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Heart Disease May Be Risk Factor for Prostate Cancer
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THURSDAY, Feb. 9 – Heart disease may be a risk factor for prostate cancer, a new study suggests. If this link is confirmed in future research, it means that lifestyle changes that reduce heart disease risk – such as weight loss, exercise and a healthy diet – may also protect men against prostate cancer, the Duke Cancer Institute researchers said. "What's good for the heart may be good for the prostate," study author Dr. Jean-Alfred Thomas II, a postdoctoral fellow in the division of urology, said in a Duke Medicine news release. He and his colleagues analyzed data from 6,390 men in a four-year clinical trial testing a drug's effectiveness in reducing prostate cancer risk. Of those men, 547 reported a history of coronary artery disease before the start of the trial. The Duke researchers found that men with coronary artery disease had a 35 percent greater risk of developing prostate ... Read more
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Heart Disease Risk Gene May Pass From Dads to Sons
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WEDNESDAY, Feb. 8 – An increased risk for coronary artery disease can be passed genetically from father to son on the male Y chromosome, a new study says. The Y chromosome, a part of DNA present only in men, appears to play a role in the inheritance of coronary artery disease, according to researchers at the University of Leicester in England and their colleagues. They analyzed DNA from more than 3,000 biologically unrelated men in the United Kingdom and found that 90 percent had variants of Y chromosomes belonging to one of two major groups – haplogroup I and haplogroup R1b1b2. Men with a Y chromosome from haplogroup I have a 50 percent higher risk of coronary artery disease than other men, and that risk is independent of risk factors such as smoking, high blood pressure and high cholesterol, the researchers found. Those men account for up to 20 percent of men in Britain, they said. ... Read more
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Scientists May Be Closer to Developing 'Red Wine' Drug
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THURSDAY, Feb. 2 – U.S. researchers believe they've discovered how resveratrol – a chemical found in red wine and other plant products – provides health benefits. The researchers said their work with mice may help settle the debate about resveratrol's biochemistry and could advance efforts to develop resveratrol-based medicines. "Resveratrol has potential as a therapy for diverse diseases such as type 2 diabetes, Alzheimer's disease and heart disease," study author Dr. Jay Chung, chief of the Laboratory of Obesity and Aging Research at the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, said in an institute news release. "However, before researchers can transform resveratrol into a safe and effective medicine, they need to know exactly what it targets in cells." Resveratrol appears to inhibit proteins called phosphodiesterases (PDEs), which help regulate cell energy, according to the ... Read more
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Jump in Resting Heart Rate Might Signal Higher Death Risk
Posted 20 Dec 2011 by Drugs.com
TUESDAY, Dec. 20 – A rise in resting heart rate during middle age signals an increased risk of dying from heart disease, new research indicates. People whose heart rates increased from under 70 beats per minute to more than 85 beats per minute over 10 years had a 90 percent increased risk of dying from heart disease compared to people whose heart rates stayed around 70 beats per minute, according to the large study. "Resting heart rate is one of the simplest measures in medicine and everyone can do that by themselves at home. From cross-sectional studies, it is known that a person's resting heart rate is related to the relative risk of premature cardiovascular disease and death. However, it has not, before now, been associated with an increased risk of premature cardiovascular death," said study senior author Ulrik Wisloff, director of the K.G. Jebsen Center of Exercise in Medicine in ... Read more
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Blood Pressure Control in Middle Age Can Lower Lifetime Heart Risk
Posted 19 Dec 2011 by Drugs.com
MONDAY, Dec. 19 – Blood pressure changes in middle age can affect your lifetime risk for heart disease and stroke, a new study suggests. U.S. researchers analyzed data from almost 62,000 people whose blood pressure readings were tracked for an average of 14 years. People who kept or lowered their blood pressure to normal levels by age 55 had the lowest lifetime risk (22 percent to 41 percent) for heart disease. The risk for people who had high blood pressure at age 55, however, was 42 percent to 69 percent. When all blood pressure levels were factored in, the overall lifetime heart disease risk for people over the age of 55 was about 53 percent for men and about 40 percent for women. "This study adds to our existing knowledge that hypertension is the most important modifiable risk factor for cardiovascular disease, including coronary heart disease and stroke," said expert Dr. Robert ... Read more
