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Cancer Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors 
Nature Reviews - Cardiology
APRIL 9, 2024
Nature Reviews Cardiology, Published online: 10 April 2024; doi:10.1038/s41569-024-01017-x Patients with cardiovascular disease (CVD) have an increased risk of cancer, and patients with cancer have an increased risk of CVD.
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DAIC
JUNE 19, 2024
Getty Images milla1cf Wed, 06/19/2024 - 20:54 June 19, 2024 — Modern therapies have extended the lives of many cancer patients; however, survivors often live with chronic health conditions, including cardiovascular disease. They found that exposure to PM2.5,
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Dr. Paddy Barrett
SEPTEMBER 13, 2024
Insulin resistance is a major risk factor for the leading causes of death, the leading one being cardiovascular disease. Understanding where you sit on this continuum is a key part of defining your future risk of heart disease but also dementia, and many cancers. But What Causes Insulin Resistance?
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American College of Cardiology
JUNE 21, 2024
Air pollution can greatly increase the risk of cardiovascular disease and mortality in patients with cancer and can contribute to health disparities related to both conditions,
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American College of Cardiology
AUGUST 28, 2024
What is the relationship between lifestyle risk factors and cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors in women with breast cancer (BC)?
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Journal of Clinical Investigation - Cardiology
JULY 15, 2024
A growing body of research has identified circadian-rhythm disruption as a risk factor for metabolic health. Findings have important implications for the treatment, prevention, and control of metabolic pathologies underlying leading causes of death and disability, including diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and cancer.
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Journal of the American Heart Association
FEBRUARY 26, 2025
BackgroundThere existed bidirectional associations of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and type 2 diabetes (T2D) with cancer, partly attributed to their shared risk factors. This highlighted the significance of maintaining high CVH throughout the life span for the primary prevention of CVD, T2D, and cancer.
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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
Cancer and cardiovascular disease represent the two leading causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide. However, this comes at a cost with more women developing diabetes, hypertension and coronary artery disease as they age. Women continue to enjoy a greater life expectancy than men.
Circulation
NOVEMBER 11, 2024
Owing to improved management, the life expectancy of patients with hemophilia has increased significantly and predisposes them to risk of cardiovascular diseases and thrombotic events. The primary outcome was to estimate the prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors in patients with hemophilia compared to the general population.
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Dr. Paddy Barrett
FEBRUARY 21, 2025
There are various stages of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, which is more recently known as MAFLD - Metabolic dysfunction-associated fatty liver disease. These stages can range from mild fatty liver infiltration to serious scarring and fibrosis terminating in liver cirrhosis and potentially liver cancer. Lancet Rheumatol.
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Heart BMJ
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
The number of patients at the intersection of cancer and cardiovascular disease (CVD) is increasing, reflecting ageing global populations, rising burden of shared cardiometabolic risk factors, and improved cancer survival. Many cancer treatments carry a risk of cardiotoxicity.
Dr. Paddy Barrett
MARCH 23, 2024
They get the diseases of ageing about 20 to 25 years later than everyone else. It’s not that they don’t get cardiovascular disease, cancer or dementia; they just get it way later than everyone else. Most adults, healthy centenarians included, will die from one of three things: Cardiovascular Disease.
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Heart BMJ
APRIL 15, 2024
This study sought to evaluate the prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors, overt cardiovascular disease and cardiac imaging abnormalities using cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR), in participants with normal LVEF on completion of trastuzumab±anthracycline therapy at least 5 years previously.
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Dr. Paddy Barrett
JANUARY 16, 2024
Cardiovascular disease, cancer and dementia account for 60% of all deaths in the US. Yes, many external factors impact these factors, but ultimately, you have significant control over all of these. Let’s look at what happens to NCD risk when these risk factors are optimised.
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Dr. Paddy Barrett
APRIL 26, 2024
Insulin resistance and diabetes may not ‘ cause ’ coronary artery disease, but they are huge accelerants. In fact, when considering the contribution of risk for cardiovascular disease, diabetes and its early manifestations, such as metabolic syndrome and insulin resistance, are some of the biggest drivers of risk.
