High sodium consumption associated with cardiovascular disease in patients with chronic kidney disease
1. This study quantified sodium intake by measuring the 24-hour urinary sodium excretion, and found that among patients with chronic ...
Tag: cardiovascular risk
Five risk factors linked to half of preventable cardiovascular deaths
1. From a cross-sectional survey, four in five Americans ages 45 to 79 had exposure to at least one cardiovascular ...
Preterm birth associated with cardiovascular risk factors in adolescence
1. Girls born before 34 weeks gestation were found to have higher blood pressures at age 16 than those born ...
Adolescents’ muscle strength associated with lower cardiometabolic risk
Image: PD 1. Children and adolescents with higher normalized strength had fewer risk factors associated with future development of metabolic ...
The Bogalusa Heart Study: Childhood weight status and cardiovascular risk factors [Pediatrics Classics Series]
Image: PD 1. Children recruited for weight and cardiovascular risk assessment were found to have higher frequencies of cardiac risks ...
Gut microbes implicated in stroke and heart attacks: new dietary link
Image: PD/CDC 1. Gut microbes appear to play a role in producing the metabolite trimethylamine-N-oxide (TMAO) from dietary choline. 2. ...
