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The Racial Gap in U.S. Stroke Deaths Got Worse During the Pandemic
NEW YORK — The longstanding racial gap in U.S. stroke death rates widened dramatically during the COVID-19 pandemic, government researchers said Thursday. Stroke death rates increased for both Black and white adults in 2020 and 2021, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study. But the difference between the two groups grew about 22%, compared with the five years before the pandemic. “Any health inequity that existed before seems to have been made larger during the pandemic,” said Dr. Bart Demaerschalk, a stroke researcher at the Mayo Clinic in Phoenix who was not involved in the new...
Source: TIME: Health - April 20, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Mike Stobbe/AP Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 healthscienceclimate Source Type: news

Effects of Blood Pressure Lowering Agents on Cardiovascular Outcomes in Weight Excess Patients: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
ConclusionsIn hypertensive subjects with excess weight, diuretics are more effective for preventing HF and stroke than CCB and ACEI, respectively. CCB are a good first-line choice for prevention of cardiovascular disease, except HF.
Source: American Journal of Cardiovascular Drugs - January 2, 2020 Category: Cardiology Source Type: research

What to Know About High Cholesterol in Kids
Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the U.S., but it’s not something we usually associate with kids. In many cases, however, the seeds of heart attacks and strokes may be sown in childhood. That’s because high or abnormal cholesterol levels, which are a major risk factor for heart disease and stroke, are not uncommon in kids. “People may feel that cholesterol is mostly an adult issue, which is not correct,” says Dr. Nivedita Patni, a pediatric endocrinologist at Children’s Health in Dallas and an assistant professor of pediatrics at UT Southwestern Medical Center. About 1 in 5 child...
Source: TIME: Health - July 13, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Sandeep Ravindran Tags: Uncategorized freelance healthscienceclimate heart health Source Type: news

Environmental Pollution: An Under-recognized Threat to Children’s Health, Especially in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Conclusions Patterns of disease are changing rapidly in LMICs. Pollution-related chronic diseases are becoming more common. This shift presents a particular problem for children, who are proportionately more heavily exposed than are adults to environmental pollutants and for whom these exposures are especially dangerous. Better quantification of environmental exposures and stepped-up efforts to understand how to prevent exposures that cause disease are needed in LMICs and around the globe. To confront the global problem of disease caused by pollution, improved programs of public health monitoring and environmental protecti...
Source: EHP Research - March 1, 2016 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Web Admin Tags: Brief Communication March 2016 Source Type: research

Glycogen synthase kinase 3 β helps heart to pump better in obese patients
Obesity is a growing problem worldwide and is associated with a wide range of comorbidities such as type-2 diabetes (T2D), rheumatoid arthritis, cognitive impairment and dementia, hypertension, stroke and heart failure [1]. The global obesity pandemic affects all age groups. A recent study, based on body mass index (BMI) in over 68 million subjects from 195 countries, suggests that prevalence of metabolic diseases was increased in high BMI subjects globally in the past 20  years [2]. The increased BMI has been shown to be pathogenically related to several diseases including cardiovascular and stroke-related diseases [3].
Source: International Journal of Cardiology - March 23, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: Suresh Kumar Verma Source Type: research

Vascular Events, Vascular Disease and Vascular Risk Factors —Strongly Intertwined with COVID-19
AbstractPurpose of reviewTo elucidate the intertwining of vascular events, vascular disease and vascular risk factors and COVID-19.Recent findingsStrokes are a leading cause of disability and death worldwide. Vascular risk factors are important drivers of strokes. There are unmodifiable vascular risk factors such as age and ethnicity and modifiable vascular risk factors. According to the INTERSTROKE study, the 10 most frequent modifiable vascular risk factors are arterial hypertension, physical inactivity, overweight, dyslipidaemia, smoking, unhealthy diet, cardiac pathologies, diabetes mellitus, stress/depression and over...
Source: Current Treatment Options in Neurology - October 8, 2020 Category: Neurology Source Type: research

Syndemic Pandemic in Portugal: Social Inequality in Risk Factors Associated With COVID-19 Mortality
CONCLUSION: In 2019, we observed socioeconomic inequalities of high magnitude for the eight diseases with demonstrated link to COVID-19 mortality.PMID:35533082 | DOI:10.20344/amp.16031
Source: Acta Medica Portuguesa - May 9, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: Julian Perelman Source Type: research

