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Causes Of Heart Disease - Articles
Do "Heart Healthy" sterols cause heart disease?
by
Dr. William D.
Posted
Wed 09 Sep 2009 10:03pm
to reduce LDL cholesterol (at least transiently). HOWEVER, sterols have also been implicated in possibly increasing risk for heart disease. After all, people with the genetic condition called sito sterol emia absorb sterols into the blood and develop coronary heart disease in their teens and twenties. Those of us without sitosterolemia who increase sterol
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No evidence that saturated fat causes heart disease (it’s official)
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Dr. John B.
Posted
Fri 17 Apr 2009 11:09pm
Many individuals will be familiar with the almost-constant recommendations that come at us with regard to what we should be eating to reduce our risk of heart disease. A central theme in this advice, though not everyone would agree with it, is that the diet should be low in fat and high in carbohydrate. Sometimes, [...]
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Does the Atkins diet cause heart disease?
by
Dr. John B.
Posted
Fri 24 Jul 2009 10:04pm
I’m an advocate of diets relatively rich in protein and low in carbohydrate. Not uncommonly when I addressing an audience regarding this, someone will ask me about the Atkins’ diet and my opinion of it. Digging a bit it usually turns out that the individual is thinking that I’m advocating an Atkins-like diet, and we [...]
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PCOS And Infection Can Also Cause Heart Disease
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Cathy T.
Posted
Fri 12 Sep 2008 10:45am
Heart disease can be caused by a number of risk factors, for example, high blood cholesterol, high blood pressure, diabetes, unhealthy diet and habits, laziness, obesity as well as some uncontrollable factors like family history of heart disease. Nevertheless, there are at least two other risk factors, namely PCOS and infection, that could also
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New Cause for Heart Disease found in Study
by
Keep Your Heart Healthy
Posted
Sun 03 Jan 2010 12:00am
cause of heart disease. One of the scientists involved in the study said, ” This is the most convincing evidence so far that this protein [Lp(a)] is directly part of the pathway that causes heart disease rather than a bystander. If we can target it through treatment, we might expect to lower the risk of disease.” One of the obstacles in making this test
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High Stress Jobs Can Cause Heart Disease
by
Linda
Posted
Sat 08 May 2010 12:00am
A new study shows that a high-pressure job can boost the risk of heart disease among middle-aged women, Over 12,000 women in Denmark were tracked for 15 years from age 45 to 64. Women who said their work pressures were a bit too high were 25 percent more likely to suffer from heart disease than those who said their stress levels at work were
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Are there still unexplored causes of heart disease?
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Dr. William D.
Posted
Wed 01 Oct 2008 8:26pm
always a kicker: she speaks no English. Unfortunately, communicating the intricacies of a powerful program like ours that aims to identify all causes of heart disease...
I met a woman today. She had her first heart attack at age 37. She just had her 2nd heart attack this morning, at age 40.
Several issues are surprising about her story
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The True Cause of Heart Disease – Part Two
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Total Health Breakthroughs
Posted
Wed 21 Jul 2010 9:42am
disease?
Dr. Lundell: Inflammation is the real cause of heart disease because cholesterol would never be retained in the wall of the blood vessel and start causing plaque unless... surgical practice. He then devoted the rest of his life to speaking the truth that inflammation causes heart disease. By lowering inflammation, heart disease has a cure.
Dr
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