Mercola interviews Chris Kresser, who argues cholesterol does not cause heart disease and promotes gauging risk by LDL particle number instead. An editor's note prefacing the piece claims a vegan diet stops or reverses heart disease in 99% of cases.
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Hepatitis B, C major risk factors for liver cancer deaths
A Hepatology study drawing on 11 WHO regions attributes 30 percent of cirrhosis worldwide to chronic hepatitis B and 27 percent to hepatitis C, and 53 and 25 percent of liver cancer respectively. It counts 929,000 deaths from liver cancer caused by the two infections.
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Prehypertension linked to coronary heart disease
A meta-analysis in The American Journal of Cardiology pooling 18 studies and 934,106 participants found prehypertension was linked to a 36 percent higher risk of coronary heart disease overall, rising to 53 percent for the high range of 130/85 to 139/89 mm Hg.
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CDC Says 1 in 50 Children Now Have Autism
The CDC now puts autism at one in 50 U.S. children, up from one in 88, attributing much of the rise to diagnoses made since 2008 in older children. Mercola disputes that reading and points to Stanford twin research that questions a mainly genetic explanation.
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Early-onset baldness linked to prostate cancer
In a study in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention of 318 African-American men with prostate cancer and 219 without, those with baldness had a 69 percent higher overall risk. Frontal baldness was tied to much higher risks of high-stage and high-grade disease.
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Stroke risk higher in older men with high body fat
Among 3,411 men aged 60 to 79 followed about nine years, body mass index and waist circumference did not predict stroke, but leptin, a marker of percent fat mass, was linked to stroke risk, researchers report in Stroke. Adiponectin showed no such link.
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Stroke risk can be reduced by drinking black tea
Larsson's team followed 74,961 Swedish adults for 10 years and found those drinking four or more cups of black tea a day were 21 percent less likely to suffer a stroke, 20 percent less likely to have a cerebral infarction and 32 percent less likely to have a hemorrhagic stroke.
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Diabetes mellitus boosts risk for nonviral liver cancer
Among 63,257 middle-aged and older participants in the Singapore Chinese Health Study, those with diagnosed diabetes at baseline had 114 percent higher risk of nonviral hepatocellular carcinoma over 14 years. The authors call for work on the biological mechanism behind the link.
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Breast cancer risk factors
Gul Kitapcioglu's report on breast cancer epidemiology lists reproductive history, obesity, diet, oral contraceptives, hormone therapy, smoking, alcohol and heredity as risk factors, tracing much of the risk to a woman's lifetime exposure to estrogen.
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Threefold Increase in Alzheimer's Disease
A report in Neurology projects that Alzheimer's disease will affect 13.8 million Americans aged 65 and older by 2050, up from 4.7 million, as the baby boom generation ages and unless preventive measures take hold. The estimates come from 2010 Census Bureau data.
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Kidney disease a major death threat for type 2 diabetics
Analysing 15,046 people in NHANES III, Maryam Afkarian and colleagues found 10-year mortality reached 31.1 percent among those with both type 2 diabetes and kidney disease, against 11.5 percent with diabetes alone and 7.7 percent with neither condition.
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Type 2 diabetes increases risk of cardiovascular disease
A Current Cardiology Reports review by Kuusisto and Laakso says type 2 diabetes raises cardiovascular risk two- to fourfold. In a Finnish population study, diabetic patients on medication faced the same seven-year heart attack risk as non-diabetics who had already had one.
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Type 2 Diabetes a Risk Factor for Alzheimer's Disease
A review of 15 epidemiologic studies found people with type 2 diabetes faced on average a 57% higher risk of Alzheimer's disease, with 14 studies reporting positive associations. Among those with diabetes, smoking and hypertension were tied to further increased risk.
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Diabetes linked to bladder cancer
Drawing on the Iowa Women's Health Study of 37,327 postmenopausal women, researchers found those with diabetes were 69% more likely to develop bladder cancer. Diabetic women with a waist-to-hip ratio above 0.9 faced 2.5 times the risk of those with a smaller ratio.
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High sex hormones linked to high risk of breast cancer
In 707 breast cancer cases and 1,414 controls from the Nurses' Health Study, women in the top quartile for estradiol, testosterone and DHEA sulfate had 50 to 110 percent higher breast cancer risk. Sex hormone-binding globulin was inversely associated with risk.
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Diabetes mellitus plus ED more likely to lead to diabetic retinopathy
Among 53 men under 50 with type 2 diabetes, diabetic retinopathy appeared in 39.3 percent of those who also had erectile dysfunction, against 4.0 percent of those without it. The two groups matched on age, diabetes duration, BMI, blood pressure, lipids and glucose.
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Excess Weight Increases Risk of Colon Cancer
A study of 324,524 people in the NIH-AARP cohort, published in the American Journal of Epidemiology, tied excess weight to higher colon cancer risk, especially in men. A meta-analysis of 29 other studies found the same link in both men and women.
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Tall women at high risk of cancer
Among about 90,000 women in the Canadian National Breast Screening Study, every 10-cm increase in height was associated with 13 percent higher risk of cancer overall, including 51 percent for melanoma and 11 percent for postmenopausal breast cancer. The authors say the mechanism is unclear.
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