Science Daily - Heart Disease

JULY 29, 2024

If current guidelines for cholesterol and high blood pressure treatment remain unchanged, a newly unveiled heart risk calculator would render 16 million people ineligible for preventive therapy.

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

By the time you get to age 80, you will almost certainly have evidence of plaque in your coronary arteries - you will have heart disease. But remember: Heart disease doesn’t kill people. Heart attacks do. And while heart attacks happen suddenly. Heart disease happens slowly. Think decades.

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Science Daily - Heart Disease

AUGUST 21, 2024

An analysis based on a proposed heart failure risk prediction tool reveals that the incidence of heart failure may be 2- to 3-fold higher among American Indian adults compared to people in other population groups.

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MIBHS

MARCH 15, 2025

Some studies suggest that moderate alcohol consumption may provide cardiovascular benefits, while excessive or binge drinking can significantly harm the heart. Understanding the effects of alcohol on heart disease, blood pressure, and heart muscle function is essential for making informed decisions about alcohol intake.

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

APRIL 5, 2024

Primary prevention is the management of the risk factors, e.g. high blood pressure, early in life to prevent complications of the condition, i.e. coronary artery disease. This refers to all the steps necessary to reduce the odds of a subsequent event, such as a second heart attack or stroke. Secondary prevention.

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AMS Cardiology

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

While the holidays themselves can’t cause a heart attack , certain things people do during the hectic, festive season may stress their heart health more than they realize. So, how can you lower your risk for heart attacks, heart disease and other complications?

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

MAY 3, 2024

During each consultation with a patient, I would have to explain certain topics related to heart health, and I found myself repeating them over and over. What should my blood pressure be? What is heart disease? Heart Disease Starts Early In Life. Most people think of heart disease as a problem for older people.

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

The Heart Health Formula is made up of 3 main modules. The Understanding Heart Disease module includes lessons on: Why The Standard Model Is Broken. Understanding Heart Disease. Heart Attack versus Heart Disease. Heart Disease Starts Earlier Than You Think. Symptoms Of Heart Disease.

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

APRIL 4, 2025

E.g. High Blood Pressure, Diabetes Diagnosed three years ago. Blood Pressure I think that blood pressure taken in clinical settings is as close to useless as makes no difference. Taking blood pressure in a doctor’s office is mostly theatre. That is your blood pressure.

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DAIC

JUNE 18, 2024

A projected rise in heart disease and stroke – along with several key risk factors, including high blood pressure and obesity – is likely to triple related costs to $1.8 trillion by 2050, according to two American Heart Association ( AHA ) presidential advisories published June 4 in the AHA journal Circulation.

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MIBHS

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Understanding the Genetic Connection to Heart Disease Your genetic makeup plays a vital role in shaping your heart health. Genes influence various biological processes, including cholesterol metabolism, blood pressure regulation, and the strength and structure of your heart and blood vessels.

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DAIC

JANUARY 19, 2024

AVIM therapy is an investigational patented bioelectronic therapy, administered using a standard dual-chamber pacemaker, designed to immediately, substantially and persistently reduce blood pressure. This leaves a gap in the care of these patients and increases their risk for heart attack, stroke and heart failure progression.

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

JUNE 21, 2024

Some groups will state that any heart events at less than 55 years of age for males and less than 65 for females define early heart disease. A heart attack in a 56-year-old male is early in anyone's books. However, the above age cut-offs give a good idea of what we consider the early presentation of heart disease.

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

No heart attacks. Except in the setting of type 2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome, insulin resistance and obesity. When this occurs, the future risk of dying from any cause increases by 21%, and the chances of a heart attack increase by 49% 3. No atherosclerosis. Usually LDL -C roughly equates to levels of ApoB.

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Many pharmacies ran out of stock, and access was often restricted to keep available supplies for diabetics where the drug class had originally been developed. Share In addition to reductions in weight, multiple risk parameters, including blood pressure, waist circumference and lipids, also improve. Am Heart J.

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

DECEMBER 13, 2024

The greater the number of particles the artery wall is exposed to over time, the higher the risk of atherosclerosis and a heart attack 2. Even more will get through in the setting of other cardiovascular risk factors such as smoking and high blood pressure. Relationship of BMI and Risk Of Diabetes.

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Managing blood pressure. mmol/l (197 mg/dl) with normal blood pressure who is a little overweight, does not smoke or have diabetes and has a family history of heart disease. Suddenly, a 43% chance of a heart attack or stroke becomes a 19% risk. Lancet Diabetes Endocrinol. Being active.

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Wellnest

MARCH 12, 2023

A human's health and well-being may suffer significantly after a heart attack. It occurs when blood flow to the coronary arteries is restricted, frequently by a blood clot, which can harm the heart muscle and result in consequences like heart disease or sudden cardiac arrest. Blood pressure is high.

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

MAY 17, 2024

But What About Stress & Heart Disease? When stress is included in the risk factor profile for a future heart attack, it comes in third on the list after abnormal cholesterol and smoking 1. It is likely down to a number of factors, including 6 : Elevations in blood pressure & heart rate.

