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Ex-Smokers Improve Heart Health
Associated PressQuitting smoking can turn back time. A year after kicking the habit, smokers' arteries showed signs of reversing a problem that can set the stage for heart disease, according to the first big study to test this. The improvement came even though...Tags: Heart Attack, Politics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Drugs and Medicines, Colleges and Universities
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Too many invasive heart tests given, study finds
The Associated PressA troublingly high number of U.S. patients who are given angiograms to check for heart disease turn out not to have a significant problem, according to the latest study to suggest Americans get an excess of medical tests. The researchers said the...Tags: Heart Attack, San Francisco, Duke University, Symptoms, Colleges and Universities
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Do Kids Need a Test for Cholesterol Levels?
Special to Tribune NewspapersMy children hate needles — in that dread-filled way of kids who have been stuck once too often — and getting them to the doctor for shots or a blood test can be quite an ordeal. They never downright refuse to go, but there's always plenty of...Tags: Heart Attack, Surveys, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Overweight, Drugs and Medicines
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Researcher urges caution in reducing blood pressure
For patients with diabetes and heart disease, less isn't always more — at least when it comes to blood pressure. New data show an increased risk of heart attack, stroke or death for patients having blood pressure deemed too high — or too low,...Tags: Heart Attack, Abbott Laboratories, High Blood Pressure, Drugs and Medicines, Colleges and Universities
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Vitamin D Linked to Lower Heart Disease Risk
Los Angeles TimesRaising the amount of vitamin D in the blood appears to help some people - at least those deficient in the vitamin - reduce their risk of heart disease by about 30%, researchers announced Monday. The findings, though preliminary, support further...Tags: Heart Attack, Vitamin Therapy, Colleges and Universities, Diseases, Education
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Hospices Slow to Help Patients Decide When to Switch Off Heart-Shocking Implants
AP Medical WriterWASHINGTON (AP) — If you have a heart-zapping defibrillator implanted in your chest but now are dying of something else, when do you have it turned off? Carol Filak had heard about painful, repeated shocks that people sometimes experience from...Tags: Cancer, Electronics, Drugs and Medicines, Colleges and Universities, Washington
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Study: E.D., Heart Ailments Linked
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterFor the first time, researchers have shown that erectile dysfunction is a strong predictor of the likelihood that men will die of heart disease. Men who suffer from the problem, which some consider more an emotional than a physical issue, are twice as...Tags: Heart Attack, General Practitioners, Heart Failure, Drugs and Medicines, Colleges and Universities
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Pfizer: Lipitor Reduces Heart Complications
A re-analysis of research data found that a high dose of the cholesterol drug Lipitor lowers the risk of heart attack and stroke in some patients with both heart disease and kidney disease, the drug's maker said. Pfizer Inc. said the new analysis,...Tags: Heart Attack, Lipitor (drug), Health, Heart Disease, Drugs and Medicines
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Vitamin D linked to lower heart disease risk
Raising the amount of vitamin D in the blood appears to help some people -- at least those deficient in the vitamin -- reduce their risk of heart disease by about 30%, researchers announced Monday. The findings, though preliminary, support further...Tags: Heart Attack, Immune System, Vitamin Therapy, Health, Heart Disease
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Study finds increased risk of heart attack and death for patients with erectile dysfunction
Los Angeles TimesFor the first time, researchers have shown that erectile dysfunction is a strong predictor of the likelihood that men will die of heart disease. Men who suffer from the problem, which some consider more an emotional than a physical issue, are twice as...Tags: Heart Attack, General Practitioners, Heart Failure, Drugs and Medicines, Colleges and Universities
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Many WTC Responders how Early Signs of Heart Woes
Law enforcement officers who worked near ground zero after the World Trade Center attacks seem to show early signs of heart problems at a higher rate than would be expected for their age, a new study suggests.
Nearly half of about 1,200 law enforcement...Tags: Politics, Mount Sinai, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Health, Medical Procedures and Tests
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Erectile dysfunction is strong predictor of fatal heart ailments, study finds
For the first time, researchers have shown that erectile dysfunction is a strong predictor of the likelihood that men will die of heart disease.
Men who suffer from the problem, which some consider more an emotional than a physical issue, are twice as...Tags: Heart Attack, General Practitioners, Heart Failure, Drugs and Medicines, Colleges and Universities
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