Dr. Paddy Barrett

MAY 3, 2024

Heart Disease Starts Early In Life. Most people think of heart disease as a problem for older people. While it is true that the older you are, the higher the risk of a heart attack, the process of plaque buildup starts early in life. Heart Disease Doesn’t Kill People. Heart Attacks Kill People.

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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. High levels of stress have been linked to: 30% increased risk of stroke. Bring back the real emergencies, I say! The link is real.

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

AUGUST 23, 2024

While I have covered many of these fitness measures individually in previous posts, I wanted to summarise these metrics and how they relate to living longer and preventing major diseases such as cardiovascular disease, cancer and dementia. A higher daily step count is also linked to significantly lower cancer, stroke and heart disease rates.

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Science Daily - Stroke

AUGUST 31, 2023

A research team has found that more than four percent of all hospital admissions in southern Sweden are associated with sepsis. It is a significantly under-diagnosed condition that can be likened to an epidemic.

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Dr. Sanjay Gupta

AUGUST 31, 2022

This is called the Primary Bank because it is only for those people who have never had a heart attack or a stroke but are looking to prevent one from happening by taking Aspirin daily. So if you have never had a cardiac event or a stroke, the Primary Bank of Aspirin is the bank that you need to know about.

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DAIC

MARCH 5, 2024

Getty Images milla1cf Tue, 03/05/2024 - 13:15 March 5, 2024 — Frequent cannabis smoking may significantly increase a person’s risk for heart attack and stroke, according to an observational study supported by the National Institutes of Health.

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

JULY 12, 2024

Just like cigarette smoking, the risk of lung cancer does not arise from having smoked 40 cigarettes in one day but more so from the total number smoked over a lifetime. But remember, heart disease or atherosclerosis does not kill people. Heart attacks kill people. This is known as your cumulative LDL exposure.

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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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American College of Cardiology

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

These include hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, early or premature menopause, gestational diabetes, polycystic ovarian syndrome, autoimmune or other inflammatory diseases, and breast cancer therapies. These have ranged from heart attacks, cardio-obstetrics, breast cancer, prevention and arrhythmias.8-13 Circulation.

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

MARCH 5, 2024

For every 20 mmHg increases in systolic blood pressure the risk of dying from a heart attack or stroke in the coming years doubles 5. 3 Heart-rate recovery immediately after exercise as a predictor of mortality. A considerable percentage of high blood pressure is undiagnosed. JAMA Netw Open. 2019;2(2):e188341.

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Dr. Malcolm Kendrick

OCTOBER 30, 2024

This misinformation would have resulted in many thousands of people giving up their medication and suffering heart attacks and strokes as a result. I, Dr Malcolm Kendrick, with or without other co-conspirators, would be accused of spreading misinformation about cholesterol and statins. With thousands dying. I don’t think so.

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