American Heart News - Heart News

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Research Highlights: Heart disease, Type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure and obesity were more common and linked to reduced access to healthy food among people who lived in neighborhoods previously subjected to structural racism-based policies that.

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Science Daily - Heart Disease

JANUARY 17, 2025

These findings may inform efforts to prevent excessive weight gain early in life, a risk factor for adult obesity and related conditions, such as heart disease, high blood pressure and diabetes.

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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 According to their projections, from 2020 to 2050, high blood pressure is expected to rise from 51.2% to 61% of the U.S. population. population.

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CardiacWire

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

The associations between obesity and hypertension are widely known, but a new JACC study reveals that weight-reducing gastric bypass surgery has a significant and lasting impact on patients’ need for antihypertensives. The GATEWAY trial assigned 100 participants (76% women, 43.8 of them achieved BPs below 130/80 mm Hg (vs.

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American Heart News - Heart News

MARCH 26, 2025

Statement Highlights: By age 18, many adolescents have already developed heart disease risk factors, such as high blood pressure, obesity, high cholesterol or Type 2 diabetes, and a growing number of younger adults are experiencing adverse.

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CardiacWire

AUGUST 23, 2024

It looks like we might be able to add prediabetes and hypertension to the growing list of conditions that Eli Lilly’s “weight loss drug” tirzepatide is able to treat, after new analysis of the SURMOUNT-1 trial showed significant reductions in blood pressure and diabetes progression. mm Hg systolic and 4.2 of placebo-takers.

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Physiologically Speaking

JANUARY 10, 2024

Circadian rhythms in blood pressure and heart rate, among other functions, are crucial for cardiovascular health and preventing cardiovascular disease. This is supported by studies showing that ALAN exposure is associated with a range of conditions like cardiometabolic disease, obesity, and diabetes.

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Even more will get through in the setting of other cardiovascular risk factors such as smoking and high blood pressure. If you have high blood pressure, you are just throwing those tennis balls (ApoB) harder. Trends in the number of obese and severely obese people by region.

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Open Heart

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Patients with no history of atherosclerotic CVD started on blood pressure and/or lipid and/or glucose lowering treatments were identified retrospectively and interviewed at least 6 months after the initiation of medication. obese (body mass index≥30 kg/m 2 ) and 53.5% women; mean age 61.7±10.8 women; mean age 61.7±10.8

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Cardiometabolic Health Congress

OCTOBER 18, 2024

There is a clear relationship between sleep deprivation and the development of conditions like obesity, diabetes, and hypertension. Impaired glucose tolerance : After just one week of sleep deprivation, insulin sensitivity decreases, pushing patients toward diabetes.

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Hypertension Journal

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Alterations in microcirculation play a crucial role in the pathogenesis of cardiovascular and metabolic disorders such as obesity and hypertension. In obesity, PVAT becomes enlarged and inflamed, and the bioavailability of adiponectin is reduced. The inevitable consequence is a rise in peripheral resistance with higher blood pressure.

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Circulation

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Background:Aldosterone regulates blood pressure and electrolyte balance. Insulin signaling was assessed 15 minutes after stimulation with 17 nM insulin.Results:Esaxerenone improved insulin sensitivity (P<0.05) without altering metabolic parameters in HFD-induced obese and db/db mice.

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Journal of the American Heart Association

JANUARY 31, 2024

We examined whether intensive lifestyle intervention (ILI) for weight loss decreased variability of cardiovascular risk factors with a view to additional cardiometabolic benefits.Methods and ResultsThis study was a post hoc secondary analysis of the Look AHEAD (Action for Health in Diabetes) study.

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DAIC

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

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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. Obesity is one of the biggest global health concerns we face today. Obesity is also a key driver of risk for cardiovascular disease. Obesity (Silver Spring). hour sleep-per-night group.

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AMS Cardiology

AUGUST 15, 2023

High blood pressure – Hypertension is a significant risk factor for heart disease. Routine blood pressure checks are essential to maintaining a healthy heart as high blood pressure often has no symptoms. It damages blood vessels, decreases oxygen to the heart and raises the risk of heart disease.

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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. As they age, people with high blood pressure are more likely to develop heart disease.

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CardiacWire

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

The US obesity management arena gained a major new competitor last week with the FDA approval of Eli Lilly’s Zepbound, giving obese and overweight patients in the US a second (on-label) option beyond Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy. weight reductions among people with T2D in the SURMOUNT-2 trial, and 15% to 20.9%

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MIBHS

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Blood Pressure Regulation Adequate sleep helps regulate blood pressure, a vital factor in heart health. During deep sleep, blood pressure naturally decreases, allowing the heart and blood vessels to rest and recover.

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

AUGUST 16, 2024

Overweight/Obesity. Falling into the class of obesity with a BMI of greater than 30 makes this more likely, but so also does having excess visceral fat deposition with significant metabolic consequences at a BMI less than 30. Weight Loss Potential With Obesity Medications. ” here is what I tell them. The exact same thing.