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DAIC
JANUARY 22, 2024
Rader’s research will focus on new genes and pathways altering lipid metabolism and causing cardiovascular disease revealed through large-scale human genetics. Genetics play a major role in lipid metabolism and cardiovascular disease and many new genes have been identified for which the underlying biology is not understood.
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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. But it’s not just natural disasters and war that have been linked to a higher risk of events. The link is real.
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Dr. Paddy Barrett
JANUARY 23, 2024
Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death worldwide. It kills almost twice as many people globally when compared to all cancers combined. Over 80% of early heart disease is preventable. The real question is what the Tsimane tribe's risk factor profile looks like.
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Dr. Paddy Barrett
DECEMBER 26, 2023
ApoB The relationship of serum ApoB levels and cardiovascular risk over your lifetime is clear. The greater the cumulative exposure the higher the likelihood of cardiovascular disease. The lower your cumulative ApoB over your lifetime the lower your cardiovascular risk. You decide. You measure.
Wellnest
AUGUST 24, 2023
Introduction One of the biggest causes of death worldwide continues to be cardiovascular disease. In this blog, we will unravel some of the most common myths about cardiac health and heart diseases while providing accurate and evidence-based information to promote a healthy lifestyle. Myth #3: Heart diseases only affect men.
The British Journal of Cardiology
JANUARY 16, 2024
They called this pill the ‘Polypill’, and concluded that treatment would be acceptably safe and, with widespread use, would have a greater impact on the prevention of disease in the Western world than any other single intervention. There is much to gain and little to lose by the widespread use of these drugs.”
Heart 2023 Conference
APRIL 20, 2022
Avocado consumption of at least two servings per week is linked to a lower risk of cardiovascular disease. Harvard University Heart Letter) A clinical polygenic risk score test for diseases ranging from atrial fibrillation (AFib) to breast cancer was piloted by scientists.
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ADN Center of Excellence
JUNE 11, 2024
In the ever-evolving landscape of medical diagnostics, early disease detection stands as a critical frontier, offering the potential to save countless lives and improve patient outcomes. At the forefront of this quest lie the remarkable advancements in imaging technology, ushering in a new era of precision and insight.
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ADN Center of Excellence
JUNE 11, 2024
In the ever-evolving landscape of medical diagnostics, early disease detection stands as a critical frontier, offering the potential to save countless lives and improve patient outcomes. At the forefront of this quest lie the remarkable advancements in imaging technology, ushering in a new era of precision and insight.
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DAIC
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
Clinical and Investigative Horizons (Session 410) Sunday, April 7 4:30 – 5:45 p.m. 12:15 p.m.
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Physiologically Speaking
APRIL 10, 2024
Doubling this amount to 300 minutes of moderate-intensity or 150 minutes of vigorous-intensity activity per week would (if adhered to, of course) yield massive benefits for cardiovascular health. Remember that cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death around the world. Something’s gotta give.
Physiologically Speaking
SEPTEMBER 20, 2024
Rather than use the traditional view of exercise improving risk factors for disease, they posit an evolutionary explanation underlying why physical activity stimulates health-promoting, adaptive processes. We are well aware of the risk of overweight and obesity caused by a caloric surplus and a lack of physical activity.
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Dr. Paddy Barrett
AUGUST 15, 2023
Insulin resistance is a core risk factor for the three leading causes of death: Cardiovascular Disease Cancer Dementia. Insulin resistance is unlikely to be the primary causal factor for these conditions but is likely to be a major accelerant. Subscribe now Take cardiovascular disease, for example.
Physiologically Speaking
JANUARY 26, 2024
COSMOS tested a cocoa extract supplement and a multivitamin-mineral supplement against one another and a placebo for reducing the risk of cardiovascular disease and cancer. This hypothesis was studied in a randomized controlled trial known as the COcoa Supplement and Multivitamin Outcomes Study or COSMOS.
