Heart disease

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Heart Attack Patients Getting Younger, More Obese

04/05/2016

[P]atients suffering the most severe type of heart attack have become younger, more obese and more likely to have preventable risk factors such as smoking, high blood pressure, diabetes and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, according to...

[P]atients suffering the most...

04/05/2016

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Researchers Find Link Between Specific Vitamin D Levels and Heart Problems

12/07/2015

Researchers at the Intermountain Medical Center Heart Institute in Salt Lake City, Utah have found that patients are fine from a heart standpoint, and may need no further treatment, if their vitamin D level is anywhere above 15 nanograms per...

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12/07/2015

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VA Maryland Health Care System Surgeon and Researcher Finds Way to Prevent Vascular Scarring

12/07/2015

Dr. Thomas S. Monahan, a surgeon at the Baltimore VA Medical Center, has successfully found a way to prevent intimal hyperplasia — or thickening within arteries — by identifying and successfully blocking a protein associated with the scarring...

Dr. Thomas S. Monahan, a surgeon...

12/07/2015

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Rate of Hospitalization for Severe Heart Attacks in China Quadruples in 10 Years

07/07/2014

The rate of hospitalization for ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) more than quadrupled in China between 2001 and 2011, according to new research published in The Lancet.

The rate of hospitalization for...

07/07/2014

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The Lancet: Systolic, Diastolic Blood Pressures Predict Risk of Different Cardiovascular Diseases

06/04/2014

Raised systolic and diastolic blood pressures may have different effects on different types of cardiovascular diseases and at different ages, according to new research involving 1.25 million patients from primary care practices in England...

Raised systolic and diastolic...

06/04/2014

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