GEMMS

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Good cardiovascular health is essential for maintaining a healthy lifestyle and reducing the risk of heart disease, stroke, and other cardiovascular conditions. By prioritizing cardiovascular health, individuals can improve their quality of life and longevity.

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Cardiometabolic Health Congress

APRIL 19, 2024

Addressing an Unmet Need in Pediatric Patients with HeFH Heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (HeFH) affects about 1 in 313 people—characterized by dangerously high low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) levels. Untreated, it can trigger early heart disease. Statement from Dr. Mary P.

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Journal of the American Heart Association

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

BackgroundMyocardial infarction is a cardiovascular disease that significantly contributes to global morbidity and disability. In contrast, overall alcohol intake showed a protective effect, potentially by increasing highdensity lipoprotein cholesterol (4.48% mediation) and reducing triglycerides (6.24% mediation).

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Cardiometabolic Health Congress

AUGUST 23, 2024

Newly included risk factors— untreated vision loss and high LDL cholesterol —underscore the critical role of these elements in maintaining cognitive health. The Cholesterol Connection Cholesterol’s recognition as a risk factor for dementia marks a pivotal advancement in understanding, preventing, and delaying cognitive decline.

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Circulation

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

VA sites work with an AHA QI consultant to develop and deploy a local quality improvement plan to help overcome site specific barriers preventing Veterans from achieving optimal cholesterol levels. Once the patient starts with a new lipid medication, they are followed in 3 months with labs.

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Cardiometabolic Health Congress

JUNE 7, 2024

Ballantyne, MD , emphasized that while fellows may consider prevention “boring,” it is crucial for avoiding resource-intensive late-stage cardiovascular disease (CVD). He highlighted that cardiovascular health is essential for cognitive health, noting the common occurrence of vascular dementia.

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Open Heart

MARCH 13, 2023

Objective The lifelong risks of cardiovascular disease following hypertensive disorders of pregnancy are well described. We aimed to assess participants’ knowledge of their cardiovascular disease risk and relevant health-seeking behaviours following a pregnancy affected by preeclampsia or gestational hypertension.

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Circulation

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Background:The role of immune suppressive microenvironment, promulgated by the presence of Myeloid Derived Suppressor Cells (MDSC) have been the major focus of research delineating the underlying mechanisms of cardiovascular diseases (CVD). 3ng/day for 15 days).M-MDSCs Further, CCR5 modulation expanded IL10+M-MDSCin vivo.

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Stroke Journal

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Background:Adherence to the American Heart Association's Life’s Essential 8 (LE8) reduces the risk of cardiovascular disease. The independent variable or “exposure” was the LE8 score, which was based on data on blood pressure, blood glucose and cholesterol, body mass index, smoking, physical activity, sleep duration and diet.

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Physiologically Speaking

JANUARY 26, 2024

It’s also likely that most people aren’t getting all of the nutrients they need from their diet even if they think they are. 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.

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Physiologically Speaking

JULY 26, 2024

We talk about the ketogenic diet as a metabolic therapy for type 1 diabetes. Dozens if not hundreds of (albeit observational) studies have linked a short sleep duration to a number of health conditions including type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Welcome to the Physiology Friday newsletter.

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Cardiometabolic Health Congress

JANUARY 15, 2025

Atherosclerosisa key driver of cardiovascular disease (CVD)continues to be a significant global health issue. This shift results from an epidemiologic transition: as infectious diseases decline, chronic conditions like atherosclerosis dominate.

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DAIC

JANUARY 22, 2024

Using this information, his team will then investigate ways to use these compounds to create diets that specifically protect against heart disease and lay the groundwork for developing new drugs that can be used for heart disease treatment. “One One might ask what makes this project exciting and worth funding?

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Physiologically Speaking

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

High-protein diets are often advocated for building muscle, losing weight, and optimizing body composition. However, a series of recent studies in mice and in humans reveals that protein may promote a cascade of events in the body that lead to cardiovascular disease. grams of protein per kilogram of body weight per day.

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Journal of the American Heart Association

JANUARY 19, 2024

BackgroundHigher cholesterol absorption has been reported to be related to a higher incidence of cardiovascular events (CVEs). Participants were randomly assigned into a diet‐only or diet‐plus‐ezetimibe group. Journal of the American Heart Association, Ahead of Print. Over a median follow‐up of 4.0

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

JANUARY 23, 2024

Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death worldwide. Over 80% of early heart disease is preventable. Because if we can understand that, we can attempt to emulate it and also considerably delay the onset of cardiovascular disease and our risk of an early death as a consequence of it. In my view.

