And here are a few more of positive ways this celebrity-loved diet can better your health. Reduce breast cancer risk. A recent study for the World Cancer Research Fund has found that following the Mediterranean diet can reduce the risk of one of the most deadly forms of breast cancer by as much as 40 percent.
In the medical terms ASCVD means 'Arterioscelrotic cardiovascular disease'. This is a heart disease. ASCVD is a group of dieases where the thickening and loss of elasticity of the arterial walls, occuring in three forms. This causes slow and impaired blood circulation.
Muntner presented a new analysis in which the ASCVD risk estimator was applied to patients in REGARDS (Reasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke), a prospective, observational, population-based study of more than 30,000 U.