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Low-Salt Diets Could Take a Heavy Toll on Your Heart Health

May 22, 2016 By James Faulkner 2 Comments

'Kitchen salt'

A recent study challenges the long-held belief that low-salt diets may be beneficial to the cardiovascular system.

STATES CHRONICLE – According to a study published in the journal Lancet, eating too little salt may boost the risk of dying from cardiovascular disease. Though the research has been dismissed as “bad science” by some critics, the findings are concerning.

In their study, scientists sifted through data on 130,000 people from 49 states across the world. The team found that some participants were on a low-salt diet and consumed up to 3 grams per day, others consumed salt moderately (between 4 and 5 grams per day), while the rest reported consuming high amounts of sodium (at least seven grams per day).

Researchers found that those that ate salt in moderating were less likely to be killed by a heart attack or stroke on the long run. Surprisingly, the volunteers on a low-salt diet, which is considered healthy especially if you have high blood pressure, had a relatively high risk of dying from a cardiovascular event.

The study found that people with hypertension had a high risk of cardiovascular death if they both ate high and low amounts of salt. People with no blood pressure problems were 11 percent more likely to die from heart attack or stroke or be affected by a major cardiovascular event if they consumed less than three grams per day.

Dr Martin O’Donnell, senior researcher involved in the study, questioned the accuracy of federal guidelines on salt intake in the light of the new study. He believes that moderation is the key to remain healthy even when it comes to salt intake.

But Francesco Cappuccio of the World Health Organization severely criticized the latest findings. He attacked both the research team and the medical journal that agreed to publish their study.

Cappuccio said that the research paper was in fact a ‘re-publication’ of older data from another paper laden with ‘flaws and criticism.’ Sadly, the criticism in that previous paper was largely ignored in the latest study, Cappucio believes.

The WHO expert also found that salt intake was measured by analyzing urine samples taken in the morning and those measurements were then used to asses the salt intake throughout the entire day leading to ‘flawed’ results

Cappuccio also criticized the work for using people with a high risk of cardiovascular events rather than healthy participants. The professor concluded that not low-sodium intake killed the study participants, but their diseases, which also forced them to eat less salt.

Nevertheless, independent researchers defended the latest findings and understood the latest criticism as a reaction to a study that has just challenged the low-salt diet ‘dogma.’

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Filed Under: Health Tagged With: heart disease risk, high blood pressure, low sodium intake, low-salt diet, low-sodium diet, risk of stroke

Beware of Silent Heart Attacks

May 18, 2016 By James Faulkner 2 Comments

"Silent Heart Attacks "

Silent heart attacks are as dangerous as the “classical” ones

STATES CHRONICLE – The findings of a new study warn us to beware of the silent heart attacks.

A study published Monday in the American Heart Association (journal circulation) called “Race and Sex Differences in the Incidence and Prognostic Significance of Silent Myocardial Infarction (…)” indicates that as much as half of all heart attacks are silent.

Silent heart attacks (SHA) are as dangerous and powerful as the ones that give the “classical” heavy chest pain, shortness of breath and sudden cold sweats signs. They do as much harm as the most “noisy” myocardial infarcts.

A silent heart attack is when you have a heart attack, but you do not get the obvious symptoms. What happens in one of these unwanted health situations is blood being reduced, severely reduced or entirely cut out from the heart’s muscle.

Analyzing the records of 9,498 adults enrolled in another study called the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities, a study that investigates the causes and outcome of atherosclerosis, researchers examined heart attack differences between gender and race.

The study followed up on the participants for a period as long as twenty years. A number of 317 participants had heart attacks with no symptoms, and 386 of them had the infarcts with clinical symptoms.

This result shows silent heart attacks make 45 percent of all heart attacks.

It appears that women with SHA outnumber men, and African American men outnumber Caucasian men.

Researchers took into account many factors to prevent biasing the results, like body weight, diabetes, high blood pressure, smoking and a few other, including income and education.

Silent heart attacks are detected when patients undergo ECGs or EKGs (electrocardiogram) to check their hearts. This usually happens when the patient does a routine check or needs the heart’s electrical activity evaluation for something else.

Heart attacks that come with no symptoms and are later detected should be treated with the same intensive care as are the ones triggered by clinical symptoms.

The risk factors seem to be the same for both types of infarcts. Doctors are encouraged to advise patients to quit smoking, lose weight, watch their cholesterol levels and blood pressure, and exercise.

A recently published study also linked exercising with the risk reduction for thirteen types of cancer.

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Filed Under: Health Tagged With: American Heart Association, atherosclerosis, heart attack, heart attack women, heart muscle, heart's electrical activity, heavy chest pain, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, infarct, myocardiac infarct, no symptoms, obvious symptoms, risk factors for heart attacks, shortness of breath, silent heart attacks, Smoking, sudden cold sweats

Bad Marriages Lead to Heart Disease, Scientists Reveal

November 21, 2014 By Janet Vasquez Leave a Comment

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If one is in an unhappy marriage, that person has a higher chance of developing a heart disease. A new study revealed that older couples who are in bad marriages have a higher risk of developing illnesses of the heart than the couples who live a happy marriage.