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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.

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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Introduction Atherosclerosis is a chronic inflammatory disease caused by the deposition of lipids within the artery wall. During atherogenesis, efficient autophagy is needed to facilitate efferocytosis and cholesterol efflux, limit inflammation and lipid droplet buildup, and eliminate defective mitochondria and protein aggregates.

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MIBHS

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Cardiovascular disease remains the leading cause of death worldwide, and it poses a significant threat to men’s health. While cardiovascular risk affects both genders, men often face unique challenges and factors that increase their susceptibility.

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Physiologically Speaking

DECEMBER 15, 2023

But resistance training hasn’t been the focus when it comes to improving cardiovascular health and preventing/reversing cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) — that honor goes to aerobic exercise training, for which the cardiovascular benefits are well-established and vast. The answer is yes.

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Physiologically Speaking

DECEMBER 15, 2023

But resistance training hasn’t been the focus when it comes to improving cardiovascular health and preventing/reversing cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) — that honor goes to aerobic exercise training, for which the cardiovascular benefits are well-established and vast. The answer is yes.

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DAIC

MAY 16, 2024

PAD is a serious, progressive cardiovascular disease primarily caused by a buildup of fatty plaque in the blood vessels, or atherosclerosis. Among those ages 65 and older, nearly 50% who underwent limb amputation died within one year after surgery, according to the 2024 Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics: A Report of U.S.

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Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality & Outcomes

JANUARY 23, 2024

We further investigated whether the association differs by adult income.Methods:We applied the CVH framework from the American Heart Association including metrics for smoking, cholesterol, blood pressure, glucose, body mass index, physical activity, and diet. CVH scores (range, 0–14) were calculated at years 0, 7, and 20 of the study.

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MIBHS

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Erectile dysfunction (ED) is a common concern among men, especially those dealing with cardiovascular disease. The connection between heart health, vascular risk factors, and sexual function is well-documented, with poor cardiovascular health often leading to or exacerbating erectile issues.

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Circulation

OCTOBER 13, 2023

BACKGROUND:Life’s Simple 7 (LS7) is an easily calculated and interpreted metric of cardiovascular health based on 7 domains: smoking, diet, physical activity, body mass index, blood pressure, cholesterol, and fasting glucose. Circulation, Ahead of Print.

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Dr. Malcolm Kendrick

DECEMBER 5, 2024

In my opinion, or should I say ‘allegedly’ what actually happened here was that Barney Calman had heard from various cardiology experts that cholesterol and statin ‘deniers’ were causing people to stop taking their drugs. Sorry, I know the answer to that. What actually happened? Had Barney ever read any of it?

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Dr. Malcolm Kendrick

JANUARY 12, 2023

Try publishing a paper suggesting that cholesterol lowering is a waste of time, when the market for cholesterol lowering drugs is worth hundreds of billions. Come up with a different hypothesis as to what actually causes cardiovascular disease, and the big journals will not touch it with a bargepole.

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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. Malcolm Kendrick

JUNE 25, 2024

In short, we were effectively accused of being liars, and ‘ purveyors of misinformation ’ about statins (drugs that lower LDL/cholesterol). Dr Harcombe PhD, a writer and speaker on diet health and nutritional science, has said of the judgment: “I am delighted by the findings of the court today, in what is a hugely complex case.

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Physiologically Speaking

MAY 3, 2024

ICYMI On Wednesday, I published a post discussing the different metabolic effects of the ketogenic diet and exogenous ketones during exercise. Welcome to the Physiology Friday newsletter. Details about the sponsors of this newsletter including Examine.com and my book “VO2 Max Essentials ” can be found at the end of the post!

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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. A diagnosis of diabetes in your 30s is associated with about a FOUR TIMES higher risk of both cardiovascular and cancer mortality. This is a numbers game.

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Dr. Malcolm Kendrick

OCTOBER 30, 2024

I, Dr Malcolm Kendrick, with or without other co-conspirators, would be accused of spreading misinformation about cholesterol and statins. The hypothesis that a raised cholesterol level causes heart disease [atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD)] is possibly the single most powerful idea in medicine.

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