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What to Know About High Triglycerides
Discussions about heart health often center around blood pressure and cholesterol, with factors like poor sleep, smoking, family history of heart disease, and chronic stress thrown in. However, there’s one variable that doesn’t get covered as often, even though it can be an important indicator of cardiovascular risk: triglycerides.
“We don’t really talk about triglycerides very much, especially compared to cholesterol, but they’re actually an essential part of understanding heart health,” says Dr. Adriana Quinones-Camacho, a cardiologist at NYU Langone Health in New York. “For some...
Source: TIME: Health - May 23, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Elizabeth Millard Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate heart health Source Type: news
Inflammation May Be the Culprit Behind Our Deadliest Diseases
In the early days of my medical residency, I met a man whom we’ll call Jason. He arrived to our emergency room on a holiday, nonchalant yet amiable, and complained of mild chest pain. Jason was tall and trim, with a strong South Boston accent and fingertips still faintly stained from his last home-improvement project. He was only 45 years old, but he looked much younger. He didn’t smoke, barely drank alcohol, and his cholesterol levels had always been normal. No one in his family had a history of heart disease. He asked us if we could work quickly—he wanted to be home for dinner with his daughters.
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Source: TIME: Health - April 11, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Shilpa Ravella Tags: Uncategorized freelance health Source Type: news
Could a Common Sweetener Raise Heart Risks?
MONDAY, Feb. 27, 2023 -- An artificial sweetener commonly used in processed foods could be increasing people’s risk of heart attack and stroke, a new study argues.
Erythritol is a natural sugar alcohol found in many vegetables and fruit. Even...
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - February 27, 2023 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news
Sugar can significantly increase your risk of stroke and heart disease - new study
Apart from sweet treats, free sugars can hide in surprising foods like pasta sauces, ready meals and alcohol.
Source: Daily Express - Health - February 15, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Multimorbidity of cardiometabolic diseases: a cross-sectional study of patterns, clusters and associated risk factors in sub-Saharan Africa
Conclusion
Our findings show that cardiometabolic multimorbidity and lifestyle risk factors cluster in distinct patterns with a disproportionate burden among women, middle-aged, persons in high socioeconomic positions, and those with sedentary lifestyles and obesity. These results provide insights for health systems response in SSA to focus on these clusters as potential targets for integrated care.
Source: BMJ Open - February 9, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Otieno, P., Asiki, G., Wekesah, F., Wilunda, C., Sanya, R. E., Wami, W., Agyemang, C. Tags: Open access, Cardiovascular medicine Source Type: research
The 5 Best Ways to Control High Cholesterol, According to People With the Condition
There are a variety of factors that influence cardiovascular risk—but cholesterol is one of the first things that doctors pay attention to.
Having high levels of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol is “definitely a variable we try to manage, because it’s been shown to be problematic for heart health,” says Dr. Adriana Quinones-Camacho, a cardiologist at NYU Langone Health.
Though it’s often called the “bad” kind of cholesterol, LDL cholesterol makes up most of your body’s cholesterol stores. That means it’s not a villain on its own, but when levels start creeping ...
Source: TIME: Health - January 18, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Elizabeth Millard Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate heart health Source Type: news
Stroke, Dietary Fish, Milk, and Sugar Consumption Correlates of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Dementia
To investigate the potentially confounding factors in the relationship between daily sugar intake versus Alzheimer& Parkinson's related death rates, including milk, meat, fish and alcohol consumption; obesity, stroke, hypertension, cancer and diabetes rates; tobacco use; and gross domestic purchasing power parity in different countries.
Source: Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation - December 1, 2022 Category: Rehabilitation Authors: Kurt Gold, Jacob Galloway, Justin Schwartz, Jonathan Huefner, Elizabeth Call, Taoyuan Beninato, Gabriela Garaycochea, Ronald Bulbulian Tags: Research Poster 2184247 Source Type: research
Influencing factors of stroke occurrence and recurrence in hypertensive patients: A prospective follow ‐up studies
ConclusionsFor people with high blood pressure, it is necessary to exercise properly, control body weight, avoid obesity, quit smoking, reduce alcohol consumption, and reasonably control blood pressure, blood sugar, and blood lipid.
Source: Brain and Behavior - September 13, 2022 Category: Neurology Authors: Yuelong Jin,
Minmin Jiang,
Na Pan,
Yan Chen,
Weiwei Chang,
Lijun Zhu,
Zhengmei Fang,
Shizao Fei,
Zixuan Zhou,
Siyun Zhou,
Lianping He,
Yingshui Yao Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
People With Diabetes Are More Vulnerable to Heart Disease. How to Reduce the Risk
If you’ve been diagnosed with diabetes, know that you’ve got plenty of company. The American Diabetes Association (ADA) reports that in 2019, the most recent year for which data is available, 37.3 million adults in the U.S.—about 11.3% of the population—had the chronic condition, and that number continues to grow.
Type 1 diabetes develops when the body isn’t able to produce insulin, and Type 2 occurs when the body doesn’t use insulin correctly. Type 2 is the most common form of diabetes, and when it’s uncontrolled, a person’s blood sugar can jump to dangerous levels that requ...
Source: TIME: Health - July 20, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Elaine K. Howley Tags: Uncategorized Disease freelance healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Correlation Between Carotid Intima Media Thickness and Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
CONCLUSION: CIMT is increased in NAFLD patients. Increase in CIMT is significantly correlated with increasing grades of NAFLD. Hence CIMT can be used as screening tests in NALFD patients to assess cardiovascular risks.PMID:35443534
Source: Journal of the Association of Physicians of India - April 21, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: Shalini Kumari Y C Porwal Rohini Gupta Source Type: research