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Poor Lifestyles Harming U.S. Heart Health: Report
Posted 15 Dec 2011 by Drugs.com
THURSDAY, Dec. 15 – Americans' heart health is in a woeful state, says this year's report card from the American Heart Association. And it's largely because people just aren't taking care of themselves. In the past three or so decades, women have upped their calorie consumption by 22 percent and men by 10 percent, with carbohydrates and sugar-sweetened beverages both major sources of unneeded calories. The inevitable result is that more than two-thirds of U.S. adults and about one-third of children are over the ideal body weight, the extra layers of fat putting a major strain on Americans' hearts. The trend is particularly concerning in children. Today, about 20 percent of U.S. kids are obese, compared with just 4 percent 30 years ago. Neither adults nor children are exercising enough and about 21 percent of men and 18 percent of women still smoke. About one-fifth of high school ... Read more
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Dentists Could Fill Gap in Health Care, Study Says
Posted 15 Dec 2011 by Drugs.com
THURSDAY, Dec. 15 – Nearly 20 million Americans who see a dentist at least once a year don't see a doctor or other general health care provider, which suggests that dentists could screen these people for systemic health disorders, such as high blood pressure, diabetes and heart disease, a new study says. New York University investigators analyzed data from more than 31,200 adults who took part in the 2008 U.S. National Health Interview Survey. Based on those findings, the researchers determined that 26 percent of U.S. children did not see a general health care provider (physician, physician assistant, nurse, nurse practitioner), but more than one-third (7 million) of those children did visit a dentist at least once in 2008. One-quarter of U.S. adults did not visit a general health care provider, but nearly a fourth (13 million) of those adults visited a dentist at least once in 2008. ... Read more
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Clogged Arteries Pose Different Dangers for Men, Women: Study
Posted 30 Nov 2011 by Drugs.com
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 30 – Not all clogged arteries are created equal, with women and men facing different heart risks even when they have the same amount of coronary plaque, a new study suggests. Analyzing the results of coronary CT angiographies – non-invasive tests that look for coronary artery blockages – in 480 patients with acute chest pain, scientists from the Medical University of South Carolina found that the risk of major cardiac events was significantly higher in women when they had a large amount of plaque buildup and extensive hardening of the arteries. On the other hand, men faced greater risks of heart attack or coronary bypass surgery when their arteries contained "non-calcified plaque," fatty deposits that accumulate deep in artery walls. While the study didn't specifically quantify the risks of each scenario for men and women, it may be valuable to physicians ordering ... Read more
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Hypertension in Young Adulthood May Mean Trouble Later On
Posted 21 Nov 2011 by Drugs.com
MONDAY, Nov. 21 – Young adults with elevated blood pressure have an increased risk of death decades later, according to a new study. High blood pressure is a known risk factor for coronary heart disease and stroke but most of the evidence supporting this connection has come from studies of middle-aged and elderly people. For this investigation of the long-term impact of elevated blood pressure in young adults, the researchers examined data from the Harvard Alumni Health Study. The participants were Harvard students who had a physical exam when they began university at about age 18 between 1916 and 1950. The participants filled out a health questionnaire when they were middle-aged (mean age 46 years). The researchers then looked at death certificates issued for participants until the end of 1998. After adjusting for age, body mass index, smoking status and physical activity, the ... Read more
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9/11 First Responders May Face Greater Heart Risks
Posted 15 Nov 2011 by Drugs.com
TUESDAY, Nov. 15 – First responders who were exposed to the dust cloud during and immediately following the New York City terror attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, may be at increased risk for heart disease, experts warn. Those Ground Zero workers who got there first may have breathed in even more of this toxic dust than those who came on the scene after Sept. 13, and may be at greater risk for heart disease as a result, according to new findings slated for presentation Tuesday at the annual meeting of the American Heart Association in Orlando, Fla. Researchers from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City examined the integrity of the blood vessel walls in 31 Ground Zero workers. The 19 men and women who were there during the first two days showed greater damage to their blood vessel walls than their counterparts who arrived later. "The workers who inhaled particulate matter at ... Read more