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Cardiometabolic Health Congress

AUGUST 14, 2024

The focus will be on the intricate interplay between cardiorenal and metabolic conditions, such as type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and chronic kidney disease, driven by lifestyle and health factors. Singh, MBBS, FRCP, MBA Advances in Obesity Pharmacotherapy Louis J. When I heard of his passing, I felt quite sad.

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

JANUARY 24, 2025

In the early 1970’s a group of 106 severely obese patients were put on a diet that resulted in an average weight loss of 63 Kg (139 lbs) over about one year 2. Systolic Blood Pressure: 35 mmHg reduction. Fasting Blood Glucose: 19.5% 2 Treatment of massive obesity with rice/reduction diet program.

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MIBHS

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Reducing Risk Factors Exercise helps manage and reduce risk factors associated with heart disease, such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol levels, obesity, and diabetes. Lack of exercise contributes to weight gain, high blood pressure, and poor circulation, all of which elevate the risk of heart diseases.

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All About Cardiovascular System and Disorders

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

They have a greater prevalence of obesity, dyslipidemia, metabolic syndrome and diabetes mellitus. Energy expenditure is lesser both due to lack of motor function and lack of opportunities to engage in physical activity.

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Stroke Journal

JANUARY 30, 2025

In unadjusted analysis, factors significantly associated with troponin testing were a triage complaint of chest pain, older age, higher mean systolic BP, hypertension, diabetes, obesity, stroke or TIA, congestive heart failure, or coronary disease.

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GEMMS

MAY 22, 2024

Traditional tools like stethoscopes, blood pressure gauges, and electrocardiograms (ECG) are fundamental for standard diagnostic practices. Much of heart disease is linked to conditions like diabetes, obesity, or chronic kidney disease, and specific mutations in nucleic acids help identify them.

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DAIC

DECEMBER 8, 2023

There is clearer focus on risk factor modification—for example, weight loss and obesity prevention, physical activity, smoking cessation, limiting alcohol, and controlling blood pressure and other comorbidities—to help prevent AFib or ameliorate any recurrences or worsening of the disease.

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Physiologically Speaking

AUGUST 9, 2024

On one side, advocates of low-carbohydrate diets argue that cutting carbs, particularly in the form of sugars, is essential for weight management and metabolic health — pointing the rise of insulin resistance, obesity, and type 2 diabetes as evidence that our carbohydrate-laden diets are wreaking havoc on our bodies.

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

“Statins cause diabetes” This one is true. In truth, it is really those who are pre-diabetic who likely pull forward their diagnosis by about five days. But they do not magically take someone who is insulin-sensitive to full-blown type 2 diabetes overnight. But the devil is in the detail. in absolute risk terms.

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

low cholesterol), the total score can easily be taken to greater than 10 with other risk factors, including high blood pressure, obesity, inactivity, smoking etc. Overweight but not obese and a systolic blood pressure of 135 mmHg (Not very high but certainly not ideal). HDL cholesterol = 1.2

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

AUGUST 9, 2024

The 14 Factors Include: Hearing Loss High LDL cholesterol Less Education Traumatic Brain Injury Depression Social Isolation Hypertension Obesity Smoking Excess Alcohol Diabetes Physical Inactivity Air Pollution Visual Loss Dementia prevention, intervention, and care: 2024 report of the Lancet standing Commission When You Intervene Matters.

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MIBHS

MARCH 15, 2025

Understanding the effects of alcohol on heart disease, blood pressure, and heart muscle function is essential for making informed decisions about alcohol intake. How Alcohol Affects Heart Function Blood Pressure and Heart Disease Risk One of the most significant concerns related to alcohol consumption is its effect on blood pressure.

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

MAY 24, 2024

In the US, over 45% of the population has either diabetes or pre-diabetes 1. The absolute majority of those with diabetes have type 2 diabetes, which is usually associated with excess visceral fat and poor cardiometabolic health. Because a diagnosis of diabetes is very likely to shorten your life. Pre-Diabetes.

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Normal Blood Pressure. No Diabetes or Pre-Diabetes. A study of almost 10,000 adults with obesity (BMI >30) who were evaluated for all LE8 factors and followed for over 7 years can give us some insight 1. Can we take the obesity risk off the table also? Not smoking. Adequate Sleep. The answer is yes.

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MIBHS

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Genes influence various biological processes, including cholesterol metabolism, blood pressure regulation, and the strength and structure of your heart and blood vessels. Common Heart Diseases with Genetic Links Coronary Artery Disease (CAD): CAD occurs when the arteries supplying blood to the heart become narrowed or blocked.

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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. New obesity medications such as GLP-1 agonists have shown significant reductions in weight in those with a prior heart attack. Secondary prevention.

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Cardiometabolic Health Congress

JULY 25, 2023

Can you please explain the concept of an obesity paradox? Salvatore Carbone, PhD: First, I’d like to point out that obesity is a major risk factor for cardiometabolic disease. 2, 3] This association is more pronounced for those with class I obesity, which is a body mass index (BMI) between 30-35 kg/m2.

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