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Lifetime risk of heart failure increases

...those who have high blood pressure - which roughly doubles the risk of heart failure for both men and women. The study strongly suggests that reducing high blood pressure and heart attack risk will also reduce rates of heart failure....

Drug trafficking via Internet a growing threat

...ntly in a report.// Because the usage of Internet doubles every six months and 700 million people were onlining at the end of last year, greater vigilance and international cooperation are needed “to prevent the Internet from turning into a worldwide web of drug trafficking,” said Hamid Ghodse, the INCB’s p...

The earlier the treatment, the more the benefit

...t - in the first 90 minutes after symptoms begin - doubles the chances of full recovery compared with treatment that starts later. "If we can convince people that every minute counts, it could be a big boost. We can't relax for one minute. With every minute, brain cells are dying by the tens of thousands. '...

Heavy Drinking Raises Risk of Liver Cancer

...cts with a viral hepatitis infection approximately doubles if he or she also drinks alcohol regularly," Donato noted. "Prudently, they should totally abstain from drinking alcohol."...

Cigerettes unsafe during pregnancy

...ning in helping women quit.They found that smoking doubles the risk of having a low birth weight baby, a miscarriage or a pre-term birth, and triples the rate of SIDS - and if women are not able to give up entirely, they need to cut their smoking by half to achieve any benefit for themselves and their baby. ...

Antifever drug betters stroke outcome

...it is noted that the risk of stroke patients dying doubles for every increase of 1 degree celcius. "Though its effects may be modest in size," Dippel added, "it is cheap and has almost no harmful effects."...

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