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Patients who have a heart transplant to correct the most common type of genetic heart disease -- hypertrophic cardiomyopathy -- have better long-term survival rates than those who have transplants for other heart diseases, a new study finds.. This serious, potentially fatal ...
Researchers have identified clinical descriptors that can help clinicians identify which patients with atherothrombosis are at highest risk for future cardiovascular events. This research has been published online Aug. 30 in the Journal of the American Medical Association to coincide with the ...
It's the prolonged sitting that's harmful, says study author David Dunstan, Ph.D. "Muscle contractions help break down glucose, and high glucose levels are linked with heart disease," he says. Oral bacteria can enter the bloodstream and inflame coronary vessels, says Samuel Low, ...
Regular, moderate chocolate consumption is linked to a lower rate of heart failure hospitalization or death, but no protective association is seen in individuals consuming one or more servings of chocolate daily, according to a study published online Aug. 16 in Circulation: ...
Doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston faced tough decisions when a family requested they harvest eggs from a 36-year-old woman, after she suffered a pulmonary embolism and was put on life support.. The case, reported this week in the New England ...
The article reports on the result of the study on heavy traffic's posing of threat to Myocardial Infarction (MI) patients by the U.S. research. com NEWS 7 GIKazones an option for type-2 diabetes Viewpoint, page 43 Heart attack sufferers should avoid pollution ...
About 70 percent of vascular disease patients take aspirin, mainly for secondary prevention. While some non-aspirin users take other antithrombotic agents, almost 15 percent of patients take no antithrombotic agent at all, according to research published in the Feb. 15 American Journal ...
Postmenopausal women who took combination hormone therapy did not have a lower risk of coronary heart disease during the first two years of treatment, according to an article in the Feb. 16 Annals of Internal Medicine.. When considering whether to prescribe estrogen ...
On December 20, 2005, hundreds of thousands of people in Boston simultaneously felt a stabbing pain in their hearts. Compared with 99 other cities, Boston is the epitome of arterial health, with sixth-inning heartburn being more likely than a game-ending heart attack.. ...
Heart patients with a dangerous rapid heartbeat called ventricular tachycardia often get implantable cardiac defibrillators to help control the condition, and a new study suggests that they will have fewer recurrences of the abnormality if they undergo a procedure called catheter ablation ...
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