Folks at High Risk of Heart Disease May Gain From Eating Mackerel, Tuna
New research shows that those with higher levels of omega-3 fatty acids have a lower overall risk for heart disease Key Points People with a genetic risk for heart disease...
Omega-3s EPA and DHA Shown to Have a Significant Protective Effect for Heart Disease
A meta-analysis of 40 randomized controlled trials shows supplementing with EPA and DHA can protect heart health and help prevent death due to cardiovascular disease Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the...
Death from Heart Disease and Omega-3 Index
...American Heart Association Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics to find the death rates for all six countries. The average Omega-3 Index levels came from this paper by Stark et al....
Reducing COVID-19 Risks and Improving Patient Survival – A Summary of Research on Vitamin D, Other Nutrients & Immune Health
...cardiovascular disease, hypertension, cancer/immunosuppression, and CRP. Decreased vitamin D levels were also significantly related to increased COVID-19 disease severity, with every 1-unit decrease in log vitamin D level associated with...
Reducing COVID-19 Risks and Improving Patient Survival – A Summary of Research on Vitamin D, Other Nutrients & Immune Health
...Deficiencies in these nutrients are known to impair immune function and also contribute to certain age-related diseases, such as diabetes, hypertension, and coronary heart disease, each of which are known...
Top Nutrients to Help Protect from Post-COVID Cardiovascular Disease
...Cooper J, Salih A, et al. (2022) Cardiovascular disease and mortality sequelae of COVID-19 in the UK Biobank. Heart heartjnl-2022-321492. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36280346 2. Lai CC, Lee MTG, Lee WC, et al....
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...special offer February 17, 2016 Heart Health – Diabetes is a Major Risk Factor One of the major risk factors for cardiovascular disease is diabetes – a disease known...
Fish Oil Supplementation Associated with Lower Risk of Death from Heart Disease
...After adjusting for age and sex, the researchers found a significantly lower risk for all-cause mortality, cardiovascular disease mortality, and myocardial infarction (heart attack) mortality (P < 0.001 for all)...
How Vitamin D Benefits the Heart and Cardiovascular System
...for smooth muscle function (vascular pathways) Cardiovascular Diseases associated with low vitamin D include: Hyperlipidemia Hypertension Atherosclerosis Peripheral Artery Disease Congestive Heart Failure Atrial Fibrillation Chronic Kidney Disease Vitamin D...
30 Significant Outcomes from the VITAL Trial that You Likely Did Not Hear About
...kinds of cancer analyzed together) or heart disease (a composite of all types); however, when the separate types of heart disease or death from cancer were analyzed, there were 30...