Following a diet packed with foods that lower the markers of inflammation in our bodies can lower our risk for an early death. An anti-inflammatory diet may reduce your risk for cancer and cardiovascular disease. Getty Images If you’re hoping to live a long and healthy life, you might want to embrace an anti-inflammatory diet. New research published in...
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Anti-inflammatory drug effective for treating lymphedema symptoms
STANFORD MEDICINE For more than three decades, Lisa Hanson did her best to hide the unsightly fluid retention in her left leg that caused uncomfortable swelling and made her skin taut and thickened. At 17, when she was first diagnosed with lymphedema, she threw out her shorts and dresses and began a lifelong journey of...
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Anti-inflammatory diet linked to reduced risk of early death
Adhering to an anti-inflammatory diet was associated with lower risks of dying from any cause, dying from cardiovascular causes, and dying from cancer in a recent Journal of Internal Medicine study. In the study of 68,273 Swedish men and women aged 45 to 83 years who were followed for 16 years, participants who most closely followed an...
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PCSK9 inhibitors have unexpected anti-inflammatory effects
PCSK9 inhibition is a new therapeutic strategy for atherosclerosis which is known to lower LDL cholesterol. Research from Karolinska Institutet, presented at the ESC Congress last year and now published in the Journal of Internal Medicine, shows that PCSK9 inhibitors could ameliorate cardiovascular disease by immune mechanisms that are independent of LDL lowering. Atherosclerosis is a...
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