How Menopause Affects Cholesterol —And How to Manage It
Kelly Officer, 49, eats a vegan diet and shuns most processed foods. So, after a recent routine blood test revealed that she had high cholesterol, “I was shocked and upset,” she says, “since it never has been [high] in the past.” Officer is not alone. As women enter menopause, cholestrol levels jump—by an average of 10-15%, or about 10 to 20 milligrams per deciliter. (A healthy adult cholesterol range is 125-200 milligrams per deciliter, according to the National Library of Medicine.) This change often goes unnoticed amidst physical symptoms and the general busyness of those years. But, says D...
Source: TIME: Health - September 21, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Katherine Harmon Courage Tags: Uncategorized freelance healthscienceclimate heart health Source Type: news

No pain, no gain? Getting the most out of exercise
Staying in shape has all sorts of benefits, from maintaining heart health to warding off dementia and cancerInactivity – fuelled by cars and a sedentary work life – has been dubbed the biggest public health problem of the 21st century, a global pandemic with dramatic impact on peoples wellbeing. The latest reports suggest that around the world it was responsible for 5.3 million deaths in 2008 – around one in 10 – more deaths than smoking.Not only does exercise make you fitter, it can also ward off numerous and often unexpected diseases, from heart attacks, to diabetes, some forms of cancer and dementia. There are t...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - January 13, 2014 Category: Science Authors: Catherine de Lange Tags: Cycling Fitness Sport Running Transport Yoga Weightlifting Features UK news Life and style Cycle hire schemes The Observer Swimming Science Source Type: news

Impact of Obesity on Cardiac Metabolism, Fibrosis and Function
Obesity is a global pandemic with a huge burden on the health care system. Obesity is not only linked to the development of risk factors for atherosclerotic vascular disease but also has a strong association with ventricular hypertrophy, heart failure, atrial fibrillation and stroke. Recent experimental and clinical studies have demonstrated that obesity is associated with cardiac dysfunction, adipokine dysregulation and activation of the pro-fibrotic signaling pathways leading to cardiac fibrosis which is a key structural change responsible for atrial fibrillation.
Source: Trends in Cardiovascular Medicine - September 25, 2014 Category: Cardiology Authors: Rajiv Mahajan, Dennis H. Lau, Prashanthan Sanders Source Type: research

Impact of obesity on cardiac metabolism, fibrosis, and function
Obesity is a global pandemic with a huge burden on the healthcare system. Obesity is not only linked to the development of risk factors for atherosclerotic vascular disease but also has a strong association with ventricular hypertrophy, heart failure, atrial fibrillation, and stroke. Recent experimental and clinical studies have demonstrated that obesity is associated with cardiac dysfunction, adipokine dysregulation, and activation of the pro-fibrotic signaling pathways leading to cardiac fibrosis, which is a key structural change responsible for atrial fibrillation.
Source: Trends in Cardiovascular Medicine - September 25, 2014 Category: Cardiology Authors: Rajiv Mahajan, Dennis H. Lau, Prashanthan Sanders Source Type: research

Bariatric Surgery: "Roux"-minating on Endothelial Cell and HDL Function.
Abstract Obesity, defined as a body mass index ≥ 30 kg/m2, is pandemic. Though prevalence in the United States has plateaued at ~31% of adults (78 million), worldwide obesity rates continue to rise(1). Perhaps more concerning is the high level of childhood obesity: 16.9% in US and ~13% (and rising) in developing countries(2). Why the alarm? Longitudinal studies of overweight or obese individuals have identified a 20 fold increase in risk for developing diabetes mellitus type 2 (T2D) and 1.5 fold increase risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD), including myocardial infarction, stroke and heart failure(3, 4). As ob...
Source: Circulation - February 11, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Brown JD Tags: Circulation Source Type: research

7 Ways to Permanently Banish Belly Fat
Sixty-nine percent of Americans adults are overweight, and over 35 percent are obese. Obesity increases your risk for numerous conditions including heart disease, stroke, Type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, and cancer. Sadly, about 3.4 million adults die each year from being overweight or obese. Globally obesity now kills about the same as tobacco and all wars, terrorism and violence. Nearly all people who are overweight already have "pre-diabetes" and have significant risks of disease and death. They just don't know it. When you begin to put on weight, especially lethal belly fat, your biology shifts out of balance, v...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - February 27, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Guidelines on the management and prevention of prediabetes.
Authors: Indonesian Diabetes Association Abstract Pandemic obesity and diabetes mellitus (DM), particularly type-2 DM (T2DM) now has become a serious threat for people worldwide. The International Diabetes Federation (IDF) suggests that the prevalence of DM in the world is 1.9% and it has made DM as the 7th leading cause of death worldwide. It has been estimated that the prevalence of diabetes between 1994 and 2010 was projected as much as 215.6 milion people; however an evaluation in 2007 revealed that the number of diabetic patients has reached 246 million people and it has been concerned that the number would in...
Source: Acta medica Indonesiana - December 11, 2015 Category: Internal Medicine Tags: Acta Med Indones Source Type: research