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Matti Narkia

Food Choices and Coronary Heart Disease: A Population Based Cohort Study of Rural Swedi... - 1 views

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2009 October study research humans Swedish Sweden food choices foods nutrition CVD CHD risk CHD_risk diet fruit vegetables dairy fat fats milk wholemeal bread fish fruits

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    Food Choices and Coronary Heart Disease: A Population Based Cohort Study of Rural Swedish Men with 12 Years of Follow-up. Sara Holmberg, Anders Thelin and Eva-Lena Stiernström. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2009, 6(10), 2626-2638; doi:10.3390/ijerph6102626 - published online 12 October 2009 Coronary heart disease is associated with diet. Nutritional recommendations are frequently provided, but few long term studies on the effect of food choices on heart disease are available. We followed coronary heart disease morbidity and mortality in a cohort of rural men (N = 1,752) participating in a prospective observational study. Dietary choices were assessed at baseline with a 15-item food questionnaire. 138 men were hospitalized or deceased owing to coronary heart disease during the 12 year follow-up. Daily intake of fruit and vegetables was associated with a lower risk of coronary heart disease when combined with a high dairy fat consumption (odds ratio 0.39, 95% CI 0.21-0.73), but not when combined with a low dairy fat consumption (odds ratio 1.70, 95% CI 0.97-2.98). Choosing wholemeal bread or eating fish at least twice a week showed no association with the outcome.
Matti Narkia

The Heart Scan Blog: What your doctor doesn't know about heart disease - 0 views

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2009 March heartscanblog blog_artcile CVD CHD CHD_risk CVD_risk risk cause causes LDL small_LDL_particles small particles lipoprotein(a) Lp(a) HDL low_HDL low fish vitamin_D vitamin D grains whole_grains nutrition omega-3 fish_oil

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  • Matti Narkia on 11 Mar 09
     
    What causes coronary heart disease or coronary atherosclerotic plaque, this thing that we track with heart scans? Well, here are a few little-publicized facts about heart disease that you are unlikely to hear from your When's-the-next-stent? cardiologist or the What is there besides statins? primary care doctor. (Since everybody knows that smoking is a modifiable risk for heart disease that can be readily identified, let's focus on the blood tests that reveal heart disease causes.)
Dr. John Bureau DC

CLA-rich cheese may boost heart health: Study - 0 views

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  • Consuming cheese from ewe’s milk, rich in conjugated linoleic acid (CLA), may reduce markers linked to heart disease, suggest results from a small Italian study. Researchers from the University of Florence report that ewe’s milk rich in cis-9, trans-11 CLA produced favourable changes in inflammatory cytokines and platelet aggregation, both of which are associated with atherosclerosis, or hardening of the arteries due to the build-up of fatty deposits on artery walls. Atherosclerosis is the primary cause of coronary heart disease (CHD), which costs the British public health system more than €5bn per year. “These observations, although preliminary and obtained in a limited study group, seem to be of relevance for the practical implications in terms of nutrition and health of the general population,” wrote the researchers in Nutrition, Metabolism and Cardiovascular Diseases.
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    Consuming cheese from ewe's milk, rich in conjugated linoleic acid (CLA), may reduce markers linked to heart disease, suggest results from a small Italian study. Researchers from the University of Florence report that ewe's milk rich in cis-9, trans-11 CLA produced favourable changes in inflammatory cytokines and platelet aggregation, both of which are associated with atherosclerosis, or hardening of the arteries due to the build-up of fatty deposits on artery walls. Atherosclerosis is the primary cause of coronary heart disease (CHD), which costs the British public health system more than €5bn per year. "These observations, although preliminary and obtained in a limited study group, seem to be of relevance for the practical implications in terms of nutrition and health of the general population," wrote the researchers in Nutrition, Metabolism and Cardiovascular Diseases.
Matti Narkia

Traffic Triples Heart Attack Risk - WebMD - 0 views

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2009 March WebMD news traffic air pollution air_pollution exhaust fumes exhaust_fumes CVD CHD heart attack heart_attack MI myocardial_infarction risk health

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    March 13, 2009 -- Whether you drive, take the bus, or bicycle, being in heavy traffic triples your risk of heart attack within one hour. Air pollution from car fumes is the likely culprit, suggest Annette Peters, PhD, and colleagues at the Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Center, Munich, Germany. In a previous study, Peters and colleagues found that a sizeable proportion of heart attacks -- about 8% -- could be attributed to being in traffic. To follow up, the researchers interviewed 1,454 people who survived heart attacks. In the hour before their heart attack, many of the survivors had been in heavy traffic. Analysis of the data showed that these heart-attack-vulnerable people were 3.2 times more likely to suffer a heart attack if they'd been in heavy traffic in the previous hour.
Matti Narkia