The study was conducted by a sociologist at the Michigan State University and was funded by the National Institute of Aging. The recent study was published in the Journal of Health and Social Behavior and its purpose was to examine if there is any connection between the quality of the marriage and the risks of developing heart diseases. The study also tried to find out if age or gender influenced the relation between heart health and marital quality.

Sociology professor at the University of Chicago, Linda Wite and Hui Liu from the Michigan State, analyzed data of five years from more than 1000 married women and men who were part of the National Social Life, Health and Aging Project. The age range of the participants was between 57 to 85.

The participants had to complete surveys regarding the quality of their marriage and information about their heart health. The participants had to answer if the suffered from strokes, heart attacks or high blood pressure.
The results of the study showed that being in a bad marriage cause more harm to the heart than being in a happy, healthy marriage. Researchers found out that the risks of developing heart diseases increase by the age and the quality of the marriage affects women the most. The researchers said that the reason for this was that women are prone to internalize happiness more than men do.

As we age, the immune system declines and being in a stressful marriage can seriously harm the heart.
Liu said on the university’s site that:

“Marriage counseling is focused largely on younger couples. But these results show that marital quality is just as important at older ages, even when the couple has been married 40 or 50 years.”

Filed Under: Health Tagged With: bad marriage, heart disease risk, high blood pressure, marriage counseling, strokes, women heart disease

Yogurt Lowers Blood Pressure

July 22, 2014 By Troy Rubenson Leave a Comment

If you have blood pressure problems, you should start eating yogurt. If you were a fan of yogurt, keep eating it, as the dairy product might have improved your health over the years. We have been fighting bacteria for a long time, but bacteria is not inherently harmful. In fact, bacterial flora is crucial for the digestive system. The balance between bacterial types in your organism is one of the keys to a healthy life. According to a meta-study on some of the highest quality medical research, yogurt lowers blood pressure.

By looking at the nine different studies, the authors of the paper concluded that systolic blood pressure decreased by 3.56-mm Hg, and systolic blood pressure by 2.38-mm Hg in cases where probiotics were used as a treatment option for high blood pressure. The diastolic blood pressure decreased in all but one of the studies. The total number of participants in the nine studies was 543 and the studies lasted between three and nine weeks. The higher the blood pressure, the larger the improvement was by using yogurt rich in bacterial colonies. Overall, probiotics would be a helpful addition to treatment packages, the study concludes.  A recent study brings good news as well. The rate of strokes in the U.S. dropped considerably in the last 20 years, due to increased usage of cholesterol medication and lower smoking rates.

Yogurt lowers blood pressure by fighting cholesterol

The conclusion of a meta-analysis on randomized controlled trials is that yogurt might slightly lower the blood pressure. A couple of reasons might stay behind the yogurt’s beneficial influence over blood pressure. One is that yogurt decreases cholesterol levels. Without so much fat clogging the vessels, the blood pressure would normalize. Another reason is because yoghurt controls the level of sugar in the blood. Because the probiotic drink influences the enzymes and proteins controlling the blood flow and the blood volume, yogurt lowers blood pressure.

Yogurt lowers blood pressure, according to medical meta-study.

Jing Sun, Ph.D., is the lead author of the paper published in the American Heart Association Journal, ‘Hyipertension. Sun is a senior lecturer at the Griffith Health Institute and School of Medicine, Griffith University, Australia. “We believe probiotics might help lower blood pressure by having other positive effects on health, including improving total cholesterol and low-density lipoprotein, or LDL, cholesterol; reducing blood glucose and insulin resistance; and by helping to regulate the hormone system that regulates blood pressure and fluid balance,” Sun declared, according to Sciencecodex.com

Filed Under: Health Tagged With: high blood pressure, probiotics, yoghurt

Urine test may help identify high BP risk in children

September 13, 2013 By Janet Vasquez Leave a Comment

Test of urine can predict the blood pressure level in children, a study suggests.

According to a new study, measuring sodium in a child’s urine may help doctors identify those at risk of having high blood pressure.

Researchers carried study on 19 children between the age group 10 and 19 and found that of the eight who retained sodium seven had high blood pressure.

The children are unable to excrete sodium when in stress. So, they were asked to provide a urine sample before and after their visit to a physician.

blood pressure

High blood pressure can develop over time if the body fails to regulate sodium. Sodium retention increases fluid in the blood vessels, which can impact blood pressure. It is a serious risk factor for heart disease and stroke.

“Hypertension is no longer an adult disease,” said Gregory Harshfield, study senior researcher and director of the Institute of the Georgia Prevention Center at the Medical College of Georgia at Georgia Regents University, Augusta.

“The results of this test could also provide useful information that could help pediatricians better manage and treat hypertension in their patients,” Harshfield said.

The study was presented at a meeting of the American Heart Association in New Orleans.

Filed Under: Health Tagged With: blood pressure, BP, BP in kids, high blood pressure, urine, Urine test

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