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Lowering salt intake could could mean fewer heart attacks, deaths
Toronto :: Canada | 9 months ago
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A three-gram-a-day reduction in salt intake (about 1,200 mg of sodium) would result in six percent fewer cases of new heart disease, eight percent fewer heart attacks, and three percent fewer deaths. Even larger health benefits are projected for African-Americans,...
Tags: heart disease, salt intake, blood pressure, health benefits, heart attacks, percent fewer
Cristiano Ronaldo had a heart operation in his mid-teens
Cristiano Ronaldo had to have a heart operation to save his footballing career when he was still a promising young player playing for Sporting Lisbon, a potuguese club.He was just 15 years of age at that time when his 'racing-heart' problem emerged.The...
Tags: Cristiano Ronaldo, manchester united, portugal, winger, Portuguese player, heart attacks, heart failure
Miracle baby survives after four heart attacks!
A British toddler beat the odds by surviving four heart attacks when he was just 11-weeks old. Oliver, who was born on January 16, 2007 at Queen Charlotte’s Hospital, London, had medical complications since the time he was born. The doctors at the...
Tags: Heart Attacks, at the hospital, irregular heartbeat, parents
WebMD: Tasty, Heart Healthy Diet
Lyman :: WY :: USA | 11 months ago
Credibility Learn how to eat a heart-healthy diet and reduce your risk of heart disease...If the artery-clogging process has already begun, you can slow the rate at which it progresses. With very careful lifestyle modifications, you can even stop or reverse the narrowing...
Tags: heart attacks, heart attack, cardiac arrest
ArkansasMatters.com: Marriage Good for Prostate Health
Lisbon Falls :: ME :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility Having a spouse or significant other may be the biggest motivating factor for men to get screened for prostate cancer. Researchers found men who lived alone were 40 percent less likely to be screened for the disease, compared to men who were married.
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Women shortchanged in heart treatment
Houston :: TX :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility Some recommended treatments for heart attacks are delayed and underused in women, U.S. researchers have found. The researchers reviewed the clinical characteristics, treatments and outcomes of more than 78,000 patients diagnosed with myocardial infarction...
Tags: heart attacks, study: gender gap remains for heart attack care, heart attack, severe heart, U.S, CTV, dose flu, flu shot, massive heart
Doctors wrestle with statins
Washington :: DC :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility Should I take a pill or get a test to be better protected from heart disease? The answer varies by doctor, as physicians try to sort through the latest findings. "There has been a dramatic falloff in the incidence of coronary heart disease in this country,...
Tags: heart, heart attacks, study, stroke, disease, vitamins c, health, risk, vitamins, percent
Fat cell hormone can solely predict heart failure risk
New Orleans :: LA :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility The researchers in the Health ABC (Aging and Body Composition) study analysed 3000 elderly people in the Pittsburgh and Memphis areas over seven years starting in 1998. "This is one of the strongest predictors of new-onset heart failure we've been able...
Tags: heart, heart attack, women, men, heart attacks, study, health, risk, heart failure
Study: Diabetes drug fails to slow artery buildup
New Orleans :: LA :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility The controversial diabetes pill Avandia failed to significantly slow plaque buildup in heart arteries compared with an older drug, though there were some hopeful signs in a new study reported Wednesday. Avandia, once a blockbuster drug made by British-based...
Tags: heart, study, disease, heart attacks, risk, health, eat, heart disease, heart attack
Deal eases legal pains for Pfizer
Trenton :: NJ :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility Drug giant Pfizer Inc. has reached an $894 million deal to settle the bulk of the lawsuits over its withdrawn pain reliever Bextra, following the lead of rival Merck & Co., which is spending five times as much to settle Vioxx suits. The Pfizer agreement...
Tags: Pfizer Inc., Bextra, Settle Celebrex, Miami Herald, heart attacks, giant pfizer, caused heart
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