Heart and Stroke

- "More active people generally demonstrate a 25 - 30% lower risk of stroke,"
- Women who walked at a pace of 3 miles per hour or faster had a 37% lower risk of suffering any type of stroke compared to those who walked at a slower pace.

People with heart disease might want to take a careful look at how they handle their feelings of anger. A new study found that heart disease patients who suppressed their anger had nearly triple the risk of having a heart attack or dying over the next 5 - 10 years.

"Just like eating a high-fat diet can increase your levels of triglycerides and high cholesterol, eating sugar can also affect those same lipids,"

- Saturated fatty acids in red meat and butter, need to be avoided and omega-3 fatty acids, omega-6 fatty acids, vitamin E, vitamin B12 and folate, benefit and directly protect the brain.
- "People who adhered mostly to this dietary pattern compared to others have about a 40% reduction in the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease," Gu said.

Duke University researchers found a link between a key stock index and heart attacks. CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta reports.
- study indicates that as the stoke market was collapsing more people had chest pains or need procedures.
- adrenaline releases can cause electrical changes in the heart, inflammation buildup, and broken heart syndrome where you heart gets stunned for a period of time.
- stress management; pray/meditate, make time for happy hour, have sex, and laugh.

Swedish researchers found that men who consumed the most calcium in food were 25% less likely to die over the next decade than their peers who took in the least calcium from food.
- The top calcium consumers had a 25% lower risk of dying from any cause and a 23% lower risk of dying from heart disease.
- Calcium could influence mortality risk in many ways, they note, for example by reducing blood pressure, cholesterol, or blood sugar levels.

- High blood pressure second leading cause of death in the United States.
- Responsible for 1 out of 6 adult deaths.
- Diet really seems to make a difference for reducing high blood pressure, more specifically sodium or salt.
- Salt depletes your potassium and potassium is necessary to regulate blood pressure.

Paying attention to the warning signs of a heart attack may mean saving your heart from damage.

80% of second strokes are preventable, cost the U.S. 74 billion a year, risk factors include obesity, smoker, blood pressure > 140/90, cholesterol > 240, diabetic, family history, lack of exercise.
-F face: smile, look for droop
-A arms: raise arms, look for drift
-S speech: speak simple sentence, look for slur
-T time: any symptoms above, call 911

The researchers found that the stress of social subordination results in the release of stress hormones that promote the deposition of fat in the viscera, in turn, promotes coronary artery atherosclerosis, the buildup of plaque in the blood vessels that leads to heart disease, the leading cause of death in the world today.
- Researchers found that the monkeys with high social stress and larger amounts of visceral fat also had ovaries that produced fewer protective hormones.
- Women who are hormone-deficient will develop more atherosclerosis and be at greater risk of developing coronary heart disease and other diseases such as osteoporosis and cognitive impairment
- obesity is directly related to lower socioeconomic status, as is heart disease. fewer resources to buffer from the stresses more likely to experience such health problems

- Many patients urgently admitted to hospital with cerebral infarction state that they were under great stress over a prolonged period prior to suffering their stroke, is shown in a unique patient study
- "We found an independent link between self-perceived psychological stress and stroke. A new finding was that the link between stress and stroke varies between different types of cerebral infarction," says Jood.
- On the other hand, the researchers could not see any independent correlation with stress for those patients who had had a stroke due to a blood clot from the heart.

According to the American Heart Association, four hours television per day can increase your chances of dying of cardiovascular disease by 80 percent. WWLP's Jackie Bruno reports.