, state, and local initiatives aimed at improving health-care systems and supporting healthy behaviors are essential to reducing avoidable heart disease, stroke, and hypertensive disease deaths. Strategies include promoting the ABCS ...
Source: MMWR Morb Mortal Wkl... - September 6, 2013 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Tags: MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep Source Type: research

Sex differences in clinical characteristics and outcomes after intracerebral haemorrhage: results from a 12-month prospective stroke registry in Nanjing, China
This study aimed to investigate the sex differences in clinical characteristics, severity and outcomes of Chinese ICH patients. Methods: The Nanjing First Hospital stroke registry was a hospital-based registry of stroke patients with 1-year prospective follow-up. From 2004 to 2008, a total of 651 consecutively recruited patients with acute ICH were enrolled. Primary outcome was death or dependency defined as a modified Rankin Scale score of 3?6 at 12 months. Multivariable logistic regression analyses were performed to determine whether there were sex differences in clinical outcomes after ICH. Clinically important and biol...
Source: Epidemiologic Perspectives and Innovations - September 4, 2014 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Junshan ZhouYingdong ZhangHisatomi ArimaYanxia ZhaoHongdong ZhaoDanni ZhengYouyong TianYukai LiuQing HuangJie Yang Source Type: research

Subclinical thyroid dysfunction and the risk of stroke: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Abstract Subclinical thyroid dysfunction has been associated with coronary heart disease, but the risk of stroke is unclear. Our aim is to combine the evidence on the association between subclinical thyroid dysfunction and the risk of stroke in prospective cohort studies. We searched Medline (OvidSP), Embase, Web-of-Science, Pubmed Publisher, Cochrane and Google Scholar from inception to November 2013 using a cohort filter, but without language restriction or other limitations. Reference lists of articles were searched. Two independent reviewers screened articles according to pre-specified criteria and selected pr...
Source: European Journal of Epidemiology - September 2, 2014 Category: Epidemiology Source Type: research

Sex Differences Do Not Exist in Outcomes among Stroke Patients with Intracranial Atherosclerosis in China: Subgroup Analysis from the Chinese Intracranial Atherosclerosis Study
Conclusions: These results suggest no sex difference in outcome among patients with ICAS in Chinese cerebral ischemia patients.Neuroepidemiology 2017;48:48-54
Source: Neuroepidemiology - March 23, 2017 Category: Epidemiology Source Type: research

Statin use is associated with lower risk of dementia in stroke patients: a community-based cohort study with inverse probability weighted marginal structural model analysis
AbstractCurrent evidence is inconclusive on cognitive benefits or harms of statins among stroke patients, who have high risk of dementia. This observational cohort study investigated the association between statin use and post-stroke dementia using data from the Clinical Practice Research Datalink. Patients without prior dementia who had an incident stroke but received no statins in the preceding year were followed for up to 10  years. We used inverse probability weighted marginal structural models to estimate observational analogues of intention-to-treat (ITT, statin initiation vs. no initiation) and per-protocol (PP, su...
Source: European Journal of Epidemiology - March 19, 2022 Category: Epidemiology Source Type: research

Mediators of the Effect of obesity on Stroke and Heart Disease Risk: Decomposing Direct and Indirect Effects
CONCLUSIONS: High BMI in young adults increases the risk of metabolic mediators in their middle age, and metabolic mediators explain the adverse effects of high BMI on stroke risk than IHD risk.PMID:35781427 | DOI:10.2188/jea.JE20210476
Source: Journal of Epidemiology - July 5, 2022 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Yongho Jee Mikyung Ryu In Sun Ryou Joung Hwan Back Sung-Il Cho Seung Sik Hwang Source Type: research