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December Heart Attacks Are the Most DeadlyStudied now confirm what many cardiologists have long suspected - patients admitted to the hospital with heart attacks during the month of December have a significantly higher chance of dying than during other months. There's a good reason for this, it turns out - and here's a case where patient... |
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Treating Coronary Artery Disease - An OverviewWe have talked a lot about treating coronary artery disease on this site over the years, and there are so many options for treatment that sometimes it's easy to overlook the big picture. So here's an article that summarizes the various approaches to treating coronary artery disease, and that prov... |
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A Post-Heart-Attack ChecklistAfter you've survived a heart attack, you've got a lot to learn about and a lot to think about. While in the good old days you might have had a week or two of hospitalization to go through all the testing, risk assessment, education, and initiation of therapy necessary to optimize your long-term ... |
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Does Daylight Savings Time Cause Heart Attacks?Now that we've said goodbye to Daylight Savings Time for another 6 months, perhaps (according to researchers reporting in the New England Journal of Medicine last year), we'd be better off saying goodbye forever. That's because, they say, there is an association between switching to DST in the s... |
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Statins Might Be Helpful With Flu, and Other Serious InfectionsThis weekend at the Infectious Diseases Society of America in Philadelphia, researchers from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that statins (drugs prescribed for reducing cholesterol levels) may be associated with a reduced risk of dying from influenza. The study w... |
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Nine "New" Cardiac Risk Factors Are Found WantingIn an era when "preventive health" is all the rage, and we are all being urged to assess our risk factors for heart disease, developing and marketing new tools for cardiac risk assessment has become a big business. In fact, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) notes that mor... |
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