Too Little Vitamin D Puts Heart at Risk - 0 views

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2008 December WebMD news vitamin_D vitamin D CHD CVD heart_disease risk prevention hypertension blood_pressure bp diabetes deficiency inadequacy vitamin_D_deficiency

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    Dec. 1, 2008 -- Getting too little vitamin D may be an underappreciated heart disease risk factor that's actually easy to fix.\n\nResearchers say a growing body of evidence suggests that vitamin D deficiency increases the risk of heart disease and is linked to other, well-known heart disease risk factors such as high blood pressure, obesity, and diabetes.
Matti Narkia

Vitamin K2, but not K1, effective for heart health benefits: Study - 0 views

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2009 February news vitamin K2 vitamin_K2 vitamin K vitamin_K vitamin K1 vitamin_k1 coronary heart disease coronary_heart_disease CHD heart disease CVD postmenopausal women risk nutrition menaquinones menaquinone MK-7 MK-8 MK-9 cheese natto

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  • Matti Narkia on 25 Feb 09
     
    Increased intakes of vitamin K2, but not vitamin K1, may decrease the risk of coronary heart disease in postmenopausal women, says a new study.\nFor every 10 microgram increase in the amount of vitamin K2 consumed, researchers from the Netherlands report a 9 per cent reduction in the risk of developing coronary heart disease (CHD).
Matti Narkia

Consuming A Little Less Salt Could Mean Fewer Deaths - 0 views

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2009 March sciencedaily news salt sodium heart disease heart_disease heart disease CVD CHD risk deaths mortality salt_reduction salt reduction reduction nutrition hypertension high blood_pressure bp

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  • Matti Narkia on 12 Mar 09
     
    ScienceDaily (Mar. 11, 2009) - For every gram of salt that Americans reduce in their diets daily, a quarter of a million fewer new heart disease cases and over 200,000 fewer deaths would occur over a decade, researchers said at the American Heart Association's 49th Annual Conference on Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology and Prevention.
Dr. John Bureau DC

Medical News: Heart Patients Should Walk Often, Walk Far - in Primary Care, Exercise & ... - 0 views

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  • LITTLE FALLS, N.J., May 13 -- Exercise regimens that burn more calories over less-intense periods of exercise can increase weight loss and reduce cardiovascular risk factors better than standard cardiac rehabilitation programs, researchers have found. Action Points  Explain that walking more at a slower pace improved weight loss and cardiac risk factors better than standard cardiac rehabilitation programs.Note that current cardiac rehabilitation guidelines were written when deconditioning after lengthy hospital stays was common, which is no longer the case. In a randomized trial, overweight patients who exercised more but with less intensity lost twice as much weight as those on typical cardiac rehab regimens and had greater reductions in markers of metabolic syndrome, according to Philip A. Ades, M.D., of the University of Vermont, and colleagues. "High-calorie-expenditure exercise is superior to standard cardiac rehabilitation exercise in accomplishing weight loss and favorably altering cardiometabolic risk factors, particularly insulin resistance, in overweight patients with coronary heart disease," the researchers reported online in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.
  • Dr. John Bureau DC on 14 May 09
     
    LITTLE FALLS, N.J., May 13 -- Exercise regimens that burn more calories over less-intense periods of exercise can increase weight loss and reduce cardiovascular risk factors better than standard cardiac rehabilitation programs, researchers have found. In a randomized trial, overweight patients who exercised more but with less intensity lost twice as much weight as those on typical cardiac rehab regimens and had greater reductions in markers of metabolic syndrome, according to Philip A. Ades, M.D., of the University of Vermont, and colleagues. "High-calorie-expenditure exercise is superior to standard cardiac rehabilitation exercise in accomplishing weight loss and favorably altering cardiometabolic risk factors, particularly insulin resistance, in overweight patients with coronary heart disease," the researchers reported online in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.
Matti Narkia

Soybean Product Fights Abnormal Protein Involved In Alzheimer's Disease - 0 views

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2009 February sciencedaily news natto nattokinase Alzheimer's disease Alzheimer's_disease Alzheimer's Alzheimer amyloids nutrition soybeans soy fermented