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Physiologically Speaking
MARCH 8, 2024
Poor sleep quantity and quality are widespread modifiable risk factors for several diseases, namely, cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, and cancer. Modern society is plagued by a chronic sleep debt. Acute sleep loss is also insidious. It makes us less productive and more prone to automobile accidents.
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DAIC
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
The HEART Study is the world's first clinical trial investigating the use of genomic 'polygenic risk score (PRS) testing' to support the prevention of cardiovascular disease ( CVD ) in National Health Service (NHS) clinical practice. Prevention is at the heart of what we do as GPs and risk assessment underpins that.
Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine
DECEMBER 13, 2023
LH individuals also appear to have more cardiovascular disease (CVD) related conditions like diabetes and cancer. Thus, the present study sought to test the hypothesis that vascular function and heart rate variability (HRV), both key indicators of CVD risk, would be lower in LH compared to RH individuals.
Dr. Paddy Barrett
MARCH 29, 2024
We have covered these extensively, but to reiterate, these are: Cardiovascular Disease. To most people's surprise, the leading causes of death are still heart disease and cancer. With cardiovascular disease killing about 25% more people every year than cancer. Heart disease and cancer.
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DAIC
MARCH 8, 2024
The estimated relative risk reduction of MACE was 20% vs placebo (HR 0.80 [95% CI: 0.72, 0.90] p 1,2 The reduction of MACE with Wegovy was not impacted by age, sex, race, ethnicity, baseline BMI, or level of renal function impairment. Between 1999 and 2020, obesity-related cardiovascular disease deaths tripled in the U.S.,
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American College of Cardiology
FEBRUARY 1, 2025
And sex-specific cardiovascular education of trainees and the entire care team is imperative," says Laxmi Mehta, MD, FACC, director of preventive cardiology and women's cardiovascular health at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center in Columbus. This is one way that multidisciplinary care comes into play.
DAIC
MARCH 5, 2024
We've known for a long time that smoking tobacco is linked to heart disease, and this study is evidence that smoking cannabis appears to also be a risk factor for cardiovascular disease, which is the leading cause of death in the United States,” Jeffers said.
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Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology
NOVEMBER 29, 2023
Yet, little is known about risk factors that predispose to persistent AF on initial presentation. Older age, male sex, postcollege education, and obesity were preferentially associated with persistent AF and represent a high-risk AF subset for population-based intervention. RESULTS:During a median follow-up of 5.3
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Dr. Paddy Barrett
OCTOBER 24, 2023
Share Why you die earlier is likely down to the earlier onset of the two major diseases that are the leading causes of death worldwide: Cardiovascular Disease Cancer. An earlier diagnosis of diabetes is associated with a significantly higher risk of both conditions. This is a numbers game. Place your bets.
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Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging
FEBRUARY 4, 2025
BACKGROUND:Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs), though revolutionary in cancer treatment, may accelerate atherosclerosis by inducing arterial inflammation. Baseline arterial [18F]FDG uptake correlated with traditional cardiovascular risk factors, such as body mass index and male sex. annually (95% CI, 1.7%3.3%;P=0.001
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Stroke Journal
JANUARY 30, 2025
Initially, CHIP was identified as a risk factor for hematologic cancer, but recently, many studies have implicated it as a risk factor for cardiovascular disease. CHIP is also considered a risk factor for subarachnoid hemorrhage.
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Circulation
NOVEMBER 11, 2024
Accumulating evidence has manifested the positive link between LOY and shorter life expectations in elderly men as well as common age-associated diseases, such as cancer and cardiovascular diseases. However, little is known about LOY and prognosis of ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI).Hypothesis:We
Cardiometabolic Health Congress
MARCH 8, 2024
At the same time, we know that there are gender differences in health , including differences in pain perception and management, hormonal changes in brain and pain, and cardiometabolic risk factors, among other factors contributing to the complex interplay of sex and gender in health.
Dr. Malcolm Kendrick
OCTOBER 30, 2024
The hypothesis that a raised cholesterol level causes heart disease [atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD)] is possibly the single most powerful idea in medicine. Which remains the single most influential study on cardiovascular disease, ever. At least some of it. It was simply a matter of time.
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