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Five Tests To Assess Your Heart Health In The New Year.

Dr. Paddy Barrett

Blood Pressure High blood pressure is the risk factor responsible for the greatest number of deaths worldwide 2. For every 20mmHg increase in systolic (Top Number) blood pressure, the risk of dying from a heart attack or stroke doubles 3. 6, 2017 7 JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging May 2015, 8 (5) 579-596; But walking.

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Cardiovascular Disease and Deaths On the Rise

CardiacWire

Every year, the AHA reports the most up-to-date statistics related to heart disease, stroke, and cardiovascular risk factors. While theres no one answer for a specific patient group, the AHAs biggest CVD risk culprits should be pretty familiar – obesity, smoking/tobacco use, and sedentary behavior. deaths per 100k people).

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Resting Heart Rate Independent of Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors Is Associated With End?Stage Renal Disease: A Cohort Study Based on 476?347 Adults

Journal of the American Heart Association

We aim to establish temporal consistency and elucidate the independent relationship between RHR and the risk of ESRD.Methods and ResultsThis cohort enrolled participants from 476 347 individuals who had taken part in a screening program from 1996 to 2017. The risk of ESRD remained significantly elevated (HR, 1.32 [95% CI, 1.10–1.58]

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Microvascular disease, modifiable risk factor profiles and incident arrhythmias in type 2 diabetes

Heart BMJ

Background To assess the roles of diabetic microvascular disease and modifiable risk factors and their combination in the development of arrhythmias. Incorporating microvascular disease states into a model alongside 11 traditional risk factors significantly enhanced arrhythmia prediction.

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Beating the Odds: Inside the Tribe with a Near-Zero Rate of Heart Disease.

Dr. Paddy Barrett

The real question is what the Tsimane tribe's risk factor profile looks like. Because if we can understand that, we can attempt to emulate it and also considerably delay the onset of cardiovascular disease and our risk of an early death as a consequence of it. Minimising cardiovascular risk is possible. Circulation.

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Cerebral Hemodynamic Impairment and Cognitive Dysfunction in APOE4 Carriers With Asymptomatic Carotid Artery Stenosis/Occlusion

Journal of the American Heart Association

Therefore, we clinically investigate whetherAPOE4contributes to cerebral hemodynamic and cognitive impairment in subjects with asymptomatic carotid artery stenosis or occlusion.Methods and ResultsA crosssectional observational study was conducted between January 2017 and March 2022.

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Recurrent Stroke Prediction by Applying a Stroke Polygenic Risk Score in the Japanese Population

Stroke Journal

We integrated the optimized PRSs for multiple traits, such as vascular risk factors and stroke subtypes to generate a single PRS using the meta-scoring approach (metaGRS). In addition, we analyzed its association stratified by risk factors.

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