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Raising HDL not a sure route to countering heart disease

Click Here to Read More … A new paper published online in The Lancet challenges the assumption that raising a person’s HDL — the so-called “good cholesterol” — will necessarily lower the risk of a heart attack.
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Heart Attack Patients Taken to PCI Hospitals First Treated Faster

Click Here to Read More … Source: American Heart Association
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New Tests Monitor Brain Health during Children’s Heart Surgery

Click Here to Read More … Source: American Heart Association
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Women Suffering Mental Stress May At Greater Risk For Heart Disease

Click Here to Read More … Coronary artery disease continues to be a major cause of death in the U.S., killing hundreds of thousands of people per year. However, this disease burden isn’t evenly divided between the sexes; significantly more men than women are diagnosed with coronary artery disease each year. The reasons behind this difference aren’t well defined…
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Taking vitamin E does not impact women’s heart failure risk

Click Here to Read More … Taking vitamin E supplements does not increase or decrease heart failure risk among women, according to a study led by MGH physician Claudia Chae, MD.
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Should More Women Take A Daily Aspirin To Prevent Heart Disease?

Click Here to Read More … Heart disease is the leading cause of death among women, and evidence-based national guidelines promote the use of daily aspirin for women at increased risk for cardiovascular disease. However, less than half of the women who could benefit from aspirin are taking it, according to an article in Journal of Women’s Health, a peer-reviewed publication from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc…
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Bone Marrow Stem Cells Improve Heart Function, Study Finds

Click Here to Read More … A research network led by a Mayo Clinic physician found that stem cells derived from heart failure patients’ own bone marrow and injected into their hearts improved the function of the left ventricle, the heart’s pumping chamber.
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Women’s Heart Disease Risk Affected By State Wealth

Click Here to Read More … According to new research from Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH), a state’s level of wealth or poverty is linked with levels of cardiovascular inflammation in women. Cardiovascular inflammation is a key risk factor for heart disease. This research, led by Cheryl R…
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Mayo Clinic Studies Climbers on Everest to Help Heart Patients at Home

Click Here to Read More … Mayo Clinic researchers are joining an expedition to Mt. Everest with National Geographic, The North Face and Montana State University to monitor up to nine climbers for studies on heart disease, lung problems, muscle loss, sleeping disorders and new medical technologies.
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Women’s Heart Failure Risk Unaffected By Vitamin E Supplementation

Click Here to Read More … Taking vitamin E supplements does not increase or decrease heart failure risk among women, according to a study in Circulation: Heart Failure, an American Heart Association journal. The study is the first to investigate the effectiveness of vitamin E to prevent the development of heart failure…
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