Blood pressure risk in boys and girls


A new study published in the Journal of the American Heart Association noted that young boys are more likely to develop high blood pressure than girls who are in the same age. Dr Kaberi Dasgupta, lead author of the study and a physician at McGill University Health Center in Montreal said that it could be related to some hormone, also they think it might be related to the start of teenage years in boys. This study is considered as the first study comparing high blood pressure deference in both sexes with young people. It is found that men are more level to hypertension which causes heart disease.

The results found that (SBP) systolic blood pressure risk increased in boys by 19 percent, but staid constant in girls during the study period which was five years.
It is found that when teenagers spend much time on inactive behaviors such as : internet, video games and TV, the danger of getting (SBP) increases.

The study included 1267 participants, 614 boys and 653 girls from Montreal secondary schools.

Heart disease symptoms in children and future risk

With the increasing number of obese children and other heart disease factors a new study concluded that kids with heart disease factors such as: diabetes and cholesterol, have their arteries contracting and getting tough. The symptoms occur as decreasing in blood vessels workability.

The study compared the normal and healthy children with those who have risk factors of heart disease.

The results showed that kids with heart disease factors are more possible to have an increase in their arteries which in turns may lead to heart attack in the future.

heart disease, diabetes and Alzheimer's disease

A new heart disease related study in the medical journal Neurology represented that diabetes in older people does not raise the possibility to get Alzheimer's disease, but it can be linked with areas of brain damage called cerebral infarction which can harm mental ability. The study which was done by Dr. Zoe Arvanitakis from Rush University Medical Center, Chicago involved 233 old people.

The results showed that more than third of old people developed one or more cerebral infarctions and it was 2.5 times more in people who suffer diabetes. Alzheimer's disease occurrence was same rate in people with diabetes or not.

Biomarkers are not good heart disease predictors anymore

A new study found that complicated screening tests do not represent a good guess of life-threatening heart problems than the normal symptoms of heart disease, such as high cholesterol, high blood pressure and diabetes, as they did. The study done by Thomas Wang of the Massachusetts General Hospital tested 10 “biomarkers”, these biomarkers can predict the risk factor of heart disease.

Around 3,209 patients were included in the study for ten years to check if the biomarkers could predict a heart failure, heart stroke or heart attack in each person.

Only some good combination of biomarkers predicted the risk of heart disease among the participants, which in turns means that biomarkers need to be improved for the better tests results.

Avoid unnecessary statin related heart attacks


Dutch researchers found that there are thousands of people who are using lowering cholesterol statins are in danger of heart attacks and heart disease symptoms. These heart attacks are related to the bad use of statin drugs.

Dr Fernie Penning-van Beest, of the PHARMO Institute in Utrecht said that using statin drugs properly saves people from heart attacks.

The study which included around 60,000 new patients who use statin drugs found that half of them stopped treatment droning the study which took two years. There were around 30 percent decrease of heart attacks between people who used statin drugs properly.

Low fat, low carbohydrate diets and heart disease risk.

A new study was published in this week's New England Journal of Medicine showed that diets which are based on lowering carbohydrate are not more likely to prevent or cause heart disease than typical low fat diets.

The researchers from Harvard School of Public Health said that the rate of heart disease between women who track a low carbohydrate diet is not higher than it is between those who track a low fat diet with high carbohydrate. The study involved 83,000 female nurses.

There are some studies showed that Atkins diet which is a low carbohydrate diet, increases the danger of heart disease. However, heart disease risk can be reduced by following a diet which produces fat and protein from vegetables. This fact was proved when the researches found that women who had lower heart attack, were getting fat and protein from vegetable resources like: beans, legumes, oatmeal, nuts, and olive oil. The risk of heart disease has felt by 30 percent among those women.

As a result people must follow a diet which based on vegetable sources which do not produce a lot of sugar.