Topic: Paul Ridker

The New Heart Alarm

Men's Health - 761 days ago
You might drop dead while reading this. "Half of all heart attacks and strokes in the United States will happen among healthy, middle-aged men who have normal cholesterol levels," says Paul Ridker, M.D., director of the center for cardiovascular-disease prevention at Harvard's ...

Jupiter Results Exert Strong Pull on Cardiologists

Wall Street Journal Health Blog - 1163 days ago
Cardiologists are a data-hungry breed. And thousands of them found plenty to feed their habit as they streamed into a huge lecture hall at the American Heart Association's annual scientific meeting today to hear their colleague Paul Ridker of Brigham and Women's ...

CRP Predicts Earlier Myocardial Infarction in Women

Modern Medicine - 1704 days ago
Women with high levels of high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hs-CRP) have myocardial infarctions sooner and they are more likely to be fatal, according to a report in the June 1 issue of the American Journal of Cardiology.. Sandeep Bansal, M.D., and Paul M. ...