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Certain phytonutrients in cocoa, the flavanols, can improve the functions (elasticity?) Of the arterial system in young and older people and counteract age-related changes in the blood vessels. This is the result of a current study that a team from the University Hospital Düsseldorf carried out together with colleagues from the USA and Great Britain and presented at the 80th annual conference of the German Cardiac Society (DGK) in Mannheim. The study was carried out as part of the EU-funded FLAVIOLA research consortium.
22 young men older (under 35 years) and 20 subjects between 50 and 80 years received two weeks twice daily either a Kakaoflavonol-rich (450 mg) or a Kakaoflavonol-drink.
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Defi patients and the car
Nearly half of the cardiac patients who have been implanted for threatening cardiac arrhythmias and impaired ventricular cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD), remember not mind that she, aware of their limited driving ability and the recommendation not to drive car her doctor.
Well over one-third (41,67%) does not follow the recommendation on the matter and disobeyed the ban occasionally or regularly. This is the result of a recent study by the University Heart Center Hamburg, which. On the 80 Annual Meeting of the German Cardiac Society (DGK) was presented. In the Congress Center Rosengarten Mannheim days of 23. to 26. April 8.500 25 cardiologists countries. "Evidently it must be even more it dismissed talks and the medical report that the issue driving ban here a higher value gets," said study author Dr. Friederike Hartel. Even better documentation is needed from medical-forensic point of view.
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Men with a waist circumference of 110 centimeters and more have a 47 percent probability of diabetes, 90 percent high blood pressure and at least 95 percent unfavorable blood lipid values. Waists of 110 centimeters give 95 percent an indication of a body mass index (BMI) of 30 or more, i.e. obesity that is highly associated with cardiovascular diseases. This is the result of a study by Prof. Dr. Andreas Schuchert (Neumünster) and his team, which was presented at the 80th annual meeting of the German Society for Cardiology in Mannheim.
The researchers had the data from 4.918 men analyzed after an acute coronary syndrome (ACS) or bypass surgery completed a cardiac rehabilitation program. The analyzed risk factors were diabetes, hypertension, excessive blood lipids, smoking and a family history. The results showed that 24 percent of patients have a BMI of more than 30 had. There was a linear relationship between BMI and waist circumference with diabetes and hypertension, but not with smoking and a family history.
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Potential health risks: EU writes warning for Unilever's Becel pro.activ ago - foodwatch urges cessation of sales of cholesterol-lowering margarine
The European Union undertakes include Unilever to a new warning on the cholesterol-lowering margarine Becel pro.activ. Since 15. February prescribes Regulation 718 / 2013 manufacturers, people explicitly discouraged without cholesterol problems with added plant sterols before the consumption of food. Thus, the EU bears the evidence of possible health risks. The consumer organization foodwatch criticized that the EU only pretend an inconspicuous, small printed notice, but the free sale of potentially risky foods continuing to permit.
As products like Becel pro.activ lie next ordinary margarine on the supermarket shelf, they are consumed by many consumers who do not even know their cholesterol levels and therefore operate self-medication without medical findings. Here is Becel pro.activ added with plant sterols a highly concentrated and controversial drug. Even children doctoring thus unnecessarily uncontrollably at their blood values around. The EU Regulation requires Unilever now to the warning that Becel "is not intended for persons who do not need to control their blood cholesterol" pro.activ.
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Noise pollution, for example by road, can adversely affect the cardiovascular system. A possible mechanism of action has been little studied in epidemiological studies. Scientists of Helmholtz Zentrum München have now shown that even noises of everyday life affect the heart rate variability, thus adapting the capacity of the heart, its impact frequency of acute events. The results were published in the renowned journal, Environmental Health Perspectives'.
The relationship between noise exposure, particularly high noise intensities, and cardiovascular disease is known from previous studies. Scientists led by Ute Kraus of the Working Group, Environmental Risks', under the direction of Dr. Alexandra Schneider at the Institute of Epidemiology II (EPI II) at Helmholtz Zentrum München (HMGU) have now investigated the consequences of our daily soundscape and discovered that this holds also health risks.
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An analysis of the exhaled air by means of an "electronic nose" to distinguish people with heart disease in healthy allows. Within the group of patients can be assessed by this method, for example, the severity of myocardial disease. This shows a recent study by the Munich-based research group that in 79. Annual Meeting of the German Cardiac Society (DGK) was presented in Mannheim. "This method allows us, in principle, to differentiate between healthy and sick people and within the patients by severity. Whether and to what extent this approach, the clinical evaluation, for example in the detection of clinical comorbidities support, needs to be clarified in further prospective studies of large independent groups of patients, "said Dr. Uta Ochmann from Munich University Hospital.
"Electronic noses" (enose) are used to identify patterns of chemical compounds in the exhaled air and to recognize in this way diseases or to differentiate between them. In the Munich study found an electronic nose used, in which the breathing air is analyzed by 32 polymer sensors based on metal.
