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Did You Know? Prediabetes can Harm Your Heart

Cleveland HeartLab — Wed, 11 Aug 2021 16:08:15 +0000

If you have diabetes, you probably know that you have a higher risk for heart problems. But you may not know that you have a higher risk for heart attacks and strokes if you have prediabetes—a condition where your blood sugar is high but not high enough to be diabetes. A new study, presented at an American College of Cardiology ...

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New Heart Benefits of Vitamin D

Cleveland Heartlab — Mon, 02 Jul 2018 19:58:12 +0000

Vitamin D plays many important roles in the body—from strengthening your bones to boosting your immune system to help keep you healthy. Research also shows it keeps your heart and blood vessels in good working condition. Here are a few of the ways the so-called “sunshine vitamin” keeps the heart strong and healthy: Preventing stroke A new report from Italy ...

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Novel Clues to Your Diabetes Risk

Cleveland Heartlab — Mon, 21 Nov 2016 14:21:45 +0000

About 30 million Americans — more than 9 percent of the population — currently have diabetes, and one in three Americans is expected to have diabetes by 2050. Diabetes happens when your blood glucose, or blood sugar, levels are too high. Over time, the extra glucose can wreak havoc on health, damaging the eyes, kidneys and nerves and leading to ...

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Diabetes and Heart Disease: A Deadly Connection

Cleveland Heartlab — Mon, 07 Nov 2016 17:38:50 +0000

Diabetes, which affects the body’s use of insulin, has consequences for every system in the body — perhaps none more so than the heart. About 30 million Americans — more than 9 percent of the population — have diabetes, and the rates are on the rise. By 2050, one in three Americans is expected to have diabetes. Over time, the ...

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Could Food Be a New Medicine to Fight Heart Disease?

Cleveland Heartlab — Mon, 11 Jan 2016 20:52:03 +0000

A compound called DMB (3,3-dimethyl-1-butanol), found in olive oil, red wine and other foods, may someday be a first-of-its kind drug with the potential to treat—or even prevent—heart disease in the future, suggests a new Cleveland Clinic study published in the journal Cell. The investigators report that in mice, dietary supplementation with this naturally occurring compound safely inhibited atherosclerosis (plaque ...

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TMAO Testing: A New Way To Assess Heart Attack And Stroke Risk

Cleveland Heartlab — Tue, 15 Dec 2015 22:09:45 +0000

A new blood test that measures levels of TMAO (trimethylamine-N-oxide) — a metabolite derived from gut bacteria — can powerfully predict future risk for heart attack, stroke, and death in patients who appear otherwise healthy, according to pioneering Cleveland Clinic research. The new test — now available through Cleveland HeartLab — measures blood levels of TMAO, a compound produced by ...

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Dangerous Cluster of Heart Disease & Diabetes Risks Affects 35% of Americans

Cleveland Heartlab — Tue, 09 Jun 2015 14:06:30 +0000

More than one in three US adults have metabolic syndrome, a combination of at least three of five pre-disease-state factors, that doubles risk for heart disease and quintuples the risk for type 2 diabetes, according to a new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The study reported that from 2003-2004 to 2011-2012, overall rates of metabolic syndrome ...

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Help Patient’s Slash Sugar with a Few Simple Tips

Cleveland Heartlab — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 17:24:52 +0000

There’s no question that an excess of sugar in the American diet is one of many lifestyle contributors in the obesity epidemic. What’s most alarming is the growing link between excess sugar and abdominal fat, visceral fat, low HDL and elevated triglycerides, not to mention risk of heart disease and diabetes. Back in 2010, as a response to the growing ...

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