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Medical Xpress - Cardiology
APRIL 7, 2025
The five classic risk factors for cardiovascular disease are well knownsmoking, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, and underweight or overweight/obesity. All increase the likelihood of heart ailments down the road.
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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine
FEBRUARY 4, 2025
Dyslipidemia is extensively analyzed in clinical trials investigating its role as a risk factor for coronary artery disease (CAD). However, its definition varies vastly among studies, leading to different attributions to the variable dyslipidemia.
Science Daily - Heart Disease
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
Our risk of developing atherosclerosis -- 'furring' of the arteries -- can begin much earlier in life than was previously thought, highlighting the need to keep cholesterol levels low even when we are young, new research has discovered.
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Dr. Paddy Barrett
JANUARY 28, 2025
As a cardiologist with over 20 of experience, I’ve seen how confusing and overwhelming it can be for people to manage their cholesterol. ” While these recommendations can help, they don’t address the root causes of high cholesterol. Practical steps to reduce your risk of future heart disease.
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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine
MARCH 9, 2025
BackgroundEmerging genetic and observational evidence indicates that remnant cholesterol (RC) is a significant residual risk factor for cardiovascular diseases. Logistic regression was used to evaluate the risk of a high Gensini score associated with RC and lipid ratios.
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Dr. Paddy Barrett
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
And plaque in your coronary arteries is the result of exposure to risk factors over time. These individuals then must have had one or more risk factors for a long time prior to their heart attack. The answer: Risk Factors. But wouldn’t such risk factors have been obvious?
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HCPLive
MARCH 24, 2024
Presence of nephritis in SLE patients is linked to higher cardiovascular risk factors and 3-fold increase in incidence of cardiovascular mortality.
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Physiologically Speaking
MARCH 30, 2025
Learn how VO2 max integrates multiple physiological systems (lungs, heart, blood vessels, mitochondria, and more) and why it’s a stronger predictor of longevity than traditional risk factors like cholesterol or BMI. With compelling data, he reveals how boosting your VO2 max by just 3.5
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Dr. Paddy Barrett
APRIL 22, 2025
This is why addressing risk factors such as high cholesterol early in life is so important. That is what The Cholesterol Code is all about. The Cholesterol Code is a video-based course that anyone can use to understand and address their high cholesterol without using medications.
53 Circulation
JANUARY 27, 2025
METHODS:The AHA, through its Epidemiology and Prevention Statistics Committee, continuously monitors and evaluates sources of data on heart disease and stroke in the United States and globally to provide the most current information available in the annual Statistical Update with review of published literature through the year before writing.
Science Daily - Heart Disease
OCTOBER 23, 2024
In middle-aged people, having risk factors like blood pressure, blood sugar and cholesterol that are not well-controlled combined with not following certain healthy habits including exercise, diet and sleep, are linked to a higher risk of stroke, dementia or depression later in life, according to a new study.
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AMS Cardiology
DECEMBER 16, 2024
Adopt a Heart-Healthy Diet: Focus on a diet rich in fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and lean protein while limiting saturated and trans fats, cholesterol, and sodium. Quit Smoking: Smoking is a significant risk factor for heart disease. Your cardiologist can assess your risk factors and implement preventive measures.
Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine
OCTOBER 7, 2024
BackgroundThe Mendelian randomization approach uses genetic variants as instrumental variables to study the causal association between the risk factors and health outcomes of interest. Although alcohol drinking is beneficial to a few cardiovascular risk factors, it is detrimental to many others.
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Medical Xpress - Cardiology
JULY 3, 2024
Many patients receive a standardized lipid panel as part of a yearly physical that includes testing of their "good" cholesterol (high-density lipoprotein) and "bad" cholesterol (low-density lipoprotein). However, most people are unfamiliar with another type of cholesterol, lipoprotein(a) or Lp(a).
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Cardiovascular Diabetology
OCTOBER 23, 2024
Coronary artery calcification (CAC) is a common risk factor of cardiovascular disease. Although triglyceride glucose (TYG) index and high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-c) are both associated with CAC, n.
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DAIC
AUGUST 15, 2024
13, 2024 – The traditional lipid panel may not give the full picture of cholesterol-related heart disease risk for many Americans, according to a study led by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers and published in JAMA Cardiology. Others may have a high LDL-C but a low or normal apoB, and they aren’t at risk.” population.
