Skipping Breakfast May Increase Stroke and Heart Risks

Correlation, but WHAT IS THE REAL CAUSE? Do some research to find out. I could just as easily speculate that those who are skipping breakfast are already obese/overweight and are skipping breakfast to lose weight.  The cause is their pre-existing obesity and not skipping breakfast.  Bad research conclusion. What is needed is a cause and effect explanation of why skipping breakfast seems to cause this.  This research was useless in providing answers. 

Skipping Breakfast May Increase Stroke and Heart Risks

Eating breakfast could be a simple way to promote cardiovascular health, one researcher says.

By Nicholas Bakalar

• April 22, 2019

Skipping breakfast may increase your risk for cardiovascular disease.

The connection, found in a study of 6,550 adults aged 65 to 75, was particularly strong for stroke.

Almost 60 percent of the participants had breakfast every day, a quarter on some days, and 16 percent rarely or never. All were free of heart disease at the start of the study. Over an average 17 years of follow-up there were 2,318 deaths, including 619 from cardiovascular diseases.

People who never ate breakfast were more likely to be obese and have high cholesterol, but the observational study, in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, controlled for these and many other health, behavioral and socioeconomic factors.

Compared with those who had breakfast every day, those who skipped the meal had an 87 percent increased risk for death from any cardiovascular disease and a 19 percent increased risk for all-cause death. Breakfast skippers had a 59 percent increased risk of developing heart disease, and more than triple the risk of stroke.

“Many studies have shown that skipping breakfast is related to a higher risk of diabetes, hypertension” and high cholesterol, said the lead author, Dr. Wei Bao, an assistant professor of epidemiology at the University of Iowa. “Our study suggests that eating breakfast could be a simple way to promote cardiovascular health.

Skipping breakfast linked to increased CV risk

Correlation, but WHAT IS THE REAL CAUSE? Do some research to find out. I could just as easily speculate that those who are skipping breakfast are already obese/overweight and are skipping breakfast to lose weight.  The cause is their pre-existing obesity and not skipping breakfast.  Bad research conclusion.
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Deedwania P, et al. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2017;doi:10.1016/j.jacc.2017.08.054.
Uzhova I, et al. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2017;doi:10.1016/j.jacc.2017.08.027.

October 2, 2017

According to the study, the number and quality of eating occasions are included among potential targets for primary prevention strategies that have a large effect on CV health.
“Eating patterns are highly dependent on cultural, social and psychological determinants, as people integrate them into their daily life routines,” Irina Uzhova, MSc, from the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III in Madrid, and colleagues wrote. “A particular habit that might have a significant effect on CV health is breakfast consumption, as it is associated with factors such as satiety, daily energy intake, metabolic efficiency on the diet and appetite regulation.”

To assess the association between breakfast patterns and CVD risk factors, Uzhova and colleagues performed a cross-sectional analysis of the PESA study, which included asymptomatic adults aged 40 to 54 years.
The study collected lifestyle and multivascular imaging data and clinical covariates from 4,052 patients (mean age, 46 years) and analyzed the data using multivariate logistic regression models.
The researchers studied three patterns of breakfast consumption:

• high-energy breakfast, contributing to > 20% of total daily energy intake (27% of the cohort);

• low-energy breakfast, contributing between 5% and 20% of total daily energy intake (70% of the cohort); and

• skipping breakfast, consuming < 5% of total daily energy (3% of thecohort).

Independent of the presence of traditional and dietary CV risk factors, compared with high-energy breakfast, frequent skipping of breakfast was linked to higher rates of noncoronary (OR = 1.55; 95% CI, 0.97-2.46) and generalized (OR = 2.57; 95% CI, 1.54-4.31) atherosclerosis risk.
“Considering the importance of regular breakfast consumption for primary CVD prevention, our findings are important for health professionals and might be used as an important key and simple message for lifestyle-based interventions and public health strategies, as well as informing dietary recommendations and guidelines,” the researchers wrote.
According to a related editorial from Prakash Deedwania, MD, from the University of California, San Francisco, and Tushar Acharya, MD, from Advanced Cardiovascular Imaging, NHLBI, the need for corrective public health measures to curb the global epidemic of obesity is urgent.
“Given the emerging evidence of association between altered dietary patterns and increased risk of obesity, metabolic syndrome, diabetes, subclinical atherosclerosis and clinical CV events, it seems prudent to pay attention to diet and educate the public to implement simple lifestyle changes that include emphasis on a regular, hearty and nutritious breakfast,” they wrote. “These easy and economical public health measures can curb the oncoming tsunami of diabetes and CV disorders. Indeed, the wisdom of the ages that breakfast is the most important meal of the day has been proven.” – by Dave Quaile