Heart Disease Effects - Articles
Is Ventricular Reconstruction Effective for Heart Failure Patients?
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Ng Peng Hock
Heart failure is a condition in which the heart is unable to supply sufficient blood flow to meet the body’s needs, and it often occurs after tissue is damaged by a heart attack. Generally, a person can develop heart failure because of myocardial infarction and other forms of ischemic heart disease, hypertension (high blood pressure), valvula ...
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How Effective Is Crestor In Preventing Heart Disease?
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Ng Peng Hock
Being manufactured by AstraZeneca, Crestor is a cholesterol-lowering medicine that aims to reduce levels of bad cholesterol (low-density lipoprotein, or LDL) and triglycerides in the blood, and in the meantime increase levels of good cholesterol (high-density lipoprotein, or HDL). It has been approved for use in over 95 countries with nearly 15 mil ...
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Your Heart May Be Effected By Traffic Jams
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When I was a young U.S. Marine at Quantico Marine Base in Virginia, I would often jump in my car as soon as I would get off on a Thursday or Friday afternoon and head up home to Upstate NY. With a good flow of traffic I could make it there in about 8 hours. A good flow of traffic was never the case unless I left at the wee hours of the morning. If ...
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Menopause drug may have positive effect on heart
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Cathy T.
A DRUG USED TO PREVENT AND treat osteoporosis in postmenopausal women was recently found to have a favorable effect on the heart. According to Lotis Calinawan of the drug manufacturer Eli Lilly, a study found that women who have increased risk for cardiovascular events and who took the drug raloxifene (Evista) for four years had a 40 percent reduc ...
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UW begins study of effects of estrogen lack on women's heart disease
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Cathy T.
A study of the effects of estrogen deficiency on body-fat distribution and cholesterol metabolism has been launched by the University of Washington, to determine why and how the risk of coronary artery disease increases in women as they age.The two-year study, a joint effort of the School of Medicine and the School of Nursing, will be supported by ...
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The Heart.
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Weight Master E.
Everyone knows that it is very important to keep the heart as healthy as possible. That's one reason cardio exercises are so crucial. I have a couple of family members that have have several heart bypass surgery. One is doing great now, of course she still has to see her cardiologist regularly; the other hardly has the strength to walk around the h ...
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