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Journal of the American Heart Association
APRIL 16, 2025
Outcomes were body mass index, highdensity lipoprotein cholesterol, lowdensity lipoprotein cholesterol, fasting triglycerides, and the presence of hypertension (n=449), diabetes (n=66), metabolic syndrome (n=254), or coronary heart disease (n=25). The primary measure compared MBH with amygdala (MBH/amygdala).
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Journal of the American Heart Association
JANUARY 31, 2024
BackgroundAn association between variability of cardiovascular risk factors and cardiovascular events has been reported. Cardiovascular risk factors were measured at 1‐year intervals for 4 years in 4249 adults with overweight or obesity and type 2 diabetes who were randomly assigned to ILI or diabetes support and education.
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Journal of the American Heart Association
FEBRUARY 26, 2025
Small dense lowdensity lipoprotein cholesterol (sdLDLC) is considered as the most atherogenic lipoprotein. Intensive control of sdLDLC along with other risk factors should be considered to mitigate PP and improve cardiovascular outcomes. Journal of the American Heart Association, Ahead of Print.
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Dr. Paddy Barrett
JANUARY 4, 2025
Assessing the risk of heart based on risk factors such as high LDL cholesterol, insulin resistance, high blood pressure, CT calcium scores, V02 Max etc. Putting in place a comprehensive risk reduction strategy to minimise future risk. Access to The Heart Health Formula closes at midnight.
DAIC
APRIL 6, 2024
Additionally, the study found that the risk factor profiles of patients presenting with STEMI is largely unchanged over time and the use of preventive medications has remained low. said Michael Miedema, MD, MPH , director of the Nolan Family Center for Cardiovascular Health at MHIF and senior author of the research.
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Medical Xpress - Cardiology
DECEMBER 18, 2024
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a critical public health concern, with risk factors such as high blood pressure, abnormal blood sugar levels, elevated cholesterol, and obesity beginning in childhood.
Med Page Today
MARCH 7, 2024
(MedPage Today) -- DENVER -- Efforts aimed at lowering blood pressure (BP) and cholesterol in people with HIV can succeed, two randomized trials presented here demonstrated. In the first, prehypertensive Haitians on stable antiretroviral therapy.
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Stroke Journal
FEBRUARY 23, 2025
These divergent trends are at least partially attributable not only to diverging trends in stroke risk factors but may also be due to differences in the impact of stroke risk factors at different ages. Interventions that target these traits may reduce stroke risk. versus 1.03;P=0.008).
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Heart BMJ
JANUARY 29, 2025
Background Cardiovascular disease (CVD) preventive medications are recommended for patients at high short-term CVD risk. As most younger people with multiple raised CVD risk factors levels have low short-term risk, they could be falsely reassured to take no action. as the ‘ideal’ risk profile.
Dr. Paddy Barrett
APRIL 4, 2025
When I asked the readers of this newsletter about their experience of trying to get a comprehensive cardiovascular risk assessment, the general feeling I got back was one of frustration. The majority of readers here are middle-aged and concerned about their future risk of heart disease. Do you use advanced cholesterol testing?
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.
Cardiometabolic Health Congress
AUGUST 23, 2024
Updated with the latest research since the 2020 edition, this comprehensive report underscores the potential to prevent or significantly delay dementia by targeting modifiable risk factors. The report now identifies 14 modifiable risk factors for dementia. Presented by Pamela B. Morris, MD.
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Stroke Journal
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
Introduction:Serum remnant lipoprotein particle cholesterol (RLP-C), which includes very-low density lipoproteins (VLDL) and its lipolytic products, contributes to atherosclerotic plaque formation. Novel methods for estimating RLP-C and VLDL-cholesterol (VLDL-C) from a serum fasting lipid profile (FLP) have been proposed (Figure).1,2,3We
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Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality & Outcomes
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
0.98]) and cholesterol testing (RR 0.93 [0.91-0.96]) However, routine outpatient visits and cardiovascular risk factor screening did not return back to pre-pandemic levels, while risk factor treatment remained stable. However, routine visits (RR 0.96 [0.94-0.98]) 1.08]) remained stable.