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Study Finds Link Between Low IQ, Large Waistline
Posted 15 Nov 2011 by Drugs.com
TUESDAY, Nov. 15 – Guys with low IQs may be at higher risk than brainiacs for later weight gain and added heart disease risk, a new study suggests. Swedish men who had the lowest IQs at about age 18 had higher waist-to-hip ratios at age 40 than their peers who scored higher on those IQ tests. It's known that people with "apple-shaped" bodies, or more weight around the middle, are at higher risk for heart disease than those with "pear-shaped" bodies. Exactly how or even if IQ during late adolescence affects waist size is not clearly understood, and U.S cardiologists caution that it is too early to draw any meaningful conclusions from the new data. The findings are scheduled for presentation Tuesday at the American Heart Association annual meeting in Orlando, Fla. Study author Dr. Jerzy Leppert, a professor at the Center for Clinical Research of Uppsala University in Sweden, said the ... Read more
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No Benefit From Niacin for Heart Patients in Study
Posted 15 Nov 2011 by Drugs.com
TUESDAY, Nov. 15 – Patients with cardiovascular disease who add niacin to the statin drug Zocor (simvastatin) to help lower their cholesterol get no additional clinical benefit, a new study finds. Even though niacin appeared to increase HDL cholesterol – the good cholesterol – and decrease triglycerides, another type of fat in the blood, it did not reduce the risk of heart attack, stroke or death, the researchers found. "The data we had previously on niacin was not very strong and mostly came from one very old study," said Dr. Robert Giugliano, from the cardiovascular medicine division at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, who was not involved with the study. The report was published online Nov. 15 in the New England Journal of Medicine to coincide with the presentation of the findings at an American Heart Association meeting in Orlando, Fla. ... Read more
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Fewer Disease Risk Factors Yet More Fatal Heart Attacks
Posted 15 Nov 2011 by Drugs.com
TUESDAY, Nov. 15 – People with more risk factors for heart disease are more likely than healthier individuals to suffer a first heart attack, according to a large new study. No surprise there. But patients with fewer or no risk factors are more likely to die from that heart attack. "Our data show that patients with multiple risk factors present much earlier in age than patients with fewer or no risk factors. However, patients with fewer or no coronary heart disease [CHD] risk factors overall had higher mortality after the first heart attack," said Dr. John Canto, lead study author and director of cardiovascular prevention, research and education at the Watson Clinic in Lakeland, Fla. The researchers looked at data on about 540,000 patients with a first heart attack but without previous heart disease, from the U.S. National Registry of Myocardial Infarction (NRMI) for 1994 to 2006. They ... Read more
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Abused Girls at Greater Risk for Heart Disease as Adults: Study
Posted 14 Nov 2011 by Drugs.com
SUNDAY, Nov. 13 – Girls who are severely physically and sexually abused may be at greater risk for heart disease, heart attack and stroke as adults, according to a new study. Researchers examined the link between abuse and heart disease and strokes among 67,100 women. Forced sexual activity during their childhood or teenage years was reported by 11 percent of the women, and 9 percent reported severe physical abuse. Women who were repeatedly raped as children or teenagers were at 62 percent higher risk for heart disease. Meanwhile, women who suffered severe physical abuse as children or teens had a 45 percent increased risk for heart disease. "The single biggest factor explaining the link between severe child abuse and adult cardiovascular disease was the tendency of abused girls to have gained more weight throughout adolescence and into adulthood," said the study's lead author, Janet ... Read more
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Sugar-Sweetened Drinks May Pose Heart Risks to Women, Study Suggests
Posted 13 Nov 2011 by Drugs.com
SUNDAY, Nov. 13 – Drinking two or more sugar-sweetened beverages a day may boost a woman's risk for developing heart disease and diabetes – even if this habit isn't causing her to pack on extra pounds, a new study says. Sugary sodas and other sweetened beverages are frequent targets in the war on obesity. Many efforts, such as taking these drinks out of vending machines in schools, are aimed at reducing exposure to these beverages and the empty calories they provide. However, the new study suggests that the risks posed by sugar-sweetened sodas and flavored waters may be independent of weight gain. Middle-aged women who drank two or more sugary beverages a day were close to four times as likely to have high levels of dangerous blood fats called triglycerides and impaired blood sugar levels (known as "prediabetes'), when compared with women who drank less than one sugar-sweetened ... Read more
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