2 million people with severe mental illness shows that people with severe mental illness (SMI), including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and major depression, have a 53 per cent higher risk for having
cardiovascular disease than healthy controls, with a 78 per cent higher risk of developing
cardiovascular disease over the longer term.
He presented an analysis of 972 obese participants in the Dallas Heart Study with a mean age of 44 years at enrollment and no baseline
cardiovascular disease.
The findings suggest that dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry scans commonly performed in RA patients to assess for osteoporosis could also serve as an assessment of
cardiovascular disease risk, Dr.
They independently evaluated the performance of the QRISK score for predicting 10-year risk of
cardiovascular disease in an independent UK cohort of patients from general practice and compared the performance with Framingham equations.
Results: Over 11 years of follow-up, a little over 4200 participants died, and over seven years of follow-up, 892 participants died of
cardiovascular disease and 1134 subjects died of cancer.
In rodents, maternal high-fat or cholesterol overfeeding during pregnancy results in offspring with elevated risk factors for
cardiovascular disease such as increased blood pressure, abnormal lipid profiles and abnormal glucose homeostasis.
Cardiovascular disease was the number-one killer, and yet people who succumbed to it were often pronounced dead from "unknown" illness.
And to help people who already have
cardiovascular disease, it should train a Heart Corps of thousands of non-physician specialists who would help motivate patients to adopt healthy lifestyles.
Of those, 12,038 women had an index diagnosis of osteoporosis, and 43% of them had a coexisting claim for
cardiovascular disease within 1 year before or after the diagnosis.
Evidence-Based Guidelines for
Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in Women.
Public health programs and health care providers should give as much emphasis to treating elevated LDL among those with diabetes who are still free of
cardiovascular disease as among those with already established
cardiovascular disease.
Possible benefits include reduced risk of cancer,
cardiovascular disease, stroke and diabetes.