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DAIC
APRIL 7, 2024
It is well known that high levels of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, known as the “bad” cholesterol, heighten cardiovascular risk. A total of 154 patients (median age 62 years, 42% women) with high triglyceride levels and other risk factors for cardiovascular disease participated in the study at 24 sites in the U.S.
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Science Daily - Stroke
JULY 7, 2023
A novel molecular pathway to explain how a mutation in the gene ACTA2 can cause individuals in their 30s -- with normal cholesterol levels and no other risk factors -- to develop coronary artery disease has now been identified,
CardiacWire
JUNE 19, 2024
Marea Therapeutics emerged this week , announcing $190M in Series A/B funding and a mission to develop “a new generation of medicines for cardiometabolic diseases” – starting with their drug candidate targeting remnant cholesterol. Marea got its start from a tweet by UCSF cardiologist Ethan J.
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Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality & Outcomes
OCTOBER 20, 2023
This study examined the relationship between marijuana use, ASCVD risk factors, and cardiometabolic risk profiles.METHODS:US adults (18–59 years) without cardiovascular disease were identified from the National Health And Nutrition Examination Survey (2005–2018) based on self-reported marijuana use. were current users.
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Journal of the American Heart Association
MARCH 6, 2024
had low‐density lipoprotein cholesterol ≥160 mg/dL, which is higher than the recommended threshold for lifestyle or medical interventions in young adults of 20 to 39 years old. Baseline dyslipidemia prevalence was 55.2%, 73.6%, and 78.0% for participants 15 to 19, 20 to 29, and 30 to 39 years old, respectively. Approximately 2.8%
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Journal of the American Heart Association
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
BackgroundAsian people in the United States have different sociodemographic and health‐related characteristics that might affect cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk by ethnicity and birthplace. Providers should consider this heterogeneity in CVD risk factors and establish tailored CVD prevention plans for Asian subgroups.
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Open Heart
NOVEMBER 7, 2023
Individuals with LVH were older, more likely to have hypertension, diabetes, known cardiovascular disease (CVD) and elevated levels of cholesterol and creatinine. Results The age-standardised prevalence of LVH was 9% (n=875) according to any of the three ECG criteria. In a multivariable model, Creole (OR (95% CI)) (1.56 (1.33
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Coronary Artery Disease Journal
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
Background Lipoprotein(a) [Lp(a)] is an independent, causal risk factor for cardiovascular disease. However, it is still unclear whether controlling low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) to optimal levels can attenuate cardiovascular risk mediated by elevated Lp(a), especially in the setting of secondary prevention.
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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine
JANUARY 21, 2024
Introduction Totum-070 is a combination of five plant extracts enriched in polyphenols to target hypercholesterolemia, one of the main risk factors for cardiovascular diseases. The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of Totum-070 on cholesterol levels in an animal model of diet-induced hypercholesterolemia.
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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine
JUNE 24, 2024
Dyslipidaemia is a complex disorder characterised by abnormal lipid levels in the blood, including cholesterol and triglycerides, and plays an important role in the development of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. Most risk factors for cardiovascular disease are modifiable, and dyslipidaemia is a key factor among them.
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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine
JULY 24, 2024
Positive correlations were identified with age, systolic blood pressure, a history of hypertension, male gender, and total cholesterol. This tool shows potential for pinpointing high-risk individuals in community health programs, streamlining screening and intervention by clinical physicians.
Physiologically Speaking
JANUARY 5, 2024
One of the biggest risk factors for CVD development is the buildup of plaque in the coronary arteries (the arteries surrounding the heart that provide it with its own blood supply). Cardiac rehab works wonders. HbA1c also didn’t change.
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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine
DECEMBER 14, 2023
The systemic inflammation-response index/high-density lipoprotein cholesterol count (SIRI/HDL) exhibited the strongest correlation with both severity scores (Gensini score: r = 0.257, P < 0.001; SYNTAX score I: r = 0.171, P < 0.001).
The British Journal of Cardiology
AUGUST 1, 2024
Raised lipoprotein(a) (Lp[a]) cholesterol is highly prevalent affecting 1 in 5 individuals and is also frequently associated with the inherited condition familial hypercholesterolaemia (FH).
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