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Can Added Sugar in Diet Cause Heart Attack?

November 4, 2016 SrijitaAdded, Attack:, Can, cause, Diet:, Heart, In, Sugar

Increased intake of food and drink with added sugar may possibly raise the risk of heart attack or myocardial infarction by about a third, in some people, a study has warned. Although sucrose occurs naturally in fruit and vegetables, most of which is consumed through added inclusion. Besides sweetened beverages, cakes and sweets, sucrose is added to many other foods — dairy products, bread and jam, the study said. “For the vast majority (of people), the consumption of added sugar does not appear to be a problem — the risk…

Canola Oil With Omega-3 May Cut Heart Disease Risk: Study

November 3, 2016 SrijitaCanola, Cut, Disease, Heart, May, Oil, Omega-3, Risk, Study, With

Consuming foods made in canola oil — an improved form of rapeseed, with less than two per cent erucic acid, a component found in mustard oil — that is enriched with Omega-3 has the potential to reduce the risk of heart diseases, researchers say. The findings showed that consuming high oleic canola oil enriched with Omega-3 can help reduce the concentration of triglycerides — the main constituents of body fat in humans and animals — in the blood, which when increased may contribute to hardening of the arteries or thickening…

High ‘Good Cholesterol’ May Not Reduce Heart Disease Risk

November 3, 2016 SrijitaCholesterol, Disease, Good, Heart, High;, May, Not, reduce, Risk

Raising ‘good cholesterol’ levels may not be as effective as lowering ‘bad cholesterol’ for reducing the risk of developing heart disease, a new study has found. Low and very high levels of high-density lipoprotein (HDL), known as ‘good cholesterol’ are associated with higher risk of dying from heart disease, cancer and other causes, said researchers from University of Toronto in Canada. Low level of good cholesterol may not be a heart disease risk factor on its own and also raising HDL does not likely reduce a person’s risk of heart…

Screening Infants Could Prevent Early Heart Attacks: Study

October 28, 2016 SrijitaAttacks, Could, Early, Heart, Infants, Prevent, Screening, Study

Screening young children for high cholesterol at the same time as they receive routine vaccinations could prevent hundreds of heart attacks in young adults each year, researchers in Britain said Wednesday. Their study in the New England Journal of Medicine aimed to uncover a silent killer in young adults known as familial hypercholesterolemia (FH), a genetic disorder that often leads to early heart disease. FH runs in families, and if left untreated can raise the risk of heart disease at a young age as much as 100 times, according to…

Eating dark chocolates may improve your heart health

October 16, 2016 Srijitachocolates, Dark, Eating, Health, Heart, Improve, May, Your

Eating dark chocolates may improve your heart health Now you need not be guilty of indulging in dark chocolates, as compounds found in cocoa may be good for your heart, a study has found. The findings showed that consumption of flavanol-rich cocoa products was associated with improvements in specific circulating biomarkers of cardiometabolic health. “We found that cocoa flavanol intake may reduce dyslipidemia (elevated triglycerides), insulin resistance and systemic inflammation, which are all major subclinical risk factors for cardiometabolic diseases,” said Simin Liu, Professor at Brown University in Rhode Islands,…

Heart Failure Not as Life-Threatening as Heart Attack: Experts

October 14, 2016 SrijitaAs, Attack:, Experts, failure, Heart, life-Threatening, Not

Heart failure may be a serious health hazard but not life-threatening like a heart attack, health experts say. “Heart failure refers to the heart’s inability to circulate blood through the body. Blood flow is slower than normal, which compromises the blood flow to the vital organs of the body like kidneys, liver and brain, leading to the malfunction of these organs,” Subhash Chandra, Chairman, Cardiology, BLK Super Speciality Hospital, New Delhi, told IANS. Heart failure is not similar to a heart attack and it is important for people to understand…