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DAIC

AUGUST 21, 2024

The results were calculated using a new, proposed risk prediction scale for heart failure specifically for American Indian adults. The inexpensive risk prediction equation, which uses readily available tools focused on Type 2 diabetes management and kidney damage.

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DAIC

MAY 16, 2024

A new joint guideline from the American Heart Association (AHA), the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and nine other medical societies reports early diagnosis and treatment of peripheral artery disease is essential to improve outcomes and reduce amputation risk, heart attack, stroke and death for people with Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD).

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Wellnest

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Insufficient or interrupted sleep can affect blood pressure and increase the risk of heart attacks, stroke, diabetes, and other cardiovascular diseases. High blood pressure and heart disease are related to insomnia. They also have an increased risk of having a stroke or a heart attack.

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DAIC

JANUARY 23, 2024

3 Patients with ASCVD are at a higher risk for major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) including heart attack or myocardial infarction (MI), stroke, and cardiovascular (CV) death.4 21 Luckily, each of these risks can be measured by simple blood tests. 4 In the U.S. 22 In general, hsCRP values above 2.0

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

AUGUST 30, 2024

Insulin resistance is a precursor condition to metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes, both major drivers of heart disease. Poor Sleep Increases The Rate Of Heart Attacks & Stroke. Poor Sleep Increases The Rate Of Heart Attacks & Stroke. Poor Sleep Is A Major Risk Factor For Insulin Resistance.

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MIBHS

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

Women often experience heart disease differently than men, with risk factors and symptoms that can be easily overlooked or misinterpreted. A key difference lies in how women and men experience heart attacks. Hormonal Factors : Estrogen, a protective hormone in heart health, significantly decreases during menopause.

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MIBHS

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Hypertension Hypertension, or high blood pressure , is often referred to as the “silent killer” because it typically shows no symptoms until it leads to more severe health issues. Regular blood pressure checks and lifestyle modifications, such as a heart-healthy diet and exercise, are essential for managing this risk.

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

MARCH 21, 2024

The Understanding Heart Disease module includes lessons on: Why the standard model is broken. Understanding Heart Disease. Heart Attack versus Heart Disease. Heart Disease Starts Earlier Than You Think. Symptoms Of Heart Disease. Get Heart Disease Right Get Everything Else Right.

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Dr. Malcolm Kendrick

OCTOBER 20, 2023

They would have their blood pressure measured and put on antihypertensives. Anyone with diabetes would be prescribed blood sugar lowering medications. For example, the percentage of their patients with high blood pressure where it is successfully lowered to achieve the required level e.g., < 140/90mmHg – or less 1.

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Dr. Prateek Bhatnagar

MAY 11, 2018

Redo bypass surgery in India Due to a host of risk factors, coronary heart disease may recur in patients. These are diabetes, high blood pressure, high stress levels, high fat diet, lack of exercise, smoking, excessive alcohol intake etc. Heart attack is one of the commonest causes of death.

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AMS Cardiology

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Losing as few as seven to ten pounds reduces the risk of type 2 diabetes by up to 70%. Stress has a debilitating effect on your body and especially your heart. Highly stressed people have an increased risk of heart attack and stroke. An annual physical is critical for maintaining a healthy heart.

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

AUGUST 16, 2024

It is no more a moral failing to take one of these medications if you have obesity than it is to take a blood pressure-lowering medication if you have high blood pressure. Diabetes Obes Metab. They are simply one of many tools we have to manage excess weight. I told you they didn’t work. The exact same thing.

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DAIC

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Signs and symptoms of vascular disease (such as pain or swelling in the legs, arms, and feet) can go unnoticed or unrecognized and cause serious or life-threatening complications if left untreated including heart attack, stroke, amputation, and even death.

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Wellnest

JULY 19, 2023

Have you wondered what causes a heart attack? Three coronary arteries supply blood to the heart. When one of these arteries becomes completely blocked by a blood clot, it results in a heart attack, also known as MI (Myocardial infarction). So, how do you recognize a heart attack?

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DAIC

MARCH 8, 2024

Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) has approved an additional indication for Wegovy ( semaglutide ) to reduce the risk of major cardiovascular events such as death, heart attack, or stroke in adults with known heart disease and with either obesity or overweight along with a reduced calorie diet and increased physical activity.

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

OCTOBER 10, 2023

When they inevitably have a heart attack, the physician and the patient are often surprised, but if they had looked, they might have seen where that risk was coming from and what to have done about it. While markers of diabetes are routinely checked, measures of insulin resistance are rarely formally evaluated. 122.025858.

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DAIC

APRIL 2, 2024

In the study, post-menopausal women underwent heart scans to assess their CAC score, a measure of plaque buildup—fat, calcium and other substances—in the heart’s arteries. A higher CAC score indicates a higher risk of a heart attack or other cardiac events.

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Physiologically Speaking

APRIL 24, 2024

6 [link] Insufficient sleep has been linked to a greater risk for several health conditions including obesity, diabetes, hypertension, and cognitive decline. 9 Adults who sleep <6 hours each night have a 15% greater risk for CVD and 23% increased risk for coronary heart disease compared to those sleeping 7 hours or more.

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