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14 Ways To Prevent Dementia

Dr. Paddy Barrett

More than heart disease or cancer, the risk of dementia often creates much greater anxiety in the patients I see. High Blood Pressure. It has been long established that high pressure is closely linked to higher rates of dementia. The question is whether treating high blood pressure lowers the risk of dementia.

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One Of The Biggest Impact Things You Can Do To Live Longer.

Dr. Paddy Barrett

When you compare those in the highest fitness levels to those in the lowest fitness levels, the impact on early death, death from heart disease and cancer deaths is incredible 1. Cancer deaths: 43% reduction in risk. High Blood Pressure: 37% reduction in risk. Cancer deaths: 7% reduction in risk.

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Long-term Survivors of Childhood Cancer at Higher Risk of Death Following Heart Issues; Threshold for Treating Risk Factors Should be Lower

DAIC

The findings – published this week in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology — could fuel advocacy for a paradigm shift in clinical heart health guidelines to address cardiovascular risk factors at an earlier age in childhood cancer survivors. “We Wendy Bottinor, MD.

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Association of Cardiovascular Health Metrics and Mortality Among Individuals With and Without Cancer

Journal of the American Heart Association

For each participant, American Heart Association Life's Essential 8 cardiovascular health metrics of health behaviors (diet, physical activity, nicotine exposure, and sleep) and health factors (body mass index, non–high‐density lipoprotein cholesterol, blood glucose, and blood pressure) were obtained. 0.79];P=0.001).

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10 Things You Can Do To Improve Your Heart Health

Dr. Paddy Barrett

What should my blood pressure be? What is a normal cholesterol? It usually takes many years of being exposed to an uncontrolled risk factor such as high blood pressure, high LDL cholesterol or diabetes. Lp(a) is a genetic cholesterol particle disorder that is present in 10 to 20% of the population.

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

Dr. Paddy Barrett

It kills almost twice as many people globally when compared to all cancers combined. Subscribe now Blood Pressure Approximately 50% of all Western adults have high blood pressure 7. The majority of this high blood pressure is undiagnosed and, therefore, untreated. The average Non-HDL cholesterol is 2.9

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Revolutionary Results: How Modern Weight Loss Medications are Changing the Game

Dr. Paddy Barrett

Share In addition to reductions in weight, multiple risk parameters, including blood pressure, waist circumference and lipids, also improve. There is even emerging evidence that the use of such therapies may even reduce the risk of colorectal cancer by up to 50% 6. Will These Therapies Always Be Injectables? N Engl J Med.

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