Science Daily - Heart Disease

MARCH 26, 2024

A new analysis involving over 13,000 people has found changes to blood vessels in the brain that can increase the risk of stroke and dementia are common in people with a range of heart conditions, regardless of whether they have experienced a stroke.

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

AUGUST 30, 2024

Here are five things everyone should know about sleep and heart disease. Poor Sleep Might Eliminate The Benefits Of Exercise & Dementia. High levels of aerobic fitness are closely linked to lower rates of future dementia 1. Regular physical activity is arguably one of the biggest factors preventing dementia.

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

” This is one of the most common questions I get as a cardiologist when talking about preventing heart disease and living longer. And there are so many things a person can do to prevent heart disease and live longer. Death from heart disease: 51% reduction in risk. Heart Failure: 69% reduction in risk.

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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. But most people have not heard of one of the Tsimane Tribe in Bolivia, which has some of the lowest rates of heart disease in the world. (As For the Tsimane tribe, dementia is rarely, if ever, an issue.

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

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. Even having one of the metabolic syndrome factors increases the risk of dying from heart disease by 73% 4. J Am Heart Assoc. BMC Public Health 24 , 574 (2024).

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Medical Xpress - Cardiology

MARCH 26, 2024

A new analysis involving over 13,000 people has found changes to blood vessels in the brain that can increase the risk of stroke and dementia are common in people with a range of heart conditions, regardless of whether they have experienced a stroke.

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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

JANUARY 23, 2024

An increasing number of preclinical and clinical studies have confirmed a causal relationship between heart and brain diseases. Cardiogenic dementia is a cognitive impairment caused by heart dysfunction and has received increasing research attention.

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Science Daily - Heart Disease

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The link between high blood pressure and a range of health problems is well known, and researchers have now found that fluctuating blood pressure can be just as risky and a potential precursor to dementia and vascular disease.

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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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Science Daily - Heart Disease

MARCH 26, 2025

People who have early signs of heart problems may also have changes in brain health that can be early signs of dementia, such as loss of brain volume, according to a meta-analysis. The meta-analysis does not prove that early heart problems cause loss of brain cells; it only shows an association.

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Science Daily - Heart Disease

APRIL 22, 2024

This irregular heartbeat is associated with increased risks of heart failure, dementia and stroke. Atrial fibrillation is the most common cardiac arrhythmia worldwide with around 59 million people concerned in 2019. It constitutes a significant burden to healthcare systems, making its early detection and treatment a major goal.

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Science Daily - Heart Disease

DECEMBER 16, 2024

atrial fibrillation (AF), a heart condition that causes an irregular heartbeat in the upper chambers of the heart, affects up to one in three people in their lifetime. Significant complications associated with this condition include ischemic stroke, heart failure, myocardial infarction, chronic kidney disease, dementia and mortality.

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Medical Xpress - Cardiology

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Using a novel "organ-on-a-chip" model, Baker Heart & Diabetes Institute researchers have discovered a potential therapeutic target that may slow down vascular aging and reduce heart disease, kidney dysfunction and vascular dementia.

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

MAY 3, 2024

During each consultation with a patient, I would have to explain certain topics related to heart health, and I found myself repeating them over and over. What is heart disease? Heart Disease Starts Early In Life. Most people think of heart disease as a problem for older people. An Owner’s Guide.

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Inflammation is a key driver of heart disease, specifically coronary artery disease. I have covered this topic previously here , but it is clear that inflammation plays a major role in the initiation and progression of coronary artery disease, and the inflammatory biomarker hsCRP is tightly connected to this process.

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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. 6 Heart-rate recovery immediately after exercise as a predictor of mortality.

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Stroke Journal

OCTOBER 10, 2024

The burden of neurologic diseases, including stroke and dementia, is expected to grow substantially in the coming decades. Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death and disability in the United States and around the world. Stroke, Ahead of Print.

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

The reason excess weight is such big issues are the health consequences it confers with increased rates of diabetes, heart disease, osteoarthritis, obstructive sleep apnea, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and others, just to name a few. Now imagine that happening over 30 times. Every hour. N Engl J Med. 2024 Jun 8.

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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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DAIC

MAY 16, 2024

Apparent treatment-resistant hypertension is defined as the need to take three or more types of anti-high blood pressure medication daily and is associated with an increased risk for stroke , coronary heart disease , heart failure , and all-cause mortality. Over a period of 9.5 of white adults.

