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Among the male population, cardiovascular disease appears earlier than in women, but this early effect is attenuated substantially after age 60. After menopause, the risk of coronary heart disease is three times higher than women. After 50 years, cholesterol levels seem to stabilize between men, while women showed an increase.

What does cardiovascular risk?

Since the sixties, coined the term cardiovascular risk factor that describes a characteristic of a particular person (or a population of people) associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease in the future. Cardiovascular health, talk of prevention is to talk about risk factors. Read the rest of this entry »

The glycated hemoglobin or HbA1C is a biomarker reflecting the blood glucose (blood sugar) for about three months. Used by doctors to monitor patients with diabetes it may be a new use profile.

Epidemiologists from Baltimore, the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, have recently shown that the marker would not only be as good as the FPG to predict diabetes risk, but would be more to predict cardiovascular risk.

The team led by Professor Elizabeth Selvin proposes that diabetes is now diagnosed by measurement of HbA1c. These results were obtained in a study among more than 11,000 blacks and Caucasians in the cohort Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) after a follow-up of 14 years on average. Read the rest of this entry »