"Increasingly there is an understanding that there are not just respiratory diseases but cardiovascular ones associated with PM2.5s".
That finding makes it seem as though low HDL cholesterol isn't just predicting cardiovascular death — which might make sense if it is really causing heart disease — but it is also predicting cancer deaths and other causes of death.
In addition, when the survey was used in conjunction with other common clinical tests such as blood pressure measurements and blood tests, it significantly improved the ability to predict mortality not just from cardiovascular disease but from any cause.
For those high-risk males between 30 and 69 for whom statins are proven to reduce heart attacks or death, fifty patients would need to be treated for 5 years to reduce just one cardiovascular event!
The American Cancer Society estimated that cancer would account for or be associated with 22.8% of all deaths in the US, just trailing cardiovascular disease as the number one killer which accounted for 26.6% of the total deaths.
A survey of general health care costs covering different sectors – PhilHealth, DOH, local government, private sector, pharmacies and private individuals – not just on cardiovascular diseases but on major disease entities will be very beneficial for health decision making.
8 Low serum levels of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDLC) are consistently and independently associated with increased risk of atherosclerotic forms of CVD. 9 10 However, it remains uncertain whether low HDLC is causal or just a cardiovascular risk marker.
He does not throw in the off-season, he just stays in cardiovascular shape.
Develop a device to solve that and the team would help many more people than just patients with cardiovascular disease.
