Jul

15

30 Ways to Reduce Your Risk of Heart Disease and Stroke

July 15, 2008 | Comments Off

Between 1950 and 2000, the death rate from heart disease in the United States plummeted nearly 70 percent, and the death rate from stroke nearly 80 percent. However, although we’re dying of heart attack and stroke less often, we’re still getting cardiovascular disease just as often. In fact, some factors that put us at risk, […]

Mar

12

Smoking, blood pressure a deadly combo

March 12, 2008 | Comments Off

Smoking and high blood pressure are a deadly combination that dramatically increase the risk of a blood vessel bursting inside the brain, Australian research shows. High blood pressure and smoking are known to increase the risk of heart diseases, but Sydney researchers have shown that the two have a stronger, "synergistic effect" when both are […]

Feb

26

Doctors Find 3 New Signs Of Stroke Risk

February 26, 2008 | Comments Off

What do mammograms, blood-sugar tests and daytime dozing have in common? All may offer clues that someone is headed for a stroke, new studies suggest. Higher stroke risk was seen in women with artery buildups accidentally revealed by mammograms, in non-diabetics starting to have insulin problems, and in older people who tend to nod […]

Feb

4

Smoking can double risk of colorectal polyps

February 4, 2008 | Comments Off

The results from this meta-analysis showed pooled risk estimates of 2.14 for current versus never smokers, 1.82 for ever versus never smokers and 1.47 for former versus never smokers. Ever smokers had a 13 percent increasing risk of polyps for every additional 10 pack-years smoked in comparison to never smokers.

Jan

28

Heavy drinking tied to heart risks later

January 28, 2008 | Comments Off

People who drink heavily in their youth may have a higher risk of developing a collection of risk factors for heart disease and stroke, new research suggests. In a study that examined the lifetime drinking habits of more than 2,800 adults, researchers found that those who drank heavily in their teens and young adulthood were […]

Jan

9

Low vitamin D heart health risk

January 9, 2008 | Comments Off

Having too little vitamin D has been linked to an increased risk of heart disease, a US study has found. The Harvard Medical School team said the risk was particularly high for those who also had high blood pressure. Writing in the journal Circulation, they said correcting vitamin D deficiency could be beneficial.

Dec

29

Heart attacks more risky for diabetics

December 29, 2007 | Comments Off

While the treatment of people with diabetes who suffer a heart attack has improved, along with subsequent survival rates, mortality is still higher than in non-diabetics, a study shows. Dr Anna Norhammar, of the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden, and colleagues assessed death rates and treatment patterns in 1995-1998 and 1999-2002 in 70,882 people younger than […]

Dec

29

Early heart attack risk for smokers

December 29, 2007 | Comments Off

AS if cigarette smokers don’t have enough health worries, new research shows that smokers with a common genetic mutation are at greater risk of a heart attack early in life than those without the defective gene. The link between the faulty version of the gene and early heart attacks is so strong that smokers without […]

Nov

21

MU study finds that sitting may increase risk of disease

November 21, 2007 | Comments Off

Most people spend most of their day sitting with relatively idle muscles. Health professionals advise that at least 30 minutes of activity at least 5 days a week will counteract health concerns, such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes and obesity that may result from inactivity. Now, researchers at the University of Missouri-Columbia say a new model […]

Nov

6

Early Weight Gain Can Mean Heart Trouble Later in Life

November 6, 2007 | Comments Off

Parents don’t let your children grow up to be fat — or even fat when they start grade school. Children reach a low point in their body mass index (BMI, a ratio of weight to height) early in life, before the BMI rises in concert with childhood, adolescence and adulthood. But the earlier a child […]

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