scholarly journals Reducing the Global Burden of Cardiovascular Disease: The Role of Risk Factors

2002 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 188-199 ◽  
Author(s):  
James W. Levenson ◽  
Patrick J. Skerrett ◽  
J. Michael Gaziano
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Cardiovascular Disease ◽  
Global Burden

RISK FACTORS FOR CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE IN CHILDHOOD:THE ROLE OF BIRTH WEIGHT AND CURRENT OBESITY

2011 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. e441
Author(s):  
C. Ponzio ◽  
R. Sesso ◽  
M. W. Strufaldi ◽  
M. Franco
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Cardiovascular Disease ◽  
Birth Weight

scholarly journals The role of Dietitian in cardiac rehabilitation and prevention

2016 ◽  
Vol 70 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Susanna Agostini ◽  
Barbara Biffi ◽  
Silvia Brazzo ◽  
Letizia Da Vico ◽  
Maria Luisa Masini ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Cardiovascular Disease ◽  
Cardiac Rehabilitation ◽  
Serum Lipids ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Psychosocial Interventions ◽  
Pharmacological Interventions ◽  
Nutritional Interventions ◽  
Reduction Of Mortality

Rehabilitation and secondary prevention programs are recognized as an essential part of the overall care of patients with cardiovascular disease. They consist of multidisciplinary strategies aiming at the reduction of modifiable risk factors for cardiovascular disease. Cardiac rehabilitation includes non-pharmacological interventions as: Patients’ evaluation. Nutritional counseling. Risk factors management (serum lipids, blood pressure, weight, diabetes, smoking). Psychosocial interventions. Physical activity and cardiovascular physical training counseling. Their effectiveness in the reduction of mortality through the decrease of risk factors has been proven in the last twenty years. Guidelines on appropriate and well-framed interventions have been released and nutritional interventions have a ringside seat in all programs. During 2007, the Italian Association of Dietitians, ANDID, created a working group of expert dietitians, with the goals of making a review of available scientific literature and of elaborating a Professional Position Papers on the role of Dietitian in cardiac rehabilitation and prevention. This Position Paper retrieves and remarks the available evidence that are important for the dietitians, according to their professional role and their contribution in the management of the topic.

scholarly journals Association between Risk Factors for Vascular Dementia and Adiponectin

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juhyun Song ◽  
Won Taek Lee ◽  
Kyung Ah Park ◽  
Jong Eun Lee
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Cardiovascular Disease ◽  
Signal Transduction ◽  
Vascular Dementia ◽  
Case Control ◽  
Case Control Studies ◽  
Insulin Signal Transduction ◽  
Increased Risk ◽  
The Brain

Vascular dementia is caused by various factors, including increased age, diabetes, hypertension, atherosclerosis, and stroke. Adiponectin is an adipokine secreted by adipose tissue. Adiponectin is widely known as a regulating factor related to cardiovascular disease and diabetes. Adiponectin plasma levels decrease with age. Decreased adiponectin increases the risk of cardiovascular disease and diabetes. Adiponectin improves hypertension and atherosclerosis by acting as a vasodilator and antiatherogenic factor. Moreover, adiponectin is involved in cognitive dysfunction via modulation of insulin signal transduction in the brain. Case-control studies demonstrate the association between low adiponectin and increased risk of stroke, hypertension, and diabetes. This review summarizes the recent findings on the association between risk factors for vascular dementia and adiponectin. To emphasize this relationship, we will discuss the importance of research regarding the role of adiponectin in vascular dementia.

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2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Bronwen Horton
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Risk Factors ◽  
Cardiovascular Disease ◽  
Work Stress ◽  
Physiological Response ◽  
Occupational Group ◽  
Migrant Farmworkers ◽  
Analogous Argument ◽  
Chronic Morbidity

The only survey of migrant farmworkers’ health in California that used clinical exams to collect data found this occupational group had “startlingly” high rates of hypertension and risk factors for cardiovascular disease. Drawing upon the narratives of two migrant farmworking women who were both hospitalized for hypertension, this chapter explores the role of “immigration stress” and “work stress” in producing their chronic disease. While public health researchers have recently pointed to racial minorities’ physiological response to chronic discrimination as an explanation for their higher rates of hypertension, this chapter makes an analogous argument for legal minorities. It suggests that the recent trend towards heightened interior immigration enforcement subjects all noncitizens to forms of “everyday violence,” only increasing their chronic worry and “perseverative stress.” This chapter explores how the stress of being a legal minority gets under migrants’ skin, helping account for migrant farmworkers’ higher rates of chronic morbidity and mortality.

Roles of Nutraceuticals and Functional Food in Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease

2022 ◽  
pp. 810-839
Author(s):  
Shahrul Bariyah Hamid ◽  
Auni Fatin Abd Hamid
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Cardiovascular Disease ◽  
Functional Food ◽  
Food Sources ◽  
Supporting Evidence ◽  
Tropical Fruits ◽  
Medical Plants ◽  
Economic And Social Impacts ◽  
Prevention Of Cardiovascular Disease

The chapter provides an overview of cardiovascular disease, a major cause of mortality worldwide. It relates economic and social impacts to the disease, especially in developing countries. One of the approaches to addressing this challenge is increasing awareness within society, through implementation of education programs. It is important for society to understand the types and roles of the risk factors leading to cardiovascular disease. Emphasis is on the role of functional food and nutraceuticals as dietary sources that could prevent development of cardiovascular disease. The chapter highlights roles of nutraceuticals and functional food sources from medical plants, seeds, berries, and tropical fruits in lowering risk factors. Key findings from trials conducted in Asia, China, Europe, and America provide supporting evidence for the importance of functional food to health, and its potential for modifying the level of risk factors related to cardiovascular diseases.

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