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Implantable Device May Help Manage Congestive Heart Failure Symptoms - Science Daily
sciencedaily (oct. 11, 2008) — northwestern memorial’s bluhm cardiovascular institute is one of seven programs in the country participating in new study aimed at improving the heart’s pumping action and helping to manage congestive heart ...
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Article In The Journal Of The American Society Of Hypertension Warns Heart Disease Set To Triple In Obese Teens
a recent paper published in the journal of the american society of hypertension projected that the prevalence of premature coronary heart disease (chd) in young adulthood will more than triple from five percent to 16 percent for currently obese adolescents when they reach 35 years of age.
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Blood Cell Genes May Signal Heart Disease
title: blood cell genes may signal heart disease category: health news created: 10/9/2008 2:00:00 am last editorial review: 10/9/2008
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Go Red For Women Cheers On Toni Braxton As She Dances Her Heart Out - Forbes
spokeswoman wears dancing shoes to fight heart disease - the no. 1 killer of women dallas, oct. 6 /prnewswire-usnewswire/ -- the american heart association's go red for women cheers on national spokesperson toni braxton, as she competes on "dancing ...
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Walking Encouraged For World Heart Day - Belfast Telegraph
around 15 thousand people are taking part in organised walks all over the country today to mark 2008's world heart day. cardiovascular disease is still ireland's biggest killer; nearly ten thousand people die from it here every year. the irish heart ...
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New Hope For Progeria: Drug For Rare Aging Disease
a promising treatment for a rare childhood disorder characterized by rapid aging and death prevented and even reversed the most devastating effect of the disease in mice. researchers report in proceedings of the national academy of sciences usa that the therapy could potentially help youngsters combat life-threatening cardiovascular disease resulting from the genetic condition ...
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Womenheart Offers Free Guide To Help Women Reduce Their Risk Of Heart Disease
with six times more u.s. women dying each year from heart attacks than from breast cancer, womenheart has created a free brochure offering heart-healthy -- and potentially life-saving -- tips to help women reduce their risk of heart disease.
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Polypill For The Heart - Times Of India
sixty-five-year-old virendra mehta suffers from hypertension, diabetes and heart disease. every day, he has to take 10 pills to keep his various ailments in check. he finds it expensive and exhausting. ‘‘with so many medicines to take daily, i ...
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Georgia Lipid Academy To Target Rural Georgia Health Care Providers - Forbes
jacksonville, fla., oct. 6 /prnewswire/ -- few illnesses are as sudden and traumatic as the onset of stroke or heart attack, and the results can be devastating, often fatal. yet cardiovascular illness is also avoidable, and preventing it is a major ...
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Cheap 'polypill' Deals With Heart Disease And Stroke
the 'polypill' is a single pill which combines a range of drugs that protect against heart disease and stroke and was first considered a number of years ago as a cost effective way to significantly reduce the death toll from cardiovascular disease. but progress has been hampered by the reluctance of pharmaceutical companies to embark on a project involving inexpensive drugs which offered little ...
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Blood Test May Soon Find Heart Disease
the discovery of genetic markers showing the presence and intensity of coronary artery disease means that a diagnosis could be made with a simple blood test, said a duke university cardiologist who led research on the link.
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Common Copd Medications Linked With Increased Risk Of Cv Death, Heart ... - Science Centric
the use of inhaled anticholinergic agents (medications that help reduce bronchospasm) by patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (copd) is associated with a significantly increased risk of heart attack, stroke of cardiovascular death ...
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Healthy Heart - Wtvr-tv
richmond - lieutenant governor bill bolling, joined by leading health care organizations and heart health advocates, today announced virginia's participation in the lieutenant governor's challenge: "your heart is in your hands" initiative, a heart ...
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Doctors' Groups Collaborate On Care For Heart Patients
thursday, oct. 9 (healthday news) -- three leading medical associations have created guidelines to help heart disease patients cut their risk of ulcers and gastrointestinal bleeding from the condition's most common treatments -- antiplatelets and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (nsaids) such as aspirin.
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Pathway Medical Technologies Demonstrates Commitment To Atherectomy Innovation At Transcatheter Cardiovascular ...
20th annual transcatheter cardiovascular therapeutics scientific symposium -- pathway medical technologies, inc., an innovator of endovascular treatments for peripheral arterial disease, today announced that the company will present final data from pathway's pivotal, multi-center european clinical trial for its first-generation device, the pathway pv(tm) atherectomy system, as well as interim ...
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Anti-cancer Drug Prevents, Reverses Cardiovascular Damage - Emaxhealth.com
an experimental anti-cancer drug can prevent — and even reverse — potentially fatal cardiovascular damage in a mouse model of progeria, a rare genetic disorder that causes the most dramatic form of human premature aging, national institutes of ...
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Heart Health Challenge Issued Save Email Print - Whsv
lt. gov. bill bolling, joined by leading health care organizations and heart health advocates, announced tuesday virginia’s participation in the lieutenant governor’s challenge: “your heart is in your hands" initiative, a heart and ...
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Blood Cell Genes May Signal Heart Disease
small study finds their levels correlate with cardiovascular trouble.
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Statistics Show Heart Disease A Major Problem For Women
one out of three women dies of heart disease. the u.s. department of health and human services says that in 2003 more women died from cardiovascular issues than all types of cancer combined.
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Researchers Reveal Exercise To Heart Benefit Ratio In Obese Kids - Hindustan Times
according to a study by temple university and the food trust, neighbourhood corner food stores play a major role in making kids obese. a new study could help doctors determine how much exercise, obese and non-obese children need to remain healthy and ...
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