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Heart disease has a great deal to do with the appearance of symptoms of depression. The frequency of depression rises steadily from people without cardiovascular symptoms but with risk factors, to people with already existing (manifest) cardiovascular diseases and to patients with manifest heart failure (cardiac insufficiency, HI). Symptoms of depression are more common in patients with HI that can be traced back to circulatory disorders ("ischemic" HI) than in other forms of HI. That is the result of a study with 3.433 participants, which was carried out at the 79th annual conference of the German Society for Cardiology (DGK) in Mannheim by private lecturer Dr. Thomas Müller-Tasch (Heidelberg) were presented. The data base was provided by the Heart Failure Competence Network, the depressive symptoms of the patients were recorded using a questionnaire (PHQ-9). It is important to note the complex interaction between depression and HI symptoms
"Note the complex interaction between the depression and the HI-symptoms," said PD Müller-Tash. "So a depressive coping with pronounced HI symptoms as a possible exaggeration of symptom descriptions due to the depressive mood appears just as plausible." Currently, it is investigated whether the differences of depression incidence between the examined groups of patients affect the disease prognosis.
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Heart attack and stroke more common in patients with rheumatoid arthritis
The approximately 800 000 people with inflammatory rheumatism in Germany are not only at risk of pain and damage their joints. Recent studies show that their risk of heart attack and stroke is markedly increased. Early treatment of rheumatism could also protect against vascular damage and its deadly consequences concerned. The German Society of Internal Medicine (DGIM) is committed to effective therapies and advises patients to avoid additional risks, such as cigarette smoke necessarily. Systemic inflammation is a major theme of the 119. Internist Congress of the 6. to 9. April 2013 takes place in Wiesbaden.
Rheumatoid arthritis, also known as rheumatoid arthritis, is one of the autoimmune diseases in which the body's own defenses attack its own healthy tissue. The attack is indeed primarily directed against the bone. However, it accompanies an inflammatory response throughout the body that pulls the blood vessels affected. "Therefore, heart attacks and strokes occur twice as common in people suffering from rheumatism to like in the rest of the population," says Professor Dr. med. Ulf Müller-Ladner, chief physician at the Kerckhoff Clinic in Bad Nauheim. The risk of heart attack of rheumatic patients is as high as diabetics.
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Although the majority of respondents know about the main symptoms of heart failure and their prevention communication, but few are aware that this is a very serious disease with many forms of cancer mortality comparable. This shows the largest Germany-wide study on the knowledge and awareness of heart failure. was presented the study at the 79. Annual Meeting of the German Cardiac Society (DGK) in which from Wednesday to Saturday (3. 6 up. April) in Mannheim more than 7.500 participants discuss from around 25 countries current developments in all areas of cardiology. "There is a large discrepancy between the public's knowledge of the causes, symptoms and treatment of heart failure and the understanding of the severity of the disease and its prognosis," said study co-author Dr. Lindy Musial-Bright (Charite - Universitätsmedizin Berlin). "This could lead to dangerous misjudgments in affected and delay proper treatment."
During the investigation, 2.635 people in Berlin, Marburg, Hannover and Göttingen were interviewed. More than 60 percent of respondents were able to answer questions of cause, symptoms and treatment of heart failure properly and knew about preventive measures such as balanced nutrition, exercise or quit smoking Opinion. 44 percent of respondents were affected directly or indirectly through relatives or friends of heart failure. However, the investigation also shows a number of common misunderstandings: Every fifth respondent believed falsely, heart failure would regress spontaneously within one month. Less than a third of the study participants knew that the mortality in heart failure is similar to many forms of cancer. The most important information sources for health information in general and those for heart disease, respondents named newspapers and magazines (52 percent), radio and TV (50 percent), followed by the general practitioner (40 percent). Whether other information are used, it is not apparent from the study summary.
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There are more people diagnosed with "post-traumatic stress disorder" among high blood pressure patients than in the general population, shows a new study by the Ulm University Hospital, which was presented at the 79th annual meeting of the German Cardiac Society (DGK). From Wednesday to Saturday (April 3 to 6), more than 7.500 participants from around 25 countries discussed current developments from all areas of cardiology in Mannheim. "We assume that in post-traumatic stress disorder, the chronic hyperactivity of the sympathetic nervous system is a possible cause for the frequent occurrence of blood pressure," said study author Dr. Elisabeth Balint from Ulm University Hospital.
In the study 77 hypertensive patients were studied. 10 percent showed the frame of post-traumatic stress disorder, which is significantly more than in the general population, more 12 percent met criteria for partial posttraumatic stress disorder. Overall 22 percent of the patients were clinically meaningful charged with the aftermath of a traumatic event.
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Who sets up smoking, can reduce the harmful altered by nicotine metabolites significantly. This also reduces the risk of cardiovascular disease and other health consequences. This is the conclusion reached by scientists of Helmholtz Zentrum München after evaluating a population-based cohort study. Their results are published in the scientific journal, BMC Medicine '.
Nicotine promotes the formation of metabolites altered so altered metabolites which are harmful in elevated concentrations. If omitted nicotine, the concentrations of these metabolites are significantly declining. These results are consistent with the prior knowledge that the risk for cardiovascular disease, such. As heart attack decreases when smoking is given up. Scientists at the Department of Molecular Epidemiology (AME), the Institute of Experimental Genetics (IEG) and the Institute of Epidemiology II (EPI II) at Helmholtz Zentrum München evaluated over 1.200 blood samples of the population-based research platform KORA (Cooperative Health Research in the Augsburg Region) that you mapped smokers, non-smokers and ex-smokers. In addition, control values and smoking status were raised again after seven years.