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Science Daily - Heart Disease

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Scientists have grown small blood vessel-like models in the lab and used them to show how damage to the scaffolding that supports these vessels can cause them to leak, leading to conditions such as vascular dementia and stroke.

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

JANUARY 16, 2024

Cardiovascular disease, cancer and dementia account for 60% of all deaths in the US. For those in the ‘Ideal’ category, they were 51% less likely to have either dementia or depression. And less diabetes means less of a driver of the three main leading causes of death - cardiovascular disease, cancer and dementia.

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Stroke Journal

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Introduction:Fontan surgery performed during childhood enhances the lifespan and quality of life of patients with critical congenital heart disease. Exposure to Fontan circulation may be associated with early onset of cerebral SVD, suggesting increased long term risk of stroke and dementia.

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Last year, I asked whether you would be interested in a course that would help you prevent heart disease. The course is a product of over a decade's worth of research on the best approaches to preventing heart disease, with the biggest emphasis being on lifestyle measures. Define your risk of heart disease.

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Open Heart

JUNE 27, 2022

This discourse analysis study investigates the extent to which HF is discussed in general contemporary English, UK parliamentary debates and the ways in which HF is framed in discussions, when compared with two other serious health conditions, cancer and dementia. times per million words (pmw), ‘dementia’ occurs 3.68

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

This July, thousands of you said that you wanted me to produce a course that would synthesise best practices for: Understanding heart disease. Are frustrated with the standard model of healthcare that seems to only react when you have progressed to the point of having serious heart disease. Assessing your risk.

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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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Journal of the American Heart Association

JANUARY 17, 2025

As a novel magnetic resonance imaging marker of cerebral small vessel disease and a risk factor for cognitive dysfunction, cortical cerebral microinfarcts (CMIs) have been associated with heart disease through mechanisms including cardioembolism and cerebral hypoperfusion.

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Open Heart

APRIL 22, 2022

We used the Secondary Manifestations of Arterial Disease-Reduction of Atherothrombosis for Continued Health (SMART-REACH) model to estimate the expected benefit of up-titrating LLT. Patients with prestroke dementia and cardioembolic stroke aetiology were less likely to receive LLT. and women (coefficient –5.1 to –0.9)

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Stroke Journal

JANUARY 30, 2025

Cognitive impairment (CGI) is common in patients with cardiovascular diseases, contributing to morbidity and mortality, especially among people over the age of 64. Cardiogenic dementia has been suggested to characterize patients suffering from cognitive decline after heart disease.

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

JULY 5, 2024

And if it’s not, your risk of: Heart disease. Heart attack. Kidney disease. Dementia An early death. For every 20 mmHg increase in systolic blood pressure above normal, the risk of dying from a heart attack or stroke doubles 3. Of course, there will be exceptions to this figure. Which is a disaster.

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Cardiometabolic Health Congress

APRIL 12, 2024

Introduction: Addressing the Need for Improved LDL Management in the US There is a clear need for innovative treatments to combat cardiovascular disease (CVD). Heart disease remains the leading cause of death for men and women. However, every 40 seconds, an individual in the US suffers a heart attack.

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European Journal of Heart Failure

DECEMBER 22, 2023

The highest risk was associated with dementia (hazard ratio [HR] 1.55, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.45-1.65), 1.65), chronic kidney disease (HR 1.37, 95%CI 1.34-1.41), 1.41), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (HR 1.32, 95%CI 1.28-1.35). Obesity was associated with a lower risk of all-cause death (HR 0.81, 95%CI 0.79-0.84).

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The world we live in means you are massively incentivised to eat in a way that makes you gain excess weight that will likely result in metabolic dysfunction and an increased risk of not only heart disease but many cancers and also dementia. While this is unfortunate, it is the world we live in. Get tracking.

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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. Subscribe now Take cardiovascular disease, for example. With no insulin resistance and high APOB (LDL-C), the risk of future heart events increases by about 80%. N Engl J Med. 1996 Apr 11;334(15):952-7.

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Dr. Sanjay Gupta

MARCH 6, 2022

One of the reasons I wanted to start this channel was because of my frustration at how limited we were when it came to treating heart disease patients. Because the heart is responsible for pumping blood to the rest of the body, virtually all systems of the body suffer as a consequence of heart failure.

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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. The Economist.

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