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    ScienceDaily (Feb. 20, 2009) - A vegan food renowned in Asia for its ability to protect against heart attacks also shows a powerful ability in lab experiments to prevent formation of the clumps of tangled protein involved in Alzheimer's disease, scientists in Taiwan are reporting. \n\nRita P. Y. Chen and colleagues point out that people in Asia have been eating natto - a fermented food made from boiled soybeans -for more than 1,000 years. Natto contains an enzyme, nattokinase, that has effects similar to clot-busting drugs used in heart disease.Nattokinase is sold a dietary supplement to impro 
Matti Narkia

A high menaquinone reduces the incidence of coronary heart disease in women - 0 views

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2009 January study research epidemiology epidemiological humans postmenopausal women vitamin K2 vitamin_K2 vitamin K vitamin_K vitamin K1 vitamin_K1 coronary heart disease coronary_heart_disease CHD heart disease CVD risk nutrition menaquinone

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    A high menaquinone reduces the incidence of coronary heart disease in women.\nGast GC, de Roos NM, Sluijs I, Bots ML, Beulens JW, Geleijnse JM, Witteman JC, Grobbee DE, Peeters PH, van der Schouw YT.\nNutr Metab Cardiovasc Dis. 2009 Jan 27. [Epub ahead of print]\nPMID: 19179058 \ndoi: 10.1016/j.numecd.2008.10.004\n
Matti Narkia

Egg consumption and coronary heart disease: an epidemiologic overview. - J Am Coll Nutr... - 0 views

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2000 October jacn study review epidemiological humans CVD CHD risk CHD_risk egg consumption intake eggs nutrition medline diet dietary cholesterol dietary_cholesterol

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    Egg consumption and coronary heart disease: an epidemiologic overview. Kritchevsky SB, Kritchevsky D. J Am Coll Nutr. 2000 Oct;19(5 Suppl):549S-555S. Review. PMID: 11023006 When dietary confounders were considered, no association was seen between egg consumption at levels up to 1 + egg per day and the risk of coronary heart disease in non-diabetic men and women.
Matti Narkia

Low Vitamin D Hurts Teenagers' Hearts - 0 views

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2009 March WebMD news vitamin D vitamin_D low_levels deficiency adolescents teenagers metabolic_syndrome metabolic syndrome diabetes type_2 type_2_diabetes hypertension blood_pressure bp risk teens black white skin_color

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    March 11, 2009 -- Low vitamin D levels greatly increase a teenager's risk of diabetes and heart disease, Johns Hopkins researchers find. It is becoming clear that adults who get too little vitamin D are at higher risk for diabetes and heart disease. Now, it appears vitamin D levels also affect these risks earlier in life, say Johns Hopkins researchers Jared P. Reis, PhD, and colleagues.
Matti Narkia

The Heart Scan Blog: Can millet make you diabetic? - 0 views

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2009 March heartscanblog blog_article wheat harmful_effects harmful effects nutrition diet grains millet quinoa oats sorghum bulghur spelt barley cornmeal carbohydrate_load carbohydrates flaxseed diabetes CVD CHD

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  • Matti Narkia on 11 Mar 09
     
    If wheat is so bad, what about all the other grains? First of all, I demonize wheat because of its top-of-the-list role in triggering: --Appetite--Wheat increases hunger dramatically --Insulin --Blood sugar--Wheat is worse than table sugar in triggering a rapid, large rise in blood sugar --Triglycerides --Small LDL particles--the number one cause for heart disease in the U.S. --Reduced HDL --Diabetes --Autoimmune diseases--Most notably celiac disease and thyroiditis. Most other "healthy, whole grains" aren't quite as bad. It's a matter of degree.
Matti Narkia

The Heart Scan Blog: Sterols should be outlawed - 0 views

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2009 March heartscanblog blog_article nutrition health sterols unhealthy risky outlawed caution sitosterol CVD atherosclerosis risk

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    While sterols occur naturally in small quantities in food (nuts, vegetables, oils), food manufacturers are adding them to processed foods in order to earn a "heart healthy" claim. The FDA approved a cholesterol-reducing indication for sterols , the American Heart Association recommends 200 mg per day as part of its Therapeutic Lifestyle Change diet, and WebMD gushes about the LDL-reducing benefits of sterols added to foods. Sterols--the same substance that, when absorbed to high levels into the blood in a genetic disorder called "sitosterolemia"--causes extravagant atherosclerosis in young people. The case against sterols, studies documenting its coronary disease- and valve disease-promoting effects, is building
Matti Narkia

Vegetables, Nuts And Mediterranean Diet Better For Heart, Research Review - 0 views

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2009 April medicalnewstoday news CVD CHD risk CHD_risk CVD_risk vegetables nuts Mediterranean diet Mediterranean diet Mediterranean_diet nutrtion health fruit fish omega-3 glycemic_index glycemic index GI trans-fat refined carbohydrates

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    Scientists in Canada reviewing the research so far on links between different diets and heart disease found strong evidence that diets high in vegetables and nuts, and those that follow a Mediterranean pattern rich in fruit, vegetables and fish were strongly associated with lower heart disease risk than those that rely on food with a high glycemic index or high in trans-fatty acids. High glycemic index food includes rice, pasta and refined carbohydrates like white bread, and foods high in trans-fatty acids include fried foods, baked goods and snacks.
Matti Narkia

Dietary Prevention of Coronary Heart Disease : The Lyon Diet Heart Study -- Leaf 99 (6)... - 0 views

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1999 Dietary prevention coronary_heart_disease Lyon_Diet_Heart_Study nutrition Mediterranean diet Mediterranean diet Mediterranean_diet cretan chd editorial review medline Lyon CVD

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    Leaf A.\nDietary prevention of coronary heart disease: the Lyon Diet Heart Study.\nCirculation. 1999 Feb 16;99(6):733-5.
Matti Narkia

Lipoprotein(a) Linked to Heart Attacks - 0 views

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2009 June webmd news Lipoprotein(a) Lp(a) heart attack CHD CVD risk increased CHD_risk MI risk_factors risk_factor factor factors niacin vitamin_B3 apolipoprotein(a) LDL

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    June 9, 2009 -- Genetic testing confirms that high levels of a type of cholesterol known as lipoprotein(a) are associated with an increased risk for heart attacks, but the clinical implications of the finding are unclear. Lipoprotein(a) has long been suspected of contributing to cardiovascular risk. But this new research offers the strongest evidence yet identifying it as an independent risk factor for heart attack. The study appears in the June 10 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Matti Narkia

Millions Of U.S. Children Low In Vitamin D - 0 views

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2009 August sciencedaily news vitamin_D vitamin D deficiency insufficiency low_levels prevalence children USA nutrition millions

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    ScienceDaily (Aug. 3, 2009) - Seven out of ten U.S. children have low levels of vitamin D, raising their risk of bone and heart disease, according to a study of over 6,000 children by researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University. The striking findings suggest that vitamin D deficiency could place millions of children at risk for high blood pressure and other risk factors for heart disease.
Matti Narkia

Low-carbohydrate diets increase LDL: debunking the myth | The Blog of Michael R. Eades... - 0 views

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2009 June proteinpower Eades blog_article news very-low-carbohydrate diet very low-carbohydrate_diet low-carbohydrate low-fat lof-fat_diet LC LF weight loss isoenergetic nutrition triglycerides HDL LDL apolipoprotein_B apoB weight_loss trial

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  • Matti Narkia on 22 Jun 09
     
    This week sees the publication of yet another study showing the superiority of the low-carbohydrate diet as compared to the low-fat diet. This study, published in the prestigious American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, demonstrates that subjects following the low-carb diet experience a decrease in triglyceride levels and an increase in HDL-cholesterol (HDL) levels; and that these changes are accompanied by a minor increase in LDL-cholesterol (LDL), which prompts the authors to issue a caveat. Yes, although just about all the parameters that lipophobes worry about improved with the low-carb diet, the small increase in LDL has caused great concern and has prompted the authors to gravely announce that this small increase is troublesome and should be monitored closely in anyone who may be at risk for heart disease. Since most people who go on low-carb diets do so to deal with obesity issues, and since obesity is a risk factor for heart disease, it would appear that this small increase in LDL often seen in those following a low-carb diet could put these dieters at risk. Does it? We'll see.
Matti Narkia

Tomato pill 'beats heart disease' - BBC NEWS | Health - 0 views

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2009 June BBC news health nutrition tomato pill supplement supplements lycopene heart disease heart_disease CVD CHD stroke LDL oxidation cholesterol

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    Scientists say a natural supplement made from tomatoes, taken daily, can stave off heart disease and strokes. The tomato pill contains an active ingredient from the Mediterranean diet - lycopene - that blocks "bad" LDL cholesterol that can clog the arteries.
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